Is Oakland Like Newark, NJ? (high crime, live in, stats)

[JPeppers]

I'm getting the vibe that it is. How are whites welcomed in Oakland with it's past anti white history Black Panthers. etc

[jsba]

Oakland is multicultural and everybody lives with and associates with everybody here. Whites are not outcast or looked at strangely in most parts of the city save a few of the more rough areas of the city where whites would be associated as police. But overall whites are perfectly welcomed given they are a third of the cities population.

[ccm123]

Oakland is very multicultural and one of the most underrated cities in the Bay Area.

[Natural510]

The are some similarities, but overall they are fairly different cities. What "vibe" do you get between the two?

[JPeppers]

Well I live not far from Newark and it's pretty bad. High Crime, High Poverty. Searching about Oakland, Doc Goldstien has provided a ton of information about Oakland that has me concerned.

[Obamadon]

Oakland is a lot whiter and richer

[Nineties Flava]

Having been to Newark, no. It's more like the higher-crime, larger, more scenic and wealthier West Coast twin of Jersey City.

And the Panthers weren't an anti-white hate group either, they were formed as a response to the brutality of the OPD and their goal was to change the exclusivist class structure of American society at the time. If there was any group they held in contempt it was the black bourgeoisie they perceived as validating a power structure that held down the majority of others who looked like them.

[jsba]

Yes Doc spends a lot of time providing much information about the well known crime stats of Oakland. As I said in another post, the stats are a bit misleading. Oakland does have a large amount of violent crime, no two ways about it, but that violent crime directly effects a very small and select group of people in the city. Namely, drug dealers and gang bangers. If you are not involved in either of these high risk activities you are as safe as you would be in any other large city. There are areas to avoid in Oakland obviously, as there are in any other city but they are isolated and you are unlikely to stray into them by accident and even if you do your risk is limited because you are not involved in the aforementioned high risk activities so you would not be a target.

Im not here to sugar coat the city, Im just trying to give you the less doom and gloom reality of the city. The stats paint a much different view of the city than what most people experience, and despite the stats Oakland is still a very desirable city. It has a number of flaws I will admit, from dysfunctional government to budgetary issues, but that has not stopped the city from improving as a whole year over year. Come visit and look around and deiced for yourself what you really think of the city.

[humboldtrat]

Having been to Newark, I would say it's far worse than Oakland. Having said that, there's no way in hell I would live in either place!

[DarkWolf]

Jersey City is gentrified , Newark the crime is mainly south and west....Downtown is on the upswing , the East is working class Portuguese and Yuppies....the North is diverse white , black , Latino and Asian Middle Class and yuppies occupy a small area... I'm sure its the same with Oakland....