You know what kills me is the handful of bloggers that seem to "speak" for people in Rockridge and who attack Ron Dellums for not being specific. Many of them -- ah, all of them -- don't even understand Oakland's history, nor have seen it change over 32 years as I have. Moreover, all of them are not black and none of them have been true insiders. They write without a knoweldge of history and an understanding of Oakland's culture. They're blind. Blind to the way Oakland's changed. Blind to the inner-workings of Oakland government. Blind to the unusual crime wave plaguing Lake Merritt and the reasons behind it. Blind to how Oakland works.
And yet they blog. Because they do so without knoweldge of their subject, I'll call them "Bloogers" -- a Blooger is a person who writes just for the matter of expressing an opinion, but not sharing new knowelge.
Thus, it's no surprise to me that they can't "see" the basic and clear anger of Oakland's Black community. One of the bloggers -- who I will not mention -- wrote that the Dellums candidacy started because of how the City of Oakland handled the Head Start Program.
What a bunch of hooey!
The campaign to "get" Ron Dellums was started by Geoffrey Peete, the long-time onwer of Geoffrey's Inner Circle, C. Diane Howell, and then the group grew -- and fast, to about 8,000 by December of last year.
What the Bloggers don't understand is that Oakland at one point was a really inclusive city where everyone was welcome everywhere and one could have a voice in city government and even gain business with it, provided that they had a business to work with. African American's have seen this Oakland fade away under Jerry Brown, who's call for 10,000 more people downtown and his promise to end the Oakland "black political machine" -- a controversial comment made during his initial run for Mayor -- started the begining of an Oakland that in some ways is divided.
And we need a uniter, not a divider.
Ron Delums is that man.
And yet they blog. Because they do so without knoweldge of their subject, I'll call them "Bloogers" -- a Blooger is a person who writes just for the matter of expressing an opinion, but not sharing new knowelge.
Thus, it's no surprise to me that they can't "see" the basic and clear anger of Oakland's Black community. One of the bloggers -- who I will not mention -- wrote that the Dellums candidacy started because of how the City of Oakland handled the Head Start Program.
What a bunch of hooey!
The campaign to "get" Ron Dellums was started by Geoffrey Peete, the long-time onwer of Geoffrey's Inner Circle, C. Diane Howell, and then the group grew -- and fast, to about 8,000 by December of last year.
What the Bloggers don't understand is that Oakland at one point was a really inclusive city where everyone was welcome everywhere and one could have a voice in city government and even gain business with it, provided that they had a business to work with. African American's have seen this Oakland fade away under Jerry Brown, who's call for 10,000 more people downtown and his promise to end the Oakland "black political machine" -- a controversial comment made during his initial run for Mayor -- started the begining of an Oakland that in some ways is divided.
And we need a uniter, not a divider.
Ron Delums is that man.
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