In a multi-part episode, we begin to tell the story of Mitchell Salazar, the Real Alternatives Program's executive director from 1984 to 1999. We cover from the blocks of San Francisco's Bernal Heights as a young hustler with a deep entrepreneurial drive, to the legacy in the Mission for his You & I dances, to the young community leader who led RAP at the young age of 24, Mitchell's tenure at RAP, the level of youth services expanded, which also included starting a four year high school and a teen clinic.

Mitchell passed away in 2022. His story is a complex one filled with twist risk and opportunities. We follow a handful of events that not only help shape one of the San Francisco's Mission District's most effective community leaders, but also show what his heart and intentions were for the actions and decisions he made.

We are honored to have called Mitchell Salazar, our mentor, our friend, our brother.

This episode was written and edited by Darren J. de Leon and Host Socorro Gamboa for the 5 Sisters Audio Garden.

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the roots of RAP, part three.

Mitchell Salazar, Loyal to the Soil.

Welcome to the Rama Blueprints Podcast.

In the next episodes, we present Mitchell Salazar, the Real Alternatives Program's

executive director from 1984 to 1999.

During Mitchell's tenure at wrap, the level of youth services expanded,

which also included starting a four year high school and a teen clinic.

Mitchell passed away in 2022.

His story is a complex one filled with twist risk and opportunities.

We follow a handful of events that not only help shape one of the San

Francisco's Mission District's most effective community leaders, but also

show what his heart and intentions were for the actions and decisions he made.

By no means is this a complete biography, but only a fraction

of his incredible story.

We are honored to have called Mitchell Salazar, our mentor,

our friend, our brother.

We present Mitchell Salazar, Loyal to the Soil.

Mitchell was born in Clovis, New Mexico on November 21st, 1961.

One of three kids, they grew up within a household filled with domestic violence

until his mother moved her and the kids to San Francisco to escape the abuse.

They would find themselves in San Francisco's Bernal Heights.

This is where our story begins inside the neighborhood, where Mitchell's

entrepreneurial spirit begins to surface as a very young man in his early teens

I would say that much of my hustle, started in

Bernal Heights the seventies.

Bernal Heights and Corland Street was a real multicultural, family

working class neighborhood.

There must have been 25 businesses on the stretch of Cortland

Street from Bocana to Folsom.

Predominantly African Americans who had beauty shops, barber shops, record

stores, candy stores, cleaners, and an array of, businesses And I was a kid

growing up there, and I hustled and worked at many of these places and it

gave me a real, um, Appreciation for running around and trying to make dollars.

Mitch was a hustler from the very beginning,

This is the voice of a Mission Veterano.

Mitch worked at the laundromat.

Mitch worked at the Bait and Tackle shop.

Mitch worked at Porta Picnic.

and, you know, he just always was a person that hustled.

At this time.

Mitchell would've no idea of what doors he was opening nor which path

of his life's journey had begun.

When I was in the eighth grade, I cut half of my thumb off in metal shop.

At that point my mom said I was just going outta control.

She sent me back to New Mexico, when I was maybe 14.

And I lived in a little town called Portales, New Mexico, which

was like on the Texas border.

I was there for a year and I landed up working in the fields

picking weeds outta peanuts.

And for that year that I was there, you know, I definitely said, Mom,

man, it's time for me to come home.

And she allowed me to come home and I was probably 15 years old and

ended up going to John O'Connell.

Back in those days, there were Filipino gangs and we used to fight him and

one of my good friends by the name of Arturo Duran was killed when he

was 15 And so from that experience, I started not to be a good boy.

And I started pedaling marijuana because the local biker club

would give me it, big bags and say just bring me back some money.

And once that happened and I learned how I could make that kinda money,

all the other drugs followed.

And again getting caught up in some entre entrepreneurial behavior with

mescaline and acid and I remember I had two shop classes at John O'Connell

, and just kinda went in and out of those classes didn't take it serious.

Went from John O'Connell to downtown High, and something happened.

Probably around 17, a friend of mine used to do these dances and charge,

and so I decided to do 'em to make money, entrepreneurial behavior.

And we called it Mitchell Salazar presents You and I, and they took off.

It was the right time at the right place.

