Recovery Commission in Oakland, California Wants $5 Million in Tax Dollars – Just to Come Up with a Plan | The Gateway expert

Oakland, California is falling apart at the seams. Crime in the city is skyrocketing and there are parts of the city that look like something out of a Mad Max movie, yet they are putting together a slavery reparation committee.

California never had slavery, but that’s not even the most absurd aspect of this story. The craziest part is that the commission wants $5 million in taxpayer money just to come up with a reparations plan.

Where do they think this money will come from? The city is losing profitable businesses left and right as a result of the total lawlessness that has become the new normal.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

The Oakland Reparations Committee wants $5 million from taxpayers just to come up with a plan

A California Bay Area committee appointed to design reparations for black residents wants two years and $5 million to write a plan.

The reparations panel of Alameda County, where Oakland is the largest city, made the demand late last month, San Francisco’s NPR affiliate reported, ahead of a looming July deadline to outline how local taxpayers should make amends. The committee, created in March 2023 with a budget of $51,000, only met last November.

The committee’s chair is Debra Gore-Mann, the president of a left-wing group from Oakland called the Greenlining Institute, which lobbies the California Legislature to subsidize utilities and low-carbon energy, and pushes for “race-conscious” and “race-conscious” based” technology and banking policies.

The funding request comes months after California’s most ambitious recovery plans crashed and burned amid state and local budget problems.

Here’s the reality. There’s no money for this.

Oakland Reparations Committee wants $5 million from taxpayers – just to come up with a plan: A California Bay Area committee appointed to design racism reparations for Black residents wants two years and $5 million just to come up with a plan to write.

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— Binturong (@NWMNBint) June 14, 2024

You can’t hand out millions to residents if you can’t even prevent companies from fleeing the city.

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