Meet a few of the controversial people behind San Francisco’s $5M reparations push: ‘America, you owe us’

A number of San Francisco reparations board members are concerned with left-wing activism in California and have made controversial statements that embrace blaming america for September 11 whereas additionally cozying as much as a pastor who repeatedly praised antisemite Louis Farrakhan. Others have supported defunding the police and stated that they had “love” for a person concerned in a financial institution theft that resulted in a number of murders.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is contemplating suggestions from the town’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee to make amends for slavery, together with paying qualifying Black residents a one-time lump sum of $5 million, the elimination of private debt and tax burdens, and guaranteeing annual incomes of at the very least $97,000 for 250 years. 

The 14-person reparations committee feeding proposals to the board is supervisors is chock-full of left-wing activists and people who’ve condemned America.

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Rev. Dr. Amos Brown

Amos Brown has blamed America for September 11. (Image from San Francisco reparations committee web site.)

One controversial member of the San Francisco reparations board is Rev. Amos Brown of Third Baptist Church, the president of the San Francisco NAACP, and a member of the NAACP’s Nationwide Board of Administrators. Final yr, he hosted an occasion at his church referred to as “Solidarity for Reparations,” which included a pastor who has repeatedly praised antisemite Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan.

Throughout the occasion, Brown launched Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III as a “son of Third Baptist” and the “proper man to come back and to encourage us, inform us, and ensure that now we have the map to implement in all that we would make reparations a actuality not within the candy by-and-by, however proper down right here within the right here and now.”

“America, you owe us. What you executed to us has been immoral. It’s been evil. It’s been unjust. It’s been downright incorrect and the one method to deliver salvation to America – you gotta pay us what you owe us,” Haynes stated.

Haynes, who has campaigned with Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and different Democrats, has repeatedly praised Farrakhan. In 2017, he tweeted an image with Farrakhan following a graduation handle he delivered at Grambling State College, saying his “gracious and beneficiant compliments touched my coronary heart! An exquisite and nice man!” He additionally referred to as him a “prophetic chief for our time,” regardless of his decades-long historical past of creating disparaging feedback about Jews and evaluating them to “termites.”

Brown has additionally obtained criticism for feedback he reportedly made throughout a memorial service for victims of September eleventh, days after the terrorist assault, which drew a rebuke from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. 

“America, America, what did you do — both deliberately or unintentionally — on this planet order, in Central America, in Africa the place bombs are nonetheless blasting?” Brown stated. “America, what did you do within the world warming convention if you didn’t embrace the smaller nations? America, what did you do two weeks in the past once I stood on the world convention on racism, if you would not present up?”

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Pelosi was the one Democrat on stage who chided Brown by saying, “The act of terrorism on Sept. 11 put these individuals outdoors the order of civilized conduct, and we won’t take accountability for that.” Paul Holm, who was on the memorial service to characterize the household of his deceased former companion, Mark Bingham, walked out of the memorial service and stated, “I assumed this was a day of remembrance and never a political occasion.”

“These had been harmless individuals, various whom gave their lives for the nation and to save lots of different harmless individuals,” he continued, referring to Bingham, who was credited with serving to take down United Airways Flight 93 right into a subject close to Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Brown beforehand advised the San Francisco Chronicle that “America is a racist nation.”

Tinisch Hollins 

Tinisch Hollins is the chief director of Californians for Security and Justice. (Image from San Francisco reparations committee web site.)

Tinisch Hollins, the reparations committee’s vice chair, is the chief director of Californians for Security and Justice, a legal justice reform group that could be a undertaking of the Alliance for Security and Justice. The Alliance for Security and Justice is a part of the billion-dollar Tides darkish cash nexus.

Californians for Security and Justice doesn’t should submit tax varieties to the Inner Income Service on account of its association, but it surely has obtained assist from the likes of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and George Soros’ Basis to Promote Open Society up to now.

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Hollins’ group is a part of a broader legal justice reform push from Golden State left-wing activists which have garnered many critics. Her group works to “substitute jail and justice system waste with widespread sense options that create protected neighborhoods,” in response to its web site. They companion with dozens of different organizations on the efforts.

