Deace: In the fight for Western civilization, no one expected to find hope in Canada and San Francisco. But here we are.



I’m truly tired of being right about the things I’ve been right about these last few years. I’d like to be right about those things a lot less often, because it would mean our culture and our way of life would be showing signs of possessing an improved heartbeat instead of an aggressively metastasizing cancer.

Knowing how competitive I am, you know I don’t say such a thing lightly. But being wrong more often would truly be a gift to me personally. I don’t want to cram for perpetual COVID analysis any longer because the medical "experts" who should be leading us on that front keeping lying to us at deadly cost. I don’t want to believe that I’m living in a time of judgement that would make some Old Testament prophets blush. I want to be wrong that this nation called by President Abraham Lincoln to “once again be seen as the last best hope of earth” has been seen "once again" to pass us by for good.

And lately on the front, my cup very unexpectedly runneth over.

I very publicly wrote off Canada as a nation beyond help not so very long ago. Then came the Canadian truckers, who stepped out of the constant and years-long fog of propaganda and cultural rot to reclaim their rights as citizens of Western civilization. With every additional day that they plug up the highways and directly air their grievances in the common tongue of frustrated, everyday people instead of through the sickly prism of increasingly tyrannical bureaucratic or journalistic filters, my hope grows.

Could it finally be that instead of people being afraid of their government, the time has come where we — as children ultimately governed by the laws of nature and nature’s God — are ready and willing to reclaim what is ours and declare beyond any doubt that it is in fact the government that should and must be afraid of its people?

Trusting such a thing at this point in the game, no matter how badly I want it to be true, is very, very hard for me. But then came another light in the darkness. Three school board members in the San Francisco 666 school district were thrown out of office last week, in a recall election as punishment for their destructive political radicalism and dismissal of scientific reality during the last two years of the COVID crisis.

I could hardly believe it. I’ve been calling for spiritual revival for as long as I can remember, and then something happens in a devil’s playground like San Francisco — a place I have been telling people for months now to leave as if they were fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah — that seems impossible without the direct intervention of God himself.

May these eyes to see and ears to hear not be a mirage or fool’s gold. I want to believe. I need to believe. So stand with me now as I step out in faith and prostrate myself yet again as I pray for yet another glorious miracle.

Lord, you humbled me about Canada. You humbled me about San Francisco. I have seen you let mercy triumph over judgement in great and mysterious ways. My condemnation of others has led to your glorious correction and revival. Thus, here I am with one more lamentation that I know to be true in my very bones, but I seek the sort of rescue from that fate which only you can provide.

I will utter it now and put my trust in you. Here goes:

The Republican Party hates its own base and has an agenda that has nothing to do with the people's interests and concerns.

Thy will be done.

Recalled San Fran school board member decries ‘white supremacy,’ but reporter hits her with quick fact check



Gabriela López, the San Francisco school board president who was recalled in an election on Tuesday, invoked "white supremacy" while decrying the election outcome.

What is the background?

Upset by board members who pursued their progressive agendas while keeping city schools closed, San Francisco parents fought back and successfully recalled three board members — López, Alison Collins, and Faauuga Moliga — on Tuesday.

Election results showed that nearly 75% of voters supported removing López, while 78.5% of voters supporting removing Collins, and 72% of voters supported removing Moliga. The movement against the school board members was the first successful recall effort in San Francisco in nearly 40 years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

What did López claim?

López claimed Thursday that "white supremacy" was aligned with the effort to recall her and her progressive colleagues.
"So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence. Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this," López wrote on Twitter. "And the support of the recall is aligned with this."
So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence. Don\u2019t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this.pic.twitter.com/HsYtQjvVeh
— Commissioner Gabriela L\u00f3pez \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd (@Commissioner Gabriela L\u00f3pez \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd) 1645113778
López also retweeted a comment from SF Progressives that attributed "white supremacy in San Francisco" to the power behind the successful recall effort.

But what is the truth?

Progressives love to invoke "racism" and blame "white supremacy," but the idea that white supremacy fueled the recall campaign is completely unfounded.

