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| DATE | 2016-12-18 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout-NYLXS] I'm sure it's a coincidence, part n+1
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In a country that is about 20% African American, the Bay area has about 7% black population which is pathetic.
Census 2000 Census 2010 2006-2010 ACS*
TOTAL POPULATION 6,783,760 100.0% 7,150,739 100.0% 7,002,425 100.0%
In households 6,640,972 97.9% 7,003,059 97.9%
In group quarters 142,788 2.1% 147,680 2.1%
RACE
White 3,941,687 58.1% 3,755,823 52.5%
Black or African American 511,084 7.5% 481,361 6.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 43,529 0.6% 48,493 0.7%
Asian 1,289,849 19.0% 1,664,384 23.3%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 36,317 0.5% 44,386 0.6%
Some other race 627,004 9.2% 770,820 10.8%
Two or more races 334,290 4.9% 385,472 5.4%
On 12/18/2016 04:20 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 12/18/2016 04:10 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 03:52:17PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
>>> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
>>>
>>> [all sorts of stuff about blacks in/around Brooklyn:]
>>>
>>>> I don't live in a lilly white community like yours, in a racially
>>>> segregated community such as what exists in the Bay Area.
>>>
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Black-population-deserting-S-F-study-says-3274047.php
>
>
> Its so easy to be a liberal when you've solved your ethnic diversity problem
>
>
> Black population deserting S.F., study says
> SAN FRANCISCO
>
> Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer Published 4:00 am, Sunday,
> August 10, 2008
>
> African Americans are leaving San Francisco because of substandard
> schools, a lack of affordable housing and the dearth of jobs and black
> culture, according to a report by a committee looking into the exodus.
>
> The African American Out-migration Task Force, put together by the
> mayor's office last year to figure out what can be done to preserve the
> city's remaining black population and cultivate new residents, presented
> its findings at a public hearing Thursday called by Supervisor Chris Daly.
>
> San Francisco's black population has dropped faster than that of any
> other large U.S. city's. It went from 13.4 percent in 1970 to an
> estimated 6.5 percent in 2005, according to the census. Nationally,
> African Americans make up 12.1 percent of the population.
>
> Much of the blame has been placed on the Redevelopment Agency, which
> intentionally drove black families and businesses from the Fillmore
> district in the 1960s and 1970s.
>
> Many residents who attended the nearly four-hour meeting live in the
> Bayview-Hunters Point area and expressed concern about the redevelopment
> project now under way there, saying it will continue to reduce the
> city's dwindling African American population.
>
> Much of the anger was placed on Lennar Corp., the developer building
> 1,600 houses at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Residents say they are
> being pushed out, so the city can gentrify the area that is the last
> black neighborhood.
>
> "In San Francisco, we run the risk of losing the entire black
> population," said Minister Christopher Muhammad of the Nation of Islam.
> "There should be emergency hearings, because this is an emergency."
>
> In San Francisco, the number of African Americans in very-low-income
> households has increased, the number of black-owned businesses has
> declined, and African Americans have the lowest home ownership rates,
> according to the report.
>
> About 24 percent of black people in the city are living in homes that
> need severe or moderate repairs, and African Americans make up nearly
> half of the residents in public housing.
>
> The report suggests such statistics contribute to why African Americans
> are leaving San Francisco and also explain why black families do not
> want to move here.
>
> The report recommends improving schools in black areas, adding programs
> for youth, increasing employment opportunities and promoting business
> development.
>
> "African Americans in San Francisco lag behind the rest of the city in
> almost every key economic indicator and face significant barriers to
> addressing the disparities," the report states.
>
> The findings were nothing new to residents, who said they have heard it
> all before.
>
> "We could paper the walls of this building with reports that have been
> made on this issue," said Aileen Hernandez, chair of the task force. "If
> we are really serious, we need a vision.
>
> "This is a city that still has a problem with discrimination, and many
> of the things we are talking about are the result of discrimination,"
> she said. "Every organization that has anything to do with eliminating
> discrimination has been underfunded, understaffed and underrecognized."
>
> Fred Blackwell, head of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, said the
> mayor is working on implementing some of the recommendations in the
> report - like a violence-prevention plan and rebuilding public housing -
> and that the final report will be presented to the Board of Supervisors
> within a couple of weeks.
>
> "While Gavin Newsom vacations in Africa, our families are being evicted,
> going hungry and are unemployed," said Alicia Schwartz, an organizer at
> POWER, People Organized to Win Employment Rights. "We need a real
> response. Developer-driven policy in San Francisco is killing my people."
>
>
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that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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