Joseph Blue has lived here for 20 years and toughed out the drastic decline in its black population, a phenomenon that persists despite being recognized for decades as a problem. Neighborhoods that once thrived with African American culture and black-owned businesses have all but disappeared.
Civic leaders are now calling the thousands of black people who have moved away ‘the African American diaspora,’ and the mayor’s office is putting together a task force to figure out what can be done to preserve the remaining black population and cultivate new residents.
Pretty grim, huh?
Unfortunately those are the grim realities of life over in the Queen City of San Francisco, California.
