Daily Archives: 9 October 2013

Fear white influx will erase West Oakland history

I’m actually very sympathetic to this perspective.

“The heart of African American culture in the Bay Area, if not the West Coast, is now a real estate agent’s dream. Thousands of transplants from San Francisco, mostly younger, mostly white people lured east by lower rents, have discovered the sunny enclaves of West Oakland and staked their claims.”

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fear-white-influx-will-erase-West-Oakland-history-4874291.php#page-1