In fact, as Washington Post reporter David Weigel noted, the cohort of San Franciscans who voted "yes" on the recall "was racially diverse" and included "hundreds of non-citizen immigrants who were eligible to participate" (Non-citizens have been allowed to vote in San Francisco for several years).

Demographically speaking, if López's allegations are true that white supremacy was behind the recall, that means San Francisco has an unusually high number of white racists in a city where, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, "white alone" residents comprise just 40.5% of the city's population. Considering that more than 95,000 people voted to recall López, that means more than 10% of the city's population of approximately 874,000 people are white racists.

Racism, it turns out, was not behind the recall. Rather, as the New York Times observed, the successful recall "appeared to be a demonstration of Asian American electoral power, a galvanizing moment for Chinese American voters in particular who turned out in unusually large numbers for the election."

Four issues in particular drove the recall:

Meanwhile, Mayor London Breed (D) — who is black — both supported and celebrated the recall, an odd move if it had truly been motivated by white supremacy.

"The voters of this City have delivered a clear message that the School Board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else," Breed said in a statement after the election. "San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well."

David Lee, a lecturer at San Francisco State University, summed it up best.

"It’s been an opportunity for the Chinese community to flex its muscles," Lee told the New York Times of the recall effort. "The community is reasserting itself."

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Parents send 'clear message' to left-wing school board members in San Francisco, boot them from office by overwhelming vote



The backlash against school closures, harsh pandemic-related restrictions, and progressive ideology has begun.

Three left-wing members of the San Francisco school board were overwhelmingly voted out of office on Tuesday in the city's first successful recall election in nearly 40 years.

What are the details?

San Francisco school board president Gabriela López and members Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga will be removed from the board after city voters made their voices heard.

Election returns showed that 78.5% of voters supporting removing Collins, 74.9% of voters supported removing López, and 72% of voters supported removing Moliga.

Mayor London Breed (D) supported the recall effort and celebrated the outcome.

"The voters of this City have delivered a clear message that the School Board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else," Breed said in a statement. "San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well."

Breed will name replacements within 10 days of the election, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

"The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last," Siva Raj, a parent who helped lead the recall campaign, said. "Talk is not going to educate our children, it’s action. It’s not about symbolic action, it’s not about changing the name on a school, it is about helping kids inside the school building read and learn math."

What triggered the recall?

The San Francisco school board has been in national headlines often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but never for anything good.

Not only were schools in the liberal city shuttered for a longer period than most in the nation — students, in fact, did not return to full-time in-person learning until August — but school board members pursued progressive agenda items while students were being kept out of schools.

For example, the board pursued renaming 44 district schools they determined had names linked to "injustice"; that plan was later reversed. The school board also voted to permanently end merit-based admission at one of San Francisco's top academic high schools, a decision that angered parents across the city.

Compounding anger was blatantly racist language used by Collins against Asian-Americans. In now-infamous social media, Collins accused Asian-Americans of using "white supremacist thinking" to "get ahead." She also described Asian-Americans who did not speak out against Donald Trump as "house" N-words.

Collins then played victim and sued the school district for $87 million after she was removed as vice president of the board. The lawsuit was later dismissed.

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San Francisco school board to vote on reversing school naming decision



The San Francisco school board is expected to vote Tuesday to reverse its controversial decision to rename 44 public schools with supposedly racist or sexist namesakes like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

The reversal comes after heavy backlash against the board for attempting to cancel the legacy of important historical figures in California instead of prioritizing school reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last October, San Francisco school officials on the School Names Advisory Committee created a list of 44 school building sites that were named for historical figures and proposed changing the names of those buildings. The buildings on this list were determined to be associated "with slavery, genocide, colonization, exploitation and oppression, among other factors," and the committee was tasked with purging the buildings of those names.

In January, the school board voted to adopt the committee's recommendations and move forward with changing the names of these buildings. The decision was made at a time when school children were not attending class in-person because of the pandemic.

However, after intense backlash from parents and even from San Francisco's mayor, the school board in February paused the plan to rename school buildings. Mayor London Breed said the school board's priorities were "offensive and completely unacceptable." Others criticized the renaming committee for poor historical research, including wrongly accusing Paul Revere of attempting to colonize the Penobscot people.

