Blue State Blues: Oakland Reparations Committee Wants $5 Million From Taxpayers—Just oo Come Up With a Plan
15th June 2024
A California Bay Area committee appointed to design racism reparations for black residents wants two years and $5 million just to write a plan.
The reparations panel for Alameda County, whose largest city is Oakland, made this demand late last month, San Francisco’s NPR affiliate reported, ahead of its looming July deadline to outline how local taxpayers should make their amends. The committee, created in March 2023 with a $51,000 budget, did not meet until last November.
The committee’s chair is Debra Gore-Mann, the president of a left-wing Oakland-based group called the Greenlining Institute that lobbies the California legislature to subsidize utilities and low-carbon energy, and pushes for “race-aware” and “race-based” tech and banking policies.
Time to leave.