{"id":21081,"date":"2022-01-15T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=21081"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T19:14:17","slug":"london-breed-goes-on-kara-swishers-nyt-podcast-slams-boudin-and-supervisors-they-are-not-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/01\/15\/london-breed-goes-on-kara-swishers-nyt-podcast-slams-boudin-and-supervisors-they-are-not-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"London Breed Goes on Kara Swisher\u2019s NYT Podcast, Slams Boudin and Supervisors: \u2018They Are Not Black People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>13 JANUARY 2022\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/politics\/\">SF POLITICS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/author\/joe-kukura\/\">JOE KUKURA<\/a>  (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she &#8220;would remove the Board of Supervisors&#8221; and critique that they\u2019re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.<br><br>Kara Swisher may not be a household name, but the veteran journalist is highly respected in tech and news gathering fields, and she\u2019s been consistently able to move up the media food chain for decades. Among her current incarnations is that of the host of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/sway\">popular New York Times podcast&nbsp;<em>Sway<\/em><\/a>, and on Thursday, that podcast&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/13\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-london-breed.html\">welcomed Mayor London Breed<\/a>&nbsp;for a 42-minute interview that Breed peppered with attacks on the board of supervisors and district attorney Chesa Boudin. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=ExercisingDrunk&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1481625876999643138&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsfist.com%2F2022%2F01%2F13%2Flondon-breed-goes-on-kara-swishers-nyt-podcast-slams-boudin-and-supervisors-they-are-not-black-people%2F&amp;sessionId=9d13776acdbd57ecedaa7aa713921dedd5dcc98d&amp;siteScreenName=SFist&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=86e9194f%3A1641882287124&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would remove the Board of Supervisors!,\u201d Breed laughed, responding to a question about if she could remove \u201cone thing in your way, what would it be?\u201d (She quickly walked back that obvious joke with \u201cI don\u2019t mean get rid of the supervisors\u201d and \u201cI think having supervisors who are accountable to the entire city could be very helpful&#8221;). But her slam on Boudin and the supervisors that \u201cThey\u2019re also white. They are not Black people\u201d is probably going to be an enduring sound bite, for better or worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=ExercisingDrunk&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1481744878681817090&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsfist.com%2F2022%2F01%2F13%2Flondon-breed-goes-on-kara-swishers-nyt-podcast-slams-boudin-and-supervisors-they-are-not-black-people%2F&amp;sessionId=9d13776acdbd57ecedaa7aa713921dedd5dcc98d&amp;siteScreenName=SFist&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=86e9194f%3A1641882287124&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The full context here is a question about her thoughts on her latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/12\/14\/breed-announces-yet-another-tenderloin-crime-crackdown-this-time-she-must-be-serious-because-she-said-bulls-t\/'\">Tenderloin crime crackdown announcement<\/a>, and Swisher asked, &#8220;So who is in your way then? Is that Boudin? He\u2019s concerned with criminalizing substance abuse.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of people, like some members of the board, like Boudin, did not grow up in poverty in San Francisco,\u201d Breed said. \u201cThey did not grow up in these kinds of conditions. They have a theory as to what they believe based on their ideology. But they\u2019re also white. They are not Black people who\u2019ve had these unfortunately traumatizing experiences in communities where there\u2019s not trust with the police, but also there\u2019s a desire to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about her thoughts on Boudin recall, Breed said, \u201cOh, I do know how I\u2019m going to vote. But I\u2019m not ready to reveal what I plan to do publicly.\u201d She added, &#8220;I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a tense relationship&#8221; between her and Boudin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breed also claimed, implausibly, that she had not meant to use the word \u201cbullshit\u201d in her December 14 \u201call the bullshit that has destroyed our city\u201d speech. (It was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/02\/25\/breed-to-criminals-dont-come-to-our-city-with-all-that-bull\/\">not her first<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2016\/09\/16\/london_breed_pwns\/\">nor second<\/a>&nbsp;public \u201cbullshit\u201d remark.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I basically did not plan to curse publicly,\u201d she said. \u201cI know many of my elders, including my family members, were like, \u2018London, I can\u2019t believe that you cursed on TV\u2019 But they understood where it was coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in a question built for political intrigue, Swisher asked if Breed would run for another term (she said \u201cYeah\u201d) and even if she\u2019d run for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2020\/12\/10\/dianne-feinstein-faces-fresh-round-of-rumors-of-her-cognitive-decline\/\">aging Dianne Feinstein\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;Senate seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to rule anything out,\u201d Breed said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what the future holds. And I\u2019m a very spiritual person. So I, of course, got to pray about it and make sure it feels right in my heart. And right now, I love being mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an old rule of politics that when someone invokes God, Jesus, or praying when asked such a question, that means they are definitely running for higher office. The question is whether remarks about \u201cbullshit\u201d and \u201cthey\u2019re white\u201d would help or hurt such a campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full 42-minute interview&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/13\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-london-breed.html\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2021\/12\/17\/breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin-over-nasty-streets\/\">Breed Declares \u2018State of Emergency\u2019 in the Tenderloin Over \u2018Nasty Streets\u2019 [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 JANUARY 2022\/SF POLITICS\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she &#8220;would remove the Board of Supervisors&#8221; and critique that they\u2019re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities. 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