With the board's decision facing intense scrutiny, board President Gabriela Lopez announced the school renaming process would be put on hold until all students returned to school for in-person instruction.

Now, ABC News reports the board will vote on whether to rescind the order to rename schools entirely, noting that impending threats of litigation will be a factor in its decision.

The board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution to rescind its January decision and revisit the matter after all students have returned full time to in-person learning.

Since the renaming vote, the board has faced multiple lawsuits, including one from City Hall and the mayor to pressure the school district and board to reopen classrooms more quickly. Another was filed in March by San Francisco attorney Paul Scott, whose children attend public schools, alleging the school board's renaming decision violated California's open meeting law and did not involve the community.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman issued a ruling calling on the board to do what the lawsuit requests — rescind the vote and dissolve the renaming advisory committee — or show by April 16 why it shouldn't be compelled to do so.

The resolution being considered Tuesday does not address the criticism but denounces the lawsuit, saying it "wishes to avoid the distraction and wasteful expenditure of public funds in frivolous litigation."

The San Francisco school board has been the subject of several controversies of late. The former vice president of the board Alison Collns was ousted from her position after making racist comments about Asian Americans. Previously, Collins argued against appointing a gay man to the Parent Advisory Council because he was a white male.

San Francisco school board pauses plan to rename 44 buildings after more woke figures, shifts focus to getting students back in class



Remember that controversial plan from the San Francisco school board to rename 44 of its schools and buildings after more woke figures — i.e., those without accusations of racism or oppression on their permanent records?

Well, the school board has suddenly paused its renaming plan in favor of focusing instead on getting students back in classrooms, KTVU-TV reported.

What are the details?

Board president Gabriela Lopez tweeted the announcement Sunday, writing in part that "there have been many distracting debates as we've been working to reopen our schools. School renaming has been one of them. It was a process begun in 2018 with a timeline that didn't anticipate a pandemic. I acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes made in the renaming process."

Lopez added in her statement that the board's "only focus" will be getting in-person learning on track — and that all renaming efforts are on hold until students are back in the classroom.

A mountain of anger has been directed at the board — including a groundswell of support to recall Lopez and other board members — while students have been stuck in virtual learning over COVID-19 concerns for nearly a year.

What has been the reaction?

Matt Haney, city supervisor for District 6, said on Twitter the new direction is "absolutely the right thing to do. The focus has to be on reopening. Everything else should be paused and be done in close consultation with school communities," KTVU said.

Seeyew Mo, executive director of Families for San Francisco, stated that the board must repeal its recent renaming resolution and that the entire community should be involved when the issue comes up again, the station added.

What else has been going on?

The city of San Francisco actually sued its school district to reopen recently. And there has been a record-high number of child suicides and suicide attempts as the school closures have continued.

Public health officials said reopening last September would be OK, but the district and teachers unions haven't been able to reach an agreement on reopening. But the school board did manage to carve out space in its calendar to — believe it not — deny a gay parent from a committee appointment because he's white.

Other recent topics of concern have included the assertion that acronyms in the school district lexicon are a "symptom of white supremacy" and that the inauguration photo of far-left U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in mittens embodies "white privilege, male privilege, and class privilege."

San Francisco's school board actually denies gay parent spot on advisory council — because he's white



The San Francisco Unified School District's Board of Education just can't seem to steer clear of national headline-grabbing controversy these days. But its latest move might be worthy of the championship trophy.

What gives now?

At Tuesday's board meeting, a gay parent named Seth Brenzel was supposed to be appointed to the Parent Advisory Council, KGO-TV reported.

But alas, it was not to be.

Brenzel, as you can see, is white — and that wasn't flying with the board, which rejected Brenzel over his race, the station said.

The current makeup of the all-women PAC is as follows, according to KGO:

  • Three Latinas
  • Three whites
  • Two blacks
  • One Asian
  • One Pacific Islander

School Board Commissioner Alison Collins strongly advocated that the council — which advises the board on issues that affect students and parents — needed to be more racially diverse, the station said.

"In a district that has so many monolingual families and specifically so many Chinese-speaking families, this is not OK to me," Collins noted, according to KGO.

