Kendi responded by framing the ridicule as he frames everything that doesn't fit his narrative: racist. When conservative journalist Jack Posobiec pointed out on Saturday that the professor had undermined his own arguments and deleted the tweet, Kendi replied, "They lie about what I said to defend the lying of white college applicants." He ratcheted up the rhetoric on Sunday, after Posobiec bragged that he "broke Kendi," likening the journalist to a slave owner.

"His broke reference has a long history within racist structures," the professor said. "White enslavers boasted of breaking black people... The resistance never stopped then and it won't stop today."

When another observer argued that Kendi was using "broke" out of context, he likened Posobiec's tweet to violence. "A white man is attacking a black person with lies, which are violence," he said. "The black person resists. The white man keeps attacking until he declares he broke the black person. That's the context. Seek a book about slavery."

But that argument, too, seemed to flop, with observers saying Posobiec merely repeated Kendi's own statement - hardly a lie - and the professor's overheated reaction prompted the journalist to declare that he broke Kendi, as in breaking a machine. "That tweet has absolutely wrecked your grift forever," one commenter tweeted.

Kendi, who has authored several books on anti-racism and maintains a heavy schedule of speaking engagements, still wasn't giving up on his premise. "Here is their tortured line of thinking: When White applicants think they have an advantage by lying about being a person of color, then that means they do have an advantage, which then means structural racism doesn't exist," he said.

That notion flopped even with another anti-racism educator, Chloe Valdary. "I'm sorry, this makes no sense," she said. "If you can get into a college by lying and saying that you're black, then that means that being black equals a weighted advantage in this context."

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This decision by the Castro Safeway comes less than a month after pharmacy retail giant Walgreens announced it would be closing some locations in San Francisco due to organized retail theft. One San Francisco Walgreens that was closed last year was reportedly losing $1,000 to theft a day.

"I think the last 6 months from what they say has been sort of - off the charts in terms of how bad it's been. It's sad, upsetting and frustrating." a Walgreens spokesperson said.

According to KPIX, Mandelman characterized the changing hours of the Safeway as an equity problem. "There's a lot of low-income folks, seniors, folks with disability, who rely on that Safeway and other Safeways around the city," he said.

In September, San Francisco announced a new initiative to crack down on retail theft. These new measures included increasing the staffing of the police department's Organized Retail Crime Unit and updating the department's reporting system to allow businesses to more easily report thefts online.

"Retail theft and commercial burglaries are not victimless crimes," San Francisco Mayor London Breed said at the time. "They hurt working families due to reduced work hours, shuttered stores and lost jobs. They hurt customers and seniors who are losing convenient access to prescription medications and vaccinations because of pharmacy closures. They hurt neighborhoods suffering from fewer local retailers and more empty storefronts."

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