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Better Crimes and Punishments Virtue Signaling on Hypocrite Hill Spring has sprung May Events John Zipperer on the people who will never CAAMFEST celebrates be governor. p. 5 Asian American stories, plus Mother’s Day ideas, virtual Sharon Anderson on ‘Imagining Data.’ p. 8 galas, a conversation with Liz Farrell on Mother’s Day and taking care of Mom. p. 13 Amy Tan, and more. p. 10 MARINATIMES.COM CELEBRATING OUR 37TH YEAR VOLUME 37 ISSUE 5 MAY 2021 R R Opinion Virtue signaling on Hypocrite Hill Nobody does it better than school board member Alison Collins BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. — Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897 Jenna Coleman and Tahar Rahim in The Serpent. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NETFLIX tale of San Francisco School Board member Alison Better crimes and punishments Collins, who posted crude, racist tweets in 2016, Btwo years before she was elected. To recap, Collins, who is British and European police procedurals offer more intrigue white and Black, accused Asian Americans of using “white supremacist thinking” to assimilate and get ahead. “Being BY MICHAEL SNYDER pent expertly dramatizes the horrific ment in Asia during the 1970s. It’s an a house [n-word] is still being a [n-word],” she tweeted. story of a real-life fiend — con artist eight-part limited series based on true Once the tweets surfaced, the board (with the exception BBC and murderer Charles Sobhraj, chill- events, and even if you know the basic of her friend, President Gabriela Lopez) approved a “no The Serpent, which recent- ingly embodied by Tahar Rahim (The facts of Sobhraj’s villainy, it’s as incred- confidence” motion and removed her from the role of vice ly made its way to Netflix, Mauritanian). With a female accom- ibly tense and thrilling as any fictional president. Collins responded not with an apology but with Treminded me that I’m pretty particu- plice (Jenna Coleman of Victoria) thriller I’ve come across — and a heck an $87 million lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified lar when it comes to TV shows about under his spell, Sobhraj preyed on of a lot better than many examples of School District and five of her Board of Education col- lawbreakers and the law enforcers gullible Western hippie types seeking the crime genre on television. leagues for violating her First Amendment right to tweet pursuing them. For instance, The Ser- kicks with a side order of enlighten- SNYDER, continued on 7 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 4 D S M D Gather around the table able, and wearing a down puffer while Confronting our the wind threatens to blow the nap- kins off the table holds little appeal. Thankfully, new spots and old overdose crisis favorites offer unique, creative dishes and menu items to-go, so you can BY CATHERINE STEFANI order a meal for Mom to celebrate at home or dine out, perhaps with your , I vaccinated, extended family together solidarity with community leaders for the for the first time in months. Remembrance of Lights ceremony. This heart- Obreaking memorial for the 699 individuals San Francisco NORTH BEACH BECKONS lost to overdose in 2020 took place from three locations: For an untraditional Mother’s Day the Fillmore, Bayview, and Tenderloin, representing meal, try outdoor dining at Red Win- some of the neighborhoods that have been hit the hard- dow (theredwindow.com), a new est by our overdose epidemic. Over the course of the spot in North Beach conceived by ceremony, we heard from people in recovery, formerly restaurant veterans Elmer Mejicanos A sampling of Spanish pinxtos available at Red Window. PHOTO: MARC FIORITO, incarcerated individuals, and those who have lost family GAMMA NINE PHOTOGRAPHY and Adam Rosenblum. Red Window members to the disease of addiction about how this crisis draws upon Spain’s traditional tapas — and the city’s shocking inaction — has impacted them. and cocktails with a modern twist. The evening was all the more somber because just Mother’s Day 2021: Specializing in low-proof craft cock- one day earlier the San Francisco Chronicle reported tails, the restaurant welcomes guests that 2021 was already off to an extraordinarily deadly to their comfortable, 100-seat outdoor start: The city had recorded 61 fatal overdoses in January A celebration for moms and space with a menu that features pinx- alone. tos — or snacks — along with drinks families together at last using fortified wine and bitters. Sam- CITY IN FREEFALL ple the house Red Window Cobbler It is no exaggeration to say that drug overdose in San BY JULIE MITCHELL Now that restaurants are beginning made with a blend of sherry, tangelo Francisco is a humanitarian crisis. In addition to the to open up, you