Final September, Hollins thanked Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for making California the “first state in US historical past to permit nearly ALL outdated convictions on an individual’s legal file to be completely sealed, even when they’ve been to state jail” in a Fb put up.

Eric McDonnell

Eric McDonnell has stated white individuals nonetheless profit from slavery. (Image from San Francisco reparations committee web site.)

The reparations committee chair, Eric McDonnell, is concerned with Range, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) coaching at Peacock Partnerships LLC, whose web site is not dwell and final captured in January. 

Nevertheless, California enterprise information present that the corporate continues to be lively, and its registered agent is McDonnell.

In accordance with a cached model of the group’s web site, McDonnell describes himself as a “Individuals First Advocate, Strategist, Range Coach, Govt Coach, and Keynote Speaker.”

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McDonnell has stated that white People nonetheless profit from slavery.

‘This nation has been complicit since its creation, and never simply within the act of chattel slavery. I consider the harms which have been perpetuated on and in opposition to black People have each historic in addition to current impacts,” McDonnell beforehand stated, in response to Day by day Mail.

‘When white People say I did not do it, which may be factually true, but it surely would not converse to whether or not they benefited or not, as a result of they’re benefiting. And since they’ve benefited, there’s a ethical obligation [to] be keen to take a position on this.”

Gloria Berry

Gloria Berry has supported defunding the police. (Image from San Francisco reparations committee web site.)

Gloria Berry, one other member of the reparations committee, has referred to as for defunding the police on her Twitter account and repeatedly praised San Francisco’s ousted DA Chesa Boudin for holding police accountable.

“Thanks for being a present to San Francisco. Thanks for bucking the system. Thanks for waking individuals up by not going with the established order and exhibiting us all what occurs if you don’t associate with the system. Thanks for all these years you went in these jail visiting rooms and turning your ache to energy,” Berry wrote in a August 2022 Fb put up praising Boudin. “Thanks for seeing all these Black and Brown children visiting, their father or mother inside with longer sentences than others and taking up the accountability to do one thing about disparity and mass incarceration. Thanks for Gilbert.”

Close to the top of the put up, she thanked Boudin for his dad, David Gilbert, a former Climate Underground radical that was granted parole in 2021 after serving 40 years for his position in a lethal 1981 Brink’s theft that resulted within the killings of a guard and two law enforcement officials. Gilbert, 76, turned eligible for parole after his 75 years-to-life sentence was shortened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August 2021, hours earlier than he left workplace. 

In one other Fb put up from 2022, she included an image of her with Boudin and holding Gilbert’s hand and writing, “Love this household.”

Fox Information contributor Leo Terrell has slammed the reparations push, saying he’d be the primary lawyer to combat in opposition to it. 

“It isn’t ever going to get applied. I will be the primary lawyer to combat in opposition to this,” Terrell stated.” “That is outrageous. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is racist. However it’s not stunning it got here from California on the day of MLK’s birthday.”

“We’re speaking a few racist program to learn people who occur to be Black- 5 million {dollars}. California was a free state. Who’s going to pay for it? Why ought to they get $5 million? Due to pores and skin coloration? It is insulting,” he added.

Republican conservative radio present host Larry Elder speaks to supporters after shedding the California gubernatorial recall election Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, in Costa Mesa, Calif. The uncommon, late-summer election, which challenged California Governor Gavin Newsom, has emerged as a nationwide battlefront on points from COVID-19 restrictions to local weather change.  (AP Picture/Ashley Landis)

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Former California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder has echoed related sentiments, saying reparations are the “extraction of cash from individuals who had been by no means slave house owners to be given to individuals who had been by no means slaves.”

Chairman of the San Francisco Republican Celebration, John Dennis, has additionally blasted the proposal as unrealistic and missing exact evaluation to again up the $5 million determine. 

“That is only a bunch of like-minded individuals who received within the room and got here up with a quantity,” he stated. “You may discover in that report, there was no justification for the quantity, no evaluation offered. This was a possibility to do some severe work they usually blew it.” 

The reparations committee didn’t reply to a Fox Information Digital request for remark by the point of publication. 

Fox Information Digital’s Ashley Carnahan, Edmund DeMarche, and Jessica Chasmar contributed reporting.