{"id":1,"date":"2007-10-07T18:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T02:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2008-02-27T12:08:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:08:43","slug":"ethnic-cleansint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1\/ethnic-cleansint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n“The patron saint of privatization is Congresswoman
\nNancy Pelosi.”<\/em>
\nMayor Gavin Newsom “pulls all the levers and pushes
\nall the buttons.<\/em>”
\n Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Don Santina<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guest Edtorial. Reprinted with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

October 7, 2007<\/p>\n

Not so long ago, San Francisco was home to about 100,000 Blacks, and the Fillmore district was a thriving Mecca of African American life. Today, Fillmore is gone, wiped out by “Negro Removal”in the guise of “redevelopment,” and the city’s Black population has shrunk to 40,000 – less than half the Black population of Augusta, Georgia.<\/p>\n


\nThe last bastion of concentrated Black life, Hunters Point, is slated for ethnic cleansing designed to rob African Americans of not only a spectacular view of the Bay, but of any hope of remaining in the city. The “patron saint” of this racist juggernaut is none other than Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

“They want to kick you out so they can build housing they know you can’t afford and allow rich San Franciscans to enjoy it. They don’t feel that poor Blacks or other people of color deserve to have a view like that.” – Appolonia Jordan, San Francisco Bayview SF OldFillmore<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alan Goodspeed was my next door neighbor in the Ingleside District on the south side of Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. He was a
\nBlack man from Marshall, Texas, who had moved to San Francisco during WWII and worked as a machinist for twenty five years
\nin the shipyards of Hunters Point. Within that time, he bought a home and raised a family.<\/p>\n

“There are probably less than 40,000 Black people left in the city.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Alan passed away a few years ago, working class Black people had already become an endangered species in San Francisco. According to a 2005 demographic study, there are probably less than 40,000 Black people left in the city. Back in the day when
\nAlan and I changed the oil in our cars in adjoining driveways
\nand jawed about whether Muhammad Ali would regain the title,
\nthere were almost 100,000 black people in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

So, here in 2007, ethnic cleansing of the Black population
\nin the city “where little cable cars climb halfway to the
\nstars” is more than halfway to completion.<\/p>\n

The Jobs at the Hunter’s Point Ship Yards<\/strong><\/p>\n

By 1974, most the 8,500 jobs at the shipyards created during
\nWorld War II were gone, and a decade later a petulant Navy scotched
\nplans to homeport the nuclear-armed USS Missouri when City officials
\nobjected to footing the bill with no job guarantees for locals.
\nThe shipyards were closed, and the Navy pulled out, leaving
\nforty years of highly toxic contaminants behind them, and a
\ncommitment to clean up their mess some time in the future.<\/p>\n

Even as jobs at the shipyards were drying up, the Hunter’s
\nPoint-Bayview neighborhood was a majority Black neighborhood,
\na vibrant community in southwestern San Francisco which was
\naffordable and had spectacular views of San Francisco Bay. The
\nslaughterhouses of “Butchertown” were gone, along
\nwith most of the auto wreckers, and although it was underserved
\nand largely ignored by City officialdom (except for heavy-handed
\npolice presence), the neighborhood was hearth and home for thousands
\nof Black Americans.<\/p>\n

Gentrification Rears its Ugly Head<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fast forward twenty years from the Navy’s retreat. San Francisco’s
\nhousing dynamic has changed drastically. Home prices and rents
\nhave skyrocketed. A studio rents for $1,800 and a small condo
\nfetches $650,000 to $800,000. The City’s light industry has
\ndisappeared, and, while most of the dot commers dot come and
\ndot gone, they were replaced by a new urban class of middle
\nmanagers, hedge fund hustlers, fashion designers, bio-meds,
\nmoney changers, paper brokers, and techies of all persuasions.
\nGentrification has metastasized throughout the City, spilling
\nout of the central Victorian neighborhoods into the outlying
\nfrontiers, like Hunter’s Point\/Bayview.<\/p>\n

“A studio rents for $1,800 and a small condo fetches
\n$650,000 to $800,000.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Consequently, the public lands on which the shipyards once
\nstood provided both lucrative opportunities for developers and
\ndesirable potential properties for the new yuppie class.<\/p>\n

On the part of the shipyard now known as Parcel A, the bulldozers,
\nscrapers and graders of the Lennar Corporation are hard at work,
\nflattening a former hillside for new homes and condos. The original
\nplan approved by the City included affordable rental units in
\nthe mix. However, those units have now been scrapped. Lennar
\nreneged on the affordable housing part of the plan, claiming
\na lack of profitability.<\/p>\n

Very few, if any, of the local residents will be able to afford
\nthe new residences and they will be forced out of this last
\ncorner of the City, as the prices go up around them. And, to
\nadd injury to insult, the asbestos
\ndust<\/a> being raised during construction is making the neighbors
\nsick.<\/p>\n

