San Francisco’s Hypocritical Multiculturalism  (Randy Shaw)

A week in New York City has left me even more convinced of San Francisco’s glaring hypocrisy toward its Latino and African-American residents. Although San Francisco prides itself on being a multicultural city, a place whose busses carry people of diverse nationalities and ethnicities, when it comes to employment in the city’s hip restaurants, blacks or Latinos are either missing or in the kitchen. These groups are also absent from the well-paying jobs in San Francisco’s popular small businesses selling clothing, housewares, and other goods. By contrast, New York City is often identified with racial tensions, but its multiculturalism extends to its waiters in upscale restaurants and sales staff in hip stores. No wonder some African-Americans in job training programs are pursuing the fools gold of Bayview Redevelopment; its far easier for local politicians to sell that promise than to ruffle feathers by demanding racial justice in hiring for the city’s small businesses.

When I lived in Noe Valley in the 1980’s, a common topic of discussion was the paucity of African-American or Latino workers in the small retail businesses lining 24th Street. This pattern was also evident along Chestnut, Union and other commercial districts whose fortunes boomed during that period. (read the rest of this one)

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Where to begin with this one!  I’ll try to keep it short

If you want to see what happens when government issues out endless handouts requiring very little in return because they want to be sensitive, visit SanFran. Unfortunately many of the homeless you will see are black

If you want to see a real divide between the haves and have-nots, visit Santa Monica, CA were it is comon to find wealthy folks dining at some fancy outside bistro on the very same street where at least 50 homeless men and women are panhandling. This city has a very bad homeless problem, but most of America doesn’t know about it because all this very Liberal city wants you to see is the Pier and picturesque beaches. This article  sheds a little light on this issue:

If you currently live or are from the Northeast, this description may not seem like a big deal. But when you consider the fact that many very wealthy Liberal elite live in this city, you would think that homelessness would not be a problem. Think again!

If you are wondering, yes, a large precentage of the homeless in this city are black.

Then you have the city of Los Angeles. If you are ever in the area, take a drive through the skid row area. This will probably be the most drepressing drive you ever take outside of pre-US invaded Baghdad. The  section of streets that make up  the skid row area are lined with tents and cardboard boxes of  men  and women  who are not only homeless, but many  of them are  either mentally ill, or strung out on drugs. Again, hundreds of  them, many are black. Even the LA Times has blasted the city government  on its handling of the homeless crisis in this city.

Then is a whole lot more I can get into with this topic, but I will save it for another time.