U&I Veterano: If it wasn't for Mitch, I don't think the mission would be

exactly what it would be without him,

This is the voice of a Mission Veterano.

U&I Veterano: cuz he's the one that brought so many people together

because back in the old days, it was just mainly people from the Mission

but by Mitchell having these dances, it was bringing people from San Jose,

Hayward, Oakland, all over the place to the Mission to unite with the music.

In the late seventies and early eighties, low riding became very popular.

This is the voice of Roberto Hernandez, former director

of the Real Alternatives Program.

I think the movie Boulevard Nights just like P blew up and everybody

wanted to be a cholo, everybody wanted to be Chuco, everybody wanted to be a low

rider So you had low riders coming from as far as Sacramento as far as Fresno,

so, you know, I grew up on the mission born and raised.

This is the voice of Vicente Padilla, former RAP High School teacher.

I used to go to the You and I dances that Mitchell used to put

together, which were so much fun and cruising in the Mission afterwards.

You know, we used to walk up 24th and down Mission Street on the weekends.

That was a thing to do.

Um, there was not all this blue red shit going on.

And I used to walk from Cortland and Mission to Dolores Park, putting up

the posters for the You and I dances and I would do these little events.

And those little events grew into bigger events.

Mitchell, by this time, has realized that academics are

not his forte and turns to the school of real life experiences.

He meets individuals that are both street smart and business professionals.

To navigate his way to finding a balance in both worlds, Mitchell

begins to apply risky strategies and meets success and failure.

He's now enrolled in the School of Hard Knocks.

And I was approached, by one of the neighborhood, businessmen whose

name was Simon and he was from Detroit.

He used to be a writer for Motown.

He was a pimp.

and then he came to California, went to college and became a psychologist,

and then became a compulsive gambler.

And he had a business called the Portable Picnic.

And basically it catered to a very white group of people in downtown

buildings that wanted to eat healthy, salads, turkey sandwiches, carrot cake,

vegetables and tuna and egg salad.

And he had this whole little menu of items and I started making cookies for them.

After you know, a couple of months, he said, Hey man.

Why don't you come work full-time for me and if this business takes off, me you

and a white boy from Southern California that wanted to be a probation officer that

was like a folk singer, straight whitey.

It was the three of us and I worked from 10 at night till around noon or 11:30.

We would prepare all the turkeys by scratch and make all the food by scratch.

And I did it and I did it, and I did it, and I did it.

And I landed up quitting school, because I couldn't do both.

And all his dances were just so beautiful.

This is the voice of Bobby A, a childhood friend, DJ and promoter.

that you and I record right there the story behind that record

is, That one record Mitch always used to play and everybody would get up

and party and dance and go crazy.

Me and Gilbert we've been married together 43 years

This is the voice of Michelle Hernandez, longtime family friend and

former member of RAP's Parents for Peace.

And if it wasn't for the You and I dances we

wouldn't have had a place to go.

We wouldn't have had a place to entertain ourselves and be off the streets.

I started doing these dances and there was a gentleman that had

an ice cream store next door that was a very, um, influential consultant

that worked for McKinsey and Company.

And he had this ice cream store as a tax shelter.

And myself and the compulsive gambler asked him to borrow a thousand dollars

so that I could do a big dance at the California Hall on Polk and Turk.

And, and this gentleman by the name of Juliet Fairfield, said,

I'll give you a thousand, but I wanna charge you a thousand.

We said, what the fuck?

Uh, we said, fine, we'll do it.

And we brought in a group from Chicago called the DeSoto Band, which was Latino

musicians playing funk and dance music.

And obviously we had DJs.

And back in those days, when you're talking 1978, 1979, back in those days,

you only had two or three radio stations.

And one of the most listened radio stations back in those days for us

in San Francisco was KDIA . Mm-hmm.

And I hired one of their black host, Alvin Wekell, maybe?

And there I was at 17 years old, did all the promotion.

We, you know, obviously we didn't have, uh, social media and uh, word of mouth.

And there I was at around 1700 or 1800 people showed up and I was in

the middle of that dance floor fucking in awes, couldn't control shit.

Wanted to do a dance contest And Ernesto Salazar popped up and came

up to me and said, "Hello brother.

My name is Ernesto Salazar and it looks like you really need some help.

