San Francisco Auditing 98 Monuments to Remove Those Deemed ‘Racist or Sexist’
Meanwhile, progressive polices in San Francisco have fueled the drug crisis and ongoing crime in the Democratic-run city.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that the last time I reported on the Bay Area, thieves in Oakland had just stolen the “Jaws of Life” from responding firefighters.
With this in mind, you would think that regional officials might put forth enhanced efforts in crime prevention.
But this is San Francisco we are talking about . . . so woke nonsense is the priority.
A commission has been organized and funded by a progressive group to the tune of $3 million to determine which statues and monuments in the area should be removed because they don’t measure up to social justice standards.
At a meeting last week, Angela Carrier, the senior project manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission, said at a meeting that some of the city’s monuments “no longer represent the values we say the city stands for.”
She added that the overall collection of the 98 city statues and monuments represent “a concentration of power, privilege, white supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism.”Last year, the San Francisco Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee issued a report recommending an audit.
The audit will be conducted by HR&A Advisors, an independent real estate and economic development firm. The city won’t have to fund the $3 million price tag. That’s being paid for by the Mellon Foundation.
The firm plans to hold three public meetings in October and is expected to make final recommendations by next January.
The entire list contains Presidents (e.g., George Washington, William McKinley, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield), American heroes (Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key, Doughbough, Gen. John Pershing), cultural icons (Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare), famous Californians (Dianne Feinstein, Gavin Newsom) and Catholic saints (St. Francis).
It’s going to be interesting when those statues of St. Francis go down. Will a city name change be next? I will suggest Wokistan if that is the case.
Meanwhile, in the world of normal people, many are unhappy.
“These monuments no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for"
Who said the purpose of the monuments is to represent our values?
These monuments represent history.
— Alan Burradell (@alanburradell) August 28, 2024
Imagine a city, overrun with homeless, drug addicts, businesses boarded up and the clowns in charge are worried about statues?
— Tony Bruno Show (@TonyBrunoShow) August 28, 2024
Leave the f*cking statues alone and clean up the crime and homeless.
— Mary Fernandez 🦖🦕💜🤍💚 MMIW #GC (@MaryFernandez) August 30, 2024
Meanwhile, progressive polices in San Francisco have fueled the drug crisis and continued crime in the Democratic-run city.
Criminal defense attorney Brian Claypool, who is the owner and managing partner of the Claypool Law Firm, told Fox News Digital that San Francisco is a “train wreck” because of Democratic leadership that has spanned the last decade.
“San Francisco is a train wreck because of a combination of a couple of things; the left wing, radical Democratic leadership over the past 10 years,” he said. “You have mayors who are very liberal, prosecutors who don’t prosecute offenders and the no-bail system.”
“[In California] we now have very lenient laws as it relates to prosecuting homeless people and drug dealers,” he said.
And the area’s businesses continue to be targeted by criminals.
Kevin Lieu, owner of Gai Chicken and Rice, said he is an expert in glass prices because of how many times his establishment’s windows have been shattered. The most recent robbery, he said, will cost him a few thousand dollars.
“In no way did I ever think I would be an expert in the quality of glass, how many protective layers there are,” he said. “These are things I had to learn through unfortunate events.”
In a surveillance video, someone breaks into Gai Chicken and Rice in the city’s Castro neighborhood before looking around. The person stays in Lieu’s establishment for 25 seconds before leaving.
In addition to the four break-ins, Lieu said his establishment had been damaged four other times.
Upon reflection, perhaps William Shakespeare, George Washington, and St. Francis would be happy to no longer be associated with the Sewer by the Bay and would be happy to see their images removed.
San Francisco should allow other cities to claim these monuments. After all, many of the new residents hail from the Bay Ara and might enjoy seeing the statues again in their new homes in other states.
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Why don’t the communists just come out and say they want only statues of Lenin and Mao?
Ot black or brown enough
They might be OK with Che or Fidel, since while not POC, they were Hispanic, like legit direct from Spain, not lived-in-the-Americas-for-10-generations-with-native-or-black-ancestory-included-hispanic
But actual Spanish people aren’t Hispanics, only the mixtizo kind.
Hey, they’re not my rules.
“The audit will be conducted by HR&A Advisors, an independent real estate and economic development firm. The city won’t have to fund the $3 million price tag. That’s being paid for by the Mellon Foundation.”
Must be the Thornton Melon Foundation, as something like this would be better off in a Rodney Dangerfield movie.
