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She just released a single, called “\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lovealution-single/1454300709\">Lovealution\u003c/a>,” from her forthcoming second studio album. She says the song explores the validity of nature—the only thing, she likes to say, that’s not a scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music is clearly Strings’ second nature, as she’s mastered the art of the upright bass, the piano and vocals. She’s performed as a background musician for L.A. rapper Ill Camille during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXPfeg09IOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an NPR Tiny Desk Concert last year\u003c/a>, and also played a major role in Duckwrth’s European tour in 2018. 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Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"She's been all over the world—but back home in Oakland, Pendarvis Harshaw catches up with the R&B and jazz musician.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020955,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":267},"headData":{"title":"From East Oakland, Music for the Soul | KQED","description":"She's been all over the world—but back home in Oakland, Pendarvis Harshaw catches up with the R&B and jazz musician.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"From East Oakland, Music for the Soul","datePublished":"2020-04-03T10:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:55:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Rightnowish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish","audioUrl":"https://od1.kqed.org/anon.kqed/radio/rightnowish/2020/04/RightnowishEp24AneesaStrings.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":239,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13852456/rightnowish-bassist-aneesa-strings-love-for-music-started-in-oakland-schools","audioDuration":698000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Aneesa Strings has traveled the world playing the upright bass, but her story starts right here in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strings grew up playing in Oakland public schools and at a local nonprofit, Oaktown Jazz Workshops. She just released a single, called “\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/lovealution-single/1454300709\">Lovealution\u003c/a>,” from her forthcoming second studio album. She says the song explores the validity of nature—the only thing, she likes to say, that’s not a scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music is clearly Strings’ second nature, as she’s mastered the art of the upright bass, the piano and vocals. She’s performed as a background musician for L.A. rapper Ill Camille during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXPfeg09IOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an NPR Tiny Desk Concert last year\u003c/a>, and also played a major role in Duckwrth’s European tour in 2018. 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Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13852456/rightnowish-bassist-aneesa-strings-love-for-music-started-in-oakland-schools","authors":["11491"],"programs":["arts_8720"],"categories":["arts_69","arts_21759"],"tags":["arts_1118","arts_1420","arts_596","arts_1143","arts_2356","arts_6764"],"featImg":"arts_13852477","label":"source_arts_13852456"},"arts_13874738":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13874738","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13874738","score":null,"sort":[1581559244000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-mural-of-tom-hanks-and-too-short-in-oakland-goes-deeper-than-paint","title":"A Mural of Tom Hanks and Too Short in Oakland Goes Deeper Than Paint","publishDate":1581559244,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Mural of Tom Hanks and Too Short in Oakland Goes Deeper Than Paint | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> really thought I was \u003cem>doing\u003c/em> \u003cem>something\u003c/em> when I took a picture of a nearly finished mural of Tom Hanks and Too $hort and then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1222571572185055234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted it\u003c/a> to social media. I mean, I really put my phone in my pocket, thinking I actually did something good for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My rationale? The mural was a huge street-side tribute to two vastly different hometown luminaries. I figured it would uplift folks, and help take their minds off the deflating news cycle about the unimpeachable president, the spread of an international virus and the dire housing situation in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, that picture put a number of the issues we’re facing into perspective—issues that I didn’t notice until the mural was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took less than three days for the mural to be covered. All of the work from the artists, whose Instagram handles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pierremadethat/\">@pierremadethat\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/charles.utero.the3rd/\">@charles.utero.the3rd\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/funkysquash/\">@funkysquash\u003c/a>, on the broad side of the building at San Pablo Avenue and Castro Street was erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What once was a short-lived mural depicting a young and spunky Tom Hanks from the movie \u003cem>Big\u003c/em> and an image of Too $hort from the \u003cem>Life Is… Too $hort\u003c/em> era—big donkey rope chain in tow—was gone. Poof! The details in the photo, all the easter eggs in the illustrations that accompanied Hanks’ image: a computer mouse from \u003cem>You’ve Got Mail\u003c/em>, the Wilson ball from \u003cem>Cast Away\u003c/em>, and a nod to \u003cem>Toy Story\u003c/em> in the form of a cowboy hat. Behind $hort were a number of details, too, including a boom box and some unidentified booties of women in thongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was homage to two guys who spent their formative years in Oakland, who made it big in entertainment and who speak highly of their East Bay roots in nearly every interview I’ve ever seen. What could be wrong with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Work in Progress\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Work in Progress. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“T\u003c/span>he level (of) keebler cracker and gmo wheat toast fkery in these pictures is ridiculously pitiful,” wrote Refa One, a well-known activist and artist from West Oakland, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/oakmaroons/posts/2665314293585655?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCEiibWYkc0UOEBORd7mld8IUIZ9ij7SpHPEXZzG11yll845j72wqdXYfahW3B5vQsKg4u66WP0-c3XfOpH-hSrebJr3OfEWbyvN3pZI5v5pi8hCf-aXKKQMRxrdBeE5EKT3v5jLwASZZ-k6DWuosGNZ0aDvO90xfR1DCgapXTSNTwVhwT8jyEFmcMMfT4JNa1zWo_y4mvg3hRCRbu-ogjrzryDjcK4wQetfh8_wkHCJtyDYPwLtTPzf7O5PGu00eRkMGwCSEmsfDLfhgxbd6JODOoija6lnbCrm8IlavCqROMHexOYAfkywNzgKowzQ9ZU6SXuYpTKTfc1pM0E09TC7A&__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> with the image of the mural. “I’m still processing the amount of thirsty accolades this work is receiving from Negropeans that have embraced defeat by the gentrifying colonizers hell bent on mascot iconography of a displaced BLACK people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damn man, I hate to admit it, but I was one of those “Negropeans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long after Refa One made the Facebook post, the mural was covered with a massive blotting of light blue paint—similar to the color the \u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=slideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Panther Party’s school uniforms\u003c/a>. “Mural in Progress. Reserved for Black Panther Party,” was the only message left on the elongated wall that parallels the 980 freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, I went down to the corner of San Pablo and Castro Street, and took a close photo of the new coat of paint and the message inscribed on the wall. I posted the picture on social media, and in came the questions: “Why’d they cover it?” “Who did it?” “What’s coming next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I called Refa One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about African people controlling the visual landscape in their community, particularly against all forms of gentrification,” said Refa One, a longtime Oakland-based creator who heads the international arts collective \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerosoulart.com/\">Aerosoul\u003c/a>, and the son of two Black Panther Party members. He’s also the artist behind numerous murals in Oakland, including one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton in West Oakland\u003c/a> and one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11753459/bart-unveils-oscar-grant-mural-and-street-sign-at-fruitvale-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Grant at Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>. “And in this particular situation,” he added, “we’re dealing with visual culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The image of Tom Hanks and a nod to his movies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image of Tom Hanks and a nod to his movies. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told me he had a few issues with the mural of Hanks and $hort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, it depicts Tom Hanks, a multimillionaire who speaks proudly of his Oakland roots, but has yet to make a public statement about inequity in Oakland, Refa One said. And that’s for a city where the housing crisis has been noted as an emergency by local, state and international officials; an emergency that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/stepping-up-for-homeless-black-people-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately impacted black people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the image of Too $hort, known for misogynistic lyrics, is an issue too, Refa One added. It’s on the side of a wall that butts up against San Pablo Avenue not too far from the Greyhound Bus Station, which over the decades has been a hot spot for sex trafficking, an issue that’s plagued Oakland for longer than Too $hort has been rapping. And it has disproportionately impacted black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Refa One noted that two of the three artists involved in the mural were white folks, and not from Oakland. He questioned what right they had to paint the walls in a traditionally black community. “Can I go to Chinatown and paint whatever I want? Can I go to Piedmont and paint there?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, when you put it like that, I get it. So did the other artists. They told me that they understood the politics behind Refa’s point and ambition to paint over their work, and deferred any further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good thing,” one of the artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B8E2hvIp50u/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> on Instagram. “Excited for what’s going up next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"The image of Too $hort and details from aspects of his career.\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image of Too $hort and details from aspects of his career. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s a long history of African American culture being compromised and remade to fit the palate of white America. Elvis Presley re-recording “Hound Dog” and selling 9.5 million more copies than the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hound-dog-is-recorded-for-the-first-time-by-big-mama-thornton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Mama Thornton version\u003c/a>. The long-running TV show \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em>, a spinoff of \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/01/the-gentrification-of-city-based-sitcoms/513302/\">Living Single\u003c/a>. Hell, famed slavery abolitionist \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/truth.html\">Sojouner Truth\u003c/a>‘s first language was Dutch, and when she learned English, she spoke in a Dutch accent. Yet her famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,” is usually thought to have been spoken in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a stereotypical ‘southern black slave accent\u003c/a>,'” because that’s how (white) historians believed all enslaved Africans spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s deeper than some paint on the walls. It’s about the importance of controlling your story, no matter the medium, because from that comes control over your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that note of self-determination shown through community art, Refa One told me about a time he was painting a piece in Campbell Village, a well-known public housing project in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how to do \u003cem>this\u003c/em>?” Refa One said a young man asked, watching him paint while playing with a group of friends. “We thought only white people did this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refa One said he talked to the group of children, and told them, “The first people on the planet to ever paint murals, and to express their culture in that fashion, were African people just like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aerosoul_ig/\">@aerosoul_ig\u003c/a>, in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He invited the youngsters to pick up some paint and participate in the production of the piece, giving them “collective ownership of their walls.” Which is especially important in the black community, where we’re constantly combating self-hatred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been conditioned to believe that anything happening positively in our community must come from the outside,” said Refa One, in reference to numerous images of African American leaders painted by white artists in Oakland. “Oftentimes the community is ignorant to the fact that we’re being ‘mascotted’ by white folks who consider themselves the ambassador to our culture, and how it should be used and decimated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he can’t simply paint over those walls. It’s a Catch-22. “At that point it becomes difficult to remove those images, because people’s overall thought is that it’s positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a town where black folks have been disproportionately killed, over-policed, under-educated, sex trafficked and pushed out by the masses, putting up images of black folks \u003cem>is\u003c/em> like sports teams having mascots. Mascots derived from cultural aspects of the natives, who’ve been killed off of the very land where they now toss a pigskin or pitch a four-seam fastball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damn, it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> just like sports: it’s easy to root for a team because you like their mascot or star players, but you better do your research on who’s really in control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise you’ll be cheering for the “Negropeans.