Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in California.

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The KKK leaders hunkered down to operate in the shadows and keep the flame of hate and bigotry alive in the United States. While many Ku Klux Klan chapters did shut down, others continued operating as independent local groups still dedicated to white supremacy, Christian dominance, and rigid morality. While many continued to use the KKK name, language and garb proudly, others adopted new names to obscure their identities. As the White Cross Clan pressed its racist agenda in Oakland, California, other Klan front groups attacked minorities and preached hate in other cities. By maintaining only loose ties with national KKK leaders, these local groups avoided possible prosecution in federal court as well as the requirement to pay federal taxes. Like-minded local politicians often protected the newly named chapters. Even as the national press wrote the KKK’s obituary, local newspapers were writing about radical racist groups operating in their midst.
- Rick Bowers, "Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How The Iconic Superhero Battled The Men of Hate", National Geographic, pp.89-90

Oakland will be the birthplace of revolution in the United States.
- Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power

I live in Oakland, California, the city where the Black Panther Party was created in 1966. We still have major issues with police racism, police violence. I spoke not long ago at an event in celebration of the seventeenth birthday of a young man who had been recently killed near one of the high schools by the police... there's a reason why most people never have the opportunity to look at the Black Panther Party "Ten-Point Program," because those points are still very much on the agenda today.
- Angela Davis Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)

Oakland has been the birthplace of so many movements. San Francisco often gets the glory but maybe just because people don’t know the history...You think of musicians that came out of Oakland, the visual artists. Oakland was where the Black Panthers had their first headquarters and that continues today. Oakland is still a great place for jazz, for hip-hop, for social movements, and creativity.
- Nia Imara "Nia Imara sheds light on Oakland through art" OaklandNorth (November 16, 2015)

Oakland is this kind of town: You have to pay 50 cents to go from Oakland to San Francisco. Coming to Oakland from San Francisco is free.
- Jim Murray, "As Usual, Class Will Out," Los Angeles Times (October 15, 1973)

Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
- Brian Reynolds Myers, "Mother of All Mothers" The Atlantic (September 2004)

From Oakland to Sac-Town, the Bay Area and back down, Cali is where they put their mack down, give me love!
- Tupac Shakur, "California Love" (1996)