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Eviction notice served on Bayview Hunters Point
The cop who supervised the gang of police who beat and molested five children in Hunters Point on Martin Luther King Day 2002 gave us notice: “As long as you people are here, we will act like this,” he told the children’s terrified parents.
Now we have our notice in writing. In Monday’s mail came a “Notice of Public Hearing of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Commission on the Proposed Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan Amendment” announcing that on Tuesday, March 7, at 4 p.m. in City Hall Room 416, “any and all persons having any objections to the proposed Redevelopment Plan Amendment may appear before the Agency and show cause why the Redevelopment Plan Amendment should not be approved.”
Notice of another boring meeting? No, not this time. This is an eviction notice to nearly everyone who lives in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s Black heartland.
The word “amendment” doesn’t sound like a threat. But this “amendment,” according to the notice, “proposes to add approximately 1,361 acres of new land as ‘Project Area B’ to the existing 137-acre Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area.” The map on the back of the notice designates nearly our entire neighborhood as the proposed Project Area B, dwarfing the existing project area that covers much of Hunters Point Hill. The proposed “amendment” stretches from Cesar Chavez Street south to the county line and from Highway 101 east to San Francisco Bay.
If we allow the Redevelopment Agency Commission, whose strings are pulled by Mayor Gavin Newsom, to declare our neighborhood a “project area,” we are consenting to our own eviction from the most valuable land – considering we have the best views and the most sunshine – in San Francisco, the city with the most valuable land on earth.
Property in a project area is subject to the city’s seizure by eminent domain. In horror, Black San Franciscans watched it happen a generation ago when the world-renowned Fillmore district became Fill-no-mo’, when Redevelopment bulldozers destroyed 200 Black-owned businesses and the homes of 5,000 Black families. They even tried to bulldoze our memories by renaming the neighborhood the Western Addition.
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Notice of another boring meeting? No, not this time. This is an eviction notice to nearly everyone who lives in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco’s Black heartland.
The word “amendment” doesn’t sound like a threat. But this “amendment,” according to the notice, “proposes to add approximately 1,361 acres of new land as ‘Project Area B’ to the existing 137-acre Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area.” The map on the back of the notice designates nearly our entire neighborhood as the proposed Project Area B, dwarfing the existing project area that covers much of Hunters Point Hill. The proposed “amendment” stretches from Cesar Chavez Street south to the county line and from Highway 101 east to San Francisco Bay.
If we allow the Redevelopment Agency Commission, whose strings are pulled by Mayor Gavin Newsom, to declare our neighborhood a “project area,” we are consenting to our own eviction from the most valuable land – considering we have the best views and the most sunshine – in San Francisco, the city with the most valuable land on earth.
Property in a project area is subject to the city’s seizure by eminent domain. In horror, Black San Franciscans watched it happen a generation ago when the world-renowned Fillmore district became Fill-no-mo’, when Redevelopment bulldozers destroyed 200 Black-owned businesses and the homes of 5,000 Black families. They even tried to bulldoze our memories by renaming the neighborhood the Western Addition.
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The "Western Addition" referred to the area west of Van Ness that was built up later than the Gold Rush town. It had nothing to do with "urban renewal" of the Fillmore. As for Bayview/HP, we all know that it's a gold mine. Mission Bay. Third St Light Rail. You know development is coming. Rather than whine about what everyone "owes" the black community, perhaps you could be pooling money as the Asians do and cash in on the bonanza. It's not rocket science. Didn't you ever wonder how recent immigrants could afford to buy houses and start businesses? They POOL THEIR MONEY and work as a group. You could, too, if you bothered to learn how. But then again, blaming others and pointing fingers has always been easier. Those days are over.
Isn't that what you're doing, spelling champ?
To which Asian communities are you referring? The Japanese folks in the Western Addition had their property taken from under them while they were held in concentration camps during WWII. Southern blacks moved in, recruited from the south for the war effort, but Redevelopment forced them out, too.
In case you haven't noticed, there's not a lot of money to go pool in Bayview/HP. POOLING PEOPLE POWER is much more effective in fighting another Redevelopment juggernaut, especially under this mayor.
To which Asian communities are you referring? The Japanese folks in the Western Addition had their property taken from under them while they were held in concentration camps during WWII. Southern blacks moved in, recruited from the south for the war effort, but Redevelopment forced them out, too.
In case you haven't noticed, there's not a lot of money to go pool in Bayview/HP. POOLING PEOPLE POWER is much more effective in fighting another Redevelopment juggernaut, especially under this mayor.
Strangely, the Japanese recovered from their ordeal and moved on. Blacks who came here in the 1940s are still "demanding" jobs and housing. Why? On what basis do they claim that I and others "owe" them anything, over 60 years after the war's end. Those days are over. The excuses are over. Blacks came here looking for jobs 60 years ago. How many of them are still around? Why do we owe anything to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchilren? Millions of people moved around during WW2. Most have since progressed. I suggest you do the same.
asians are favored because of their straight hair ''genetics''.anything remotely african and male especially is looked upon as something to fear irrationally.caucasian and asians are closer relations because of northern hemisphere evolution during colder ice ages.african humans are feared by others because if african ''genetics' get in asian or caucasians, their is a deep evolutionary fear that the ''race'' will lose the technological ''abilities'' of northern ''races''. in other words ''if them n****r* get in our genes we wont be able to build mercedes benzes to get us to our hunting ground in these ice age hell conditions''.i believe it goes that deep. how else to explain irrational fear of black men?? you think the black man will cause you to lose your ice age ''adaptibility''.personally i would rather be a ''dumb black'' living in the tropics without your machines of ''progress''.just lazing in the sand looking at the sky ,free from hater ''races''. living a life without your ice age agression.unless we are willing to face up to this eco terror of the northern dominator politicians and military we are going to have a hell of a time.
You can knock off the "ice people" crap. It's old and tired, as is your argument. It's not all about blacks. It's not all about you. You don't own the neighborhood and you have no special claims to it. I would suggest you move on past your anger and rejectionism and try to make a go of it the way OTHERS have done. Whining and blaming "whitey" for your problems hasn't got you very far, now has it? Meanwhile, the rest of the planet is migrating here and making a go of it without worrying about "racism" or what white people think of them. You should, too.
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