Mental Mall

As a tenant living in San Francisco, CA, I routinely received hazing-type telephone demand-calls from people who demanded reports and other information.

One such call elicited a response from me about the dearth of walking police officers on Haight Street who might help keep the sidewalks clear and walkable, rather than toleration of the hang-around storefront atmosphere characteristic near the University of California AND University of San Francisco campuses, as well as near the Scientology temple.

That would be, in hazing terms, the absence of Haightian police officers. Paradoxically, a movement was initiated to employ Haitian immigrants as police officers in Martin County, FL, as a way to widen the threshold of Deep South alumni feet-in-the-door AND the foot itself, presumably. Helplessly, the national population watched as Haitians were also lured into real-estate ventures and other questionable actions such as illegal immigration by means of boats directed at Jupiter Island, where the county's Women's Shelter was set up (far, far from Jupiter Avenue in San Francisco, CA, and TV-star Ellen's mansion near the Baker Beach shoreline cliffs).

A history of the region printed in local journalism tells us about a pile-up of dead black people in the region during a hurricane storm more than a century ago. The recent educated (that's post-secondary) attempts to welcome Caribbean Haitians into southern FL have apparently recreated a similar scenario.