The city of San Francisco enacted a new reparations policy just before Christmas, which is supposed to pay a ridiculous amount of money to black residents, even though California never even had slavery.
Now two residents are suing the city over the plan, claiming it’s unlawful.
FOX News reports:
San Francisco residents band together to shut down reparations fund, claiming it’s ‘dividing’ the cityRichie 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.Greenberg formerly identified as a Republican and currently identifies as a centrist-conservative Democrat.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.”
I’ll leave you with this clip of the great Thomas Sowell.
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