SF Supervisors, will you nail the Black community to Redevelopment’s cross again?

At Juneteenth this past weekend and every day on Third Street, people are literally lining up to sign. Black folks need no explanation; no mo’ Fillmore is in our blood.

A rumor’s going around that Daddy Big Bucks is funding the petition drive. No! We’ve been blessed by getting the printing and other costs on credit; but now the bills are coming due, and only a few small contributions have come in. Please help if you can.

This petition is for a referendum. According to the law, once sufficient signatures are validated, the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan goes back to the Supervisors for reconsideration first. If a majority approves it again, it goes to the voters. But if six or more Supervisors vote against it – two more than in May – the land grab plan is dead.

Supervisors will have to decide: Is it more racist to oppose District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, the lone African American on the board, who supports the Redevelopment Plan, or to support the ethnic cleansing of Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s Black heartland, where people of color are 91 percent of the population?

Supervisors will have to decide whether they support the Redevelopment Agency – on this issue or any other? Supporting Redevelopment means supporting ethnic cleansing; a state Redevelopment brochure published a few years ago lists “repeopling” of neighborhoods as a primary goal.

“The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, incorporated August 10, 1948, was established for the purpose of improving the environment of the City and creating better urban living conditions through the removal of blight.” That’s the first sentence on the home page of the agency’s website, http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfra_index.asp. And Ebony Colbert told us what blight really means: “Blight means Black,” she wrote in a classic editorial March 1, at http://www.sfbayview.com/030106/handsoff030106.shtml.

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