Dress Rehearsal in the Fillmore<\/strong><\/p>\n

To understand what’s happening today at Hunter’s Point, it
\nis necessary to understand what happened in San Francisco’s
\nFillmore District in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The Fillmore, often
\ncalled the “Harlem of the West,” was a center of Black
\nculture in the decades following World War II. Like Tulsa in
\nthe early 1920’s, the Fillmore was a flourishing home for thousands
\nof Black people and hundreds of Black-owned markets, auto repair
\ngarages, barber shops, salons, restaurants, shoe repair shops,
\nLaundromats, night clubs, and apparel stores. Among those businesses
\nwas the legendary Jimbo’s Bop City, which featured performances
\nby jazz immortals like Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles
\nDavis, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Coltrane.<\/p>\n

And then came something called Urban Renewal in the guise of
\na heavily-cloaked urban real estate operation called the Redevelopment
\nAgency. When the RA was finished, the Fillmore was gone. The
\nbulldozers had smashed and leveled block after block after block.
\nThe fabulous Fillmore looked like a bombed-out city in an old
\nnewsreel. And that’s exactly what it was, displaced residents
\nand all. The people who lived in the Fillmore were dispersed
\nto the East Bay cities of Oakland, Richmond, and to Hunter’s
\nPoint\/Bayview. As the Redevelopment Agency smashed homes and
\nbusinesses, it issued thousands of certificates of preference
\nto the people of the Fillmore. These certificates were documents
\nwhich gave the displaced businesses and families a promise of
\npreference for renting or buying other redevelopment property
\nwithin the City and the right to return to the neighborhood
\nfrom which they’d been evicted.<\/p>\n

“The people who lived in the Fillmore were dispersed
\nto the East Bay cities of Oakland, Richmond, and to Hunter’s
\nPoint\/Bayview.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of the 883 certificates given to Black-owned businesses, only
\n39 resulted in other business locations. Of the 4,719 certificates
\ngiven to families, only 1,099 certificates put families in other
\nhomes. Somehow, the Redevelopment Agency lost contact with 3,055
\nfamilies and 590 businesses which held certificates of preference.<\/p>\n

Today, the Fillmore is almost completely gentrified. Much of
\nthe neighborhood has been condo-ized and yuppified, replete
\nwith foo-foo restaurants and ersatz jazz festivals. However,
\na pocket of Black families remain in the neighborhood with enough
\nyoung Black men to be targeted for a gang injunction from the
\nCity Attorney.<\/p>\n

The Gangs of San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most observers of Urban America agree that there appears to
\nbe a national program to target, arrest and warehouse young
\nBlack men into the “criminal justice” – that is, prison
\nindustrial complex – system across the United States. Aside
\nfrom the near genocidal effect of the proactive criminalization
\nof an entire generation, this program also serves as a convenient
\nmethod for clearing out the soon-to-be-lucrative neighborhoods
\nof the former “inner cities,” neighborhoods which
\nwill provide potential profit for hungry real estate and investment
\nindustries.<\/p>\n

“San Francisco police arrest African-Americans at
\na higher rate than any other city in California.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The City of Saint Francis is no exception to the rule. A recent
\nstudy found that San Francisco police arrest African-Americans
\nat a higher rate than any other city in California, even as
\nthe number of Black people living in the city diminishes. However,
\nit seems that the simple policy of arresting young Black men
\nis not efficient enough to move them out of town. They must
\nalso be kept from gathering in their own neighborhoods. Accordingly–in
\nkeeping with the continuing national dismemberment of the Constitution–the
\nCity Attorney of San Francisco has sought gang injunctions against
\na list of African American gangs in the Fillmore known as Eddy
\nRock, Chopper City, and Knockout Posse, along with some “gangs”
\nin the Mission. Last year, the first injunction was granted
\nagainst the alleged “Oakdale Mob” in Hunter’s Point\/Bayview.<\/p>\n

Under these injunctions, alleged members of the alleged gangs
\nare prohibited from meeting with each other in designated geographic
\nlocations, like, uh, their own neighborhoods. Aside from the
\nquestionable constitutionality of these injunctions, the fact
\nremains that these injunctions literally drive non-white residents
\nout of their own neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

For the local folks who have some idea of what’s going on,
\nthe irony of these court-ordered gang injunctions is that the
\nmost powerful, ruthless, and rapacious gang in San Francisco
\nis glaringly absent from the City Attorney’s list.<\/p>\n

The Downtown Gang (AWDG)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the City Attorney’s injunction list did not
\ninclude the Downtown Gang, also known as the AWDG (All White
\nDowntown Gang). These gang members virtually control all public
\npolicy in San Francisco, including who will live in the City
\nand who will not.<\/p>\n

