San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela López, along with two other school board members, lost a recall election in a landslide with 72 percent of the vote cast against them. One would think that if 75 percent of the voters were mad enough at you to trek to a polling place in the middle of winter to kick your butt to the curb, that might be a humbling experience for some people. But Lopez is made of far sterner stuff. How could someone as good as she, as pure as she, as racially conscious as she, as brave and...