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Monday, May 11th, 2015

S.F. police scandal focuses attention on dwindling number of blacks

Author:     Maura Dolan
Source:     Los Angeles Times
Publication Date:     May 9, 2015 | 5:00 a.m.
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Stephan:   The Median price for a home in the U.S. $188,900.  I was recently in San Francisco and had a conversation with a woman in her forties, with a young child, a serious professional at the top of her curve. She told me she was trying to buy a house and and 189,000 wouldn't even buy one side of a garage in the city. In the cities where the 21st century technologies and their financing are centered a kin of intra-county migration is happening. Gentrification, and violently steep rent and purchase price increases are forcing the poor out of the city cores. This story of San Francisco  is an example of what I mean.
Will Hambrick hugs Robert Harris after giving his public comment at the San Francisco Police Commission meeting. The fate of several police officers involved in racist and homophobic text messaging was under consideration. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, San Francisco Chronicle

Will Hambrick hugs Robert Harris after giving his public comment at the San Francisco Police Commission meeting. The fate of several police officers involved in racist and homophobic text messaging was under consideration.
Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, San Francisco Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO — When black friends come to visit, they inevitably ask Timothy Alan Simon the same question: Why are there so few African Americans?

A San Francisco native, Simon attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, the University of San Francisco and Hastings College of the Law. At one time, he saw other black faces in all of the city’s neighborhoods. It seems every year there are fewer, he said. Even his own children prefer Oakland, which has a thriving and economically diverse black community.

“We’re down to bone marrow in San Francisco,” said Simon, 59, a lawyer and […]

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