Former California State Assemblyman and former SF Mayor, Willie Brown Below you will find a link to yesterday’s podcast on Gentrificationand Black San Francisco.Choosing to live in the hood, in many ways is like choosing tosend your child to private versus public school. Given the fact that public schools are tax supported, we often move [...]
Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco has Ten Black People’
What is So Wrong with Living in the ‘Hood?
Monday, April 20th, 2009Gentrification has Nothing to do with White Hipsters
Saturday, April 18th, 2009Photo I Took Last Year of Banner on Valencia StreetAddressing Mission District Gentrification Last year, it took me roughly six weeks to earn $5,800.This is significant because during the lateeighties and early nineties my mother receivedpublic assistance, subsequently she and I lived off of$5,800 for an entire year. Yes, $5,800 per year. Given these facts, [...]
Medicine for Melancholy
Saturday, February 28th, 2009San Francisco has ten Black people. Okay, it has more than ten Black people, but the scarcity of Negro’s in the city of St. Francis was ever presentthroughout the film, Medicine for Melancholy. When I lived in Oakland last year, there were a few times that Ifelt like the only Black girl on Mission street. [...]
