Pulling Rabbits Out Of Hats Is "Magic" (You Can't)

"I swung by the 900 block of San Francisco's Valencia Street on Monday, where the by now infamous American Apparel Inc. store was planning to open. That was before San Francisco's Planning Commission gave it a thumbs down last week, largely at the behest of residents who insisted the chain store would spoil what some called the 'magic' of the neighborhood.

Valencia, in the Mission District, has 27 vacant storefronts,...."

-- Andrew S. Ross, revealing further how San Francisco's (white) "community" of (white) "believers" will force others to sit in shit and call it gold - knowing that makes the (black) people in the Mission District's murals cry - especially when they're reading The San Francisco Chronicle.