But above I mean colonization in an economic and political sense, where the better off and more conservative newcomers are occupying housing in a traditionally moderate income and below neighborhood with the spillover effects of gentrification and displacement. Per international law, this almost borders on the legal definition of genocide, as pertains to forced migrations of populations based on an arbitrary determinant.

In all cases, the intent here is to eliminate any political threat to continued economic extraction by elites, both in the eastern neighborhoods and citywide. In the Mission, that takes on a special character.

Unfortunately, the nonprofits remain fixated on race to the practical exclusion of class. Given the election results, they are doing so at their peril, as the precinct numbers clearly show that there is a multi racial progressive coalition operative in the Mission.

Given that the nonprofits receive their funding via the 1%, foundations, and local political elites in the thrall of developers, the City, they are structurally constrained and essentially paid to make sure that the community is never organized or mobilized along class issues ever again.

Either we pull back on the stick and start flying with all engines, or progressive, politically and ethnically diverse east side SF will see a controlled descent into terrain. It may already be too late, yet nobody whose been paid to mind this store is paying consequences for their failure to adequately contest the challenge. Indeed, they are constantly rewarding and congratulating themselves over their commitment to the movement.

For the next five years, we saw an inkling of what can happen when San Franciscans come together to contest corporate dominance over public policy. Starting in 2005, the empire began to strike back. They did this in a coordinated manner, with a vengeance and by using the media to frame their opponents like Daly and Sanchez as unruly children. They appointed and ran stealth opportunist candidates like David Chiu and Jane Kim to public office.

Now their goal is to ensure that such popular electoral empowerment never happens again. This is done by holding public resources and access over the heads of nonprofits and unions, threatening to withhold both unless they play ball. Playing ball in this case involves rolling over for the EN plan as well as spot zoning (if memory served, Mission Street was not upzoned in EN in 2008, so this will probably require special zoning) like these projects.

This upzoning is immensely profitable for developers, appeals to tech suburban transplants who, according to SPUR, come here to swim in the gene pool, find a mate and disperse back to the “safe” suburbs to breed. The comment on this thread from Pamela is emblematic of that trend. This all contributes to the displacement existing residents and will take D9 from a progressive bulwark to a more “moderate,” read politically disengaged district, freeing the hand of the tea party libertarian capitalists like Ron Conway’s boy Ed Lee to further attack San Franciscans through such enlightened ideas as stop and frisk.

In short, existing residents and our communities are viewed by this crowd as problems needing to be solved and they are quite handy with their “solutions” which include colonization.

So long as crap continues to flow out of City Hall, I’m going to be critical as I’ve never quite developed a taste for crap like so many have.

Is that really so much to ask for granting a significant discretionary public entitlement these days?

Does it only take a sliver of profit thrown at nonprofits to leverage that kind of windfall and shift attendant costs onto the community at large?

This represents opportunity for the Mission, even if it isn’t being served to you on the perfect silver platter you desire.

Honest opinion from an outsider looking in: you clearly suck at handling anything that puts you outside of your comfort zone (in this case, the inevitable, slow evolution that is just life). Grow up.