How does one identify members of the Downtown Gang? Well, for
\nstarters, like members of all gangs, the AWDG hang out together:
\nat museum galas, society do’s, first nighters at the opera and
\nthe symphony, parties in Pacific Heights, winter in Tahoe, and
\nso forth. But the best way to ID them is to use the old-fashioned
\nfollow-the-money method. Pick a politician, check out the big
\nbuck contributors, and then see whether the politician’s policies
\nbenefit private sector profit or the public good. It doesn’t
\ntake a Sherlock Holmes to find a political spear carrier for
\nthe AWDG and then the AWDG member who owns and supplies the
\nspears.<\/p>\n

“The ‘Care Not Cash’ proposition would solve
\nthe problem of homeless people by slashing monthly welfare
\npayments from $395 to $59.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A textbook example is the current mayor, Gavin Newsom. Newsom,
\nthe extremely personable shill for all things rich and white
\nin San Francisco, pulls all the levers and pushes all the buttons
\nthat put the policies of the AWDG into motion, which include
\nsweeping out homeless people, lowering business taxes and continuing
\nthe privatization of public housing.<\/p>\n

As a San Francisco supervisor, Newsom made his bones for the
\nAWDG in 2002 by placing his “Care Not Cash” proposition
\non the ballot which would solve the problem of homeless people
\nby slashing monthly welfare payments from $395 to $59 in return
\nfor a proposed system of “care.” “Care Not Cash”
\nwould have flopped without the big buck effort behind it.<\/p>\n

The campaign for the “Care Not Cash” proposition,
\nknown to homeless advocates as “Neither Care Nor Cash,”
\nwas funded by a shadowy group called SFSOS<\/a>,
\nor San Francisco SOS, which was founded by Warren Hellman, heir
\nto the Wells Fargo fortune, Donald Fisher, the sweatshop king
\nof the Gap\/Banana Republic\/Old Navy clothing empire, and Senator
\nDiane Feinstein. Other original supporters included financial
\nheavy hitters like Charles Schwab, William Hume, Feinstein’s
\nhusband – the
\nwar profiteer<\/a>, Richard Blum – and socialites like Dede Wilsey.
\nIn addition to its outright attack on the homeless, SFSOS also
\nopposed the living wage campaign, affordable housing and tenant
\nprotection and supported re-segregation of the public schools
\nsystem through charterization.<\/p>\n

SFSOS and the AWDG won big in the ensuing election.<\/p>\n

Merchants Have No Country<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson noted toward the end of his life that “merchants
\nhave no country,” in that the merchant’s first loyalty
\nis always to profit. He could have just as readily said that
\nthe merchants have no political party either. Business loyalty
\nto self interest rather than common interest is rife in modern
\nAmerican politics where corporations regularly hedge their bets
\nby contributing to opposing candidates. Such was the situation
\nwhen Supervisor Newsom ran for mayor in 2003.<\/p>\n

As Election Day neared, it became apparent that Newsom was
\nbarely ahead of his Green Party opponent, Matt Gonzalez, even
\nthough he was outspending him by a 10 to 1 margin. The possibility
\nof a Green coming to power in San Francisco so terrified the
\nAWDG that the gang pulled out all of the stops and flew into
\naction, calling in celebrity Democrats like Bill Clinton and
\nAl Gore and coughing up cash. Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi
\nhit the phones. The heirs of the Getty oil fortune Republican
\nbusinessmen rushed to the fore. George Shultz, a Republican
\nflush with new found Bechtel riches from Iraq, opened his wallet,
\nas did the heirs to the Getty oil fortune who were Newsom’s
\noriginal sponsors. Republicans Charles Schwab and Donald Fisher
\nwrote checks. The Swig and Shorenstein families, real estate
\ndevelopers who had underwritten the activities of local Democrats
\nfor years, dialed in their dollars.<\/p>\n

“No one in the neighborhood will ever be able to
\nlive in the new housing units.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, Newsom won and policies favored by the AWDG
\ncontinue to flourish during his regime – like the onslaught
\nto quickly privatize the shipyards property, regardless of the
\nhealth of the residents during construction on this toxic site,
\nor the fact that no one in the neighborhood will ever be able
\nto live in the new housing units. In 2006, Lennar Corporation
\nwas cited multiple times for failing to monitor and control
\nasbestos dust during the grading phase on Parcel A. Oddly enough,
\nthe project was never shut down to correct any non-compliant
\noperations. Finally, several local African American neighborhood
\norganizations went to City Hall this year to protest this continuing
\ncontamination and request that the City red tag the site until
\nsafety measures could be enforced. Their request fell upon deaf
\nears.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the AWDG, not content with securing a financial
\nstranglehold on future development of public lands, continues
\nto target existing public housing for privatization.<\/p>\n

