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Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: February 27, 2024, 09:09:33 pm »

San Francisco apologizes to Black residents for decades of racist policies
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lmE2FWvhelw

San Francisco plans to apologize to Black residents for racist laws. Reparations advocates want more
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution apologizing to African Americans and their descendants. All 11 members have signed on as sponsors, guaranteeing its passage. It would be one of the first major U.S. cities to do so.

The resolution calls on San Francisco to not repeat the harmful policies and practices, and to commit “to making substantial ongoing, systemic, and programmatic investments” in Black communities. There are about 46,000 Black residents in San Francisco.

“An apology from this city is very concrete and is not just symbolic, as admitting fault is a major step in making amends,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, the only Black member of the board and chief proponent of reparations, said at a committee hearing on the resolution earlier this month.

Others say the apology is insufficient on its own for true atonement.

“An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric,” said the Rev. Amos C. Brown, a member of the San Francisco reparations advisory committee that proposed the apology among other recommendations. “What we need is concrete actions.”

An apology would be the first reparations recommendation to be realized of more than 100 proposals the city committee has made. The African American Reparations Advisory Committee also proposed that every eligible Black adult receive a $5 million lump-sum cash payment and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year to remedy San Francisco’s deep racial wealth gap.

But there has been no action on those and other proposals. Mayor London Breed, who is Black, has stated she believes reparations should be handled at the national level. Facing a budget crunch, her administration eliminated $4 million for a proposed reparations office in cuts this year.

Reparations advocates at the previous hearing expressed frustration with the slow pace of government action, saying that Black residents continue to lag in metrics related to health, education and income.

Black people, for example, make up 38 percent of San Francisco’s homeless population despite being less than 6 percent of the general population, according to a 2022 federal count.

In 2020, California became the first state in the nation to create a task force on reparations. The state committee, which dissolved in 2023, also offered numerous policy recommendations, including methodologies to calculate cash payments to descendants of enslaved people.

But reparations bills introduced by the California Legislative Black Caucus this year also leave out financial redress, although the package includes proposals to compensate people whose land the government seized through eminent domain, create a state reparations agency, ban forced prison labor and issue an apology.

Cheryl Thornton, a San Francisco city employee who is Black, said in an interview after the committee hearing that an apology alone does little to address current problems, such as shorter lifespans for Black people.

“That’s why reparations is important in health care,” she said. “And it’s just because of the lack of healthy food, the lack of access to medical care and the lack of access to quality education.”

Other states have apologized for their history of discrimination and violence and role in the enslavement of African Americans, according to the resolution.

In 2022, Boston became the first major city in the U.S. to issue an apology. That same year, the Boston City Council voted to form a reparations task force.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/san-francisco-plans-to-apologize-to-black-residents-for-racist-laws-reparations-advocates-want-more

Reparations will not stop racists from reproducing...
Posted by: rp
« on: February 06, 2024, 09:10:15 pm »

https://twitter.com/LakshmanSagar2/status/1752189630927999198
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Lakshman Sagar
@LakshmanSagar2
That's why I keep on saying to Indians to use their talents/energies back home rather than going and dying in some western hellhole.🙄

Stay in India and focus on food processing, new-age agriculture, embedded electronic systems, process re-engineering, logistics etc. LIFE>💰😤
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Sidhant Sibal
@sidhant
Another Indian student, Neel Acharya, has tragically passed away in the US, as confirmed by the university. This marks the second such incident following the death of Vivek Saini, who was fatally attacked.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 02, 2024, 08:36:41 pm »

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Monarchy creates one master whose slavery the peasants have to do

The peasants are free to emigrate. If they are not, then it is a tyranny, not a monarchy.
Posted by: rp
« on: February 02, 2024, 08:02:50 pm »

https://twitter.com/mujifren/status/1610225160216543233?t=1B_F6zsjRtoYrfXbUYyh8w&s=19
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Monarchy creates one master whose slavery the peasants have to do, in democracy every office holder who swears oath on the constitution thinks of himself as the master and expects the citizens to do slavery for him
@sdhntprsd
Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: November 29, 2023, 07:52:02 pm »

It's a duty to pay the crime that already happened in the past which it's retribution not yet fulfilled. If many of "whites" follow her, then we will won


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lt5gv0jjErM
Posted by: rp
« on: November 26, 2023, 03:13:31 pm »

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party"
https://twitter.com/Mirpuri637/status/1720168210719289689
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میرپوری
@Mirpuri637
Bull.
All the cross worshippers in Lebanon and tge non natives , they **** all day about being crusader descendants and muh phoenicians. MENA Cross worshippers are no different to pajeets
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 25, 2023, 10:31:15 pm »

"falangist"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kataeb_Party

In that case Mia would be a rightist.
Posted by: rp
« on: November 25, 2023, 10:21:39 pm »

The point is that "Mia" (real name Sarah) is a Judeo-Christian falangist* who made her money working for Jewish-owned p0rn websites sexualizing Muslim women, so while she may say some correct things, Palestinian activists shouldn't overtly promote her.

