Black Homes Matter: San Francisco's Vanishing Black Population

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Black Homes Matter: San Francisco's Vanishing Black Population

Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:00
By Carl Finamore, BeyondChron | News Analysis


This story is prompted by a picket sign I saw at a recent anti-police brutality protest sponsored by two San Francisco families, one Latino and one Black, whose sons were shot dead in separate incidents following a barrage of police bullets.

Among the crowd of 150 activists standing in the pouring rain in front of the police-barricaded Bayview police station, were four young people holding a sign that simply read, "The Last 3 Percent."

I thought their message was both powerful and poignant.

The words refer not directly to police violence but to the broader problem of the mass exodus of African Americans from San Francisco. Thousands have left their city of birth not because of any personal preference but because of political decisions and economic policies, many set into motion several decades ago.

Certainly, being one of the most expensive places to live in the entire world poses a challenge to the budgets of all working-class residents. ..................(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34400-black-homes-matter-san-francisco-s-vanishing-black-population

[Wilms]

1. They evict the ones they don't shoot. n/t

[Hortensis]

3. Affluent blacks are not "evictable." It's happening

around the planet as more people want to live in desirable urban areas, driving up land values beyond what people of average incomes can afford. The congregation of elites and most amenities in shining cities on a hill so to speak, or seven of them as the San Francisco legend goes, which are unattainable by most and serviced by people living long commutes outside is widely recognized as a serious problem.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Related: Just saw Spike Lee's "Chi-raq"

where the various forms of slow motion genocide of urban blacks is clearly pointed out.

Destruction of public housing is being done all across the country. A Significant example was post Katrina New Orleans, which tore down perfectly good undamaged public housing and invited "investors" into the area to rebuild.