Brehs, what is the Bay Area like?

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Try Tracy, better housing prices, and my guy told me about how its been hella shyt going down lately
Hell yea. Tracy finna be where its at. It's Just the commute but that aint shyt I can ride bart for an hour aint shyt to me.
Everybody just works in frisco n hops on bart n leaves to xyz areas in the bay. Stealing my city's resources and not giving back.
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I think ima start making everyone who aint from frisco check in during the early morning commute from now on!
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Hell yea. Tracy finna be where its at. It's Just the commute but that aint shyt I can ride bart for an hour aint shyt to me.
Everybody just works in frisco n hops on bart n leaves to xyz areas in the bay. Stealing my city's resources and not giving back.
:gucci:
I think ima start making everyone who aint from frisco check in during the early morning commute from now on!
:lolbron:
:russ: Breh, I think the tollbooth got that covered for you
 

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that was going on before it was seen as a "southern" thing (00's). :upsetfavre: and we have/had a lot of southern influence, most of our g-parents were from the south.

the black people from here embrace black culture just as much as any other area, so you're wrong there as well. :rudy:

the issue is that the black population has decreased (it never was that high if you compare it to southern metro areas and those on the east coast) and dispersed, so the opportunities to celebrate black culture have dwindled: attendance went down, so funding went down, so quality went down, so then attendance goes down again, rinse and repeat.

we used to have the black cowboy parade, karijama (big black arts celebration memorial day weekend), two big juneteenth celebrations, the malcolm x jazz festival, art & soul festival (labor day), carnival used to be bigger and blacker, festival at the lake (which rivaled any "block party" that happens in other black cities), we had/have a well known black/african dance center, a black theater group, oakland is home of the damn panthers. so miss me with not embracing black culture.

unfortunately the loss (and dispersion) of the native black population paired with the transplant blacks (many of whom rather be shea butter blipsters or buppies) are the things that have watered down black culture out here, but don't get today twisted with the how we got down in the past. outside of size, black events in oakland/sf/berkeley were just as beautiful as those i've attended in chicago, DC, philly and atlanta
That was my point in the post that I made about the population decreasing and black folks relocating due to affordability. Functions like Festival at the Lake went defunct how many years back? I think Brother Zay was talking about present day .
 

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That was my point in the post that I made about the population decreasing and black folks relocating due to affordability. Functions like Festival at the Lake went defunct how many years back? I think Brother Zay was talking about present day .
yea, today. but i just don't like "today" being the representation of the bay :birdman:, the real folks from here/still here operate completely different that all the transplants who moved here, and that's across all races. the OG white folks from oakland, berkeley, sf used to be da best, i don't know who these fakkits are that moved here :mjcry:
 

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Crips really pressed a issue on the bay area cats in prison during the 70's. They bay built up a hatred for them, so when the 80's rolled around they weren't letting them set up shop.

BGF/ Kumi went to war with the crips heavy in the 70s and 80s in California prisons
 
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