SF News YouTube Troll of ‘Change My Mind’ Meme Fame Airs Racist Tirade on KPIX’s Betty Yu A two-bit Howard Stern wannabe who gained brief internet fame over the “Change My Mind” meme in hot water again over a racist segment targeting KPIX reporter Betty Yu. ]
Business & Tech Federal Jury Awards $137 Million In Racial Harassment Case Brought By Former Tesla Employee A Black former Tesla employee who claimed he was harassed with racial epithets and demeaning attacks during his time there five years ago was awarded a $136.9 million judgement on Monday by a federal jury.
SF News Piedmont School District Takes Heat For Scheduling ‘White Student Support Circle’ After Chauvin Verdict If you think the San Francisco Unified School District has produced some strange school drama lately, Piedmont Unified took it up a notch by scheduling a “white student support circle.”
SF News NorCal City Once Known as 'Hangtown' Votes to Remove Noose From Its Logo The town of Placerville in El Dorado County, a spot in the Sierra foothills that was at the center of Gold Rush madness (and crime) 170 years ago, is going to remove a conspicuous noose from its official logo.
SF News Mayor Breed, Other Elected Officials Call for SF School Board Vice President To Resign Over Past Racist Tweets Amid the controversy ginned up over SF School Board Vice President Alison Collins' 2016 social media comments — which evoke “racist, anti-Asian” beliefs — Mayor Breed and other elected officials have called for her immediate resignation.
SF News SF School Board Votes to Permanently End Merit-Based Admissions at Lowell High, Citing Equity San Francisco stepped into a larger national debate about merit-based admissions to public schools late last year when a fight erupted over a proposal to temporarily suspend a merit-based policy the city's elite Lowell High School, and now the change has been made permanent.
SF News Lowell High Rocked By Yet Another Wildly Racist Incident, This Time In an Online Class SFUSD is blaming hackers, but Black Lowell students believe it was their fellow students, as an online anti-racism class erupts in n-words and pornography.
SF News Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’ Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
SF News Martinez Couple Who Painted Over 'Black Lives Matter' Mural Plead Not Guilty to Hate Crime The MAGA couple who took black paint to a Black Lives Matter street mural in the East Bay has pleaded not guilty, blaming George Soros for their legal predicament because of course they did.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner of Trattoria Pinocchio in North Beach Posts Problematic Signs, Calls San Francisco a 'Cesspool' Trattoria Pinocchio, a North Beach eatery known for plating authentic Sicilian dishes, served up a side of hate speech this week after the owner posted a slew of problematic signs on the restaurant’s windows.
SF News Los Altos Karen Uses Racist Slur As She Storms Out Of Post Office Racists gonna racist, and in Trump's America, in a pandemic, with lots of people on edge in public, their racism seems to want to bubble up and proudly burst forth all the more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Employees of Hot Cookie in the Castro Call For Boycott Over Alleged Racism, Sexual Misconduct The owners of popular Castro cookie shop Hot Cookie are now the subject of some accusations of racist commentary and sexual assault by a group of employees, who have spearheaded a boycott campaign and an effort to drive down the shop's Yelp rating.
SF News SF Tech CEO Who Went on Racist Tirade Resigns From Company Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of the local tech startup Solid8 who was filmed yelling anti-Asian expletives at a dining family in Carmel Valley last weekend, has officially resigned due to growing backlash over his atrocious, racist behavior.
SF News Update: SF Tech CEO Outed as Culprit in Racist Viral Video Rant; He Issues Lazy Apology Cancel culture and Twitter did their thing, as a local “cloud solution” CEO is identified as the fellow who yelled “Trump’s gonna f*** you” and “You Asian piece of s***” in a Monterey incident.
SF News 29-Year-Old Man Facing Enhanced Hate Charges After Allegedly Screaming Slurs Near SF Walgreens After a young man approached a sobbing woman by an Anza Vista Walgreens to ask if he could offer any help, Brendon Kruse allegedly took it upon himself to yell racial expletives at the preteen, holding the victim's bike in place to prevent him from fleeing.
SF News Sunday Links: Four San Jose Police Officers Placed On Leave Over Racist, Sexist Facebook Posts Four San Jose police officers are now on leave after posting racist and sexist comments on Facebook, American Airlines announced it will book flights to full capacity starting July 1, and Marin County — like San Francisco — has opted to push back certain reopenings over spikes in COVID-19 cases.
SF News Healdsburg Mayor Apologizes for 'Blind Spots' About Racism As Petition Calls For Her Resignation Even the small, affluent, northern Sonoma County town of Healdsburg is not immune to the civil unrest and tough conversations about systemic racism happening around the country.
Arts & Entertainment Black Bird-Watcher Who Spoke Out About SF Racism a Decade Ago Celebrates Black Birders Week You may have missed it in the crush of news about protests across the country and the globe last week, but it was also #BlackBirdersWeek, in which black birders and naturalists took to social media to share the photographs of their hobby.
SF News Scenes of Solidarity: Photos and Videos From Sunday's Demonstrations Across the Bay Area Another day of Bay Area-wide demonstrations saw thousands of young children circling Lake Merritt bobbing "Black Lives Matter" signage, a second kids march near City College in SF that instilled hope for a more empathic future, and a Santa Cruz "paddle out" in honor of George Floyd’s life.
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Golden Gate Bridge and Berkeley Demonstrations Today saw thousands descend on the Golden Gate Bridge — which backed up the roadway for some time — hundreds take a knee at Candlestick Park to honor George Floyd, and the East Bay mobilize to denounce racism and recognize black healthcare workers on the pandemic’s frontlines.
SF News Tony Pac Heights Prep School Called Out By Black Student For Being Soft On Racism The elite Drew School in Pacific Heights has, according to a student and former faculty member there, offered an inadequate response and too little discipline following some disturbing incidents of racism documented on social media.
SF Politics Fringe Mayoral Candidate Attacks London Breed With Pretty Obviously Racist Billboard Ellen Lee Zhou’s bonkers billboard depicts the mayor in outrageously offensive fashion, and the spelling errors are the least problematic thing about this campaign ad.
SF News SF-Based Cloudflare Pulls 8chan Offline Following El Paso Massacre After renowned, hate-filled internet cesspool 8chan was linked to a third deadly mass shooting, San Francisco-based internet service and security provider Cloudflare finally decided to pull the plug on it.
SF News San Francisco Man Calls Cops On Black Man Waiting In Apartment Vestibule For His Friend Setting aside for a second the inherent bias and officiousness of these actions, has this guy not paid any attention to the internet or TV in the last several years?
SF News Longshoremen In Oakland Sue Port Companies Over Alleged Racist Incidents Four longshoremen in Oakland are taking their accusations of racism to court, reports CBS. They're alleging that the Pacific Maritime Association and SSA Marine are doing nothing to address numerous alleged instances of
