cowboycwr said:
Forest Bueller_bf said:
This is not from the Bee, it is an article in "The Atlantic" where the writer Nellie Bowles a gay married woman herself is writing about how San Francisco is becoming a failed city.
In this part of the article she describes how a gay married white male with mixed raced children was recommended by members of the Public School committee to be appointed to the board, where there were 8 openings, of the 10 occupied slots only 3 were white people, this is actually real, not made up.
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One night in 2021, the meeting lasted seven hours, one of which was devoted to making sure a man named Seth Brenzel stayed off the parent committee.
Brenzel is a music teacher, and at the time he and his husband had a child in public school. Eight seats on the committee were open, and Brenzel was unanimously recommended by the other committee members. But there was a problem: Brenzel is white.
"My name's Mari," one attendee said. "I'm an openly queer parent of color that uses they/them pronouns." They noted that the parent committee was already too white (out of 10 sitting members, three were white). This was "really, really problematic," they said. "I bet there are parents that we can find that are of color and that also are queer … QTPOC voices need to be led first before white queer voices."
Someone else called in, identifying herself as Cindy. She was calling to defend Brenzel, and she was crying. "He is a gay father of a mixed-race family," she said.
A woman named Brandee came on the call: "I'm a white parent and have some intersectionality within my family. My son has several disabilities. And I really wouldn't dream of putting my name forward for this." She had some choice words for Cindy: "When white people share these kinds of tears at board meetings"she pauses, laughing"I have an excellent book suggestion for you. It's called White Tears/Brown Scars. I'd encourage you to read it, thank you."
Allison Collins, a member of the school board, dealt the death blow: "As a mixed-race person myself, I find it really offensive when folks say that somebody's a parent of somebody who's a person of color, as, like, a signifier that they're qualified to represent that community."
Brenzel remained mostly expressionless throughout the meeting. He did not say a word. Eventually the board agreed to defer the vote. He was never approved.
The other big debate on these Zoom calls was whether to rename schools named for figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Dianne Feinstein, the first female mayor of San Francisco. The board labeled these figures symbols of a racist past, and ultimately voted to rename 44 "injustice-linked" schoolsthough after a backlash, the board suspended the implementation of the changes.
Whatever dream Martin Luther King Jr. had back in 1963, as long as these folks exist, is dead.
Why do these idiots want group make ups that DO NOT match the population of the country, city, etc?
3 out of 10 sounds like whites are already underrepresented on that group.
Grossly underrepresented.
San Fran is 39% White, 33% Asian, 16% Latino, 5% Black, 5% Multi.
We think of San Fran as "super gay" but the Gallup poll from 2015 was just over 6% which is the highest major metro in the US.
So, overwhelmingly San Fran is made up of hetero Whites and Asians. I suspect the gender queer rainbow of intersectionality applies to less than 1% of the residents in SF, ie a person who is not white, asian or latino and also something other than strictly gay or bi...like a self identified banana or whatever they are on about these days.