I got a bunch of homies with me.

What do you want me to do?"

I said, clear the dance floor.

and let's do a dance contest and try to keep this shit intact.

And at that time, the guy that loaned us a thousand dollars had, been

selling fucking hot dogs and selling sodas and was just blown away, blown

away, and the event was a success.

Couple weeks after that, he called me up and he said, Hey

Mitch, let uh, talk to you.

So he he says, Hey, Stop working for Simon.

Come work for me.

You'll work at the ice cream store three days a week.

I'll pay you $500 a month for your spending money, and I'll front

all the money to do the dances and we'll save the money and invest it.

I said, oh, that sounds like a great deal.

I did it.

And the first chunk of money that he gave me, I tried to flip it and fucked it up.

And he was somewhere out of the country.

He called me up and said, Hey, I don't have no time to fuck with you.

So, uh, the deal's over.

By that time I was around 18 years old and so I was still doing the You and I dances

but I was working at a Dry Ice Factory in San Francisco for around a year.

I worked, uh, helping my friend install office partitions.

This was like, you know, 17, and, and maybe part of my 18 year olds.

And then one day, I was approached by Roberto Hernandez at RAP located on

23rd and Florida, and he asked me if I wanted to the, uh, youth organizer

because I had the ability to organize.

That's what he saw.

Because he was one of the witnesses that saw me organizing these dances.

Mitchell is my husband who became the executive director.

This is the voice of Kathy Velez Salazar, wife of Mitchell

Salazar and former RAP employee.

Actually Mitchell and I started the same day, same day in April of

1980 even though he was involved with the RAP agency I believe as a youth.

But um we both started our employment the same day I was the office coordinator

He started as a youth worker And then he ended up as the executive director

So I, agreed to go to work at RAP as a youth organizer.

And I'll never forget it, walking into a space that was a bunch of desks,

conference tables at the back, a raggedy ass bathroom and RAP was doing

services at Youth Guidance Center.

They were doing foster care.

they was, uh, the group home was already in operation and there I was as a

youth organizer And then I was being exposed to advocacy and community work.

After the foundation for RAP was laid, RAP became involved in

communities throughout the city.

This is the voice of Jim Queen.

Founder of the Real Alternatives Program.

There was a RAP program in every community throughout the city, in

Bayview, Hunters Point, Western Edition, Filipino community, Chinatown, so forth.

It all came out of RAP.

Centro de Cambio came out of RAP and so that basis, 17 years later,

this young man who was just a child when RAP started, came on the scene.

Mitch was brilliant.

And Mitch layed the foundation as people have said.

He came in at a time when the gangs and the drugs were rampant.

People were getting killed every day, every day.

Because of Mitch and his leadership in developing programs within the

Mission, coalitions within the Mission and citywide, RAP became the primary

leadership in developing violence prevention programs for the city.

RAP has always been a social revolution, has been in the forefront of the

social revolution, and Mitch carried on that in a most beautiful way and

one of the most hardest time possible.

In RAP's early days, it was really a movement.

It was a social action of people doing things in the community with

no funding in some cases, volunteers.

And I believe that the organization then, prior to me taking over as

executive director had began to implement programs that was based

on the need of the community.

Jim Queen had a vision that there needed to be a strategic planning

process for children, youth, and family services in San Francisco.

And it was a citywide strategy.

and there was citywide groups of people mm-hmm like Lefty Gordon, Jeff

Maury, Tom Kim, Enola Maxwell, Espanola Jackson, Sharon Hewitt, Yuri Wada.

There were community leaders throughout San Francisco that shared the vision

that there had to be something going on.

Because prior to the Department of Children, Youth and Families being

created and implemented, which was Prop J back in the day, I believe that

I listened and I was mentored quite a bit from Jim having explained to

me about what the strategic planning really mean and why is it important?

And it can only be done if you can do it with the institutions and a community

representation at the same time.

Because otherwise it's being done in a vacuum.

Because the institutions, if they've done no community needs, if they've done no

community engagement, if they haven't even been in the communities, how do

they know what is best for the community?

RAP from its inception provided services and advocacy to

youth coming in and out of Juvenile Hall or Youth Guidance Center.

Mitchell was versed in working directly with youth.

