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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