The drug overdose death of George Floyd, a violent criminal, led to a corporate moral panic and mass political hysteria in which hundreds of millions of dollars were thrown at anyone claiming to speak for the black community.
Nice work if you can get it. Sheryl Davis got it.
Sheryl Davis, once San Francisco’s most powerful civil rights watchdog, continued her spectacular fall on Monday when she was booked on suspicion of a raft of felony charges including misappropriation of public funds and perjury, the Chronicle has learned.
Davis, who oversaw the San Francisco Human Rights Commission under former Mayor London Breed, was booked on the same morning as James Spingola, the former CEO of Collective Impact, a nonprofit Davis funded, according to jail records.
Davis was tapped by Breed in 2021 to lead the Dream Keeper Initiative, the city’s response to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. The effort started with a pledge to redirect $60 million a year from law enforcement to fund programs aimed at helping the Black community.
Davis signed contracts awarding $1.5 million in Dream Keeper funds to Collective Impact in 2021 and 2022 but did not disclose to the city that she and Spingola lived together. The Chronicle first reported that she used city resources to promote herself and publicize her self-published children’s book. A city audit later found that the Human Rights Commission mispent more than $4 million under her leadership on payments deemed “frivolous, unethical and unjustifiable.”
If only there had been some sort of warning sign…
Davis was one of the most powerful officials in San Francisco. Her position overseeing Breed’s Dream Keeper Initiative gave her sway over city spending beyond her own department. Beyond City Hall, she led a community group, MegaBlack SF, whose members used a call and response chant that contained the line, “we give all honor to our queen Sheryl Davis.”
Let’s face it, Davis was appointed to redistribute the wealth. And in predictable fashion, she redistributed the wealth to her own circle. As minority representatives do again and again. Liberals insist we need to put more money into the black community and then they watch as the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton get rich, while the black community is no better off. The same pattern replayed itself with the Congressional Black Caucus and ten thousand petty DEI bosses who enrich themselves in classic Tammany Hall fashion. And then play on white guilt.
In 2023, for example, the Human Rights Commission paid $8,000 to a nonprofit Total Women Empowerment Inc. to fund a “Queen’s Weekend Retreat,” with the stated purpose of helping the unknown participants “serve themselves to continue to service their community.”
The department spent $685,123 on San Francisco Giants tickets, rental of the Golden State Warriors’ Chase Center, and air fare. Restaurant rentals and catering cost taxpayers $353,113, and Davis spent $79,950 on a house rental and other fees at Martha’s Vineyard.
If only George Floyd could have lived to also rent a house on Martha’s Vineyard.