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A mural in Oakland of the actor and rapper together was painted over in a matter of days—and it turns out there's a reason.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021297,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1489},"headData":{"title":"A Mural of Tom Hanks and Too Short in Oakland Goes Deeper Than Paint | KQED","description":"A mural in Oakland of the actor and rapper together was painted over in a matter of days—and it turns out there's a reason.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Mural of Tom Hanks and Too Short in Oakland Goes Deeper Than Paint","datePublished":"2020-02-13T02:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:01:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13874738/a-mural-of-tom-hanks-and-too-short-in-oakland-goes-deeper-than-paint","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> really thought I was \u003cem>doing\u003c/em> \u003cem>something\u003c/em> when I took a picture of a nearly finished mural of Tom Hanks and Too $hort and then \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1222571572185055234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted it\u003c/a> to social media. I mean, I really put my phone in my pocket, thinking I actually did something good for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My rationale? The mural was a huge street-side tribute to two vastly different hometown luminaries. I figured it would uplift folks, and help take their minds off the deflating news cycle about the unimpeachable president, the spread of an international virus and the dire housing situation in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, that picture put a number of the issues we’re facing into perspective—issues that I didn’t notice until the mural was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took less than three days for the mural to be covered. All of the work from the artists, whose Instagram handles are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pierremadethat/\">@pierremadethat\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/charles.utero.the3rd/\">@charles.utero.the3rd\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/funkysquash/\">@funkysquash\u003c/a>, on the broad side of the building at San Pablo Avenue and Castro Street was erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What once was a short-lived mural depicting a young and spunky Tom Hanks from the movie \u003cem>Big\u003c/em> and an image of Too $hort from the \u003cem>Life Is… Too $hort\u003c/em> era—big donkey rope chain in tow—was gone. Poof! The details in the photo, all the easter eggs in the illustrations that accompanied Hanks’ image: a computer mouse from \u003cem>You’ve Got Mail\u003c/em>, the Wilson ball from \u003cem>Cast Away\u003c/em>, and a nod to \u003cem>Toy Story\u003c/em> in the form of a cowboy hat. Behind $hort were a number of details, too, including a boom box and some unidentified booties of women in thongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was homage to two guys who spent their formative years in Oakland, who made it big in entertainment and who speak highly of their East Bay roots in nearly every interview I’ve ever seen. What could be wrong with that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874868\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Work in Progress\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/83915355_10102711897512530_1065418198855188480_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Work in Progress. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“T\u003c/span>he level (of) keebler cracker and gmo wheat toast fkery in these pictures is ridiculously pitiful,” wrote Refa One, a well-known activist and artist from West Oakland, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/oakmaroons/posts/2665314293585655?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCEiibWYkc0UOEBORd7mld8IUIZ9ij7SpHPEXZzG11yll845j72wqdXYfahW3B5vQsKg4u66WP0-c3XfOpH-hSrebJr3OfEWbyvN3pZI5v5pi8hCf-aXKKQMRxrdBeE5EKT3v5jLwASZZ-k6DWuosGNZ0aDvO90xfR1DCgapXTSNTwVhwT8jyEFmcMMfT4JNa1zWo_y4mvg3hRCRbu-ogjrzryDjcK4wQetfh8_wkHCJtyDYPwLtTPzf7O5PGu00eRkMGwCSEmsfDLfhgxbd6JODOoija6lnbCrm8IlavCqROMHexOYAfkywNzgKowzQ9ZU6SXuYpTKTfc1pM0E09TC7A&__tn__=-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Facebook post\u003c/a> with the image of the mural. “I’m still processing the amount of thirsty accolades this work is receiving from Negropeans that have embraced defeat by the gentrifying colonizers hell bent on mascot iconography of a displaced BLACK people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damn man, I hate to admit it, but I was one of those “Negropeans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not too long after Refa One made the Facebook post, the mural was covered with a massive blotting of light blue paint—similar to the color the \u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=slideshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Panther Party’s school uniforms\u003c/a>. “Mural in Progress. Reserved for Black Panther Party,” was the only message left on the elongated wall that parallels the 980 freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, I went down to the corner of San Pablo and Castro Street, and took a close photo of the new coat of paint and the message inscribed on the wall. I posted the picture on social media, and in came the questions: “Why’d they cover it?” “Who did it?” “What’s coming next?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I called Refa One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about African people controlling the visual landscape in their community, particularly against all forms of gentrification,” said Refa One, a longtime Oakland-based creator who heads the international arts collective \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerosoulart.com/\">Aerosoul\u003c/a>, and the son of two Black Panther Party members. He’s also the artist behind numerous murals in Oakland, including one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huey P. Newton in West Oakland\u003c/a> and one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11753459/bart-unveils-oscar-grant-mural-and-street-sign-at-fruitvale-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Grant at Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>. “And in this particular situation,” he added, “we’re dealing with visual culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The image of Tom Hanks and a nod to his movies.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCkKU8AAllIP.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image of Tom Hanks and a nod to his movies. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He told me he had a few issues with the mural of Hanks and $hort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, it depicts Tom Hanks, a multimillionaire who speaks proudly of his Oakland roots, but has yet to make a public statement about inequity in Oakland, Refa One said. And that’s for a city where the housing crisis has been noted as an emergency by local, state and international officials; an emergency that has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/stepping-up-for-homeless-black-people-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disproportionately impacted black people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the image of Too $hort, known for misogynistic lyrics, is an issue too, Refa One added. It’s on the side of a wall that butts up against San Pablo Avenue not too far from the Greyhound Bus Station, which over the decades has been a hot spot for sex trafficking, an issue that’s plagued Oakland for longer than Too $hort has been rapping. And it has disproportionately impacted black women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Refa One noted that two of the three artists involved in the mural were white folks, and not from Oakland. He questioned what right they had to paint the walls in a traditionally black community. “Can I go to Chinatown and paint whatever I want? Can I go to Piedmont and paint there?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, when you put it like that, I get it. So did the other artists. They told me that they understood the politics behind Refa’s point and ambition to paint over their work, and deferred any further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good thing,” one of the artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B8E2hvIp50u/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> on Instagram. “Excited for what’s going up next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13874867\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13874867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-800x576.jpg\" alt=\"The image of Too $hort and details from aspects of his career.\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-800x576.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w-768x553.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/02/EPeCCmBVAAEqE_w.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image of Too $hort and details from aspects of his career. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s a long history of African American culture being compromised and remade to fit the palate of white America. Elvis Presley re-recording “Hound Dog” and selling 9.5 million more copies than the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hound-dog-is-recorded-for-the-first-time-by-big-mama-thornton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Mama Thornton version\u003c/a>. The long-running TV show \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em>, a spinoff of \u003ca href=\"https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/01/the-gentrification-of-city-based-sitcoms/513302/\">Living Single\u003c/a>. Hell, famed slavery abolitionist \u003ca href=\"https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/truth.html\">Sojouner Truth\u003c/a>‘s first language was Dutch, and when she learned English, she spoke in a Dutch accent. Yet her famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,” is usually thought to have been spoken in “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a stereotypical ‘southern black slave accent\u003c/a>,'” because that’s how (white) historians believed all enslaved Africans spoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s deeper than some paint on the walls. It’s about the importance of controlling your story, no matter the medium, because from that comes control over your life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that note of self-determination shown through community art, Refa One told me about a time he was painting a piece in Campbell Village, a well-known public housing project in West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know how to do \u003cem>this\u003c/em>?” Refa One said a young man asked, watching him paint while playing with a group of friends. “We thought only white people did this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refa One said he talked to the group of children, and told them, “The first people on the planet to ever paint murals, and to express their culture in that fashion, were African people just like us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/aerosoul_ig/\">@aerosoul_ig\u003c/a>, in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He invited the youngsters to pick up some paint and participate in the production of the piece, giving them “collective ownership of their walls.” Which is especially important in the black community, where we’re constantly combating self-hatred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been conditioned to believe that anything happening positively in our community must come from the outside,” said Refa One, in reference to numerous images of African American leaders painted by white artists in Oakland. “Oftentimes the community is ignorant to the fact that we’re being ‘mascotted’ by white folks who consider themselves the ambassador to our culture, and how it should be used and decimated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he can’t simply paint over those walls. It’s a Catch-22. “At that point it becomes difficult to remove those images, because people’s overall thought is that it’s positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a town where black folks have been disproportionately killed, over-policed, under-educated, sex trafficked and pushed out by the masses, putting up images of black folks \u003cem>is\u003c/em> like sports teams having mascots. Mascots derived from cultural aspects of the natives, who’ve been killed off of the very land where they now toss a pigskin or pitch a four-seam fastball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damn, it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> just like sports: it’s easy to root for a team because you like their mascot or star players, but you better do your research on who’s really in control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise you’ll be cheering for the “Negropeans.