
A former Black Lives Matter activist denounced an ambitious San Francisco reparations plan as "gaslighting" black people.
Xaviaer DuRousseau, who now works for the conservative organization PragerU, bashed the plan, saying that it was trying to make black Americans reliant on "handouts." DuRousseau said that the plan, which aims to give all eligible black residents a one-time cash sum of $5 million, eliminate all personal debt and tax burdens, and sell residents homes for just $1, is not feasible.
“This is 111 ways to gaslight black Americans into thinking that we need to be dependent on a system of handouts in order to be successful,” DuRousseau told Fox News Host Laura Ingraham in a Wednesday appearance.
“It is so unrealistic to think that the average family in San Francisco is going to be able to pay $600,000 extra apiece,” DuRousseau said, referring to an estimate from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which found that each non-black resident would need to pay that amount to make the reparations a reality.