Leftist City Handing Out Cash Payments Based on Race

The progressive bastion of San Francisco may soon find itself in hot water, as civil rights lawyers claim that the city’s new monthly cash payment systems are discriminatory.

Three of the city’s guaranteed income initiatives openly exclude handouts for white citizens, only catering to blacks and other minority groups.

California’s new universal income law passed last year with bipartisan support, making the Golden State the first U.S. state to pass a guaranteed income plan, according to the Guardian.

The law allocated $35 million “for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care,” according to the report.

The law did not include any racial or ethnic provisions, but that has not stopped the Bay Area from using an “equity” based system that purposely excludes whites who may need a safety net, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

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Some experts question the legality of such arrangements. Law professor Gail Heriot of the University of San Diego School of Law is one of them.

“It’s astonishing to me how brazen the State of California and its various Bay Areas local governments have become in violating the many laws and constitutional provisions prohibiting race discrimination,” said Heriot, who is a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

The three initiatives include the Black Economic Equity Movement, (funded by the National Institutes of Health), the Abundant Birth Project (funded by the California Department of Social Services) and the Guaranteed Income for Transgender People program (funded by the City of San Francisco).

The first program only caters to young black adults, providing $500 a month.

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The birth project gives $1,000 to “Black and Pacific Islander mothers,” while the transgender program provides $1,200  a month to help trans people who hold some form of minority status.

The California social services department is openly following a “center equity” approach to distribution, encouraging grant applicants to “embed an equity-focused approach throughout each dimension” of their programs, including their…

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