It may not be about poverty but IT IS about the CYCLE of poverty. The cycle of poverty is a much different animal compare to a single immigrant generation experiencing poverty. Black are a permanent underclass and many have a lineage of poverty that goes back to slavery. It is very hard for a child to overcome poverty when there are very few role models in their communities. The teach and park rec counselor is not enough to overcome the lack of roll models in the family and within the community.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Can't support a day of rememberence for someone who was high on drugs and stabbed another person.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
How about a Kate Steinle day instead? BOS is a joke.
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Wai Yip Tung
10 years ago
It is an insult to us to honor a criminal.
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Tim Murphy
10 years ago
What about supporting our LEOs?
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Paul Douglas
10 years ago
We should not honor or reward criminal behavior!
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Ryan Beck
10 years ago
Do not honor the murderous individual. Honor the brave souls that prevented them from harming the innocent people that were targeted.
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Ike
10 years ago
It just doesn't make any sense.
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Daniel
10 years ago
From today's SF Chronicle "A blood toxicology exam found that at the time of his death, [Mario] Woods had methamphetamine, marijuana, cough medicine, antidepressants, caffeine and nicotine in his system." Furthermore, "The response, filed Thursday, also stated that DNA evidence from the knife recovered at the scene matched that of the earlier stabbing victim." http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mario-Woods-had-21-bullet-wounds-drugs-in-6824871.php Now that all the facts are in, will the BOS still support a day fo Mario Woods?
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Al
10 years ago
The real victim, who is also black, is the person who got stabbed (and ultimately tax payers). Nobody in the black community even mentions this fact. His life will never be the same, yet somehow the criminal gets to be the martyr. We've heard it all before from the moms and aunts and grandmas, "Oh, he found God and was trying to turn his life around." That doesn't mean he is exonerated from crime or police force. I grew up in Oakland. It is so convenient for all the phonies who protest "excessive" police force when they have no idea what really happens on the streets. The media is entirely one sided and I can't begin to tell you how much crime goes unreported. Stop crying foul and play by the rules. It's not about race. It's about civility and what is necessary to uphold it.
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Dan Rather
10 years ago
** The problem is not money, nor lack of police. It is a problem with urban black culture. A culture that devalues education, a culture overwhelmingly given to single parent families. A culture where bling, addiction, usery are admired. The government can't fix it, you can't blame Whites, Koreans, Mexicans etc. It has to be a change from within. Much of contemporary black culture is repugnant. Dr. Bill Cosby has been correct all along. **
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Ralph Hernandez
10 years ago
Stop sympathizing with those who show no regard, let alone respect, for our human race and our rights.
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Dan Rather
10 years ago
There is a problem with a culture which produces so much violence, and general total failure to achieve. It is not genetic as there are geneticallly identical populations which have high success rates. It is not geographic as other groups in the same areas have exemplary records. It is not related to poverty as many other groups rise from poverty to high success. It is not the lack of opportunity as many from their social strata rise to the highest levels of society. This is a sub-culture of failure, of blaming the other guy, of rejecting all opportunities, of clinging to attitude and anti-social behavior as a substitute for hard work and accomplishment. The solution is not easy as they will not help themselves and waste any attempt to help them. At a minimum we need to stop pumping resources into them and start holding them totally accountable for their actions.
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Jimmy
10 years ago
The person shot was on a list of known gang members, had a criminal record, was using a volatile mix of drugs, stabbed an innocent person for no reason, had a knife, was headed for a bus nearby with children on it, refused to comply with a series of non-lethal commands to drop the weapon, then charged officers. And these politicians want something that amounts to a holiday for him? Each one of them is on the take for pandering to this racist black movement thing. Hey lets have a holiday for the Bloods and the Crips gangs in Los Angeles, they are wonderful and so innocent and discriminated against too.
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Dan Rather
10 years ago
WHITE GUILT continues to be indoctrinated into or youth, especially in so-called "progressive" (more like regressive) cities such as San Francisco. #BLM? How about #ALLLIVESMATTER and #THUGSLIVESDONOTMATTER.
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Fernando Mendoza
10 years ago
Obey the Law and this will not happen! That simple.
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Larry Heslin
10 years ago
Listen to the police!
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Linda L Ham
10 years ago
Completely opposed!
