{"id":19946,"date":"2023-07-08T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19946"},"modified":"2023-07-08T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:49:31","slug":"san-franciscos-history-of-racist-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2023\/07\/08\/san-franciscos-history-of-racist-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco\u2019s history of racist displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Article about the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170626013153\/https:\/\/polkstpol.com\/2017\/06\/22\/sfsracistmonument\/\">history of systemic racism in San Francisco<\/a>, and particularly about one man\u2019s racist redevelopment efforts.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cFor San Francisco, the architect of [the tear-down-and-displace process] was Justin Herman, head of the SF Redevelopment Agency from 1959 until his death in 1971. During his time in the role, he oversaw the demolition of almost the entire Fillmore district. [\u2026] to make room for the planned widening of Geary Boulevard, [\u2026] 461 Black-owned businesses and over 4,000 black families were evicted[\u2026]. The result was the de facto exile of San Francisco\u2019s black population, which in the postwar years had grown to make up as much of 13% of The City, at the time larger even than The City\u2019s Asian community. It now stands at just north of 5%, which is the lowest percentage of African American residents in any major American city\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>The article also says: \u201cSo how has tolerant, liberal, progressive San Francisco come to terms with this ugly piece of our past? By naming our most scenic and significant public plaza after Herman, and handing out an annual award for business development named in his honor.\u201d But this article is from June, 2017; in November, 2017, the Recreation & Parks Commission decided to remove Herman\u2019s name from the plaza. Wikipedia says \u201cThe name Embarcadero Plaza will be temporary until a new official name can be decided upon\u201d; it\u2019s unclear to me whether any further action has been taken since 2017.<\/p>\r\n<p>(To be clear: The naming issue is a significant part of the article\u2019s emphasis, but I\u2019m sharing the article primarily because of the historical information it includes.)<\/p>\r\n<p>(via KTO)<\/p>\r\n<p>(Article from 2017.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-ethnicity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19948,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions\/19948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}