Hunter’s View and the Patron Saint of Privatization<\/strong><\/p>\n

The situation at Hunter’s View, a public housing project in
\nthe Hunter’s Point\/Bayview neighborhood with a scenic view of
\nthe Bay Bridge and the Bay, is a classic case of how politicians,
\ndevelopers, and financial interests work together to achieve
\ntheir respective ends of power and profit at the expense of
\npeople. In 1997, a grandmother and five children burned to death
\nin Hunter’s View because the smoke detectors didn’t work. A
\nrecent inspection – ten years later – found that 64% of the
\nunits still had non functioning smoke detectors and pockets
\nof sewage bubble up in and around these rat-infested homes.<\/p>\n

Do you think City Hall rushed plumbers, carpenters and electricians
\nout there to fix things up? Go sit in the corner if you answered
\nin the affirmative.<\/p>\n

Here’s how privatization for profit works: first) don’t maintain
\nanything, let everything deteriorate; second) throw up your
\nhands in dismay of ever being able to repair anything with the
\nmeager public funds available; third) call in private developers
\nand their bankers to “help out’; fourth) evict the residents
\nbecause by now everything has to be torn down, and fifth) build
\nunits to buy, not to rent, that the evicted residents can’t
\nafford.<\/p>\n

“Do you think that the snail’s pace rebuild of the
\ninfrastructure and return of the displaced residents of New
\nOrleans is accidental?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the Federal government purposely abandoned the “inner
\ncities” of Urban America almost thirty years ago, the vacuum
\nleft in its wake created vast and lucrative investment opportunities
\nfor the exploitation of public property. Do you think that the
\nsnail’s pace rebuild of the infrastructure and return of the
\ndisplaced residents of New Orleans is accidental? Go sit in
\nthe corner!<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, the patron saint of privatization is Congresswoman
\nNancy Pelosi, known to some locals as “Nancy Privatisi”
\nfor her landmark work in taking the 1,200 acres of public land
\nin the Presidio and placing it into private hands. Even the
\nstaid San Francisco Chronicle couldn’t avoid noting that the
\nPresidio was “the first privatized national park in the
\nUnited States.”<\/p>\n

How about a little Q and A? Who was one of the founding directors
\nof the Presidio Trust? Donald Fisher. Who appointed him? Bill
\nClinton. Who is a major contributor to Pelosi’s campaign, while
\nat the same time being a charter member of the SFSOS, the AWDG
\nand the Republican Party? Donald Fisher. Who’s going to construct
\na museum to himself – excuse me – for his art collection, in
\nthe Presidio? Donald Fisher. Who supports it? Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

There’s also a plan to put a Walt Disney museum in the Presidio
\nwhich would be appropriate because Nancy’s husband, Paul, owns
\na bit of Disney. A local union organizer suggested that it would
\nbe fitting that a third museum be erected between the first
\ntwo museums-a museum to sweatshop workers.<\/p>\n

“The patron saint of privatization is Congresswoman
\nNancy Pelosi.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Getting back to Hunter’s View, Newsom has been seen cruising
\nthe neighborhood with developers from the AWDG. Hunter’s View
\nis a perfect candidate for privatization: it has a view that
\nyuppies will pay big bucks for, and it’s sufficiently destabilized
\nto warrant complete leveling.<\/p>\n

Hunter’s Point resident Appolonia Jordan, in a recent article
\nin the Black-owned San Francisco Bayview newspaper, wrote, “I
\nknow you have noticed the groups of clean, pressed suited white
\nmen who jump out of these brand new SUVs with Mayor Gavin Newsom
\nlooking around your housing project. They smile and sometimes
\neven talk to the ‘poor’ children playing outside.”<\/p>\n

In response to a Chronicle series about the dire living situation
\nat Hunter’s View, Pelosi, whose nephew Laurence has worked for
\nboth Lennar and Newsom, announced that the Democrats had not
\nonly increased funding for public housing, but that their $1
\nmillion allotment for Hunter’s View would create “one-for-one
\nreplacement of 267 public housing units” with “new
\naffordable rental units,” and “market rate homes.”<\/p>\n

Sounds familiar. Sounds like Lennar’s original plan for the
\nshipyards. Sounds like the Fillmore.<\/p>\n

Don Santina is a cultural historian and third generation
\nSan Franciscan who received a 2005 Superior Scribing Award for
\nhis Black Commentator article, “Reparations for the Blues.”
\nHe recently appeared in a Canadian Sportsnet TV feature on racism
\nand baseball with Danny Glover and Barry Bonds. He can be reached
\nat lindey89@aol.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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