Oakland, California is going to start giving low-income families $500 a month with no strings attached. There’s just one catch: only families of color will receive the money. No white families will be eligible.
Oakland Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced this week that the cities is launching a new project to pay basically pay reparations to black and Indigenous families. They will be able to spend the money however they want.
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CNN reports:
The Oakland Resilient Families program is the latest trial of a “guaranteed income” system of wealth distribution, where residents are given a set amount of money per month to supplement the existing social safety net.
The project targets groups with the city’s greatest wealth disparities, per the Oakland Equality Index, which reveals the median income for White households in Oakland to be nearly three times that of Black households.
“The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure, it is a systems failure,” Schaaf said. “Guaranteed income is one of the most promising tools for systems change, racial equity and economic mobility we’ve seen in decades.”
This is literally the definition of racism….to treat someone differently because of the color of their skin.