Hater Eraser
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Them marsupials was on some ..
Look at these c00ns out here robbing banks & hitting licks .. 2020 brehs can't blame 'em
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Them marsupials was on some ..
Hater Eraser
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what podunk town is this news channel reppin?
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san francisco??
Un-forgetting the segregationist history of Palo Alto (and Daly City, and San Francisco, and…)
In 1954, one Peninsula real estate agent seized upon the sale of a single home on the east side of Palo Alto.
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein. Book cover image via Liveright/W.W. Norton Publishing.
Floyd Lowe, President of the California Real Estate Association at the time, quickly began amplifying racial tensions by warning residents that the one black family moving into their neighborhood marked the beginning of an impending "Negro invasion" into their community. The sordid strategy — known in time as "blockbusting" — worked as Lowe had intended it to: white families quickly sold at lesser values, enabling Lowe to market these homes to black buyers at inflated prices. Within a few years the neighborhood was predominantly African American, yet fast-tracked towards becoming a slum as residents struggled with exorbitant mortgages, schools became overcrowded and white-owned businesses fled the local economy. In time, Lowe's scheme — which was never opposed by government regulators — has been conveniently forgotten despite being essential to understanding the current social fabric of modern-day Palo Alto.
https://historysmc.org/sites/default/files/La Peninsula, Migration, Spring 2016, Online.pdf
The African American Great Migration and San Mateo County
by Eve Simister
LEAVING THE SOUTH, CHOOSING SAN MATEO COUNTY
Margaret Sharp Yarbrough and James Yarbrough were born in in the 1920s in Cleveland, Tennessee.
They moved to Detroit, Michigan, in the early 1940s, then to Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, and finally to East Palo Alto in 1967. Their daughter, Lisa Yarbrough- Gauthier, explained that her parents moved from Cleveland to Detroit because of new opportunities.
They moved “to get away from whatever was happening in Tennessee at the time,” Ms. Gauthier said. She emphasized the appeal of the destination: “At that time Detroit was the booming city. The automobile industry was there with lots of jobs and opportunities.”3
Unfortunately this atmosphere of growth and opportunity did not last in Detroit. With a slump in
the automobile industry, many jobs disappeared and gang violence and crime rose in the atmosphere of poverty and discontent. An opportunity to leave Detroit presented itself to the Yarbrough family in the form of a military relocation. The army stationed Mr. Yarbrough to Santa Maria, a city northwest of Los Angeles, and
so the family moved to California. Ms. Gauthier’s brother and sister were born in Santa Maria. In the late 1950s, the family moved from Santa Maria to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Ms. Gauthier was born in 1965. Two years later, the family moved to East Palo Alto to escape the violence of the riots sparked by racial discrimination in Los Angeles.4
Born in San Mateo in 1936, Claire Mack comes from a lineage of Californians that extends farther back than one might expect, given that the Great Migration did not start until about 1910. Her maternal grandmother, Eva Lycurgus, was born in Oakland around 1889. Mrs.
Mack’s maternal grandfather, Joseph Garrett, was
born in 1874 in Halifax County, Virginia. He made his way to California by way of the army, as did many Black men—in his case via the Presidio post in San Francisco.5 He was discharged from the Presidio after serving as a Buffalo Soldier in Cuba during the Spanish- American War in a company that fought along with Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders at the battles of Las Guasimas, El Caney, and San Juan Hill.6 Mrs. Mack’s mother, Eva Garrett, was born to Ms. Lycurgus and Mr. Garrett in San Francisco in 1912.
