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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Responding to Racism

An excerpt from the Root -

Black Oakland Electric Slides on Racism by Throwing Big Ass Cookout in Park Where White Lady Called Cops
By Angela Helm

What’s the best way to deal with pervasive, persistent and blood-pressure rising racism on the daily, as well as give a big fat fuck you to gentrification and the criminalization of black folks? Why throw a cookout, of course!

In a pointed response to a recent incident where a white woman thought it her civic duty to call the police on a few black couples using a grill in a public park, the melanated masses of Oakland threw their own party at that very same site, Lake Merritt Park.

Check out the video at the link below.

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/black-oakland-electric-slides-on-racism-by-throwing-big-1825981027

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