“If you’re going to try to say you’re sorry, you have to speak in the language that people understand, and money is that language,” said Howard University professor, Justin Hansford. San Francisco grapples with racism and reparations:
, during which Mays’s difficulty in purchasing a home in San Francisco was cited as just one example of injustices so deeply entrenched that not even the famous could escape them.
While the average income of a Black family in San Francisco is about $31,000, an average white family there earns $116,000, according to 2019 figures. “It’s important to think of California as less exceptional and more like the rest of the nation than we have heretofore understood,” Stacey Smith, a historian of servitude in California,San Francisco is a microcosm of California’s complicated racial history. During the Gold Rush, racial discrimination persisted from the mining camps of the Sierra Nevada foothills to the San Francisco storefronts and dockyards.
allowed developers to demolish treasured Fillmore blocks, eradicating a rich legacy of Black culture and displacing thousands of people.Efforts at desegregating schools faltered Supervisor Dean Preston noted that his own family included Holocaust victims and received restitution from Germany, allowing his grandparents to start a successful medical equipment business in New York that later expanded internationally.
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