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13874738/a-mural-of-tom-hanks-and-too-short-in-oakland-goes-deeper-than-paint","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1346","arts_2767","arts_8167","arts_903","arts_1737","arts_1143","arts_2356","arts_2882","arts_9963","arts_2533"],"featImg":"arts_13874882","label":"arts"},"arts_13851520":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13851520","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13851520","score":null,"sort":[1577444443000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history","title":"Claiming Community Walls for the Black Panther Party","publishDate":1577444443,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Claiming Community Walls for the Black Panther Party | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>Listen to the podcast to hear moments from the Rightnowish Family Gathering.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stand on the corner of 14th and Peralta in West Oakland, marveling over a mural painted on the broad side of the Sav-Mor liquor store. With a brilliant blue background, African Adinkra symbols along the top and the image of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton squarely in the middle, the words “Serve The People” send a simple, clear mission statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing at ground zero, where the Black Panther Party started,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.refa1.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refa One\u003c/a>, the artist behind the mural. “And there is nothing in this neighborhood of any consequence that is promoting the legacy of the Black Panther Party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until last year, that is, when Refa painted the mural, giving visual honor to one of the most well-known organizations to emerge from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One's mural honoring Huey Newton of the Black Panthers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One’s mural honoring Huey Newton of the Black Panthers. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having his work on the walls around town isn’t new to Refa—he’s been active since the 1980s, when he painted with the graffiti crew BSK. You can see his work \u003ca href=\"http://www.refa1.com/uploads/1/0/4/0/10407124/ahc-mural_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under the 580 overpass at Market\u003c/a>, or on 8th Street, between Campbell and Willow. He’s currently working on a mural dedicated to the memory of Oscar Grant at Fruitvale BART station, where Grant was fatally shot 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Huey Newton piece is directly representative of the reason Refa, founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerosoulart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AeroSoul\u003c/a> art collective, is invested in art. Both of his parents were Black Panther members, rank-and-file, as he called them. His dad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/panther-power/Content?oid=4994061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ducho Dennis\u003c/a>, served as official photographer for the Panthers, and walls of his photos transform Refa’s living room into a sort of mini-museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I’m a collector of many sorts, mostly related to art. Whether it’s sculpture, paintings, music, you know, I’m also an archivist,” says Refa as we walk into his house. “There’s times where I will meet rank-and-file panthers, and this documentation may be the only physical documentation that records their involvement in the party, and that means a lot to their family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it means a lot to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing how rapidly West Oakland is changing, this documentation is gold. The stories from this soil need to be told, no matter their form. To let them dissipate into history would be a disservice to those who came before us—as well as those who come after us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Refa One with his mural honoring Huey Newton at 14th and Peralta in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Refa One with his mural honoring Huey Newton at 14th and Peralta in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Refa One would agree about the importance of that intergenerational connection. Along with his parents’ involvement in the party, his son Senay Alkebu-lan runs a clothing line called \u003ca href=\"https://www.madowfutur.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADOW FUTUR\u003c/a>, which features images of the Black Panther logo on the apparel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about his art’s purpose, Refa One doesn’t have to deliberate. “My mission statement can be capsulated in the Black Panther commemorative mural around the corner from here: to serve the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A shorter version of this episode was first broadcast on February 24, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pendarvis Harshaw's 'Rightnowish' kicks off with Oakland muralist and culture keeper Refa One.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021620,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":562},"headData":{"title":"Claiming Community Walls for the Black Panther Party | KQED","description":"Pendarvis Harshaw's 'Rightnowish' kicks off with Oakland muralist and culture keeper Refa One.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Claiming Community Walls for the Black Panther Party","datePublished":"2019-12-27T11:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:07:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Rightnowish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/rightnowish/2019/12/RightnowishEp10Refa.mp3","sticky":false,"audioTrackLength":240,"path":"/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history","audioDuration":713000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>Listen to the podcast to hear moments from the Rightnowish Family Gathering.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stand on the corner of 14th and Peralta in West Oakland, marveling over a mural painted on the broad side of the Sav-Mor liquor store. With a brilliant blue background, African Adinkra symbols along the top and the image of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton squarely in the middle, the words “Serve The People” send a simple, clear mission statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing at ground zero, where the Black Panther Party started,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.refa1.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refa One\u003c/a>, the artist behind the mural. “And there is nothing in this neighborhood of any consequence that is promoting the legacy of the Black Panther Party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until last year, that is, when Refa painted the mural, giving visual honor to one of the most well-known organizations to emerge from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-800x492.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One's mural honoring Huey Newton of the Black Panthers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-800x492.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-768x472.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-1020x627.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural-1200x738.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.HueyMural.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One’s mural honoring Huey Newton of the Black Panthers. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Having his work on the walls around town isn’t new to Refa—he’s been active since the 1980s, when he painted with the graffiti crew BSK. You can see his work \u003ca href=\"http://www.refa1.com/uploads/1/0/4/0/10407124/ahc-mural_orig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">under the 580 overpass at Market\u003c/a>, or on 8th Street, between Campbell and Willow. He’s currently working on a mural dedicated to the memory of Oscar Grant at Fruitvale BART station, where Grant was fatally shot 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the Huey Newton piece is directly representative of the reason Refa, founder of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerosoulart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AeroSoul\u003c/a> art collective, is invested in art. Both of his parents were Black Panther members, rank-and-file, as he called them. His dad, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/panther-power/Content?oid=4994061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ducho Dennis\u003c/a>, served as official photographer for the Panthers, and walls of his photos transform Refa’s living room into a sort of mini-museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Refa One in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.street.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refa One in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah I’m a collector of many sorts, mostly related to art. Whether it’s sculpture, paintings, music, you know, I’m also an archivist,” says Refa as we walk into his house. “There’s times where I will meet rank-and-file panthers, and this documentation may be the only physical documentation that records their involvement in the party, and that means a lot to their family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it means a lot to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowing how rapidly West Oakland is changing, this documentation is gold. The stories from this soil need to be told, no matter their form. To let them dissipate into history would be a disservice to those who came before us—as well as those who come after us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13851525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13851525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Refa One with his mural honoring Huey Newton at 14th and Peralta in West Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_-1200x802.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/RefaOne.fist_.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Refa One with his mural honoring Huey Newton at 14th and Peralta in West Oakland. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Refa One would agree about the importance of that intergenerational connection. Along with his parents’ involvement in the party, his son Senay Alkebu-lan runs a clothing line called \u003ca href=\"https://www.madowfutur.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MADOW FUTUR\u003c/a>, which features images of the Black Panther logo on the apparel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about his art’s purpose, Refa One doesn’t have to deliberate. “My mission statement can be capsulated in the Black Panther commemorative mural around the corner from here: to serve the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A shorter version of this episode was first broadcast on February 24, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13851520/rightnowish-refa-one-spraypaint-in-hand-honors-west-oaklands-history","authors":["11491"],"programs":["arts_8720"],"categories":["arts_835","arts_21759","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_1037","arts_1346","arts_1118","arts_903","arts_5035","arts_596","arts_2356","arts_6764","arts_2533"],"featImg":"arts_13851522","label":"source_arts_13851520"},"arts_13871579":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13871579","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13871579","score":null,"sort":[1576544663000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-raiders-leave-oakland-and-to-hell-with-your-feelings","title":"The Raiders Leave Oakland, and To Hell With Your Feelings","publishDate":1576544663,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Raiders Leave Oakland, and To Hell With Your Feelings | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After the Raiders' final game on Sunday, Oakland fans don't have much to feel good about.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021657,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1475},"headData":{"title":"The Raiders Leave Oakland, and To Hell With Your Feelings | KQED","description":"After the Raiders' final game on Sunday, Oakland fans don't have much to feel good about.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Raiders Leave Oakland, and To Hell With Your Feelings","datePublished":"2019-12-17T01:04:23.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:07:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13871579/the-raiders-leave-oakland-and-to-hell-with-your-feelings","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got some strong words for Mark Davis’ haircut and the thinking that goes on under it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I’m more concerned about his thinking than I am the haircut. (I’ve already \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> about him driving his minivan hundreds of miles to a barber in Palm Springs so he can get… whatever he calls that thing on his head.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get that moving the Raiders to Las Vegas is a money move. Nevada offered a stadium that’ll be paid for by tax revenue. The City of Oakland didn’t, and rightfully so. With thousands of people sleeping on the streets, paying to build a sports franchise’s new stadium would’ve been the ultimate example of helping the rich get richer. Plus, the City of Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/raiders-leave-vegas-oakland-owes-stadium-debt-1995-574930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still in debt\u003c/a> after enticing the Raiders to move back from Los Angeles in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now that the final Raiders game has been played at the Coliseum, it’s become a reality: they’re throwing a hail mary across the state line. And I can’t be mad, because at the end of the day, it’s a business. And you know how \u003cem>we\u003c/em> do business in America—with an all-encompassing phrase that I’m surprised isn’t a Fortune 500 company’s slogan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hell with your feelings. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0189.