About 33% of SFUSD students are Asian, 28% are Latino, 15% are white, and 6% are black, the station said.

Brenzel would have been the only man on the council — and the board argued that adding a white male in particular would tip the balance, making whites the "dominating race" on the PAC, the station added.

"It's actually about who has a voice in our public schools, and public schools are the cornerstone of our democracy," Commissioner Matt Alexander said, according to KGO.

What was the council's reaction to the board's decision?

The station said PAC members were surprised at the board's decision, especially since no board members previously questioned their selections.

The council members did attempt to defend their selection of Brenzel at the meeting, KGO noted.

Michelle Jacques-Menegaz, who serves on the PAC, said "the fact that he brings diversity to our group in other ways, as many people brought up last night, I think was one of the factors that we considered," the station reported.

While Commissioner Mark Sanchez said, "We need qualified people, and we need representation," KGO reported that he took the matter off the table and let people of color apply after sensing he lacked votes. But Sanchez noted that he hopes Brenzel will apply again, the station said.

"He's gay, that's an important voice that we don't have right now, and he's a man," Sanchez told KGO. "There are no males on the committee, and I'm really looking forward to having his name brought back to us in a month or two and voting on it with a slate of other folks."

PAC members told the station that they've heard from a number of potential candidates interested in joining the council following Tuesday's meeting, the station noted.

San Francisco sues its own school district over failure to come up with a reopening plan: 'Get your act together'



What is a left-wing city to do when its own, union-dominated school district refuses to even come up with a plan to reopen, which is required by state law?

In San Francisco, city leaders are suing their own school district and board of education, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A California state law passed last year, months before the 2020-21 school year began, requires all school districts to created and adopt a clear plan during the pandemic detailing actions they "will take to offer classroom-based instruction whenever possible," the newspaper said.

But the San Francisco Unified School District, thanks at least in part to the teachers' union, has failed to even start coming up with a plan, much less adopt one.

Therefore, City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced Wednesday that "he has sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the San Francisco Unified School District for failing to come up with a reopening plan that meets state requirements," according to an announcement on his city attorney website.

The lawsuit alleges that board and district's reopening plan is "woefully inadequate and doesn't meet the basic requirements set by the state." The suit seeks to have the San Francisco Superior Court order the district "to prepare to offer in-person instruction now that it is possible to do so safely," the announcement said.

The city has "squandered months of opportunity" to address the issue, Herrera's site said — all the while the district's 54,000 students have not seen the inside of a classroom for nearly 11 months, the Chronicle reported.

Still, Herrera noted, the SFUSD "does not have an adequate plan to reopen classrooms" and the city's kids are "facing a widening achievement gap & threats to their mental health."

It has been more than 10 months since students were in schools, and @SFUnified still does not have an adequate plan… https://t.co/svzRjDjuYy
— Dennis Herrera (@Dennis Herrera)1612374328.0

Despite the fact that "students and their families are suffering," the school board has refused to stay focused on the need to reopen and instead spent their time on "renaming empty schools" and other less pressing needs.

Herrera noted that the city's rules have allowed schools to be in-person since September and that scientific consensus shows schools can safely reopen.

Yet, San Francisco's schools remain shuttered.

San Francisco's health orders have allowed in-person schools since September. The undisputed scientific consensus i… https://t.co/3Zc0EhSfEJ
— Dennis Herrera (@Dennis Herrera)1612374329.0

The city attorney knew exactly at whom to point the finger of blame: district leadership and the teachers' union.

"It's a shame it has come to this," Herrera said in his office's announcement. "The City has offered resources, logistical help and public health expertise. Unfortunately, the leadership of the school district and the educators' union can't seem to get their act together. The Board of Education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a concrete plan to get these kids back in school. So far they have earned an F. Having a plan to make a plan doesn't cut it."

Union officials thwarted an effort by the district to "gradually open schools for severely disabled children" in January, the Chronicle reported. Several other unions continue to stand in the way of reopening, the newspaper said:

Six unions representing workers in the San Francisco Unified School District are circulating a petition among their members calling for a dozen requirements that go far beyond the Department of Public Health's requirements. For example, they're requesting reliable transportation for students and staff even though Muni service has been slashed due to the pandemic.

