"The trouble is that we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level... That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we're going to have to change the system... For all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." -Martin Lu
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THREE BLACK MEN San Francisco Bay View March 27, 2019 I knew three Black men who died in the last four years in San Francisco. The story of their passing tells us much about the ongoing transformation of San Francisco into a haven for the white and the privileged. Dispense with any stereotypes about Black men being shot down by the police or dying from some kind of street violence. All three of these men were in their sixties, had lived in San Francisco for decades, and had achieved some form of economic s