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>ut football, the most brutal of major American sports, is a game largely built on feelings. The players emote like thespians. The coaches yell like drunk stepfathers. And the owners are often shown in their box seats, hands folded over their mouths, like a member of the choir praying during the sermon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the greatest feelings come from the fans. They show up on Sundays and paint their faces, get inebriated and scream their hearts out. It’s like going to church, the bar and to war at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every stadium is a bit different, from what I hear. I’ve only been to Raiders games. But I can guarantee you that Oakland’s tailgate scene is unlike any other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, I saw social media updates of folks there at daybreak, with lit barbecue grills and liquor bottles bigger than the Lombardi trophy. As they rang in the final Raiders game in Oakland, many of the posts were emotional personal connections: the worker who’s losing their longtime job at the stadium, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/sports/raiders-fan-who-went-to-1st-coliseum-game-needs-ticket-for-oakland-finale/5756266/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the story\u003c/a> of the guy who went to the first game in Oakland and scored a last-minute ticket to this one, stories of friendships and connections made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wasn’t there on Sunday. Instead, I was down in Nickerson Gardens in Watts, where I gave a head-nod to a brother in a Los Angeles Raiders cap. That emotional connection reverberates throughout Raider Nation, and reaches all places the sun shines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871656\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0100.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Returning from my trip, I watched the game via livestream on my phone in the back of a Flixbus during a 10-hour ride. I don’t even like the NFL, but I watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to love football. I was a diehard Raiders fan. But then so many things happened that made me realize just how much of a business football is: Michael Vick’s treatment (to this day \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/thousands-sign-petition-asking-nfl-to-remove-michael-vick-as-pro-bowl-captain-call-out-sponsors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he’s still catching flak\u003c/a> for his involvement in dog fighting, a crime he served time for). The fact that there are confirmed domestic abusers in the league, and Colin Kaepernick isn’t (and that the tryout a few weeks ago was \u003ca href=\"https://www.theroot.com/stephen-a-smith-s-ego-and-hairline-suffers-2-inch-setb-1840416456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sham\u003c/a>). Worst of all, the cover-up of concussions and other health issues players face during and after their time in the league.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, former Raiders offensive lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/sports/football/jets-osemele-injury.html\">Kelechi Osemele\u003c/a> was cut by the Jets after opting to have shoulder surgery in the middle of the season instead of taking painkillers and playing with a torn labrum. Before the surgery, as reported by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the Pro Bowl player told the team he was in intense pain, and they docked his pay for the time that he sat on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How can you support a league that notoriously doesn’t support its players?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, it’s too much of an emotional investment. I spent chunks of my life yelling at the TV. If I told you how many times the Raiders let me down over the years, you’d either offer me a hug or a shot of tequila out of pity. Maybe both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of instances would include the \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2852540-antonio-brown-released-by-raiders-after-mike-mayock-incident-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown\u003c/a> saga from this summer. Trading superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bears/bears-history-changed-forever-one-year-ago-today-khalil-mack-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khalil Mack\u003c/a> last year. Remember \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuck_Rule_Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Tuck Rule game\u003c/a>? I don’t, only because I’ve successfully erased it from my memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was, of course, the loss to Tampa Bay (coached by Jon Gruden the year after he left the Raiders) in Super Bowl XXXVII, and the backstory that Pro Bowl lineman \u003ca href=\"https://www.si.com/nfl/2015/12/15/untold-super-bowl-barret-robbins-raiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barret Robbins\u003c/a> suffered a manic episode on the eve of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Carr breaking his leg right before the playoffs in 2016. \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1033798-10-worst-draft-flops-in-oakland-raiders-history#slide10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Numerous draft busts\u003c/a>, like Robert Gallery and JaMarcus Russell—I still laugh at the story of Russell studying \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2804453-david-diehl-raiders-gave-jamarcus-russell-blank-tapes-to-see-if-qb-watched-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blank tapes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on a smaller, more game-to-game letdown, there’s the penalties. So many penalties. Oh, and Mark Davis’ haircut. Man, there are so many ways the Raiders have let us down over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there had to be some highlight moments. Otherwise, people including myself wouldn’t care this much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I loved seeing Rod Woodson, Randy Moss and Warren Sapp play in Oakland. Marshawn went dumb on the sidelines. Napoleon Kaufman, my favorite player, had a career full of highlights, and now is a pastor in Livermore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although he left for a few years to play with the Packers, Charles Woodson eventually came back to the town to work with the team; he was there to light the Davis torch on this final Sunday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a reason people tossed litter on the field, started fights and booed as Sunday’s game ultimately ended in a 20-16 loss to the bottom-feeding Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason: people care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0817.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he last game I went to was the one that Marshawn got kicked out of, against Kansas City. That’s how I’ll remember the Raiders. Fun. Exciting. Underdogs. But man, there’s a nation of people who love them with all of their hearts, and many of those are my loved ones. Be it Rita Cecaci, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13840416/the-first-of-the-oakland-raiders-cheerleaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the first Raiderettes\u003c/a>, or Malcolm Turner, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13849783/buy-your-weed-from-black-owned-dispensaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">works at Blunts & Moore\u003c/a> across the street, they’re family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm recently told me, “If \u003cem>you\u003c/em> moved to Las Vegas, I’d still love you.” But I know Sunday hurt him, as it did so many others. Even as one who doesn’t care about the NFL, it hurt me too, if only for knowing what the Raiders mean to this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when I see an interview \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CamCleve2/status/1206420458486128640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like this one\u003c/a> with Mark Davis and his Moe-from-The-Three-Stooges haircut, and his lack of any real feelings for Oakland, I don’t think about the Raiderettes or the championships. I don’t think of Eldridge Dickey, the first African American to be drafted in the first round as a quarterback, or Fritz Pollard, the first African American coach in league history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871654\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/raiders-tailgate-0440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raiders fans tailgate for the final Raiders home game at the Oakland Coliseum. \u003ccite>(Amir Aziz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, what I think about is the fact that Al Davis once acquired a 25% ownership of Oakland’s failing Eastmont Mall for $5,000, and he used it as a million-dollar tax haven, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/05/31/Raiders-owner-involved-in-lucrative-Teamsters-deal/7355423201600/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1983 \u003cem>Chicago Tribune\u003c/em> article\u003c/a>. The deal was a part of a partnership with Allen Glick, a businessman who the Justice Department said was a frontman for an organized crime family—and of course, he owned casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/13/magazine/al-davis-tackles-pro-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fitting. Forty years later, and Davis’ son is still making money by sucking resources out of Oakland, and working with Vegas to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They should change their slogan from ‘Just Win Baby’, to ‘Just Biz, Baby.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13871579/the-raiders-leave-oakland-and-to-hell-with-your-feelings","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835","arts_7862"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_1118","arts_1143","arts_2356","arts_4506"],"featImg":"arts_13871652","label":"source_arts_13871579"},"arts_13871391":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13871391","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13871391","score":null,"sort":[1576252806000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-is-black-art-in-san-francisco-in-2019","title":"What is 'Black Art' in San Francisco in 2019 ?","publishDate":1576252806,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What is ‘Black Art’ in San Francisco in 2019 ? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> voice came from the area near the door in the lobby of the CounterPulse Theatre and Gallery in San Francisco, asking for all the attendees who identify as black of African American to come with them; the rest of the audience was instructed to head toward the general seating area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen black folks, a baker’s dozen including myself, were escorted up a set of stairs and into a small room. That’s where we saw a performance, an Igbo masquerade, for our eyes only. I’m not at liberty to recount further details of that aspect of the evening, but I can tell you this: I found what I had been searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had spent the previous week looking for, and trying to define, “black art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read the article in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> about the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/arts/design/black-artists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising presence of black artists of every ilk\u003c/a>“—and the side-eye responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw the film \u003cem>Queen & Slim\u003c/em>, read the articles\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/magazine/queen-slim-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> praising it\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/queen-and-slim-movie-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critiquing it\u003c/a> (and I cracked up at the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TweetLikeLena?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TweetLikeLena\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read about the issues around\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/arts/design/art-basel-miami-black-art.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Black Art spaces and ownership\u003c/a>, spawned by Art Basel. (And of course, I saw the story about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vogue.com/article/the-120000-art-basel-banana-explained-maurizio-cattelan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$120,000 banana\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/style/article/david-datuna-banana-art-basel-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the person who ate the banana\u003c/a>, and\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fwmj/status/1204808132926394368?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the Kanye meme\u003c/a> it inspired.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve been following Chicago rapper and book club founder Noname. She shook a few folks when she publicly stated\u003ca href=\"https://uproxx.com/music/noname-white-audiences-black-art/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> her stance against performing in front of majority white audiences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1200x1137.png\" alt=\"Via Noname's Twtitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1200x1137.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-160x152.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-800x758.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-768x728.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1020x966.