Loren Taylor’s problem

I like Loren Taylor, even though he won’t talk to me. He’d make a decent mayor. Not a great one, though, because he has a problem. Taylor, who’s Black, can’t embrace the crazier segment of the Black Left in Oakland, which he knows is insatiably stupid. At the same time, he can’t risk being labeled an Uncle Tom by the likes of Pamela Price and Cat Brooks. So he’s caught in the middle, a classic cat on a hot tin roof. At any turn, he’s likely to get burned.

Lurie kicks the reparations can down the road. Time for Plan B

In February 2020, San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced legislation on behalf of the city’s official African American Reparations Advisory Committee for a reparations plan. The Advisory Committee had been formed to “highlight ways that City policies have harmed Black lives” and to determine “specific actions to address discrimination and inequities in areas such as housing, education, transit access, and food security.” This occurred at a time of renewed efforts across the country to push a Black action agenda at a time when Donald Trump was campaigning for a second term in the White House (which he went on to lose that November).

The Homelessness, Anti-Police, Racial Equity Complex in Oakland, explained

Ever heard of the Oakland Commission on Homelessness? Probably not, I bet. Is it even a real thing, what with all the other pseudo-agencies the City Council has created over the years? Yes, it is real, and as we’ll see, it’s a horror show, a Frankensteinian concoction of absurdity that exists simply to give sinecures to far-left activists who have curried favor with Council members.