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Originally Posted by destroycreate
Really nice set. Looking forward to Oakland to revitalizing/gentrifying more so it becomes a safer, more cosmopolitan city. It certainly has great bones and architecture to start with. If it weren't for the rampant thug culture that ruins it for everybody.
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As a resident of West Oakland, I find this comment offensive and ignorant. I don't see a rampant thug culture in my neighborhood what I do see is rampant drug use and poverty as well as a massive homeless population. I do not feel unsafe walking down the streets here even late at night.
It's a gritty city, and certain pockets and neighborhoods certainly have a violent crime issue, but to say there's a massive thug culture that ruins it for everybody is fucking stupid. Go check out Uptown, Temescal, Rockridge, Adams Point, Grand Lake Theater District, Cleveland Heights, Montclaire etc. if you think Oakland is some giant thuggish ghetto.
Classic San Francisco ignorance...
Nineties Flava, your photos are amazing as awesome.