Through strategic organizational planning, RAP created the

opportunities for youngsters to thrive and empower themselves.

I remember when I was knee-deep in trouble.

And uh, my mom goes, I brought this guy home to talk with you.

This is the voice of Pastor Ronnie Muniz, a former

RAP student and employee.

And I remember walking in the living room on 19th and San Carlos

Street and Mitchell was sitting there with a Pendleton on and some Dickies and I was

like, you brought a homie to talk to me?

And we started talking and again that voice, right?

I was just listening to him and then he started talking about

school and I was like, oh you just messed the whole thing up.

But then I remember going to RAP and the different thing about RAP

for those of us that went there.

It was like being on the block, but we was being educated.

God, I could go on with the stories of Snapper, Porky, all of us just laying on

tables acting crazy and then the teacher would come in and we would learn, you

know, we wasn't just going to hang out.

And then when I went to prison and I came home, I remember Mitch asking

me to come to the office and I went to the office on Potrero and 25th.

And I remember talking to these youngsters about why they shouldn't go to prison and

it wasn't the thing to do and it isn't always to be glorified and I remember

Mitch coming and saying, You want a job?

And I'm thinking, of course I want a job, what do I gotta do?

And he was like, exactly what you're doing.

And I remember working with him doing that and then as time went on, I ended

up starting my own organization and Mitch was the president of my board.

Mitch, you know, Help me to create and I can say giving back.

I work with folks coming out of reentry or prison So and being a

pastor, I mean God I was a dust head and all that other stuff, but never

was looked at any different by Mitch

The county of San Francisco had no answer for the

disjointed youth services at YGC.

Young people were being tossed out with no follow up.

They found themselves running amok with very little family support.

Failed city services pushed RAP to respond.

And RAP convinced the city to give them the opportunity to open a

temporary group home, La Casa, where they provided refuge and offered

community service to help motivate and reconnect young people to a greater

purpose, living full, productive lives.

In addition to that, there was the group home.

So there was an emphasis on foster care And the group home was dealing

with young men and women that were pretty much failure placements.

And we would take them because when they get classified as failure

placements nobody wants to touch 'em.

So we took 'em and most of them were Latino and it was a six bed

residential facility located on San Carlos Street between 20th and 21st.

And this was prior to the gang saturation that the Mission then

experience later down the road, because I don't think that group home could

have existed without neutrality.

Under Mitchell's direction, RAP expanded and created more clinical

intervention services and the need for building a cohesive team and staff.

Up to this point, RAP was committed to hiring local youth to develop

their leadership skills, but now some of the positions needed to be

filled with college educated and professionally certified people.

Many from outside the Mission or San Francisco stepped up to help and became

adopted by the Mission community.

These new staff further exposing young people to engaging with the

PhDs in streetology and those educated in the academic world.

I'm I'm a New Yorker and I went to school in Syracuse I was gonna be

a aerospace engineer but I quickly find out that I wasn't smart enough.

This is the voice of Chico Moreno, a former RAP

employee and CASA manager.

So I started traveling west and I lived in a few cities in between

Boston, Dallas, and then I ended up in San Francisco So one of my initial

jobs was actually working for a diversion program at the county jail.

And I realized that I had a different path that was gonna be my ultimate destiny.

And as one thing led to another I happened to meet a couple of people in the Mission

District that were very knowledgeable, interesting, very culturally grounded,

and they told me about a position as they were doing some hiring at RAP and they

needed somebody to manage the group home which was at that time it was fairly new.

I think we all started right around the same time late 79, 80 I had

the opportunity to start to get involved in with RAP and I could

see that the majority of people were all born or had lived in the Mission

Disctrict for a very long time.

Everybody knew each other.

So I felt as an outsider at the beginning but I was quickly welcomed

and adopted by all of these folks.

And for me it was a learning process you go from a corporate background to someone

who had to get involved with the community and to be accepted by the community.

And meeting Alfredo Bojorquez meeting, uh Mitchell , I could see

that they had all the knowledge.

They just needed someone to help them put it together in understanding how

to write proposals et cetera And at the beginning Mitchell couldn't put a sentence

together but that man was so determined that he accomplished so many things

that I'm to this date I'm finding out

The philosophy of RAP which I really respected was that you

do your time, you contribute, and then you move on and leave a young

person to take over your job.

