You Have Not Been Properly Educated

Mark Farrell is sworn in by City Attorney Dennis
Herrera (Chronicle photo)

After SF Mayor Ed Lee died of a heart attack last month, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed became interim mayor.

Today the Board of Supervisors replaced London Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. [bold added]

San Francisco has a new interim mayor: moderate Supervisor Mark Farrell.

The vote to appoint Farrell — led, in a twist, by the board’s progressives — happened twice, after Supervisor Katy Tang withdrew her initial vote of support, saying she had been caught up in the moment.

In the end, Farrell carried the vote 6-3, with Supervisors Malia Cohen, Ahsha Safai and Tang dissenting. It came amid shouts and jeers by supporters of acting Mayor London Breed....

scores of residents had shown up for the public comment in the afternoon, many to support Breed. Some accused the board of racism and sexism — and even of reviving the Jim Crow policies of the 1950s and 1960s — for moving to replace Breed, an African American woman, with an interim mayor.

Former acting Mayor London Breed (Mercury News)

Mark Farrell is a former corporate lawyer and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, a white male with an extraordinarily privileged background, not to mention a beautiful (white) wife and three children. His selection over a qualified African American woman is not blatantly racist or sexist because those labels only apply to Republicans. If you don't understand that, dear reader, you have not been properly educated.