San Francisco reparations panelist blasts straight white men as a ‘danger to society’ – claiming they’re ‘the ones shooting up schools’
- San Francisco reparations committee member said white men are the ones shooting up schools
- Nikcole Cunningham added that white Americans needed to support reparation efforts and were a ‘danger to society’
A member of San Francisco’s reparations committee called straight white men a ‘danger to society’ because they are ‘the ones shooting up schools’.
Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the 15-person committee, told The Daily Telegraph that straight white men were failing to support the controversial black reparations effort and had to ‘come to grips with their ancestry’.
In an interview with the Telegraph, she said: ‘They have the most, I watch these shows, the most serial killers. Straight white men are the ones who are shooting up schools, right?’
‘So they are a danger to society,’ she added, before noting it was ‘not all of them’.
Cunningham was appointed to the city’s committee, formed in 2020, to assist in the evaluation of damages suffered by black citizens. The committee previously made headlines when it recommended a payment of $5million each.
She added in the recent interview that straight white men were more likely to be ‘serial killers’ and were harming efforts to empower black Americans in the face of systemic racism.
‘If anything, they pose more of a harm than support and help. And then you got to remember their ancestors… are the ones who were standing out here in their Sunday best watching black people hang and burn,’ she said.
‘So until white people come to grips with their ancestry too and make amends with them, to say, I want to be the change,’ she added.
She went on to describe how ‘white supremacy is ingrained in the DNA in this country and definitely in this city’.
Cunningham also argued white people should be held responsible for the actions of slave owners as they are ‘still benefiting from the harms that… [their] ancestors caused’, The Telegraph reported.
In addition to San Francisco’s reparations committee, a wider California task force was established by legislation signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2020.
Both committees were set a deadline to file their final proposals for legislators to consider by the end of June 2023.
Cunningham’s comments come as the wider California task force released a highly anticipated final report in which it laid out how hundreds of billions of dollars could be owed to black citizens of the state.
Although it did not list an exact dollar amount, it did outline various methods for quantifying the economic damage suffered by black people in the state as a result of slavery.
As part of its calculation, it considered decades of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination.
Initial calculations pegged California’s potential cost at more than $800 billion — more than 2.5 times the state’s annual budget.
The estimated cost was cut to $500 billion in a later report, though no explanation was made about the change.
The panel has recommended prioritizing elders for financial compensation.
Economists recommended nearly $1 million for a 71-year-old Black person who lived all their life in California – or $13,600 per year – for health disparities that shorten the average life span.
Black people subjected to aggressive policing and prosecution in the ‘war on drugs’ from 1971 to 2020 could each receive $115,000 if they lived in California throughout that period, or more than $2,300 for each year, under the calculations.
Cunningham is an adoption social worker for the Department of Human Services in San Francisco where she supports families with mental health services and difficult ongoing issues.
She was added to the committee because she had experienced discrimination in the workplace, according to a committee document that outlines membership.
Court documents seen by DailyMail.com show she complained that her employer, the city of San Francisco, ‘discriminated against her for a disability and then failed to engage in the interactive process and failed to accommodate.’
She also commented on the large sum proposed by her committee and compared it to the sum spent on arming the Ukrainians in their fight against Russia.
‘No one asked us, “Hey, Nikcole, can we send this money to Ukraine?” They just found the money and sent it,’ she told The Telegraph.
In a report this January, conservative think-tank Hoover Institution published a report estimating that a payment of $5million to each black resident would total around $175billion. San Francisco’s annual budget is around $14 billion.