Rev. Amos Brown says S.F. needs a Marshall Plan for black residents

[stephanie]

Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, December 24, 2007

San Francisco officials have a moral obligation to try and stop black residents from abandoning the city and should consider a local version of the Marshall Plan to help African Americans, the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, said Sunday.

The city's black population has plummeted from more than 100,000 in 1980 to an estimated 50,000 in 2005, said Brown, a member of the African American Out-Migration Task Force set up earlier this year by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sophie Maxwell.

Brown spoke to about 30 community leaders at a meeting of the civil rights group Sunday at his Third Baptist Church in the Fillmore neighborhood.

He said the flight of black residents has resulted in fewer black-owned businesses, and fewer black families who are able to compete successfully for low- income housing, which is awarded through a lottery system.

"If San Francisco is serious about making amends for what's been done against the black people, they need to put their money where their mouth is," Brown said.

"We need a Marshall Plan," he said, referring to the U.S. plan to help Europe recover from the devastating effects of World War II.

He called on the mayor to appoint a "czar" who could focus on issues facing the city's black residents, primarily improving educational opportunities for black children. Such a plan would favor black contractors for city projects, he said, and reserve 75 percent of low-income housing slots for needy African Americans.

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[LiberalNation]

Stupid, stupid, stupid, no they don't need a marshal plan to keep blacks in the city.

[actsnoblemartin]

what racist diatribe.


Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, December 24, 2007

San Francisco officials have a moral obligation to try and stop black residents from abandoning the city and should consider a local version of the Marshall Plan to help African Americans, the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, said Sunday.

The city's black population has plummeted from more than 100,000 in 1980 to an estimated 50,000 in 2005, said Brown, a member of the African American Out-Migration Task Force set up earlier this year by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Sophie Maxwell.

Brown spoke to about 30 community leaders at a meeting of the civil rights group Sunday at his Third Baptist Church in the Fillmore neighborhood.

He said the flight of black residents has resulted in fewer black-owned businesses, and fewer black families who are able to compete successfully for low- income housing, which is awarded through a lottery system.

"If San Francisco is serious about making amends for what's been done against the black people, they need to put their money where their mouth is," Brown said.

"We need a Marshall Plan," he said, referring to the U.S. plan to help Europe recover from the devastating effects of World War II.

He called on the mayor to appoint a "czar" who could focus on issues facing the city's black residents, primarily improving educational opportunities for black children. Such a plan would favor black contractors for city projects, he said, and reserve 75 percent of low-income housing slots for needy African Americans.

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[REDWHITEBLUE2]

HEY REV maybe all the blacks leaving is due to all the queers taking over SF. IT'S NOT called the gay bay for nothing

[actsnoblemartin]

agreed

most blacks are god believing people and are against homosexuality. Just as most MUSLIMS, Christians and jews


HEY REV maybe all the blacks leaving is due to all the queers taking over SF. IT'S NOT called the gay bay for nothing

[Hugh Lincoln]

The city's black population has plummeted from more than 100,000 in 1980 to an estimated 50,000 in 2005

Funny, when whites were forced out of northeastern American cities by encroaching crime-ridden black ghettoes, I didn't hear any demands that the outflow of whites be stopped.

Seem to me that blacks leaving a city doesn't have a downside, anyway. Less crime, more taxes from workers, less need to spend on welfare. Blacks are basically destructive animals. Societies are always better off without them.

[Yurt]

Funny, when whites were forced out of northeastern American cities by encroaching crime-ridden black ghettoes, I didn't hear any demands that the outflow of whites be stopped.

Seem to me that blacks leaving a city doesn't have a downside, anyway. Less crime, more taxes from workers, less need to spend on welfare. Blacks are basically destructive animals. Societies are always better off without them.

:poke:

[Trigg]

Saw this in the comment section:


has it ever occurred to rev. brown that blacks might be leaving the city for the same reason everyone else is - to find cheaper housing, better schools, less crime and improved opportunities? in other words, to get their share of the 'american dream' (such as it is, these days). it seems to me somehow elitist, if not racist, to think blacks ought to be kept in san francisco when it's clear they're leaving for many of the same reasons everyone else is.

On another note. I notice that whenever blacks leave an area it is bad for the blacks and whenever whites leave the area it is again bad for the blacks (Detroit & DC). I think they, as a group, need to look in the mirror for their problems instead of at everyone else.