Separately, a group of union educators have formed a committee called Strike Ready that is urging a strike if reopening proceeds without all school employees having access to the COVID-19 vaccine, adequate personal protective equipment, ventilation, purifiers and training.

Herrera took his accusations and complaints to social media, writing on Twitter, "SFUSD and teachers' union leadership need to step up. Get your act together," adding, "[district] leadership has earned an F. It's unfortunate we have to take them to court to get it sorted out, but enough is enough."

In terms of helping our students and their families through this difficult time, @SFUnified leadership has earned a… https://t.co/o0NEaUytfZ
— Dennis Herrera (@Dennis Herrera)1612374329.0

And Herrera isn't doing this on his own, he's got the full support of left-wing Democratic Mayor London Breed.

"This is not the path we would have chosen, but nothing matters more right now than getting our kids back in school," Breed said. "The city has offered resources and staff to get our school facilities ready and to support testing for our educators. We've offered the guidance and expertise of the Department of Public Health. We are ready and willing to do our part to get our kids back in the classroom."

She went on to note the impact closed schools are having on students who have "lost ground academically" as well has how the situation is "hurting the mental health of our kids and our families."

"[T]his isn't working for anyone," Breed added. "And we know we can do this safely. We've seen our private schools open and our City-run community learning hubs serve our most at-need kids for months without any outbreaks. We need to get our schools open."

San Francisco Mayor London Breed blasts school board for having a plan to rename schools by April but not a plan to reopen



The San Francisco school Board on Tuesday followed through with a vote to rename 44 public schools apparently controversial namesakes like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

As TheBlaze previously reported, in October San Francisco school officials on the School Names Advisory Committee created a list of 44 sites that featured buildings named for historical figures, proposing to change the names of these buildings. The committee was tasked with identifying "whether the name on a school met the criteria for renaming, which includes anyone or anything associated with slavery, genocide, colonization, exploitation and oppression, among other factors."

The criteria for a school name to be deemed "inappropriate" included: Anyone directly involved in the colonization of people; slave owners or participants in enslavement; perpetrators of genocide or slavery; those who exploit workers/people; those who directly oppressed or abused women, children, queer or transgender people; those connected to any human rights or environmental abuses; those who are known racists and/or white supremacists and/or espoused racist beliefs.

KNTV-TV reported Tuesday that the school board voted to adopt the committee's recommendations and change the names of the 44 public school buildings on the list. The names include Lowell High, Lincoln High, Washington High, Roosevelt Middle, John Muir Elementary and Feinstein Elementary.

Schools named for Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were included because those Founding Fathers were slave owners. Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed because the nation's 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in the South, also ordered the executions of 38 Dakota tribe Native Americans involved in a violent conflict with white settlers in Minnesota.

Dianne Feinstein Elementary, a school named for California's sitting senior Democratic senator, made the list because as mayor of San Francisco in 1986, Feinstein reportedly replaced a vandalized Confederate flag at City Hall.

In October, San Francisco Mayor London Breed criticized the school board for moving forward with the plan to rename schools during the pandemic, calling it "offensive."

On Wednesday, the mayor issued another statement blasting schools for producing a plan to rename buildings by April but offering no plan to reopen the schools.

"I understand the significance of the name of a school, and a school's name should instill a feeling of pride in every student that walks through its doors, regardless of their race, religion, or sexual orientation," Breed said in a statement.

"What I cannot understand is why the School Board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April, when there isn't a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then. Our students are suffering, and we should be talking about getting them in classrooms, getting them mental health support, and getting them the resources they need in this challenging time. Our families are frustrated about a lack of a plan, and they are especially frustrated with the fact that the discussion of these plans weren't even on the agenda for last night's School Board meeting.

"I believe our children should be a part of the conversation around the renaming of their schools, and I believe the education and discussions need to happen within our school walls. Let's bring the same urgency and focus on getting our kids back in the classroom, and then we can have that longer conversation about the future of school names."

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein Among The 44 Names To Be Removed From San Francisco Schools

Dianne Feinstein Elementary will be renamed