So we were working ourselves out of a job by leaving the seeds and the roots for

that person to continue and take over.

So because I was a little older than than the rest I really I really absorbed

that philosophy that I said yeah it's true yeah I could be here for a long

time but that's that's not the essence.

And in the case of Mitchell, he needed to stay because there was so many

things going on that it needed him and he needed RAP at the same time.

I remember the interview Mitchell gave me, and of course Mitchell

was in his little office on Potrero.

This is the voice of Michelle Alvarez, former RAP case manager, Mission

Native and clinical services director at Instituto Familiar de la Raza.

and it's something that always sticks to me and

I utilize it all the time.

Mitchell liked to do right.

Used to crumble paper up and miss the garbage can.

Sometimes he would make it and I remember he missed and during the interview he

asked me, what are you gonna do now?

He asked me that during the interview and I don't think he remembers.

Oh.

But he goes, someone with the initiative will get up and put that little

piece of paper in the trash can.

Wow.

So I knew then that being at RAP was really about it really talked to.

Right.

That self-determination.

That's right.

Initiative that we seek in young people.

'cause, 'cause all young people have it, we just have to find it.

Right.

Or we help them find their own initiative.

So that's always stuck in my head that interview with Mitchell.

Mitchell, having been schooled in RAP's philosophy of

youth empowerment through personal change, he knew how to change a

misguided youth's life with a job.

Sometimes foregoing the application and interview process is more important.

Remember, if you want to give someone hope, start by giving

them a job and direction.

This is Coffy Johnson, former RAP staff and case manager.

Mitchell rolls up with Calles one night and of all nights for

me to be there in the damn park.

"Coffy, what are you doing here?"

And I'm like, oh my God.

I was so busted.

I was like so scared that it was him, cuz I was like, oh shit.

My brother, like my brother didn't even know what I was into cuz I was

trying to hide in the back streets and oh my goodness, as soon as he

find out it right, it was over.

You get your ass home right now and it was done.

You better be at, go right there across the street.

I was at La Raza Park.

Right there, nine o'clock!

Matter of fact, you better be there before nine.

And I'm like, for what?

And he's like, you're, you're gonna start working.

And I was like, what?

Boom.

He takes me right off the street, puts me at the front desk and first

day tells me, I don't give a shit who you see come through that door.

You better remain neutral.

And I'm like, is this guy serious?

He was dead ass serious.

He took me at 19 off the streets and made me the secretary and turned me

from the secretary into so much more.

Six months, I proved to myself that I was willing to get off of the

streets completely and change my life.

And he believed in me and it gave me an opportunity to become a case manager.

And in that position, I was able to give back so much more.

And I was able to use the person who I was to get into places that

a lot of people in RAP couldn't be.

What I realized at RAP is that uh the emphasis on youth.

This is Chico Moreno

Our challenge was to seek out the talents in the young people and

after working in the jail I saw young people going astray and unless they

were first time offenders there was very little that I found myself being

able to contribute mm-hmm to anything positive So when RAP came along it gave

me the opportunity to start younger.

To start with young people who were waiting for direction who were

wanting direction and they just didn't have it And that was the

essence, that was the root of RAP.

Many times RAP staff would take on a bigger role for

youth, such as a big brother, or a sister, or a parental figure.

Here is motivational speaker, and former RAP student , Alex Humphrey,

who tells us how Mitchell brought him into boxing through RAP.

I haven't been in touch with my biological family for many years, but,

um, I found family when I came to RAP.

I go back with Mitch since I was 10 years old.

Went to RAP down on 16th and Mission.

I grew up in the projects.

I was between Hunters Point, the old Geneva ,Towers before they imploded

'em and the Overland Gardens before they demoed them and rebuilt them.

But I went to school there and fought all the time.

Mitch turned around and was like, what am I gonna do with you?

We gotta figure something out.

And he says, we're taking you to this meeting and you're

gonna talk to the board.

We have to convince them to allow the money to get you a personal trainer.

And they agreed and started training me.

And then the summer came up, Ray Balberan sat down with me filling out

applications because he was like, "we're getting you out of here for the summer.

You're going to the Youth Conservation Corps.

You're gonna live there for the summer."

