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Yeah. And where the hell is White History Month?

 

"According to Jared Kushner". Totally believable, right?

 

The huh, what?

San Francisco was the epicenter of counter-culture from well before the Summer of Love ever came into existence. Darrell Owens needs to take fifth grade California history again.

Columnist Herb Caen coined the word "beatnik" in 1958 to describe the beginnings of the counter-culture movement in, of all places, San Francisco. Haight-Ashbury, anybody? The Beat Generation was directly responsbile for the influx of counter-culture over the next decade, with its "hippie" apex in 1967.

The Black Panthers were formed in 1966 as an organization aimed at bettering life for minorities, providing food missions and other social programs. One of the key aims was to rise up against police brutality. Newton was in prison (and Cleaver hiding in Cuba) by 1970 after shootouts with cops.

The SLA and Patty Hearst was a garden party compared to the stuff going on on both sides of the Bay Area well before 1974.

If you're not going to get your history right, I'm not interested in reading what you have to say.

 

Shock and Awes.

 

On the recall of the DA in San Francisco or the mayor's race in LA, of course not. But it was really an unsexy primary. No statewide propositions, and the race for statewide offices went pretty much according to Hoyle. A lot of candidates for local office here in Santa Cruz County were unopposed, but Measure D, a complex rail/trail measure that's going down in flames, generated controversy.

 

All of the top county offices were on the ballot in Riverside County -- Sheriff, DA, Assessor-Controller and the like. Looks like all but one of the incumbents will get more than 50 percent of the vote and avoid a November runoff. There were three County Supervisors seats on the ballot but only one had a challenger and the incumbent Libertarian in the nonpartisan race is likely to win in November in a redrawn district because the third-place finisher is a Republican and he will likely get most of those votes.
Turnout was a little under 15 percent.

 

Darryl is from Oakland and I think his point is that SF is more conservative than Oakland.

Oakland is more working class and the results of this race don’t fit the “narrative” San Fran may be progressive in some aspects, but it’s still a highly segregated city, and is a corporate HQ for a lot of tech firms.

 

Sacre Bleu.

 

I heard on teevee that angry neegros were storming the streets

 

With all due respect to (correction) Darrell, who is way more plugged into what's going on NOW with San Francisco and Oakland, I still refuse to accept his perceived stereotypes of what he believed was happening there 50-plus years ago, when I was there THEN. The "conservative 1970s San Francisco" that he describes doesn't jibe with Beatniks, Hippies, or electing Harvey Milk 45 years ago.

That's the part I'm bothered by, as someone who witnessed that era first-hand. You can't throw out theories on "famous 70s radicalism" without doing due diligence. You can't just ignore 1958-1978 because it doesn't fit your proof.

The demographics don't lie. In 1970, 61 percent of the population in SF was White, with 14 percent Asian and 12 percent Latino. In 2020, it's 39 percent White, 33 percent Asian and 16 percent Latino. However, to Darrell's point, the percentage of Blacks has dropped from 13 percent to 5 percent over those same 50 years. That sure seems more racially diverse than Darryl wants to let on.

Demographics of San Francisco - Wikipedia

The unassailable fact is San Francisco is insanely expensive for anyone to buy property there, no matter your skin color. That's the reason for the stratification, way more than any political underpinnings. Older people tend to lean more conservative. The median age is 38.5. There are more people over 65 than under 18 living in San Francisco.

And Darrell even admits in another tweet that San Francisco is the Manhattan of the Bay Area. The overwhelming number of people who work in San Francisco commute from Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda and San Mateo counties every day. The people who own or manage all those high-tech and corporate conglomerates have houses somewhere else.

 

Why not? Haven't you paid attention to the complete rehabilitation Ronald Reagan's image has undergone?