SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A reparations plan intended to address the systemic inequalities Black San Franciscans have faced is unconstitutional and racially discriminatory, plaintiffs argue in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday.
The plaintiffs — Californians for Equal Rights, a nonpartisan nonprofit that promotes “equal rights and merit,” and two of its members — say San Francisco’s reparations plan is unconstitutional because it allocates government benefits based on race and ancestry.
“The Reparations Plan does not identify specific instances in which San Francisco violated the Constitution or any statute. It does not identify discrete victims of unlawful government conduct. It does not consider race-neutral alternatives. And it does not sunset. Instead, it replaces individual rights with inherited status and imposes a system of generational liability enforced by government power,” the plaintiffs say in their complaint…