Race and Equality-How Blacks Were Cheated Out Of Home Ownership
The Declaration of Independence of the United States was ratified on July 4, 1776. It begins with this phrase: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Many of the men who signed that statement were themselves slave owners. This...
Integrity versus Hypocrisy Part 2
To carry on with the theme of congressional hypocrisy, we continue with the list of offenders who talked one way and behaved another: Phil Hinkle, a member of the Indiana House of Representatives who voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,...
Integrity versus Hypocrisy – Part 1
San Francisco Bay Area people, just like those in most other parts of the country, value integrity and resent hypocrisy. Nowhere, it seems, does hypocrisy surface more than in the sexual arenas. And there are knowing nods and smirks in those cases in which some...
Kamala Harris, a true leader with San Francisco Values
Vice president elect, Kamala Harris, embodies the best of San Francisco Values as she has shown throughout her public service career. An example is easy to observe through the eyes of all who know her. President elect Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate...
What Are America’s Real Values
The U.S. refugee and asylee population paid $63 billion more in taxes than they received in benefits to all levels of government from 2005 to 2014. — U.S Department of Health and Human Services The overriding impact of immigrants is to strengthen and enrich American...
How San Francisco Celebrates Love and Families in All Their Diversity- Part 2– Growing Up Gay
Studies show that most people who identify as gay and lesbian know this at an early age. Our own research supports this: everyone we interviewed said they had feelings of being different or having attraction to the same gender before the age of ten. Those same-sex...
Sex Education: Making Choices
People should have the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions about their own health. Sexuality and sex education have long been an issue that many people find difficulty in talking about and talking to their children. Studies have found that youths who do not...
Emperor Norton-Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of San Francisco and these United States
Always a welcoming city, San Francisco hosted the emergence of many colorful characters over the years. One whose history illustrates San Francisco’s tolerance and embrace of the different, the quirky, and the eccentric was English-born Joshua Abraham Norton. Norton...
The Gifts of Technology, Diversity, and Global Connections
In the jungle of offices at Rackspace on the South of Market tech hub, Shahin Shadfar sits at a desk cluttered with tech parts and points to his latest creation, an app called Zurf which is the latest in a string of successes for the San Francisco transplant. While...
Race and Equality In the United States
The Declaration of Independence of the United States was ratified on July 4, 1776. It begins with this phrase: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”