Oakland’s Gentrification Wars Expose Democratic Coalition’s Contradictions
By Federale on March 21, 2014 at 11:38pm
See also: Funny Thing: Coming Or Going—Gentrifying Or Fleeing—It’s Always Whitey’s Fault! By Nicholas Stix
Gentrification seems to have halted the transformation of Oakland CA into just another Third World disaster like Detroit MI, Baltimore MD, or Camden NJ. But unfortunately for those trying to return a great metropolis to the civilized world, racially-motivated black radicals are doing their best to ensure Oakland remains a dysfunctional Chocolate City.
Oakland was notorious in the late 1960s as the birthplace of the Black Panther Party. After that thinly-disguised criminal gang collapsed, blacks abandoned the pretense of opposition to the system and achieved political power with the election of Lionel J. Wilson, Oakland's first black mayor and close ally of the Panthers. [The Role of the Black Panthers in Oakland Politics, . By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Spring 2010]
But since then, paradoxically, liberal whites empowered by Google, Facebook, and radical environmentalism have retaken the Bay Area in a campaign of ethnic cleansing far more effective than anything dreamed of by the Klan. [Green Disparate Impact, by Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate, January 15, 2008]
And blacks don't like it. They thought Oakland was “theirs” And some of them are throwing a tantrum.
Complicating matters for liberals: the battle over lebensraum in the Bay pits two parts of the Democratic coalition against each other—SWPL liberal urban-dwelling whites, many homosexual, vs. tribalistic blacks defending their turf. (Similarly, California’s Asian Democrats just squelched Hispanic Democrats efforts to reverse 1996’s anti-Affirmative Action Prop. 209).
As an unintentionally hilarious article in the San Jose Mercury News tells it:
Steve Kopff was one of many San Franciscans who cascaded last year into sunnier, cheaper, hipper Oakland.
He bought and began restoring a historic but rundown mansion. He planted vegetables, raised backyard hens and bees, launched a neighborhood newsletter and peppered his Facebook account with paeans to his new city.
But this year, Kopff became a scorned symbol of the angst over Oakland gentrification. He wrote an online essay describing his diverse, working-class neighborhood east of Lake Merritt as "mostly undiscovered" and a "virtual food desert" in need of an organic supermarket, better restaurants and "a coffee kiosk with patisserie bites."
[Scorned Oakland ‘gentrifier’ accepts the label but calls truce, by Matt O’ Brien, February 13, 2014]
Oakland homosexual gentrifier Steve Kopff, with his dog Bacon—The New Face of White Supremacy?
The entrenched forces of diversity were quick to respond that “patisserie bites” was, in effect, the new code word for white supremacy: