San Francisco becomes fourth California city to apologize to Chinese community for racist past

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

San Francisco is formally apologizing to its Chinese residents for discriminatory actions taken during the city's storied history.

The Board of Supervisors passed the apology resolution presented by city supervisor Matt Haney on Monday, coinciding with the Lunar New Year.

Citing heinous behavior from the mid-1800s when the city was taking shape, the resolution acknowledges "the shameful history of structural and systematic racism and discrimination against Chinese immigrants and the Chinese American community by the City and County of San Francisco (that) reaches back over 150 years and touched every aspect of life including employment, housing, education and culture."

A violent three-day riot targeting Chinese Americans in 1877 was also among the racist incidents for which the supervisors apologized.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-becomes-fourth-california-city-to-apologize-to-chinese-community-for-racist-past/ar-AATpSxS

[abqtommy]

1. Apologies are good, but not having to apologize is much, much better. nt

[Codifer]

2. I've not read this yet...

but I think Riverside should be among the apologize-rs. The "Chinatown" which once was was burned to the ground in the late late 1800s or early 1900s.

The city fathers did, a few decades later, name a street in honor of the that now nonexistent community.

I wish that this were a joke. It is not.

They named the street.... "Wong Way".

I have not lived there since the early seventies. Could have been changed.

[WarGamer]

3. If they start apologizing... where will they stop?

[ripcord]

4. When they run out of mistakes to apologize for?

One of my mom's friends was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp as a child, she said she was much more impressed with the federal governments apology to the survivors than she was the reparations.