While many cheered the possibility of a huge financial windfall for San Francisco's Black residents, one civil rights leader says the reparation proposals are a distraction from tangible efforts to redress racism.
Others believe the proposals are an important first step toward justice
"That argument of whether or not this is a distraction or not doesn't necessarily hold up to me because in so many instances, I hear people say that very serious ideas around reparations are fantastical or foolhardy. So I don't necessarily jump when I hear a big number anymore because people often make the same arguments to very rigorous analysis," Perry told NPR.Perry hasn't yet read through the details of the San Francisco draft proposal.
He acknowledges that Brown's concerns are grounded in lessons from the failures of other efforts by the federal government and municipalities.
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