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM.png 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Noname’s Twitter. \u003ccite>(Via Noname's Twtitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I found myself awake at 2am watching this interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vIGvKpT1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toni Morrison\u003c/a>, describing what it’s like to not adhere to the “white gaze” in her art. I also watched this old episode of Bernie Mac on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaXVt1QTwRU&t=21s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Def Comedy Jam\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, because I’m pretty sure that’s where I get \u003cem>my\u003c/em> definition of Black Art. The artists’ method of oral storytelling, the audience rolling in the aisle in reaction, and ownership over the content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But… damn. What about the venue owner? And the distributor? (I was watching on YouTube, owned by Google.) There’s always something. Can you really have art that is fully black in America? Or is \u003cem>that\u003c/em> a part of Black Art? You know, being creative despite the circumstances?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"mouth/full\" performance at CounterPulse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“mouth/full” performance at CounterPulse. \u003ccite>( Photos by Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t Counterpulse, after coming down the stairs from the small room, we were asked to sit on three pews set up in a triangle in the middle of the stage area. Two long pieces of church-style red carpet made a cross in the middle of the pews; a pulpit sat in the middle of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were in the show. Everyone else sat outside of the triangle, in the theatre seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-person \u003cem>mouth//full\u003c/em>, written and performed by \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/other-artists/gabriel-christian-chibueze-crouch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Christian and Chibueze Crouch\u003c/a>, included a set of spiritual dance performances and monologues focusing on experiences in the Black Church. Throughout the performance, the carpet became disheveled, and the minister’s pulpit was hoisted on Gabriel’s back and carried away; almost symbolically going from organized religion back to a space of open spirituality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the performance, the group of us in the pews were invited to step into one of four groups based on affirmative statements we identified with—two of them led by guest artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.afrourban.org/post/180567987456/about-moclearly-monica-hastings-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monica Hastings-Smith\u003c/a> and Rev. Mutima Imani. Once groups were established, we shared in a session of communal chanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I damn near forgot there were other people in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intermission came and I caught a little fresh air before doubling back for the second act, \u003cem>She-Verse,\u003c/em> a multimedia piece by \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/other-artists/cherie-hill-iriedance/\">Cherie Hill IrieDance, \u003c/a>which explores the parallels between the way women and the planet are treated. The racially diverse group—Lashon A. Daley, Andreína Maldonado, Rose Rothfeder and dancer/choreographer Cherie Hill—put on a show that was a little lighter than the piece prior to it. But still, being written by a black woman makes it Black Art, right? Hill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.iriedance.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dance scholar\u003c/a>, believes so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My work comes from black feminism. And when I think of Black Art, I think it comes from black people,” she told me. “Black people are diverse, so there are going to be a lot of different things put out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chibueze Crouch also believes there’s a broad answer to the question, but when it boils down to it, “There’s a shared sense of community in Black Art… there’s always something shared in the experiences between the creators and consumers of Black Art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In regard to the opening, Crouch told me, the aim was to center black experiences, uplift tradition and modernize it with subtle changes that nod to gender rights, as well. “It’s about reclaiming that black spirituality; the masquerade was the original church, the original place where black people could gather and do art,” Crouch said. “It’s where Black Art comes from: the spirituality, the shared experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Christian added, in regards to the play’s format, that “everyone else has the privilege of seeing us in communion, but not everyone is going to get it… I’ve already had reviews from white people talking about how they didn’t get it, and that’s fine. I don’t think it was meant to be gotten by anybody but the folks inside of that triangle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian emphasized that those outside the triangle are privy to only “a snapshot of what it’s like for us to be in community, and how powerful it is, and how sacred it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Cherie Hill IrieDance cast\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cherie Hill IrieDance cast. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n that small stage, I saw something that spoke to Noname’s concerns over who’s consuming our art, as well as the conversation around \u003cem>Queen & Slim\u003c/em>, and how black trauma is shown and African American Vernacular English is used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before concluding our conversation, Christian said, “I think it’s impossible to \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be an artist, and be a black person living here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Crouch added: “We have to make survival palatable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It made me think of the poet Toni Cade Bambara, whose work contributed to the\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.wustl.edu/poetry-bam/timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Black Arts Movement\u003c/a>, and who once wrote: “The purpose of a writer is to make revolution \u003cem>irresistible\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘She-Verse’ and ‘mouth//full’ run for two more performances, Dec. 13 and 14, at CounterPulse in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://counterpulse.org/event/performingdiaspora2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Is it freedom? Originality? Survival? I visited a performance in the city to find out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021671,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1142},"headData":{"title":"What is 'Black Art' in San Francisco in 2019 ? | KQED","description":"Is it freedom? Originality? Survival? I visited a performance in the city to find out.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What is 'Black Art' in San Francisco in 2019 ?","datePublished":"2019-12-13T16:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:07:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13871391/what-is-black-art-in-san-francisco-in-2019","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> voice came from the area near the door in the lobby of the CounterPulse Theatre and Gallery in San Francisco, asking for all the attendees who identify as black of African American to come with them; the rest of the audience was instructed to head toward the general seating area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen black folks, a baker’s dozen including myself, were escorted up a set of stairs and into a small room. That’s where we saw a performance, an Igbo masquerade, for our eyes only. I’m not at liberty to recount further details of that aspect of the evening, but I can tell you this: I found what I had been searching for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had spent the previous week looking for, and trying to define, “black art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read the article in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> about the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/arts/design/black-artists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rising presence of black artists of every ilk\u003c/a>“—and the side-eye responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I saw the film \u003cem>Queen & Slim\u003c/em>, read the articles\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/magazine/queen-slim-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> praising it\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/queen-and-slim-movie-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critiquing it\u003c/a> (and I cracked up at the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TweetLikeLena?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TweetLikeLena\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read about the issues around\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/arts/design/art-basel-miami-black-art.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Black Art spaces and ownership\u003c/a>, spawned by Art Basel. (And of course, I saw the story about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vogue.com/article/the-120000-art-basel-banana-explained-maurizio-cattelan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$120,000 banana\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/style/article/david-datuna-banana-art-basel-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the person who ate the banana\u003c/a>, and\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/fwmj/status/1204808132926394368?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the Kanye meme\u003c/a> it inspired.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve been following Chicago rapper and book club founder Noname. She shook a few folks when she publicly stated\u003ca href=\"https://uproxx.com/music/noname-white-audiences-black-art/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> her stance against performing in front of majority white audiences\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-complete_open_graph wp-image-13871393\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1200x1137.png\" alt=\"Via Noname's Twtitter\" width=\"640\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1200x1137.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-160x152.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-800x758.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-768x728.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM-1020x966.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/Screen-Shot-2019-12-12-at-6.42.14-AM.png 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Noname’s Twitter. \u003ccite>(Via Noname's Twtitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I found myself awake at 2am watching this interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vIGvKpT1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toni Morrison\u003c/a>, describing what it’s like to not adhere to the “white gaze” in her art. I also watched this old episode of Bernie Mac on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaXVt1QTwRU&t=21s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Def Comedy Jam\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, because I’m pretty sure that’s where I get \u003cem>my\u003c/em> definition of Black Art. The artists’ method of oral storytelling, the audience rolling in the aisle in reaction, and ownership over the content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But… damn. What about the venue owner? And the distributor? (I was watching on YouTube, owned by Google.) There’s always something. Can you really have art that is fully black in America? Or is \u003cem>that\u003c/em> a part of Black Art? You know, being creative despite the circumstances?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871418\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-800x450.jpg\" alt='\"mouth/full\" performance at CounterPulse.' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“mouth/full” performance at CounterPulse. \u003ccite>( Photos by Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t Counterpulse, after coming down the stairs from the small room, we were asked to sit on three pews set up in a triangle in the middle of the stage area. Two long pieces of church-style red carpet made a cross in the middle of the pews; a pulpit sat in the middle of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were in the show. Everyone else sat outside of the triangle, in the theatre seating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-person \u003cem>mouth//full\u003c/em>, written and performed by \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/other-artists/gabriel-christian-chibueze-crouch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Christian and Chibueze Crouch\u003c/a>, included a set of spiritual dance performances and monologues focusing on experiences in the Black Church. Throughout the performance, the carpet became disheveled, and the minister’s pulpit was hoisted on Gabriel’s back and carried away; almost symbolically going from organized religion back to a space of open spirituality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the performance, the group of us in the pews were invited to step into one of four groups based on affirmative statements we identified with—two of them led by guest artists \u003ca href=\"https://www.afrourban.org/post/180567987456/about-moclearly-monica-hastings-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monica Hastings-Smith\u003c/a> and Rev. Mutima Imani. Once groups were established, we shared in a session of communal chanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I damn near forgot there were other people in the audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Intermission came and I caught a little fresh air before doubling back for the second act, \u003cem>She-Verse,\u003c/em> a multimedia piece by \u003ca href=\"http://counterpulse.org/other-artists/cherie-hill-iriedance/\">Cherie Hill IrieDance, \u003c/a>which explores the parallels between the way women and the planet are treated. The racially diverse group—Lashon A. Daley, Andreína Maldonado, Rose Rothfeder and dancer/choreographer Cherie Hill—put on a show that was a little lighter than the piece prior to it. But still, being written by a black woman makes it Black Art, right? Hill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.iriedance.