What’s happening to black people in San Francisco?

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After weeks of racist threats, a Black dog walker’s home was set on fire in San Francisco — NBC News

Terry Williams says he will not be pushed out of his home city, despite experiencing several racist incidents over the years.

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After weeks of racist threats, a Black dog walker’s home was set on fire in San Francisco


Terry Williams says he will not be pushed out of his home city, despite experiencing several racist incidents over the years.


May. 22, 2024, 4:03 PM EDT


A Black dog walker’s home in San Francisco was set on fire weeks after he reported receiving racially threatening packages. He was not home at the time of the fire Tuesday, but his parents were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by firefighters.


Police said they are investigating the sending of the packages as hate crimes but have not identified a suspect.


The walker, Terry Williams, said he found two packages, one April 26, the other May 5, at the row house he lives in with his parents that contained racist threats against him.


“It was a plastic bag that had ‘Gangster,’ ‘thug’ and other negative words about Black people on it,’” Williams told KGO-TV, an ABC San Francisco affiliate. Inside the bag, he said, was a photo of him with racial epithets written on it and a stuffed doll with a noose around its neck and racist vitriol scrawled across it.

Williams was meeting with city leaders Tuesday to talk about the packages when he received a call about the fire.


Williams’ father, Luddie, 81, said his wife, Carolyn, 79, smelled smoke Tuesday morning, and before long the living room was an inferno.


“I don’t know what happened,” Luddie Williams told The San Francisco Standard, a digital news outlet. “I was just trying to get me and my wife the hell out of there.” The couple was taken to a hospital.

San Francisco’s Black residents and neighborhoods have been eroding for decades, as gentrification, exorbitant housing costs and other factors have pushed them to more affordable areas.


Since 1990, the percentage of Black San Franciscans has dropped from 10.9% to 5.7% in 2021, according to the U.S. census. And a 2020 San Francisco Human Rights Commission resolution indicated that Black people are the only ethnic group that has declined in the city every census since 1970.


The report also determined that Black people have the highest mortality rate in San Francisco, with nine of the top 10 causes of death.


“I could see it coming,” Jackie Brown, a San Francisco native who relocated to Atlanta and then to Charlotte, North Carolina, more than a decade ago, told NBC News. “I didn’t leave because I was threatened, but I was not as comfortable in my own hometown as I had been. It’s become too expensive. But it’s also a feeling like we — Black people — are not wanted there, too.”

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

The Mississippi of the west

 

[I Really Mean It]

The Mississippi of the west

What’s crazy is, it’s considered one of the most liberal and progressive cities in America.

 

[Yzak]

Their immigrant buddies are letting em know how welcomed they are in their own country

 

[KGlock]

It sounds like something that would happen given the growing exodus of blk folk in cali. However, just did a brief look on twitter and some are saying it's another fake bussy smollett ploy?

Imma dive deeper later, need to get some zzz's

 

[Chrishaune]

Black folks should move out West they said.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

What’s crazy is, it’s considered one of the most liberal and progressive cities in America.

labels don't mean shyt. white supremacy is in everywhere. They play good cop bad cop but at the end of the day it's all cacs on code

 

[3rdWorld]

Thats because Blacks have been pacified and are now sitting ducks..burn shyt back 10X.

 

[getmoney310cpt]

Something don’t smell right with this one I need to let it play out…

 

[B86]

What’s crazy is, it’s considered one of the most liberal and progressive cities in America.

None of those political jargon type words mean anything. We act like being liberal or progressive means that black people will be accepted or treated fairly. It's like we all became politically retarded after Trump won the election.

 

[Memorial Stadium Piru]

Something is rotten in Denmark

 

[Treblemaka]

What’s crazy is, it’s considered one of the most liberal and progressive cities in America.

When they say liberal or progressive they are referring to liberal for dominant society, progressive for dominant society.

Liberal is a psychological technique some vvhites have to feel better than other vvhites and to ensure their self interests are protected. They are all parts of the same vvhite supremacy.

 

[jay83]

Thats because Blacks have been pacified and are now sitting ducks..burn shyt back 10X.

I remember hearing a few older black men tell me a few years back that we lost the battle and the war.

 

[Wepa Man]

White liberals

 

[dtownreppin214]

He is down the street from the Painted Ladies, the icon houses shown on Full House. It is an uppity neighborhood.

San Francisco is hit or miss. Some neighborhoods are hella despite all the rainbow flags. I've had two racist incidents there, both in the Richmond area at restaurants. A lot of NIMBY vibes there too.