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Originally Posted by Nineties Flava
....Another reason, though, is that some people don't know what to make of the idea of wealthy (i.e. $100,000+ average income and up) predominantly-black neighborhoods. Especially in the Bay Area where the majority of the black population was working class and severely affected by the industrial collapse of the 70's and the only significant black population centers all have bad reputations (EPA, Marin City, Richmond, Vallejo, Bayview Hunters Point, etc.) for some people it's hard to believe that wealthy black neighborhoods exist en masse in Oakland, which has the ****tiest reputation of all.
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Well, mon ami, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. Race, or shall we say Racism, American style, just won't let go, and we, tragically, won't let go of it. So EFF it and those who subscribe to the myth, the lark, the tragic misadventure. Monsieur Flav: get a car, get a bike, get a chaffeur, and point the lens of befuddling truth. Of course, some posters here, even after you and others have posted streams and streams of photos capturing wealthy, lush Oakland hillside neighborhoods, somehow persist in claiming, for instance, that only all-white, uptight Piedmont has something for which Oakland supposedly "can't compare."
Oh..PULEEZE!
I, for one, have enjoyed the shock of my "white" friends [ as an English/Latin, I guess I'm "off-white?" Antique white? White on Rye? A paler shade of wry??...] when we have cruised up and down Ettrick,Elvessa, Commonwealth Drive, Sequoyah View Drive, McGuirin Road, Balmoral, Tartan Way, and
gasp! Shock! Stunned!
all those well-to-do to stynkin' rich African-American folks and their rambling rosey rancher estates, swimmin' pools, horsey stables, and the like.
Here the southern hill "gangstas" of Oakland roam in crews identified as "UC graduates," "Ivy Leaguers," "Jesuit Ivies," and "New Ivies," armed with their Gold American express cards, doing their drive-by
snootings , heading up to hangout in such dens of inequity as Commis, Baywolf, Oliveto's, Caesar's, Plum, Pican, Hibiscus!
OH. MAH. GAWD. Whatever yew do, don't tell Monsieur Fantastique!!! Them's thar "black" peoples in Oakland! With them thar advanced degrees!! MONEY!! And, oh, Gawd help us all, CULTURE!!!!!!!
OHHHH MAH GAWD!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. I could really get into some photos of these neighborhoods. Befuddling truths: can it get any better?