{"id":538,"date":"2008-06-06T10:19:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T18:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/06\/how-racist-is-this-city\/"},"modified":"2008-06-06T18:59:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T02:59:57","slug":"how-racist-is-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/538\/how-racist-is-this-city\/","title":{"rendered":"How Racist Is This City?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Pat Monk<\/strong>, special to Fog City Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

June 6, 2008<\/p>\n

The latte liberals and pusillanimous progressives are out in full force, especially on the San Francisco Bay Guardian website, lambasting and blaming Supervisor Chris Daly for everything from the price of tea in China to the Fall of the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n

While I don’t always agree with Daly’s tactics, some things should be clarified. The sad state of progressive politics in this city does not arise from his sometimes abrasive championship of controversial issues, but rather from their cowardice and refusal to speak out and publicly support causes that might put them at odds with the corporate power structure that is, selling out our neighborhoods and communities – especially those minority and low income communities that are under imminent threat.<\/p>\n

I am not an apologist for, nor am I defending Chris, he is more than capable of doing that himself. But all this whining and pontificating about one slate card that may have been misleading, is ridiculous sophomoric bullshit. As Big Bruce might say: “This is San Francisco politics GODAMNIT.”<\/p>\n

Where is the outrage at Newsom’s corrupt administration that continues to give away priceless city assets to a developer in financial distress, whose stock is rated as “junk?”<\/p>\n

It seems like these Daly haters have bought into the lies and jive of the Kronikle and Eric Jaye. Particulary disgraceful was the collusion of many current and future elected officials, eg: Mark Leno, Union Bosses, and some “community” organizations with Lennar, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (RDA), and big business in their campaign supporting Prop G. Their mailers continually portrayed Prop F as ‘Daly’s poison pill.’<\/p>\n

That was an outright lie.<\/p>\n

Prop F was partly a response to the City Attorney’s disenfranchisement of 33,000 voters, under pressure from Gavin Newsom and others, who petitioned to have a voice in the future of Bayview-Hunters Point. Despite their assertions to the contrary, the public has not been heard. The ten year process of public input they keep referencing came from a community group that was comprised mainly of RDA and Lennar advocates, many of whom have a vested personal or financial stake in the outcome.<\/p>\n

It was a a sham.<\/p>\n

Prop F was NOT Daly’s initiative. It originated in the community and was the work product of Bayview neighborhood activists and concerned citizens. It was another tactic in the ongoing battle to save minority\/low-income communities from further gentrification, displacement and racial cleansing.<\/p>\n

The sad fact is that Chris Daly was the only elected progressive leader who was willing to carry the legislation and give his full unequivocal support. Whatever other motivations or agendas he may have, it is undeniable that he has been the most steadfast of the motley crue in the hall of smoke and mirrors. And for the last couple of years, Daly has been the most vocal and effective advocate for the cause of civil rights, racial equality, human services for the less fortunate, etc; and a fierce opponent of the socio-economic racism that continues under the Newsom administration. For this he has earned, and deserves, the gratitude and support of those of us who continue to resist these despicable policies.<\/p>\n

The manipulation and duplicity we have just been subjected to, again, was on full display when our smirking self aggrandizing mayor said, “Do we want the special interests to decide the outcome of elections, or do we want to level the playing field?”<\/p>\n

At the same time Newsom was celebrating the passage of Prop G thanks to the infusion of over 3.5 million dollars of special interest money. What a smarmy, shallow, duplicitous creature he is.<\/p>\n

Plans are already under way to revive this issue in November. Maybe then some of the MIA liberals and progressives will get off their butts and finally listen to and stand with the folks in the community instead of engaging in divisive personal attacks and petty political gamesmanship.<\/p>\n

I could be wrong, but I suspect an analysis of votes cast by district, zip code, etc; will be very ‘interesting’ and may reveal that the majority of people who voted for the redevelopment and ‘repeopling’ of the Bayview, do not live in the neighborhood. Many have never even set foot on Bayview streets and could care less about the fate of the community, provided it doesn’t inconvenience them.<\/p>\n

While we celebrate the fact that 99,000 people voted to preserve Rent Control and their own homes, it is shameful that only 47,000 showed similar concern for survival of the last black homeland in this once inclusive and diverse city.<\/p>\n

ACORN, the San Francisco Labor Council, and other sell-out groups, are probably too co-opted and beholden to the corporate power structure to be of any help or relevance to the people’s needs and struggle. But if we act together and demonstrate compassion, concern, and commitment to all our brothers and sisters – regardless of caste, color or creed – we the people can still prevent the whitewashing of Bayview-Hunters Point, save the community and small businesses from devastation and disruption, and more decades of inhaling toxic contaminants resulting from unmonitored construction activities.<\/p>\n

We can and should look to the future and engage in the revitalization and renewal of long neglected and marginalized communities, but on a human scale, and with local control and with full participation in the planning and execution of any development. Not some grandiose, gerrymandered, gentrifying occupation and land-grab that will enrich speculators and corrupt, lying politicians.<\/p>\n

In November, VOTE YES on whatever the offspring of Prop F is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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