Posted on 02/09/2022 11:35:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s All Good Bakery on Oakland's Martin Luther King Jr. Way looks like many bakeries in the area, offering up sweet potato pie and coconut pineapple cake. But recently, the small neighborhood storefront has become the center of controversy — namely because the building, which was the first headquarters of the Black Panther Party (BPP), might get demolished and rebuilt as a five-story, 20-unit mixed-use housing complex.
On Monday evening, dozens of members of the public joined the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board meeting to discuss the historical significance of the building. After the firm Gunkel Architects presented a mock-up of the proposed remodel, attendees questioned whether they had adequate knowledge of the Black Panther Party’s significance and history.
“That history has not been studied by the two gentlemen who just spoke,” said Oakland resident Omowale Fowles following the presentation.
“There are no Black architects in this firm,” said Cathy Leonard, a resident who lives across the street from the bakery. “It’s just gentrifying my neighborhood, erasing Black people from Bushrod and Santa Fe.”
The BPP has a storied and complex history in the Bay Area. Founded in 1966, the armed, Black nationalist group fed children in their Free Breakfast for School Children Program and called to end police brutality decades before the Black Lives Matter movement. Today, their legacy continues to inspire modern iterations of their grassroots programs throughout Oakland.
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Pony up $25,000,000 to pay the buyer of the land for his lost income and guess what, you can keep your run down building. Don’t pony up $25,000,000, enjoy your new apartment neighbors.
That’s so wrong. It would be like tearing down the headquarters where Hitler’s Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts) met.
Kinda like Islam. Once it’s Da Hood, it must stay da hood................
Liberals are all about erasing blacks and other minorities from American history.
They removed the Native American woman from Land O Lakes.
They removed Uncle Ben.
The removed a statue of Lincoln and a former slave paid for by former slaves.
Only bad memories are allowed.
So it is OK to tear down our historical statues but we have to keep a building that black panthers used? Just put it on a pedestal and someone will paint it and destroy it. Isn’t that how it goes today?
Enjoy them, rob them....whichever.
Now that’s a shame!
2-3lbs of C4, and problem solved. Bring-in the bulldozers and dump trucks.
I’m willing to bet that Omowale Fowles easily cold have outbid the current owners of the land. But chose not to, for some reason.
since the bpp gailed to think of their architectural future, oh well. the cry of no black architects sticld to their own beratement of smart black students acting too white is their own bramd of stank.
Oh really?
How about removing Aunt Jemima andUncle Ben and Cream Wheat man?
Let them buy the building and turn it into a black panther museum, if they want to. Is it racist if they don’t have the money to buy and save the building?
since the bpp gailed to think of their architectural future, oh well. the cry of no black architects sticld to their own beratement of smart black students acting too white is their own bramd of stank.
Woke-monument...
You want to see people ACTUALLY being erased? Try to find a straight white man in a TV commercial.
What’s the big deal, they are tearing down statues too. What’s good for the goose...
——Liberals are all about erasing blacks and other minorities from American history.——
Drivel. total drivel.
Absent the Black vote there is no Democrat party. All the BLM, looting, rioting, burning complete pandering to the Black African anti Americans there is no progressive democrat party. All the BS of the last year is pandering to worthless American Blacks who hold the margin required to exist.
A fairly small shift of the colored vote spells the end to left wing power. The rise of the Afro heritage minority minority is an existential threat to Democrats
If its fair to get rid of old statues, it is fair to get rid of buildings of nostalgia.
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