San Francisco Sued Over ‘Spoils System’ Reparations Program (1)

San Francisco’s reparations program for Black residents discriminates based on race and ancestry, an advocacy group claims in a new lawsuit.

“Though presented as a response to slavery, San Francisco’s plan will impose sweeping racial classifications on present-day residents who neither endured enslavement nor inflicted it,” said the complaint filed Thursday in California Superior Court, San Francisco County by the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation.

The program, which was billed as an effort to address the racial wealth gap and income discrimination against Black residents, was approved in December by Mayor Daniel Lurie (D). There’s no city funding attached to ...