B. Lee announced her new “strategic action plan” for ending homelessness and it’s like watching Groundhog Day for the 47th time.

I happened to listen to KQED’s Forum program yesterday when they interviewed Ibram X. Kendi, about whom I have written previously. He is the author of “How to Be An Antiracist,” which sold a lot of books. He’s also a leading wokester who is unaware of the irony of him lecturing the rest of us on racism, for the simple reason that Kendi is himself a racist. He was lecturing on The Great Replacement Theory, a rightwing pile of intellectual junk that argues that White people are being replaced by immigrants who are not White but Brown and Black.

I’m not a believer in equal outcomes. The only outcome that all of us is guaranteed is death. (It used to be taxes, too, until MAGA took over, and now the rich are pretty much exempted from paying taxes.)

So I’m walking home yesterday from Jack London Square—glorious day, warm and sunny—down Clay Street, just past the Nimitz, when I see a sketchy guy ahead of me, hanging out in the street, with a big Pit bull on a chain. I halt for a moment to check it out. I don’t much trust pit bulls, to be honest. Just saying, especially when they’re owned by people who appear to be homeless. While I’m standing there, another guy comes up from behind me. I glance at him: he’s just a harmless jogger. As he passes me and gets near the guy with the pit bull, the dog owner says something to his animal—I don’t know what—and the dog snarls, leaps in the air and lunges at the jogger, until his chain snaps him back. The frightened jogger does an instinctive leap in the air and jumps over the stretched chain, to get away from the dog, and continues on.

I think readers know me enough to know that I never lie to you. I tell truths that are uncomfortable for others, especially the race-obsessed political scoundrels, all too common in Oakland, who drain the public coffers while lining their own pockets. People like the sainted Barbara Lee, our union-manufactured Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, and, from back East, Ayanna Pressley, the representative from Massachusetts who has gotten notorious as a member of “The Squad,” alongside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.