I didn't get acceptance from my own family, but I got

acceptance with everyone at RAP.

I remember trying to self-medicate.

The big drug back then was, was dust.

So I was dealing with the Devil's dandruff back then.

And I remember smoking that stuff and, I was so high, my brother wanted to help me.

He was like, I'm gonna take care of you.

But I felt like he was impeded in my space.

And had I not been stuck, I would've killed my brother.

So I remember calling Mitch and crying.

I was like, Mitch, I need you again.

He says, look, man, me and Kathy and the kids, were gonna be rolling

around just paying some bills.

I'm gonna come pick you up.

You just roll with us.

And I remember I didn't say much, I just looked out the window as

he just drove down the streets.

I eventually got it together, but what I carried with me were things

that I learned from Mitch, you know, which was being a person of

your word, principles, integrity.

With RAP continuing to provide comprehensive services, which included a

high school, which started as a classroom inside a garage, then inside trailers,

only to grow into occupying its own building, which provided enough space for

all of RAP's services, a one stop shop.

Setting up an alternative school program was possible cause we

did it and we understood that the only way that it would work is that if it had

intensive case management services, we went into collaboration with the health

department, and we put a clinic on site and had got the attention of the Robert F.

Kennedy Memorial Fund.

And we actually had Effel Kennedy and Michael Kennedy at the RAP site

dedicating the site, as the Robert F.

Kennedy RAP health clinic.

Right.

We had Dr.

Pierre that was paid from the health department to staff it.

And we were providing preventative care for young people in the school

that didn't have no healthcare.

And we had the violence prevention.

We had case management and we were able to provide a wraparound services.

Dr. Pierre: In my medical school application,

This is the voice of Dr.

Pierre Marie Rose, public health physician.

and On Site Doctor at the RFK RAP Teen Clinic and the Second

Chance Tattoo Removal Program.

Dr. Pierre: I wrote that my goal was to provide healthcare and underserved

communities and actually start up my own clinic with a kind of a one stop

shopping model where kids could not only come without an appointment and

get their needs met, but also in a way that was culturally appropriate.

Have the medications, the immunizations, and everything like that onsite,

along with mental health support.

And I'll be damned if I didn't end up doing that at RAP.

So, that was something I wrote back in 1984 when I was

applying to medical schools.

So RAP will always be special to me because I took great pride I was serious

and RAP gave me the opportunity to kind of manifest that and will always be linked.

Violence prevention and intervention changed dramatically in

San Francisco on the Saturday evening of January 11, 1992, with the killing

of 12 year old Bayron Alvarado Martinez.

But what I was thinking about was Bayron Alvarado.

A 12 year old kid that was shot in the back when he was released from Mission

Police Station, because at that time, the gang task force was just pulling

in everybody and they thought he belonged to a gang and they let him out.

They didn't go to contact his mom and he got shot in the back with a

shotgun And he was a little kid too.

So the image of the little kid running down the street being shot

in the back was something that the community as a whole came together

on, and that stemmed that whole issue around this is some serious stuff.

If kids are gonna be killed outside of the police station, a half a block away

on a Friday night with as much police cars and traffic that is on Valencia Street

between 23rd and 24th on a Friday night.

So it also showed the kind of insanity that these youngsters were living in

to get out of the car and shoot them.

Not a normal person will go shoot a 12 year old kid you don't know in the back.

I mean, you gotta be high as hell.

Or you gotta have some serious mental health issues where you're

gonna take someone's life like that.

And if it was, an initiation go kill him.

Well, I mean, why him?

So I just think about him because that particular murder had just perpetuated

the need for the community to really look at this issue in a broader context.

And we started to flip the script and say it was not a criminal justice

issue, it was a public health issue.

And just try to focus in a different way because everybody

was still being looked at as bad.

RAP is now in a position to seize opportunities to strengthen

violence prevention intervention services and develop other programs citywide.

On the next episode of Rama Blueprints, we continue to follow Mitchell's

heart and his decisions as he leads the Real Alternatives Program into

a new era of youth empowerment.

Unfortunately for many, the Mission also experiences multiple incidents

of community violence that demands citywide response and true investment

in seeking solutions towards peace.

We also follow how some of RAP's foundational

components receive a new life.

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