YES. THIS.
"What’s happening in SF is you have a progressive movement made up of people who are mostly white and feel that they know what’s in the best interest of Black people." - @LondonBreed ripping the 白左, a microcosm of what's happening across the country. https://twitter.com/NaithanJones/status/1286493056074735617 …
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Replying to @blader @LondonBreed
“Progressive” in SF is a very specific political party, with a candidate bench, leadership, specific policies (especially around land use) that isn’t at all generalizable to progressivism at a national level. The city’s “moderate” politicians would left of center-left nationally.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @LondonBreed
I mean, that is certainly one very specific definition. In context, I understood Mayor Breed as referring to white progressives across the nation pushing "defund the police" efforts on behalf of Black people who mostly (78%) don't want that, or even want the opposite of that:pic.twitter.com/qvypAsAoAx
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted London Breed
the Mayor is re-directing some funding from the police funding toward more services for the Black community in SF.https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1268728234457231360 …
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London BreedVerified account @LondonBreedDecades of disinvestment and racially disparate policies have disproportionately hurt our African-American community in SF. Supervisor@ShamannWalton and I will lead the effort to redirect funding from the@SFPD to support the African-American community in the upcoming budget.Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @blader
there's also generational nuance here, between the period of time she grew up in SF, when violent crime was more prevalent, and subsequent and up-and-coming generations of Black political leadership. I would look at
@jformanjr's book https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F6DYLCQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
This Huffington Post piece also covers a lot of the complexity here. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/san-franciscos-first-black-female-mayor-defies-the-liberal-litmus-test-london-breed/ …pic.twitter.com/054QrRNBuR
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