Massive brawl at Vallejo (CA) high school raises additional safety concerns for the district.

[daredtowork]

6. It's even more heart-breaking when you realize that

the campus of a world-class university, with many resources open to the public, is exactly two blocks away from that BART station where the fight occurred.

In the 90s, UC Berkeley was known for having an almost tragically low rate of acceptance for black students (I assume that's changed since awareness of that was fairly high). The city of Berkeley's black population is down to 8% - that's a 13% loss since 2000. My personal suspicion is this has something to do with support for home ownership and then the interest landlords and property owners had in various bubbles that caused chaos for renters. Now that developers are trying to seize the last bit of property, there is also a very strident language about "takers" (worker housing vs. supportive housing, areas of town that need "services", etc.) emerging to justify displacing anyone that doesn't have an iron grip on some property.

On the other hand, imagine if a good education and guaranteed scholarships to UC Berkeley were pipelining these kids into the best jobs that San Francisco and Silicon Valley had to offer. Would they be "takers" anymore? Talk about beating the cycle of poverty!

This is a great moral failure on the part of the City of Berkeley.