Someone, most likely, is claiming an income tax deduction for the $3 million project.
Therefore, Uncle Sam provided part of this foolishness.
Good idea. Make the city as colorless a Soviet gulag town in Siberia. And what else do they have to do? Not like there is a crime or drug problem that should be solved.
Sexist statues are traditional. John Ashcroft had to deal with one in the Department of Justice with blue drapes costing $8,000.
The must rename the city because the land was stolen from native americans? Rename schools? Rename streets?
SF is woke joke.
It no longer the branch office for silicon valley. 40% office vacancy rate. Retail boarded over. Hotel rooms used as housing for homeless junkies and illegal aliens. Lost decade.
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, San Bernardino, San Juan Capistrano, San Fransisco, Sacramento…. Let’s not forget appropriation….. Seattle, Chicago, Dakotas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan,,,, on and on.
You mean San means saint?
When does year one officially start?
Hard to tell, because each new Tsar will declare the past one not revolutionary enough and thus we must start from Year Zero all over again.
“San Francisco should allow other cities to claim these monuments. After all, many of the new residents hail from the Bay Ara and might enjoy seeing the statues again in their new homes in other states.”
Good idea
Take the statues down, along with every improvement implemented, funded and completed by white men.
Leave the bipoc a clean canvas.
History often rhymes: search “The 4 Olds”.
Kamala must be SSOOO excited about this!
Oh, brother!
No, no! I’m sorry! I meant, “Oh, person!”
Good thing we can’t post pictures or I’d have posted a few of angela carrier. But I’d have warned everyone first. I’m not cruel.
Anyway by the way looks, she looks like a white woman.
Maybe someone should suggest to her that as a white woman with a probable background of european ancestry, she should immediately relinquish her seat on that council/board/bullshit committee and return to the land where her white ancestors lived so the tribal units that originated the land of SF can re-inhabit their rightful place.
How about we just remove San Francisco?
The statues are just a little warm up. The office buildings are coming down next … It’s really gauche, frankly, to have office buildings in an open sewer.
Instead of “auditing” these statues, they should send government agents to “interview” them. They can ask the statues leading intersectional questions, such as, “What do you stand for?” (Because I can’t sit down) and “Do you consider yourself as occupying a ‘bronze job?'” (Here’s a bottle of Fritz, why don’t YOU give ME a bronze job?)
“to figure out which ones no longer represent the city’s values and should be removed from view, relocated or re-interpreted with explanatory plaques.”
Just use a rattle-can, that’s your authentic level of culture now.
Next up – the Coit Tower, because all those firefighters were white, hetero dudes.
Ty Leslie. This should not surprise anyone.
SF is the epicenter of clown world. Normal people, normal businesses will flee.
It’s time for a 1906 earthquake repeat.
They have been there for so long, aren’t they protected by the statue of limitations?
From a city where a “poop map” is kept updated on the internet in order to provide navigational aids to those brave enough to walk the streets (in decent shoes).
I thought getting rid of Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben and the Land O Lakes Indian solved all these problems some time ago.
There’s a reason we kept the Quaker in reserve.
Pointless waste of time. At this point the will likely need to just bulldoze the entire city and start from scratch.
This city has no other issues or problems at all, not one. lol
they are coming for the churches next and their statues
and YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
Public safety was a key contributor to us leaving Wa. A friend of my wife’s posted on FB a week or so back- a very angry post.
Her brother (in his 50s) was murdered by yet another one of Jay Inslee/Bob Ferguson’s angels. This is in /near Seattle.
We’d had enough close calls and daily viewings of guided missiles on the freeway that it was a matter of time until one hit us. That on top of the fact we couldn’t use the parks anymore, couldn’t safely park at the grocery store and bullets were often flying at parking lot next to the BJJ gym I trained out (oh that parking lot at Home Depot was also frequently used as a chop shop).
Yet I looked at the primary results…. Wa still seems to be voting exactly the same. It’s hard to say- “they deserve it” as almost all of my family is still there. However, the odds are pretty high of being a victim of crime there- no matter how vigilant you try to be.
So yeah- keep focusing on the woke stuff there on the left coast. That’s working out great.
oregon is backing away from their 1000% all drugs are legal to some mish-mash of
if you say you need help with your addictions we wont arrest you
and if you dont take the help
we will arrest you
these people are sickkkkkkkkkk
an inlaw posted yesterday- they tried to spend a few hours in the park (this is in Wa) over the weekend.
They couldn’t find a park that wasnt over run by homeless or needles/foil.