Rich A** Ofays Still Some Racist Motherf**kers

There's an amazing sound artist/instrument builder named Kitundu (www.kitundu.com), who is working with the Kronos Quartet. He is one of the gentlest souls I have ever come across. One of his many, many, many talents (incl knitting, being a turntablist, etc etc etc) is photography. One of his great loves is photographing birds, which he does extraordinarily well. He sometimes goes to Alta Vista park in Pacific Heights to photograph. Apparently there are some amazing hawks there and other birds that you wouldn't think live in San Francisco proper.

Not once, but twice people have called the cops on him. He is a 30-something black man who sits around for hours photographing birds. He is not bothering anyone, yet yesterday a man with two dogs pulled out his cell phone within earshot and called the cops, saying there's a strange black man here in a brown jacket and you should take him away. When Walter (his full name is Walter Kitundu; he usually goes by Kitundu) said, what's the issue, talk to me, the guy just ran off with his dogs saying, the cops'll take care of you.

And we thought San Francisco liberals were just covert racists! So Kitundu created a flyer (pictured, click for text and larger size) to assure the neighborhood crackers that he's not a threat to their health or safety (though, if spotted by a realtor, maybe their property values).

Sorry we're using such harsh language here, but this is the kind of behavior that reminds us why we hate racists, the rich and rich racists. There's an especially hot place in hell for such people; a place where there are no parking garages in Golden Gate Park, downtown commercial property is assessed at full market value, there's no Plumpjack wine or Plumpjack restaurants to drink it in, and Matt Gonzalez won the election.