Racism & Homophobia at Sacred Heart
January 19, 2007
YALE ASSAULT: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep graduates have hit the news for hate crime — on New Year’s Eve for allegedly assaulting members of the prominent Yale University “Baker’s Dozen” choir team and peppering them with homophobic remarks. … Sacred Heart students were also allegedly involved in the San Francisco Sunset District 2003 hate crime assault against five Asian Americans — Jeff Woo, Ken Zeng, Sung Noh, Tim Wen and Paul Wong, who were aided in the 2004 prosecution by Asian Law Caucus’ Edwin Praether and Malcolm Yeung. Only one Sacred Heart student — the only one caught out of 15 to 20 white assailants — was ordered to do only 100 hours of community service and one-year probation by Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy. The convicted attacker has been referred to as Matthew M., but is said to have ties to the established Monfredini family, which has major political and financial connections to City Hall and Sacred Heart.
SEX DOESN’T SELL: It buys. The S.F. Armory, a 92-year-old monument on the National Register of Historic Places, will be home to APA porn stars like Annie Cruz, Mika Tan,Tia Tanaka and “Dragonlily.”
Thanks to city planning and NIMBY activists like the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, sellers of the property were discouraged from developing the historic 200,000-square-foot historic landmark into a 169-unit mix of affordable and market-rate housing. It’s been vacant for over 30 years.
The property has been sold for over $14 million to Kink.com, an Internet adult and fetish entertainment company where women aren’t always relegated to acting roles. Kink.com’s top execs include Marketing VP Reena Patel, an Indian American who cited in an industry publication that half of Kink.com’s 60-65 employees were women in “various levels of authority.”
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ON HER FEET: Remaining visible is Jaynry Mak as outreach coordinator to the Asian American community for Rep. Tom Lantos (D-San Francisco/San Mateo counties), the powerful chairman of the House foreign relations committee. Mak will preside over San Francisco’s heavily Chinese American Westside and Filipino American Daly City — one of the nation’s five largest APA, Chinese and Filipino American constituencies. Mak finished a strong third place for San Francisco supervisor. Her votes helped Chinatown florist Ed Jew clinch his supervisor seat against businessman Ron Dudum.
BRIDGE BUILDERS: Assembly Majority Whip Fiona Ma was working on getting Supervisor Ed Jew elected to the 12th Assembly California Democratic Party caucus. Jew, a politically reborn democrat, had lost to her for the supervisor seat in 2002 and then defeated Ma’s two favored candidates — Mak and former Police Commissioner Doug Chan last November. … The pro-Ma slate — including Asian Pacific Democratic Club president Jason Wong and Daly City Councilmember Mike Guingona — nabbed 10 out of 12 seats, overwhelming loyalists of state Senator Leland Yee.
SPEAKER: Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Park and Rec commissioner David Lee will be hosting the annual nonpartisan Chinese American Voters Education Committee dinner on March 1. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been invited to keynote at Empress of China.
JEW SIDES WITH MAYOR: In one of Supervisor Jew’s first votes, he indicated that he’s siding with the mayor when he, Sean Ellsbernd and Michaela Alioto-Pier were the only supes to sustain the mayor’s latest veto of foot patrol legislation. Four are needed to sustain his veto.
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