San Francisco goes full Mao, forces Asian-American rapper to issue groveling apology for criticizing mayor
Didn't Mao celebrate his 130th birthday this week?
That certainly seems to be what they were celebrating in San Francisco, where political goons aligned with Mayor London Breed forced an Asian-American rapper to apologize, in the most grovelly struggle-session way possible, for creating a rap video critical of Mayor Breed, on whose watch the city has turned into a dump. It was as if the Red Guards had marched in.
According to local KRON:
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A civil rights advocate in San Francisco is being accused of threatening San Francisco small business owner Andy “Chino” Yang.
Yang claims Rev. Amos Brown, the president of the San Francisco NAACP, made threats against his business and family. In an Instagram post on Saturday, Yang, along with the organization ‘Asian Justice Movement’ (AJM), claims Brown came to Yang’s business, demanding he apologize for a rap video that blames Mayor London Breed for a rise in crime in recent years.
Yang and AJM issued a statement on Saturday, specifically calling out Brown, writing in part:
We are particularly concerned with the actions by Rev. Brown, purporting to represent the NAACP, which actions have had the impact of pitting the Asian and Black communities against one another. Our communities share a common history of fighting prejudice and hatred. We are stronger when we stand together.
Yang and the group are now demanding an apology from the reverend.
What was this -- political muscle, Red Guards, marching in on Yang, and holding a struggle-session with him? Brown is a powerful longtime fixture in San Francisco politics, closely aligned with Willie Brown and his political machine, and now has the title of local NAACP chief. For him to go over to Yang in his place of work over a rap video seems ... beneath him, but does tell us that the powers that be felt that this was important. Yang would have known how powerful and politically connected the famous reverend was.
Yang's grovelly, self-criticism apology, and eew, it's bad, can be viewed on Instagram here.
Yang's political group, Asian-Americans for Justice, gave a more graphic account of what really happened, as compared to the bland KRON report:
Statement from the Asian Justice Movement regarding Rev. #AmosBrown coming to the business of rapper #ChinoYang and making threats against him and his family while saying he was representing вЃ¦@NAACPSF1вЃ© — AJM is demanding an apology from Brown ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/pFksiJGwth
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The rap that upset them is below, and I agree with the person tweeting that nobody'd care about this thing had city hall not made such a big deal about it.
If you’re outraged by how they silenced Chino Yang, retweet his video. Let the censors learn about the Streisand effect pic.twitter.com/qsIvGLkKbp
— Maksim Ioffe (@maksim_ioffe) December 31, 2023
I'd be more curious about how an Asian-American managed to do such a good imitation of a black rapper, how many of those rap videos did he have to watch to get all the moves and gestures and inflections down pat and why he spent so much time on it. The political criticism was pretty much a nothingburger, nothing we haven't heard from anyone else in that miserable, badly managed city. I would not have even noticed it.
They take their rap very seriously over in those halls of power in the city by the bay which tells us more than we would have liked to know about them.
More to the point, the musclings tell us a lot about how that city works and why it's starting to decline like Detroit amid all its poop maps, fleeing residents, bums taking over, rampant drug dealing, shoplifting, absent police, and out-of-control crime. Brown, as of now, has refused to apologize, and according to KRON, he said Yang was to blame, as he should have told the good reverend that he was feeling threatened.
Only his subjective feeling, see. Sound believable?
There obviously is a corrupt political machine there that is watching everyone, particularly Asian-Americans, who have demonstrated their own political strength with the booting of far-left district attorney Chesa Boudin more than a year ago.
Now that this ruling political machine has gotten its apology, it has only roused the Asian political organizations even more with this disgusting attempt to play Red Guard on a hapless Asian-American. The Asians, if they've ever had any experience in China, are going to recognize this pattern. Odds are, the wannabe Red Guards will now awaken a sleeping giant.
Asian-Americans are flexing their political power these days in San Francisco, and this was obviously an effort to shut them down. It's ethnic politics of the same kind we saw in Los Angeles, when the Latino machine was caught on tape badmouthing the black political machine over there and a couple of them lost their jobs for it.
This should serve as a wake up call to anyone not paying attention that their tactics are ugly and they mean to force everyone in that city into line, no criticism allowed, despite the abundance of things to criticize.
As for this disgusting political machine that won't apologize, there is likely no way out from this exposure, and in a non-Biden world, they'd be good candidates for a DoJ civil rights violations investigation. It may take an election to get it and get them out of there. What a nasty business.
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