Rep. Lauren Bobert tore up San Francisco’s proposal to give about $5 million in compensation to black residents, arguing that California slavery never existed.

While the Golden State was admitted to the union as a free state, there were of course enslaved people brought there as before and after became the state

“The fact that supposedly serious people in San Francisco are considering a plan that would give $5,000,000 in reparations to every black resident in their city in a state that never had slavery is a joke,” Boebert wrote on Twitter.

“If they want to make the racial divide in this country even worse than it’s ever been before, they’re going to get there!”

A city-appointed reparations committee recently floated a series of high-profile proposals to atone for African-Americans’ past slavery — $5 million in payments to every eligible black adult, elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 for 250 years and houses in San Francisco for as little as $1 per family were among them.

Critics denounced the plan as financially and politically unfeasible. An estimate by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which leans conservative, says it would cost each non-black family in the city at least $600,000 to provide $5 million in compensation.

Reparations are being considered in various Democratic cities across America as a means of providing compensation to the descendants of enslaved African Americans.

Many say they owe it not only to the time their ancestors were enslaved, but also to generations after, because African Americans were disproportionately incarcerated than white Americans.

The proposals put forward last night in San Francisco are some of the most generous to be heard to date.

Sergeant Yulanda Williams, president of the police association Officers for Justice, told the board, “My dad always taught me never to beg. And I’m not asking you today. It’s time you did the right thing and paid us reparations: heal us.’

The board of supervisors, who heard the proposals last night, could vote to adopt some or all of the recommendations.

Of the 11 people on the board, one – board president Shaman Walton – is African-American.

The council will not decide whether to accept the recommendations until later this year, when the committee that drafted the plan has submitted its final report.

Another meeting is scheduled for September.

However, the board last night expressed its enthusiasm for the plan.

“If you look at the (draft) report, you’ll see so many examples of how black people were treated badly here in San Francisco, and all of that can really be traced back to the negative effects of slavery,” Walton said last time. night