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Paul M. Payton
10 years ago
Honoring a drug-addled, knife-wielding criminal? Are you people nuts or something? Woods performed no heroic act, improved no one's life, made no contribution to society. Give it up, SF.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Why should a career criminal waving a bloody attempted murder weapon at police get a day named in his honor??
+1, If we are to approve this, then perhaps we should approve a Charles Manson day, or perhaps a Night Stalker day??
It may not be about poverty but IT IS about the CYCLE of poverty. The cycle of poverty is a much different animal compare to a single immigrant generation experiencing poverty. Black are a permanent underclass and many have a lineage of poverty that goes back to slavery. It is very hard for a child to overcome poverty when there are very few role models in their communities. The teach and park rec counselor is not enough to overcome the lack of roll models in the family and within the community.
Can't support a day of rememberence for someone who was high on drugs and stabbed another person.
How about a Kate Steinle day instead? BOS is a joke.
It is an insult to us to honor a criminal.
What about supporting our LEOs?
We should not honor or reward criminal behavior!
Do not honor the murderous individual. Honor the brave souls that prevented them from harming the innocent people that were targeted.
It just doesn't make any sense.
From today's SF Chronicle "A blood toxicology exam found that at the time of his death, [Mario] Woods had methamphetamine, marijuana, cough medicine, antidepressants, caffeine and nicotine in his system." Furthermore, "The response, filed Thursday, also stated that DNA evidence from the knife recovered at the scene matched that of the earlier stabbing victim." http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mario-Woods-had-21-bullet-wounds-drugs-in-6824871.php Now that all the facts are in, will the BOS still support a day fo Mario Woods?
The real victim, who is also black, is the person who got stabbed (and ultimately tax payers). Nobody in the black community even mentions this fact. His life will never be the same, yet somehow the criminal gets to be the martyr. We've heard it all before from the moms and aunts and grandmas, "Oh, he found God and was trying to turn his life around." That doesn't mean he is exonerated from crime or police force. I grew up in Oakland. It is so convenient for all the phonies who protest "excessive" police force when they have no idea what really happens on the streets. The media is entirely one sided and I can't begin to tell you how much crime goes unreported. Stop crying foul and play by the rules. It's not about race. It's about civility and what is necessary to uphold it.
** The problem is not money, nor lack of police. It is a problem with urban black culture. A culture that devalues education, a culture overwhelmingly given to single parent families. A culture where bling, addiction, usery are admired. The government can't fix it, you can't blame Whites, Koreans, Mexicans etc. It has to be a change from within. Much of contemporary black culture is repugnant. Dr. Bill Cosby has been correct all along. **
Stop sympathizing with those who show no regard, let alone respect, for our human race and our rights.
There is a problem with a culture which produces so much violence, and general total failure to achieve. It is not genetic as there are geneticallly identical populations which have high success rates. It is not geographic as other groups in the same areas have exemplary records. It is not related to poverty as many other groups rise from poverty to high success. It is not the lack of opportunity as many from their social strata rise to the highest levels of society. This is a sub-culture of failure, of blaming the other guy, of rejecting all opportunities, of clinging to attitude and anti-social behavior as a substitute for hard work and accomplishment. The solution is not easy as they will not help themselves and waste any attempt to help them. At a minimum we need to stop pumping resources into them and start holding them totally accountable for their actions.
The person shot was on a list of known gang members, had a criminal record, was using a volatile mix of drugs, stabbed an innocent person for no reason, had a knife, was headed for a bus nearby with children on it, refused to comply with a series of non-lethal commands to drop the weapon, then charged officers. And these politicians want something that amounts to a holiday for him? Each one of them is on the take for pandering to this racist black movement thing. Hey lets have a holiday for the Bloods and the Crips gangs in Los Angeles, they are wonderful and so innocent and discriminated against too.
WHITE GUILT continues to be indoctrinated into or youth, especially in so-called "progressive" (more like regressive) cities such as San Francisco. #BLM? How about #ALLLIVESMATTER and #THUGSLIVESDONOTMATTER.
Obey the Law and this will not happen! That simple.
Listen to the police!
Completely opposed!
Honoring a drug-addled, knife-wielding criminal? Are you people nuts or something? Woods performed no heroic act, improved no one's life, made no contribution to society. Give it up, SF.
Why should a career criminal waving a bloody attempted murder weapon at police get a day named in his honor?? +1, If we are to approve this, then perhaps we should approve a Charles Manson day, or perhaps a Night Stalker day??