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San Francisco ponders reparations for Black residents
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San Francisco ponders reparations for Black residents
San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee is getting ready to current its preliminary report back to that metropolis’s supervisors. The committee has already beneficial funds of $5 million to some Black residents to atone for historic issues.
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee is getting ready to current its preliminary report back to that metropolis’s supervisors.
Final month San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee introduced its first draft trying on the concept of how a legacy of racism has harmed San Francisco’s Black neighborhood and what can and must be achieved to deal with these wrongs.
Committee Chair Eric McDonnell says regardless of town’s popularity for being progressive, previous insurance policies have systematically disenfranchised black residents.
“Essentially, what was stolen from Black individuals in America was a path to monetary well-being,” McDonnell mentioned.
The committee factors to previous insurance policies on housing; redevelopment plans that decimated thriving companies in majority black communities, in addition to inequities in policing and in schooling. All of which the committee says labored collectively to erode alternatives for African People.
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“Being segregated to sure components of town, they have been met right here and never given eligibility for sure sorts of jobs…with out with the ability to begin their very own companies,” mentioned McDonnell. “So all of those impediments to doing what each different American or on this case, San Franciscan, needed to have the ability to do.”
Because the preliminary report, many have targeted on one of many committee’s suggestions that qualifying African People ought to obtain one-time funds of $5 million however much less has been fabricated from the explanations behind the committee’s work, and the place town goes from right here.
“For higher or for worse, whether or not it is the $5 million cost or it is the others, it is ‘committee inform us tips on how to do it,’” mentioned McDonnell. “And my and our response is that isn’t our cost. Our cost was to current the proof and justifications for these proposals.”
Noble Pierce says within the seven a long time he is known as San Francisco dwelling, he is seen the inequity of alternatives firsthand.
“After all reparations could be a good suggestion, what I imply,” mentioned Pierce. “All the guarantees that our individuals had through the years. You already know, the hen in each pot and 20 acres and a mule and all these lies.”
Kenny Underwood says for generations, Black People have been restricted in how they might act on an financial stage. Reparations are an concept whose time has come.
“Am I saying that it should be an answer to repair all of the social ills that racism created? No,” mentioned Underwood. “However, do I believe it may well assist present some financial equality as a metropolis and as a rustic? Sure, most positively.”
The reparations committee says their preliminary proposal is the beginning of an vital dialog. McDonnell says comparable discussions have occurred prior to now; this committee is together with language of their proposal aimed toward getting the Board of Supervisors to take motion a method or one other.
“Even when the one thing is, and clearly that is excessive, we do not need or count on this. However even when ‘we have learn it, and it is all not possible,’” mentioned McDonnell.
The committee is about to current its preliminary findings to the board of Supervisors in mid-March, and challenge a ultimate report in June.
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San Francisco police respond to stabbing along Pride parade route; 1 injured
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San Francisco police said a man was stabbed on the 500 block of Market Street around 11:20 a.m.
According to police, officers saw the stabbing and gave first aid to the victim.
Officers detained a possible suspect. No information about the suspect was released by police.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 415-575-4444.
San Francisco, CA
SOURCE SPORTS: Latin Baseball Legend, San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda Dies at 86 – The Source
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Orlando Cepeda, the San Francisco Giants first baseman nicknamed “The Baby Bull,” died Friday in his home. He was 86.
“MLB mourns the passing of Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda at the age of 86,” Major League Baseball tweeted. “Known as ‘Cha-Cha’ and ‘The Baby Bull,’ Cepeda slugged 379 home runs, batted .297, and made 11 All-Star teams over 17 seasons. He was unanimously selected as the NL Rookie of the Year in 1958 with the Giants. He was also a unanimous selection for the the NL MVP Award in 1967 when he helped lead the Cardinals to the World Series championship.”
Cepeda was the son of Puerto Rican baseball player Perucho Cepeda, who was not allowed to play in the major leagues because he was Black. Cepeda’s own career began after Pedro Zorilla convinced his family to send him to the United States to try out for the then-New York Giants. He passed the team’s tryout but was sent to the Salem Rebels.
The San Francisco Giants brought Cepeda onboard in 1958, and he closed out his first season as the National League Rookie of the Year. After spending a few more seasons with the Giants, Cepeda was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966. Though he was named the National League Comeback Player of the Year after his first season, his performance suffered throughout the following two seasons and he was traded to the Atlanta Braves in 1969.
Cepeda retired from baseball in 1974. He was arrested at San Juan International Airport for drug possession the following year after he attempted to pick up two boxes containing marijuana that had been flown in from Colombia. Cepeda served 9 months of a 5 year sentence, but was never able to fully shed his criminal conviction.
Cepeda was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
The baseball great was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 17, 1937. Despite his father’s success in baseball, the family grew up “very poor,” he said in an interview. “My father [legendary player Pedro Cepeda]… was a great baseball player. In those days, a black player didn’t have a chance to play in the big leagues,” Cepeda explained. “So my dad used to go to Cuba, used to go to Dominican Republic, Venezuela… I think he went to Mexico one year.”
Cepeda’s survivors include his wife Nydia and 5 sons, Hector, Orlando Jr., Carl, Malcolm and Ali.
San Francisco, CA
4th of July parade held at San Francisco's Great Highway for 1st time in decades
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A revived San Francisco tradition.
People in the Sunset District marched down the Great Highway on Saturday for the inaugural “Oceanside Fourth of July Parade.”
It’s been decades since the city had a July 4th parade.
Two bands, 25 dancers as well as several parents and kids took part.
Inside effort to bring Fourth of July parade back to San Francisco for first time in decades
Supervisor Joel Engardio organized the event because he says it is time the City had its own Fourth of July parade.
“An event like this tells the world, we are not a doom loop. It tells the world that we have a lot of joy, and we are creating more of it. And, we are imaginative or innovative, and we are going to create our best San Francisco,” Engardio said.
Organizers had the parade on June 29 to make sure people who already made holiday plans could attend.
The supervisor says the plan is to have this on July 4th, next year.
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