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a dance scholar\u003c/a>, believes so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My work comes from black feminism. And when I think of Black Art, I think it comes from black people,” she told me. “Black people are diverse, so there are going to be a lot of different things put out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chibueze Crouch also believes there’s a broad answer to the question, but when it boils down to it, “There’s a shared sense of community in Black Art… there’s always something shared in the experiences between the creators and consumers of Black Art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In regard to the opening, Crouch told me, the aim was to center black experiences, uplift tradition and modernize it with subtle changes that nod to gender rights, as well. “It’s about reclaiming that black spirituality; the masquerade was the original church, the original place where black people could gather and do art,” Crouch said. “It’s where Black Art comes from: the spirituality, the shared experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Christian added, in regards to the play’s format, that “everyone else has the privilege of seeing us in communion, but not everyone is going to get it… I’ve already had reviews from white people talking about how they didn’t get it, and that’s fine. I don’t think it was meant to be gotten by anybody but the folks inside of that triangle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christian emphasized that those outside the triangle are privy to only “a snapshot of what it’s like for us to be in community, and how powerful it is, and how sacred it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13871456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13871456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Cherie Hill IrieDance cast\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12/0-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cherie Hill IrieDance cast. \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n that small stage, I saw something that spoke to Noname’s concerns over who’s consuming our art, as well as the conversation around \u003cem>Queen & Slim\u003c/em>, and how black trauma is shown and African American Vernacular English is used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before concluding our conversation, Christian said, “I think it’s impossible to \u003cem>not\u003c/em> be an artist, and be a black person living here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To which Crouch added: “We have to make survival palatable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It made me think of the poet Toni Cade Bambara, whose work contributed to the\u003ca href=\"https://libguides.wustl.edu/poetry-bam/timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Black Arts Movement\u003c/a>, and who once wrote: “The purpose of a writer is to make revolution \u003cem>irresistible\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘She-Verse’ and ‘mouth//full’ run for two more performances, Dec. 13 and 14, at CounterPulse in San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://counterpulse.org/event/performingdiaspora2019/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13871391/what-is-black-art-in-san-francisco-in-2019","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_1018","arts_2356","arts_1146","arts_6713"],"featImg":"arts_13871455","label":"arts"},"arts_13870421":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13870421","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13870421","score":null,"sort":[1575302420000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-long-music-filled-capital-corridor-commute","title":"My Long, Music-Filled Capital Corridor Commute","publishDate":1575302420,"format":"standard","headTitle":"My Long, Music-Filled Capital Corridor Commute | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>As rain falls on greater Northern California, and snow accumulates on the Sierra Nevada mountains, I keep laughing in disbelief, thinking about Kaddo’s situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See, Kaddo is a rapper from 77th and Greenside in East Oakland. After getting transferred from Telsa’s Fremont factory to the one in Reno, he now lives in Nevada. He’s so committed to his craft and community, he used to drive back and forth just to record tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I saw him in person and he told me about life on the interstate. How living in Reno isn’t that bad, though some folks say the city’s name is an acronym for “Run Every N*gg* Out.” He says Nevada’s open carry laws have made living there more comfortable than in Oakland, at least when it comes to weapons. And he’s even gotten accustomed to the long slowdown over Donner Summit when there’s a storm approaching. The image of Kaddo, a black man with locs and gold teeth, putting chains on his car tires in the middle of the snowstorm sticks with me. It’s a reminder that although my commute is bad, \u003cem>it ain’t that bad\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moving out of Oakland\u003c/a> to Sacramento three months ago, I’ve seen a lot: car accidents, roadkill, sunsets. I’ve driven past the charred fields from fires that scorched the grassy hillsides adjacent to the Carquinez Bridge. One day on Amtrak, my phone died, so I biked home through hail. When I turned my phone on, I learned a tornado had touched down in Davis at the same time my train went through town. And then there was the day the dammed refinery in Crockett exploded; it caused my Greyhound bus to take the supremely scenic route—a four-hour detour through Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often ask myself, what’s the difference between a “commute” and “road trip”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve grown extremely familiar with the highways and byways between the Bay Area and the state capital. I know best times to go through the Yolo Bypass, as well as the MacArthur Maze (hint: never). I’ve gotten familiar with where CHP likes to hide out to catch speeding drivers. Hell, give me a few more months and I’ll have memorized the grazing patterns of the cattle alongside I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve reluctantly fallen in love with this commute, and how it gives me time to think about more than just Oakland. But I always end up thinking about Oakland. If we’re going to be honest, I’m suffering, bro. It ain’t even FOMO. It’s POMO—the pain of missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts to not be in the town for small events. You know, potlucks, movie screenings and earthquakes—“Earthquake Twitter” just isn’t as fun from outside of the club. I think anyone who’s left home goes through this process. You know, where home isn’t home anymore, and at the same time, your new home isn’t home either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been trying to hold on to things that remind me of home. The result: long rides turn into listening sessions as I tap into\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA?si=EiDtFdoGR2a6PCg8grlBbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> some of the greatest musical gifts\u003c/a> the Bay Area has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Kaddo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaddo. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve listened to all four of the projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.larryjunetfm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> put out this year— and I’ve enjoyed every last bar about healthy salads and fly cars; even if he does sometimes have an off-beat flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve chuckled at the comedic bars from Guapdad 4000, who released his first album \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/guapdad4000/sets/dior-deposits-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dior Deposits\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. And I’ve downright cracked up listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shaq-damian-lillard-rap-beef-explainer-893406/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dame D.O.L.L.A. trade bars with Shaq Fu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played the latest project from the duo SU’Lan, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/officialsulan/sets/tia-tamera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Tia and Tamera\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and instantly started to drive faster. It’s wild how certain music does that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef The Pharoh dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nefidelaphante/sets/mushrooms-coloring-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mushrooms and Coloring Books\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and now every time my Greyhound passes the Vallejo bus station, I get the urge to play the track “South Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prezi Plane Jane dropped a seven-piece special called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/planejane12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Money Bag\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Beejus dropped a dozen tracks on a project called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/beejusmusic/sets/beautiful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And Tia Nomore dropped a 30-minute project called \u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Level\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxau-deuEYE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaddo’s latest work\u003c/a>. I mean, he travels twice the distance I do in order to do his work; I had to listen solely off the strength of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve played music from elder statesmen, like E-40, who recently put out \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/e40/sets/practice-makes-paper-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Practice Makes Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 26-track project for his 26th studio album. I’ve listened to artists in the thick of their career like P-Lo, who between producing for other artists and serving as spokesperson for the 49ers dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakplo/sets/shine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve also paid attention to new artists, like \u003ca href=\"https://fanlink.to/DaysWeLost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sneed\u003c/a>. Man! His \u003cem>Days We Lost\u003c/em> album is \u003cem>made\u003c/em> for looking out of the window during long drives. It’s all about the coming-of-age process; I swear, the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7_Fgaf8PU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Junior\u003c/a>” could be a theme song to a movie, playing over old footage from when he was younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passing of time, the passing of the scenery. All in a day’s commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Sneed\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-799x1200.jpg 799w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Michael Sneed graces the stage at the Life Is Living festival in Oakland, circa 2011. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was this one morning, a few weeks ago, when my dadmobile pushed past the Red Top Road exit on I-80, headed west. Beyond the cows and the spot where the motorcycle cop sometimes hides, and just before cresting the hillside that separates Fairfield from Vallejo. That’s when Rexx Life Raj’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3976ZIbJc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fog\u003c/a>” came on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No lie, at that exact moment, wisps of Bay Area fog began to accumulate in front of my car. A few seconds later, I was inside a full fog bank. I let out one of those laughs that deranged people do in the movies, pounding the steering wheel in excitement at the perfect timing of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ayy, walk through the fog like bay weather / Still undefeated like Mayweather / I know I’m doin’ it right / The universe sendin’ me signs in bold letters,” Raj sang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel him. I’m on my path too, and all the signs are there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I’m late for work in San Francisco, tired of driving 80mph on Interstate 80 in attempts to make it to and from Sacramento in under 80 minutes. Back pains from sitting. Pocket pains from spending. The last three months have been rough. But man, music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s the old saying? When it hits, you feel no pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stream Pendarvis Harshaw’s hand-curated playlist for long-distance commuting below. 