* https://twitter.com/hse1232/status/1676719840378200064
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 25, 2023, 10:16:19 pm »

I don't understand what is going on here. I find nothing wrong with what Mia said, and hence nothing wrong with Abier for promoting Mia's video.
Posted by: rp
« on: November 25, 2023, 10:03:24 pm »

https://twitter.com/hse1232/status/1676538313581240320?t=mSxMYv61p16-useEHJay3w&s=19 (video at link):
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Associating yourself with a famous whõrê who made her whole whörïng career on sexualising pious Muslimah for the gratification of the kuffar in the most disgusting & perverted ways is not the W you think it is.

Why do some Palestinian activists align with any sort of garbage?
Posted by: rp
« on: November 24, 2023, 09:07:51 pm »

False Leftist Imam Sh. Omar Suleiman says that Osama Bin Laden was a "Khwarij" (killer) regardless of his involvement in 9/11, based on his statements before 9/11:
https://youtu.be/7EAaQgzsJR4

Videos of this guy have also been doing the rounds on X/Twitter, where he is seen praising so-called "anti-Zionist" Jews.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 07, 2023, 11:56:40 am »

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It is evident that blacks measure success according to European standards

This is mostly true. False Leftism is to blame for this. More valid points from your link:

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Blacks can always study the intellectual traditions of pre-colonial Africa, but some would rather promote the myth that Africans inspired Greco-Roman philosophy.

Self-respecting people would not act like blacks who obviously want a more flamboyant history.

I have also pointed this out in the past. The same False Leftism behind the above is behind:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/false-leftists-getting-leftism-wrong/msg22356/#msg22356

as well as behind the attempts to find anomalous examples of democracy outside of Western civilization in order to claim that every society was progressing towards democracy. False Leftists love Western civilization; they merely wish "non-whites" had been the ones to come up with it.
Posted by: homo hubris
« on: November 07, 2023, 04:08:17 am »

https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2023/11/black-history-embellished-to-inculcate-false-pride

Black History Embellished to Inculcate False Pride

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The Independent featured research expressing shock that more than half of people living in England could not name a significant black historical figure. Perusing the comments, I observed that most responses scoffed at the idea of black history month and delighted in their ignorance. These unflattering responses were expected because as a white country, most people do not feel that they should revel in black history.

the reality is that England is a white country. Immigrants are free to pursue their culture in a foreign country, however it is utter madness for them to think that natives should care about their experiences.

Immigrants relocate to richer countries to improve their prospects, but if it is also their goal to disrupt local culture

one can conclude that blacks prefer the hype of history to its substance. It is evident that blacks measure success according to European standards

black history is embellished to inculcate false pride. Black history has become a confusing hodgepodge of incredulous stories that remain potent long after being debunked.

Black activists have composed elaborate stories to uplift the self-esteem of black people






Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 06, 2023, 05:17:11 pm »

I openly talk about which groups should be genocided. What I dislike most about False Leftist use of the term is that they often take a tone that suggests no group should be genocided. What we should be discussing instead is which genocides would most radically improve the world. Rightists have such discussions all the time: they invariably want to genocide gene pools which invent fewer machines. Leftists need to be having similar discussions, but targeting gene pools which invent more machines.

Genocide in itself is not the problem. The problem is that those who most deserve to be genocided do not get genocided but instead are the perpetrators of the genocides, due to the machines they invented giving them advantages in doing so successfully:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/proof-yahweh's-world-is-evil-and-a-prison-for-the-truly-good!/
Posted by: rp
« on: November 06, 2023, 03:20:24 pm »

What are your thoughts on the "Pro-Palestine" movement using ethnopreservationist terminology such as "genocide"? It does appear that the Jews are deliberating aiming to eliminate the Palestinians, but on the other hand, this terminology is invariably tied back to the "Holocaust".