can make reservations cordial, peach, fig, bitters, and black surge from 259 overdose deaths in 2018 to 699 in 2020, , M’ D to dine inside or out with Mom. Some, walnut. Mom might like a Coconut the administration of Narcan, a drug that reverses over- near the start of the pandemic, though may not be quite ready to eat a Banana Mojito with coconut water, dose, was also at an all-time high last year. According so virtually all celebrations were, meal in a restaurant. And while dining banana, lime, mint, and seltzer; there’s to the Chronicle, Narcan was used to reverse overdose Lwell, virtual. Going out for brunch or outdoors can be fun, San Francisco’s also a full complement of canned and DISTRICT 2 SUPERVISOR, continued on 2 dinner was impossible. May weather is notoriously unpredict- MODERN DINING, continued on 6 District 2 Supervisor are addressing addiction humanely and continued from cover effectively, and I am continuing to engage the working group and our city depart- more than 10 times per day in the city ments to implement each of these badly last year, which is more than twice the needed policies. rate we saw in 2018. This is no surprise But we can’t only expand treatment to anyone who has walked our streets, as options; we need to stop the flow of dead- this situation is as visible as it is tragic. ly drugs into San Francisco. We are in freefall. It’s beyond frustrating that we keep THE FENTANYL FLOOD doing the same things, over and over The city’s overdose crisis comes as a again, and expecting different results. direct result of the introduction of fen- Unsurprisingly, we are on track to suffer tanyl to our streets. The San Francisco record overdose deaths for the second Police Department has reported that fen- consecutive year unless we take action to tanyl is increasingly found in many other reverse this trend. That’s why I’m com- drugs, and that dealers actively seek out mitted to making sure it’s harder to get young people and individuals in recovery drugs and easier to get treatment in San because they know just how addictive Francisco. the substance is. Recent reporting in In February, I held a hearing on the The New York Times likewise confirms findings of the Recovery Summit Work- that fentanyl, both alone and mixed with ing Group, individuals from all walks other drugs, had an outsized role in of life who have found recovery in spite the sharp spike in overdose deaths our of the deadly disease of addiction, often country experienced in 2020, especially with very little among communi- support. It’s our ties of color. responsibility to Some have said that listen to and learn Two milligrams of our law enforcement from those in fentanyl — which ts agencies should be recovery, to make focusing on “kilos, sure that they are at within Lincoln’s face not crumbs” when it the decision-mak- comes to prosecuting ing table, and to on a penny — is drug dealers in San make their expe- Francisco. But let’s riences the norm, enough to kill. be clear: so-called not the exception. crumbs are just as The working group surveyed more deadly. Two milligrams of fentanyl — an than 400 current or former drug users, amount small enough to fit within Abra- and found that 74 percent agreed that ham Lincoln’s face on a single penny — is San Francisco needs more drug and alco- enough to kill. hol treatment options, including absti- The past year was uniquely deadly nence-based programs, harm-reduction for overdose not just here, but across efforts, mental health counseling, and the country. Instead of blaming national more. Sixty-nine percent agreed that we trends, however, we should feel called to need longer residential treatment pro- action. As Covid-19 has ravaged the Unit- grams, 76 percent agreed that we need ed States, San Francisco has consistently more treatment programs for youth, had some of the best health outcomes and 75 percent agreed that we need to of any major American city. We can still increase opportunities to connect people be the “City That Knows How” when we in recovery with those working toward want to, and there is no reason to continue recovery. to allow people to die from overdose on To address those needs, the working our streets. Allowing this crisis to contin- group recommended expanding treat- ue shows no compassion for those suffer- ment options, centering the voices of ing from addiction, their families, or those people in recovery, extending treatment who have to experience the destructive stays, creating specialized programs for effects of addiction on our communities. youth between the ages of 16 and 25, When it comes to preventing overdose expanding paid peer specialist oppor- in San Francisco, we’ve heard enough tunities, funding a Black-led absti- excuses.
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