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He’s so committed to his craft and community, he used to drive back and forth just to record tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I saw him in person and he told me about life on the interstate. How living in Reno isn’t that bad, though some folks say the city’s name is an acronym for “Run Every N*gg* Out.” He says Nevada’s open carry laws have made living there more comfortable than in Oakland, at least when it comes to weapons. And he’s even gotten accustomed to the long slowdown over Donner Summit when there’s a storm approaching. The image of Kaddo, a black man with locs and gold teeth, putting chains on his car tires in the middle of the snowstorm sticks with me. It’s a reminder that although my commute is bad, \u003cem>it ain’t that bad\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moving out of Oakland\u003c/a> to Sacramento three months ago, I’ve seen a lot: car accidents, roadkill, sunsets. I’ve driven past the charred fields from fires that scorched the grassy hillsides adjacent to the Carquinez Bridge. One day on Amtrak, my phone died, so I biked home through hail. When I turned my phone on, I learned a tornado had touched down in Davis at the same time my train went through town. And then there was the day the dammed refinery in Crockett exploded; it caused my Greyhound bus to take the supremely scenic route—a four-hour detour through Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often ask myself, what’s the difference between a “commute” and “road trip”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve grown extremely familiar with the highways and byways between the Bay Area and the state capital. I know best times to go through the Yolo Bypass, as well as the MacArthur Maze (hint: never). I’ve gotten familiar with where CHP likes to hide out to catch speeding drivers. Hell, give me a few more months and I’ll have memorized the grazing patterns of the cattle alongside I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve reluctantly fallen in love with this commute, and how it gives me time to think about more than just Oakland. But I always end up thinking about Oakland. If we’re going to be honest, I’m suffering, bro. It ain’t even FOMO. It’s POMO—the pain of missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts to not be in the town for small events. You know, potlucks, movie screenings and earthquakes—“Earthquake Twitter” just isn’t as fun from outside of the club. I think anyone who’s left home goes through this process. You know, where home isn’t home anymore, and at the same time, your new home isn’t home either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been trying to hold on to things that remind me of home. The result: long rides turn into listening sessions as I tap into\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA?si=EiDtFdoGR2a6PCg8grlBbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> some of the greatest musical gifts\u003c/a> the Bay Area has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Kaddo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaddo. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve listened to all four of the projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.larryjunetfm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> put out this year— and I’ve enjoyed every last bar about healthy salads and fly cars; even if he does sometimes have an off-beat flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve chuckled at the comedic bars from Guapdad 4000, who released his first album \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/guapdad4000/sets/dior-deposits-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dior Deposits\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. And I’ve downright cracked up listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shaq-damian-lillard-rap-beef-explainer-893406/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dame D.O.L.L.A. trade bars with Shaq Fu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played the latest project from the duo SU’Lan, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/officialsulan/sets/tia-tamera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Tia and Tamera\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and instantly started to drive faster. It’s wild how certain music does that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef The Pharoh dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nefidelaphante/sets/mushrooms-coloring-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mushrooms and Coloring Books\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and now every time my Greyhound passes the Vallejo bus station, I get the urge to play the track “South Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prezi Plane Jane dropped a seven-piece special called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/planejane12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Money Bag\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Beejus dropped a dozen tracks on a project called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/beejusmusic/sets/beautiful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And Tia Nomore dropped a 30-minute project called \u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Level\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxau-deuEYE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaddo’s latest work\u003c/a>. I mean, he travels twice the distance I do in order to do his work; I had to listen solely off the strength of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve played music from elder statesmen, like E-40, who recently put out \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/e40/sets/practice-makes-paper-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Practice Makes Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 26-track project for his 26th studio album. I’ve listened to artists in the thick of their career like P-Lo, who between producing for other artists and serving as spokesperson for the 49ers dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakplo/sets/shine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve also paid attention to new artists, like \u003ca href=\"https://fanlink.to/DaysWeLost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sneed\u003c/a>. Man! His \u003cem>Days We Lost\u003c/em> album is \u003cem>made\u003c/em> for looking out of the window during long drives. It’s all about the coming-of-age process; I swear, the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7_Fgaf8PU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Junior\u003c/a>” could be a theme song to a movie, playing over old footage from when he was younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passing of time, the passing of the scenery. All in a day’s commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Sneed\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-799x1200.jpg 799w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Michael Sneed graces the stage at the Life Is Living festival in Oakland, circa 2011. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was this one morning, a few weeks ago, when my dadmobile pushed past the Red Top Road exit on I-80, headed west. Beyond the cows and the spot where the motorcycle cop sometimes hides, and just before cresting the hillside that separates Fairfield from Vallejo. That’s when Rexx Life Raj’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3976ZIbJc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fog\u003c/a>” came on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No lie, at that exact moment, wisps of Bay Area fog began to accumulate in front of my car. A few seconds later, I was inside a full fog bank. I let out one of those laughs that deranged people do in the movies, pounding the steering wheel in excitement at the perfect timing of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ayy, walk through the fog like bay weather / Still undefeated like Mayweather / I know I’m doin’ it right / The universe sendin’ me signs in bold letters,” Raj sang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel him. I’m on my path too, and all the signs are there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I’m late for work in San Francisco, tired of driving 80mph on Interstate 80 in attempts to make it to and from Sacramento in under 80 minutes. Back pains from sitting. Pocket pains from spending. The last three months have been rough. But man, music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s the old saying? When it hits, you feel no pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Stream Pendarvis Harshaw’s hand-curated playlist for long-distance commuting below. Not showing up for you? \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA?si=rzszES1JSBaa9HKwIS4xDQ\">Click here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13870421/my-long-music-filled-capital-corridor-commute","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_1118","arts_9337","arts_3420","arts_2356","arts_974","arts_1983","arts_5779","arts_3800"],"featImg":"arts_13870482","label":"arts"},"arts_13870000":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13870000","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13870000","score":null,"sort":[1574280055000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"afrotech-where-black-excellence-meets-oaklands-unsheltered","title":"AfroTech, Where Black Excellence Meets Oakland's Unsheltered","publishDate":1574280055,"format":"standard","headTitle":"AfroTech, Where Black Excellence Meets Oakland’s Unsheltered | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s been two weeks since AfroTech has come and gone in Oakland, and I’m still hearing things about it—some good, and some not so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/571621730266616/\">Thursday, Nov. 21\u003c/a>, The Town Experience hosts an open forum from 5:30pm–7:30pm at the Uptown in Oakland for people to share their experiences. Charlese Banks of The Town Experience is the lead organizer of the upcoming forum, which AfroTech management says they’ll use to inform next year’s conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand for something like this was high,” says Banks. “So we’re going to have a constructive feedback session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good, because for the past few days, the conversation has been living rent-free inside of my head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference, which aims to connect the black community with the tech industry, was a beautiful gathering with thousands of people in attendance. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/He-s-working-to-diversify-the-tech-industry-14833097.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students from local schools\u003c/a> were represented, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was honored for her work and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101874437/bernard-tyson-ceo-of-kaiser-permanente-dies-at-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard J. Tyson\u003c/a>, the first African American chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, spoke just hours before he passed in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. It was just an observation; a note about the conflicting juxtaposition I’d just witnessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, on one hand, you’ve got people talking about how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/awholecatfish/status/1192915445801635840?s=20\">AfroTech had downtown Oakland looking like Wakanda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other hand, here’s Ron, a homeless African American man. In a place where \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the unsheltered people are African American\u003c/a>. A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. Nor is it the immediate responsibility of the attendees. But there’s a clear opportunity for something to be done, something that bridges the overwhelming amount of unsheltered black folks on the streets of the Bay Area and African Americans in tech—an industry that’s exacerbated the cost of living in the Bay Area, and one of the many driving forces, along with lack of government oversight and greedy developers, pushing gentrification in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the Bay Area are working every day to solve this problem. Hopefully before next year’s AfroTech, something significant can be done. Because bruh, I don’t recall seeing any unsheltered folks being stepped over in Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While black entrepreneurship was on full display in Oakland, so was the town's inequity.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021799,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1176},"headData":{"title":"AfroTech, Where Black Excellence Meets Oakland's Unsheltered | KQED","description":"While black entrepreneurship was on full display in Oakland, so was the town's inequity.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"AfroTech, Where Black Excellence Meets Oakland's Unsheltered","datePublished":"2019-11-20T20:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:09:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13870000/afrotech-where-black-excellence-meets-oaklands-unsheltered","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s been two weeks since AfroTech has come and gone in Oakland, and I’m still hearing things about it—some good, and some not so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/571621730266616/\">Thursday, Nov. 21\u003c/a>, The Town Experience hosts an open forum from 5:30pm–7:30pm at the Uptown in Oakland for people to share their experiences. Charlese Banks of The Town Experience is the lead organizer of the upcoming forum, which AfroTech management says they’ll use to inform next year’s conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand for something like this was high,” says Banks. “So we’re going to have a constructive feedback session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good, because for the past few days, the conversation has been living rent-free inside of my head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference, which aims to connect the black community with the tech industry, was a beautiful gathering with thousands of people in attendance. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/He-s-working-to-diversify-the-tech-industry-14833097.