Youth have no place to congregate and be safe in the Bayview Hunters Point area

The Lee Gym by the Bayview Opera House use to be a safe haven for those youth that wanted to play ball and make small talk. This gym is under construction and will be for some years. Hundreds of youth have no place to recreate.

There were two gyms by Kiska Road up on the Hill and they too have been shut down. The youth have no place to go but hang around some corners and become prime targets for the Law Enforcement.

We have over 70 Churches in the Bayview Hunters Point but few care for the youth. Calvin Jones and Aurelius Walker are for big money, back Redevelopment but NOT our youth. The same can be said of Sophina Maxwell and her cronies that are into Green and not those that need help most - especially our youth.

In the mean time Mayor Gavin Newsom has been playing to the media like the FOOL he is. He invited the Governor's wife who took the opportunity to talk about her father and the good work he has been doing for the poor far way from the Bayview.

She spoke about programs that will not work at Alice Griffith and Double Rock. You cannot address chronic programs using PLOYS like WiFi. It simply does not work. She made a fool of herself, so did Mayor Gavin Newsom and his cronies.

Well, the Kennedys have NOT visited any Public Housing in San Francisco in a long, long time - the last one was Bob Kennedy. Poor folks and youth are suffering in Public Housing because they have no facilities and those youth linked to Bayview and closer to 3rd Street.

Any decent recreational facility that was available - a couple of them renovated by Captain Rick Bruce is NOT available to the youth. The Lee gym is under construction and the youth have no where to go. Up on the hill the youth have no gym and no place that is SAFE.

Mayor Gavin Newsom does not care and nor does the Media. Up on the Hill the youth hang around and the two gyms by Kiska road have been shut for months. It is as if the youth have been punished for just being youth.

Some talk about the youth hanging round the corner but they do not think for a moment why?

In the interim Mayor Gavin Newsom and his crones run their mouth about this, that and the other thing. The Mayor when he was young was taken care of by the Gettys. Even now he spends more on his hair and other extra curricula activities - much of it dubious in character.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is all about Spin and Media Hype. How can he in good conscious try to address Crime and what is going on in the Bayview Hunters Point when the youth have no place to go to play and be safe?

The Mayor is creating a situation where he is putting the youth at risk on purpose. In the mean time the dumb, inept, ignorant, and very arrogant Supervisor - Sophina Maxwell is selling her community to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA).

Huge areas have been declared Project Areas and crooked developers are ready wrecking buildings all along 3rd Street. Gentrification has begun and the folks that saw it coming are at a loss for words.

The woman Sophina Maxwell has NO clue about what is happening in her community.

You could ask her why are the gyms closed and the Youth have no place to go and she will look at you in the eye and with a blank look that defies logic. It is as if she is on drugs or something. The woman is pathetic and a pupet for those that use her like a dirty rag.

Sophina has been busy working with SELL OUT BLACKS the likes of Ms. Vincent, Angelo King, Aurelious Walker, and many more that have no clue that for months - our youth have no place to go to play that is safe and where they can have clean fun.

In the mean time the Law Enforcement is ready to round up our youth and ruin their future. LE will take any and every opportunity to adversely affect the lives on our youth. I see it all the time and defend the youth when I can and as best I can.

Killings and shootings are on the increase and no one in their Right Mind is thinking straight.

The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) is a joke.

The head of this Department has been brought from the Windy City and has no idea what is really happening to the our Great City. He keeps pandering to the local idiotic politicians and bending back wards to cater to the whims and fancy of the Mayor and the Mayor's cronies.

In the mean time our youth are dying and we in the Bayview Hunters Point have a very high percentage of youth that cannot understand why everyone is against them?.

In previous years our youth have done well in their studies and sports. Have proved to be good producers in the arts and especially in creating music. But now it is all about survival and shootings and killings and stuff that one would not like to think about.

The girls have joined the boys and everyone is tight and about that which ought not to be talked about. The authorities have a plan and the plan does not favor the youth. The authorities have BLOOD on their hands. The authorities have created a very bad situation. So has the District Attorney - Kamala Harris.

Mayor Gavin Newsom with his White Ass cannot go there and so do his cronies. The Black Sell Outs he gets his advice from like Dwayne Jones is a Uncle Tom and a disgrace to the Black Community. Others that act like spies and are a disgrace to the community. Time will tell.

The corrupt Black Leaders in recent years have been backing San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA). SFRA is all about Blight, Eminent Domain, and Tax Increment. SFRA has never, ever helped the community.

SFRA has not done anything much for our youth in the neighborhood.

SFRA has given over $850,000 to Arc Ecology and a White Saul Bloom to do outreach. What that means no one in the neighborhood understands. Yes $850,000 for outreach. Saul Bloom does not live in the community but he gets all the help from the crooks and SFRA and Marcia Rosen.

In the mean time our youth have no place to go. Shootings and killings are on the increase. Parents, relatives, and friends are worried. The Mayor and his cronies are talking WiFi when the immediate need is to save lives.

Others, are talking about putting CAMERAS to SPY on our youth.

It is simply pathetic how this Racist City is attending to the business at hand. It is simply pathetic that the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice is making no head way.

The Black Leadership in the Bayview is swimming in the cesspool with no direction.

I tried to give some advice but the MOCJ keeps bonding with cronies that have NO clue about the youth and the neighborhood in the Bayview Hunters Point and Visitation Valley.

Thousands of dollars are being spent to push for Redevelopment and take over property using Blight and Eminent Domain. You see the crooked plan and the pushers all over the Bayview.

Over 8000 housing units are in the Pipe Line in and around the Project Area. It is all about Greed and Pushing our youth and people of color out of Bayview Hunters Point.

I have not seen the Local Media address the concerns and the plight of the youth. I have seen them address stupid issues and spend more time on writing about negative issues.

As I said this is a Racist City and the Mayor is heading in the wrong direction with his White Ass and his Getty connections and mentality.

Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy