A Tale Of Two Cities

While growing up in the 1940's, I visited my Aunt Dot and Uncle Herb many times in the bay area. They lived in a small home in the Oakland hills which had a magnificent view of the south San Francisco Bay. At that time, the city of Oakland was one of the best kept secrets in California. Only a 30 minute electric train ride from idyllic San Francisco, the city of Oakland was quite similar to its more famous cousin across the bay, but it had far better weather. In fact, arguably, Oakland had, and still has, the best climate in California. At that time downtown Oakland's Broadway was a thriving elegant place with everything a city dweller could possibly ask for, and then some. To top it all off, most years the Oakland Oaks routinely beat the pants off the hapless San Francisco Seals. In those days Oakland had a sizable black population which was primarily confined to the west side of East Fourteenth Street. There was an unwritten rule that blacks were not allowed to own property in the Oakland Hill or other white sections of Oakland. By today's standards this was an extremely racist policy but back then, it was accepted by most, if not all, whites as a necessity for maintaining the value of their property and, more importantly, their way of life. This all began to change in the late 1940's and early 1950's when blacks first began to cross the invisible barrier, which was East Fourteenth Street, and buy property in the Oakland Hills. Within a few short decades, with rare exception, Oakland became a black inner city ghetto similar to those of Detroit and Flint Michigan, Baltimore Maryland, Gary Indiana and Washington DC to name only a handful of our worst liberal hell-holes in our country. My aunt and uncle, seeing the writing on the wall, sold their Oakland home and fled through the Caldecott tunnel to Walnut Creek, as did most of their neighbors. But, returning to Oakland, this once thriving metropolis is now a unrecognizable shell of its former self with its boarded up downtown; crumbling inner-structure; and its corrupt, incompetent liberal political machine which lays ruin and devastation to everything in its path, without exception. It is my contention, and reason for writing this blog, that the transformation of beautiful prosperous Oakland into a impoverished wasteland by the blacks and their liberal handlers, represents a microcosm of what when wrong in America during the last century. Despite their supposedly good intentions, everything the liberal do-gooders touch turns to excrement, sooner rather than later. These ignorant despots will stop at nothing in their never ending goal to "make things right for blacks in America" while in reality they are turning America into a despicable third-world country, just as they have done to Oakland.