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students from local schools\u003c/a> were represented, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was honored for her work and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101874437/bernard-tyson-ceo-of-kaiser-permanente-dies-at-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard J. Tyson\u003c/a>, the first African American chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, spoke just hours before he passed in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. It was just an observation; a note about the conflicting juxtaposition I’d just witnessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, on one hand, you’ve got people talking about how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/awholecatfish/status/1192915445801635840?s=20\">AfroTech had downtown Oakland looking like Wakanda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other hand, here’s Ron, a homeless African American man. In a place where \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the unsheltered people are African American\u003c/a>. A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. Nor is it the immediate responsibility of the attendees. But there’s a clear opportunity for something to be done, something that bridges the overwhelming amount of unsheltered black folks on the streets of the Bay Area and African Americans in tech—an industry that’s exacerbated the cost of living in the Bay Area, and one of the many driving forces, along with lack of government oversight and greedy developers, pushing gentrification in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the Bay Area are working every day to solve this problem. Hopefully before next year’s AfroTech, something significant can be done. Because bruh, I don’t recall seeing any unsheltered folks being stepped over in Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13870000/afrotech-where-black-excellence-meets-oaklands-unsheltered","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_977","arts_5209","arts_1355","arts_1143","arts_2356","arts_1935"],"featImg":"arts_13872234","label":"arts"},"arts_13869419":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13869419","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13869419","score":null,"sort":[1573088400000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"with-afrotech-coming-to-oakland-how-to-handle-tourism-responsibly","title":"With AfroTech Coming to Oakland, How to Handle Tourism Responsibly?","publishDate":1573088400,"format":"standard","headTitle":"With AfroTech Coming to Oakland, How to Handle Tourism Responsibly? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Tourism in Oakland isn’t new. Hell, even in the 1800s, when colonizers settled in the Bay and built San Francisco into a world-class city, Oakland was the other coast—or “contra costa”—where wealthy folks would buy summer vacation homes to get away from the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 years later, tourism in Oakland is still a thing. According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/oakland/vo_annual_report_v14web_8c3853f1-5a7f-47d4-af9c-dce272897864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Oakland’s 2018 Annual Report\u003c/a>, an estimated 3.8 million people visited Oakland in 2017, bringing $668 million along with them (a 6.5% increase from the previous year). Oakland has been mentioned as a top tourism destination in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Essence\u003c/em> and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://travelnoire.com/48-hours-black-owned-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Travel Noire piece\u003c/a> about spending 48 hours in black-owned Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday through Saturday, when Oakland hosts this year’s AfroTech conference, thousands of new people will become part of that history of tourism in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference is one of the biggest tech happenings in the United States. You might’ve heard of it—if for nothing else, its mention by Jay-Z in the song “Legacy”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We gon’ start a society within a society\u003cbr>\nThat’s major, just like the Negro League\u003cbr>\nThere was a time America wouldn’t let us ball\u003cbr>\nThose times are now back, just now called AfroTech\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This event or, um, “society within a society,” started in 2014. This year will be the first of two scheduled years for it to take place in Oakland. And in 2019, it’s set to be one of the largest conferences to happen in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is a natural choice—in the heart of Silicon Valley, but often overlooked,” says Morgan DeBaun, founder of Blavity Inc., which produces AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim of the conference is twofold: one, to create opportunities for black folks in the tech industry. Secondly, DeBaun adds, to “create spaces for the tech industry to get access to black talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation about diversity and the tech pipeline isn’t new. Just last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired\u003c/a> noted that while a few big-name tech companies—Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft—have been transparent about their diversity numbers for the past five years, still, virtually nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks like DeBaun believe that the narrative about a lack of access is inaccurate. “People aren’t looking in the right places,” she says. “AfroTech is breaking down those barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the three-day span, events will take place all around Oakland’s downtown area, from the Marriott Convention Center to Jack London Square, and what some folks refer to as the Uptown neighborhood; \u003ca href=\"https://experience.afrotech.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a full list of happenings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One event this weekend that’s not on that list is \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/product/game-fest-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Gameday ’19\u003c/a>, at the Esports Arena on Saturday night. It features a who’s-who of local stars—E-40, Mistah FAB, Ryan Nicole and more—not only speaking on panels, but squaring off against a bunch of young folks in a video game battle royale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gameday ’19 isn’t an official AfroTech event, although it’s happening during AfroTech. Instead, it’s put on by \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Town Experience\u003c/a>, a slate of events that include happy hours, speaker panels and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Charlese Banks\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-768x1036.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-889x1200.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlese Banks (Photo: Jeff “Silence” Arthur) \u003ccite>(Jeff \"Silence\" Arthur )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Town Experience is founded and run by Charlese Banks, who wants to add some flavor to Oakland’s growing tourism industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to give the conference-goers and travelers an authentic Oakland experience while they’re in town,” says Banks. (She was mindful to “do this in a way that’s not competing with each other,” scheduling events on the frontend and backend of AfroTech.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, Banks’ idea is a way of combating the gentrifying force that’s inherently intertwined with the tourism industry. People want to visit Oakland? Ok, well, they can spend their dollars in businesses owned and operated by folks actually from the community, and who are invested in the future of the town. Part of that means putting special decals in the windows of businesses like Spice Monkey and Dope Era to give shine to locally owned and operated shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was inspired by the fact that [AfroTech] announced they were coming to Oakland, and figured that as a community, we should have some say on what that looks like,” says Banks. “AfroTech is a predominantly black event, and they’re coming to a city that is in line with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banks, a San Jose native who’s called Oakland home for over six years, tells me this is a model for things to come. “The idea was inspired by this weekend, but I spoke to the tourism department and realized it’s something bigger. Seems like the time is right,” Banks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time \u003cem>is\u003c/em> right: last year in the United States, \u003ca href=\"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/12/20/1670310/0/en/African-American-Travel-Represents-63-Billion-Opportunity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African Americans reportedly spent $63 billion on tourism\u003c/a>. And in Oakland, where black businesses are going the way of its rapidly depleting black population, it’s now or never when it comes to putting the black dollar where it’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an event space and tourism guide for black and brown folks in Oakland,” says Banks. “Think: how would people use \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-story-green-book-movie-180970728/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Green Book\u003c/a> as a tool in Oakland?”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Keeping the black dollar in black-owned local businesses in Oakland.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021851,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":946},"headData":{"title":"With AfroTech Coming to Oakland, How to Handle Tourism Responsibly? | KQED","description":"Keeping the black dollar in black-owned local businesses in Oakland.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"With AfroTech Coming to Oakland, How to Handle Tourism Responsibly?","datePublished":"2019-11-07T01:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:10:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13869419/with-afrotech-coming-to-oakland-how-to-handle-tourism-responsibly","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Tourism in Oakland isn’t new. Hell, even in the 1800s, when colonizers settled in the Bay and built San Francisco into a world-class city, Oakland was the other coast—or “contra costa”—where wealthy folks would buy summer vacation homes to get away from the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 years later, tourism in Oakland is still a thing. According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/oakland/vo_annual_report_v14web_8c3853f1-5a7f-47d4-af9c-dce272897864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Oakland’s 2018 Annual Report\u003c/a>, an estimated 3.8 million people visited Oakland in 2017, bringing $668 million along with them (a 6.5% increase from the previous year). Oakland has been mentioned as a top tourism destination in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Essence\u003c/em> and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://travelnoire.com/48-hours-black-owned-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Travel Noire piece\u003c/a> about spending 48 hours in black-owned Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday through Saturday, when Oakland hosts this year’s AfroTech conference, thousands of new people will become part of that history of tourism in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference is one of the biggest tech happenings in the United States. You might’ve heard of it—if for nothing else, its mention by Jay-Z in the song “Legacy”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We gon’ start a society within a society\u003cbr>\nThat’s major, just like the Negro League\u003cbr>\nThere was a time America wouldn’t let us ball\u003cbr>\nThose times are now back, just now called AfroTech\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This event or, um, “society within a society,” started in 2014. This year will be the first of two scheduled years for it to take place in Oakland. And in 2019, it’s set to be one of the largest conferences to happen in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is a natural choice—in the heart of Silicon Valley, but often overlooked,” says Morgan DeBaun, founder of Blavity Inc., which produces AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim of the conference is twofold: one, to create opportunities for black folks in the tech industry. Secondly, DeBaun adds, to “create spaces for the tech industry to get access to black talent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation about diversity and the tech pipeline isn’t new. Just last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired\u003c/a> noted that while a few big-name tech companies—Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft—have been transparent about their diversity numbers for the past five years, still, virtually nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks like DeBaun believe that the narrative about a lack of access is inaccurate. “People aren’t looking in the right places,” she says. “AfroTech is breaking down those barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the three-day span, events will take place all around Oakland’s downtown area, from the Marriott Convention Center to Jack London Square, and what some folks refer to as the Uptown neighborhood; \u003ca href=\"https://experience.afrotech.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a full list of happenings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One event this weekend that’s not on that list is \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/product/game-fest-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Gameday ’19\u003c/a>, at the Esports Arena on Saturday night. It features a who’s-who of local stars—E-40, Mistah FAB, Ryan Nicole and more—not only speaking on panels, but squaring off against a bunch of young folks in a video game battle royale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gameday ’19 isn’t an official AfroTech event, although it’s happening during AfroTech. Instead, it’s put on by \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Town Experience\u003c/a>, a slate of events that include happy hours, speaker panels and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869422\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Charlese Banks\" width=\"800\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-768x1036.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0-889x1200.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/0.jpg 987w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlese Banks (Photo: Jeff “Silence” Arthur) \u003ccite>(Jeff \"Silence\" Arthur )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Town Experience is founded and run by Charlese Banks, who wants to add some flavor to Oakland’s growing tourism industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea was to give the conference-goers and travelers an authentic Oakland experience while they’re in town,” says Banks. 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