San Francisco’s reparations hearings have been postponed, as the only black member of the Board of Supervisors is stuck in Colombia after a week of partying.
If you want to start a fight with your left-leaning friends, presuming they have not already disowned you, try bringing up the subject of reparations. It might make a good warm-up before the State of the Union Address this evening. Reparations are always good for lighting up a comment board on any news site, since very few, if any people are neutral on the subject.
But no matter what you think, San Francisco is taking the matter very seriously, unlike homelessness and the businesses leaving town. And a hearing on the matter was slated for Tuesday but has been postponed by a month. The reason? The San Francisco Standard reports that Supervisor Shamann Walton is stuck in Colombia after a week of partying hard.
Walton, the only black member of the Board of Supervisors, said that the junket was a birthday trip. Walton and several of his friends have birthdays close to one another, and a trip to Colombia seemed like a good way to celebrate. But for the moment, he appears to be stuck there. Walton told the Standard, “Our flight was delayed on Copa Airlines, and we couldn’t make the connecting flight. This is not a delay for reparations. The final report is due in June. Most certainly, I have no control over the airlines and flight delays.
