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San Francisco passed a resolution right before Christmas, creating a reparations fund that is supposed to pay a ridiculous amount of money to black residents, despite the fact that California never even had slavery.
Bear in mind that there is no money for this. The city has a massive deficit.
To make matters worse, the divisive policy is now driving infighting among various groups in the city. It seems like this was inevitable.
FOX News reports:
San Francisco residents band together to shut down reparations fund, claiming it’s ‘dividing’ the city
Richie Greenberg, one of the plaintiffs suing San Francisco over its reparations fund, claimed the measure is divisive because it solely favors Black residents.
“It is dividing the city rather than trying to unite. So, what we really need is to be focusing on how to uplift everybody rather than focusing on one group giving everything to that one group. And then everyone else is then responsible for paying for that one group,” Greenberg told Fox News Digital…
The city was sued over its reparations fund on grounds its taxpayer money is being “unlawfully” used for a policy that allegedly violates the equal protection clause.
According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued San Francisco Thursday, challenging an ordinance that establishes a fund for Black residents.
The lawsuit alleges that the ordinance is discriminating on the basis of race because it allows taxpayer money to be funneled into the fund. The plaintiffs said a win would protect taxpayers from supporting a government-based racially motivated program and establish boundaries for other cities implementing similar policies.
“Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today,” said Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
More from the New York Post:
While advocates argue that reparations are needed to redress discrimination of black San Franciscans, who suffered under policies such as redlining and redevelopment that decimated many black-owned homes and businesses, critics call the plan empty virtue-signaling at best.
“They have put rhetoric and ideology ahead of the city’s residents,” Greenberg said, referring to Lurie and the Board of Supervisors that voted unanimously in favor of the reparations bill.
The lawsuit asks the city to permanently end the reparations plan.
“It is unfortunate that mayor Lurie deliberately avoided mention of his signing legislation creating a reparations fund December 23, 2025 as he knew the backlash which would ensue,” he added. “Lurie is famous for his non-stop posting and boasting on social media all his accolades and cheering for the city, yet he failed to mention this entirely.”
The conservative scholar Thomas Sowell explained the problem with reparations years ago. Watch:
Thomas Sowell on reparations:
“The number of whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together.” pic.twitter.com/c3r0QpO1Mj
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 10, 2023
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