Sordid Streets for All

How civil rights culture unleashed hordes of obese BIPOC prostitutes on California neighborhoods

When the right discusses the many problems America faces, prostitution rarely makes the list. Regardless of how unsavory the oldest profession may be, to my knowledge it has not ended a people or civilization – unlike replacement migration, which America and other Western nations are experiencing. And given that prostitution, already illegal, is mostly relegated to the shadows, even the most trad among us are unlikely to rank it above, say, OnlyFans as a threat to public morality. 

In California, however, the invisible barrier that once separated prostitution from polite society has all but disappeared. Things took a turn for the worse after Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Safer Streets for All Act (SB 357) into law on July 1, 2022. SB 357 repealed California Penal Code Section 653.22, which made it “unlawful for any person to loiter in any public place with the intent to commit prostitution.” 

Newsom’s decision to loosen the laws on prostitution – a move deeply rooted in civil rights culture – has undeniably made the Golden State uglier and more dangerous. Californians must demand the repeal of SB 357, and Americans in other states must be prepared to push back against similar laws should they arise. 

Ironically, Safer Streets for All appears to have only made the streets safer for prostitutes, pimps, and johns, who now openly conduct business in front of schools and family homes without fear of punishment. Everyone knows what’s happening; the cops are powerless to stop it. Pictures of these scenes are repulsive: gross, likely diseased, and often obese hookers of ambiguous racial backgrounds milling about in broad daylight. I couldn’t bring myself to include them in this piece, but brave souls interested in staring into the abyss are free to check the linked news reports that follow.

Normal people are justifiably unhappy with how their neighborhoods have changed over the course of the year. I don’t blame them.

One San Diego business owner who spoke to ABC 10News had the following to say: 

So difficult when you see prostitutes walking around, and you see a young lady with their baby carriage, walking down the street. You can see solicitation going on with young kids playing football in their front yard. You see a school bus drive by, and it has to drive past prostitutes in order to drop the kids off. That’s nothing these kids should have to see or have to put up with, or a parent to explain what that’s all about.

Others have reported prostitutes blocking the streets, loud music being played at all hours, and the occasional outbreak of violence. Drugs are surely involved as well. In fact, the mayor of National City (San Diego County) related to Fox News a story in which a prostitute blocked the road while he was driving. 

Mayor Ron Morrison recounts the incident: 

I was driving on one of the streets the other day, and there's this young lady standing there in the middle of the street wearing basically a G-string, and that was it, and a couple pasties. But she's right in front of my car, I couldn't move. So, I did ask her very politely, ‘Would you please move out of the street?’ And she looked at me and says, ‘If you don't want to talk to me, you can go around.’

I’m laughing at the thought of this well mannered, well-to-do older white guy playing chicken with a half-naked hooker in the street. She was probably fat and ugly, which makes it funnier. But that’s become the new normal for many Californians, thanks to Governor Newsom. 

And it isn’t just San Diego. In Oakland, prostitutes have recently taken to openly loitering outside of a Catholic elementary school. “We don’t want our students to witness the perils of human trafficking,” said Rodney Pierre-Antoine, who oversees seven Catholic elementary schools in the area.

Asking for children to be shielded from open prostitution seems like a reasonable request. California Democrats, however, deny that SB 357 is responsible for these ridiculous scenes. Scott Wiener, the state senator who introduced the insane bill, has cast the blame elsewhere. “The police’s hands are not tied,” he told ABC 7News. “If they have cause to think solicitation is happening, they can arrest for solicitation.” 

But no amount of denial will change the fact that media outlets, mayors, residents, business owners, and police officers have all reported a drastic rise in public prostitution since Safer Streets for All went into effect. The damned law decriminalized loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, after all. Of course prostitutes are loitering about more openly now! 

And I doubt that Wiener – the same deranged freak responsible for reducing the penalties for knowingly infecting someone with HIV in California – cares about normal people, including children, being exposed to prostitution. Maybe he likes it. After all, deviants like Wiener seem to get a kick out of bringing every manner of sexual deviancy into the public light. It’s a huge middle-finger to the right – a vulgar display of power, one might say. 

One wonders why, given the impact SB 357 has had on Californian cities, the law was floated in the first place. Newsom even acknowledged that the law might result in “unintended consequences.” Yet like many issues which at first glance may appear aracial, prostitution does in fact have a racial dimension.

Newsom’s letter to the California state senate reveals the following: 

The author brought forth this legislation because the crime of loitering has disproportionately impacted Black and Brown women and members of the LGBTQ community. Black adults accounted for 56.1% of the loitering charges in Los Angeles between 2017-2019, despite making up less than 10% of the city's population.

So despite making up only 10% of Los Angeles’ population, blacks are responsible for 56.1% of prostitution loitering charges. Fascinating stuff. 

The DecrimSexWorkCA Coalition is credited by the ACLU for getting the ball rolling on SB 357. This organization, too, highlighted the racial dimension to prostitution. “SB 357 repeals a Jim Crow law that criminalized Black and trans people in public spaces,” said Fatima Shabazz of the DecrimSexWorkCA Coalition. 

This is disparate impact in action. If people from a certain minority group are disproportionately penalized by a particular policy or law, it has to be the result of discrimination, right? The left would certainly have us believe so, but the reality is that some groups simply commit crimes at higher rates than others. If black prostitutes were once disproportionately charged with loitering, it’s probably because there are a lot of black prostitutes. The same applies to trans prostitutes as well. 

Disparate impact is a codified legal reality thanks to civil rights law. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act allows aggrieved parties to sue over an employment practice or policy that disproportionately harms or penalizes members of “protected” classes. It is a legal weapon to strongarm both the private and public sectors into compliance with race communism.

But Title VII was not directly responsible for SB 357. Those responsible for the law were not worried about being sued, unlike, say, companies forced to consciously craft policies in accordance with civil rights law so as to avoid litigation. Earlier in this piece, I spoke of “civil rights culture” – it is precisely that, rather than civil rights law proper, which was responsible not only for SB 357, but many other problems in American society. 

It is often said that politics is downstream from culture. There’s some truth to this claim, to be fair, but it isn’t the full story. To fully buy into the idea that “first you change the culture, then you change the politics” is to unwittingly buy into the left’s hagiography. Leftists believe that a ragtag group of activists and concerned citizens rose up in the 60s and overthrew the shackles of the existing white Christian power structure. They believe – and would certainly have you believe – that this revolution was entirely organic and grassroots.