San Francisco’s Mayor Apologizes for Telling the Truth

Homeless people in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco earlier this month. (Tayfun Coskun via Getty Images)
It is not racist to acknowledge that the city’s open-air drug market is dominated by Honduran drug dealers. Ignoring that reality hurts working-class families.
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Earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was asked in an interview about her pledge to crack down on the crime, drugs and lawlessness that have plagued her city for the last several years. In her response to the question, Breed asked in exasperation, “Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work …

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