Ex-BLM activist blasts San Francisco reparations plan as ‘gaslighting’ of black folks

A former Black Lives Matter activist has blasted San Francisco’s “unrealistic” reparations plan, saying it’s a choice to “gaslight” black Americans — and accused lawmakers of being “more focused on slavery” than the homelessness plaguing the city.

Xaviaer DuRousseau, a one-time BLM supporter who now works for PragerU, an advocacy group that creates motion pictures that promote conservative ideas, said Tuesday that the dear handouts perpetuate “fraudulent narratives surrounding systemic racism.”

“This is 111 ways to gaslight black Americans into thinking that we need to be dependent on a system of handouts in order to be successful,” said DuRousseau, who’s black, in an look on Fox News‘ “The Ingraham Angle.”

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday wholeheartedly embraced 111 options made by a city-appointed reparations committee, along with lump-sum funds of $5 million to every eligible black citizen, assured incomes of $97,000 per yr for 250 years, elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for merely $1.

The sweeping proposal, which was put forward with out a worth analysis, is aimed towards redressing centuries of slavery and systemic racism, which supporters of the plan say have deprived generations of black residents of options in most spheres of life. 

One estimate figured the reparations scheme would possibly worth the city, which has a 2022-2023 worth vary of merely $14 billion, roughly $50 billion.

According to a calculation from Stanford University’s conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, that may require each non-black family inside the metropolis to pony up on the very least $600,000 to make the reparations a actuality.

“It is so unrealistic to think that the average family in San Francisco is going to be able to pay $600,000 extra a piece,” DuRousseau knowledgeable Ingraham.

DuRousseau really helpful that what the reparations committee is proposing “will never actually going to happen,” as a end result of San Francisco is already going via a severe deficit and doesn’t have the required funds to supply out billions of {{dollars}}.

But previous the issue of the plan’s monetary feasibility, DuRousseau bashed San Francisco’s liberal politicians for being further concerned with historic injustices than with a catastrophe presently unfolding of their metropolis.

“It’s disgusting to me that we are more focused on slavery, which ended in 1865, than we’re focused on veterans who are on the streets of San Francisco, homeless and begging for spare change in 2023,” he said. “That’s where they need to start sending their money.”

The Board of Supervisors received’t make any selections regarding reparations until it releases its closing report in June. The board can then vote to range, undertake or reject all or any the 111 options.

The exact selection of black San Franciscans who would qualify for the reparations is simply not however recognized.

In San Francisco, black residents account for decrease than 6% of the city’s inhabitants — that’s fewer than 50,000 folks.

To be eligible, candidates need to be on the very least 18 and have acknowledged as black on public paperwork for on the very least a decade.

They ought to moreover present that they meet two out of eight additional necessities — along with being born in or having migrated to San Francisco between 1940 and 1996, and having proof of residency for on the very least 13 years, being personally or a direct descendant of any individual jailed inside the “failed War on Drugs,” or being a descendant of any individual enslaved sooner than 1865.

John Dennis, chair of the San Francisco Republican Party, said the dialog surrounding reparations is “unserious.”

“They just threw a number up, there’s no analysis,” he said. “It seems ridiculous, and it also seems that this is the one city where it could possibly pass.”

With Post wires