Deep East Oakland

p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" strongfont size="3"font face="Times New Roman"Deep span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"East Oakland/span/font/font/strong/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font size="3"font face="Times New Roman"Black, span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1310600318_1" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"Browns/span, Latinos, Africans Americans= East Oakland/font/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Coming Back from span data-scayt_word="Dat" data-scaytid="6"Dat/span Side Shows back in 1999, when we Black and Brown folks would see the sun rise, when we would NOT shoot at each other over span data-scayt_word="turfs…and" data-scaytid="7"turfshellip;and/span it was all about kicking span data-scayt_word="it…..riding" data-scaytid="1"ithellip;..riding/span on span data-scayt_word="homiez" data-scaytid="8"homiez/span Mustang span data-scayt_word="5.0…" data-scaytid="2"5.0hellip;/span/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" nbsp;/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"see cause we are working class folks hellip;not enough capital to hit the Movies span data-scayt_word="theatres" data-scaytid="9"theatres/span, or the Clubshellip;so we got down on the Parking lot Chillinghellip;to get span style=""nbsp;/spanthe munchies, Tacos, or span data-scayt_word="BK" data-scaytid="10"BK/span what ever your Choicehellip;and put up the Smokehellip;and pour drink on the concrete floorhellip;for our love ones who are no longer with ushellip;./font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"See it wasnrsquo;t alwaysspan style=""nbsp; /spanthat much dirthellip;in East Oakland/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Until they turn our communities into concentration camps, build span style=""nbsp;/spanjail cells, and police department, why ride all the way to Downtown to cage black and brown span data-scayt_word="folks..when" data-scaytid="3"folks..when/span they can cage ushellip;in our own turf, community, barrios, and hoodshellip;./font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"All in the name of making Safe, for WHO I askhellip;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"See cause we need more jobs, and opportunities to come uphellip;./font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Not more cops../font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"I remember getting Fit ithellip;. buying my clothes from mom and pops stores at span data-scayt_word="Eastmont" data-scaytid="11"Eastmont/span span data-scayt_word="mall…..before" data-scaytid="4"mallhellip;..before/span span data-scayt_word="D’Ds" data-scaytid="12"Drsquo;Ds/span came alonghellip;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"span data-scayt_word="EastMont" data-scaytid="13"EastMont/span mallhellip;Where folks went got fit ithellip;get the latest Nike shoes, and span data-scayt_word="hella" data-scaytid="14"hella/span good Chinese foodhellip;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"To get ready for the sideshows../font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"But then some of us start going Dumb, Stupid and Retarded/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Donrsquo;t get me wrong I love the song../font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"But hate Black against Black, Brown against Brown Killing each other over span data-scayt_word="turfs" data-scaytid="15"turfs/span/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"And we no longer are span style=""nbsp;/spanspan data-scayt_word="Ghostriding" data-scaytid="16"Ghostriding/span the whip, the Po Po, hitting us with whip../font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Black, Browns, Latinos, Africans Americans hellip; = East Oakland, community, span data-scayt_word="havenscourt" data-scaytid="17"havenscourt/span, span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1310600318_2" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;"Melrose/span, span data-scayt_word="Castlemont" data-scaytid="18"Castlemont/span, span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1310600318_3" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;"Fremont/span, span data-scayt_word="calvin" data-scaytid="19"calvin/span span data-scayt_word="simmons…high" data-scaytid="20"simmonshellip;high/span street and foothill, 106supspan data-scayt_word="th" data-scaytid="21"th/span/sup and span data-scayt_word="Macarthur" data-scaytid="22"Macarthur/span, pack and save parking lothellip;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Where we came together in mass, until the man in blue would break us aparthellip; /font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"See it wasnrsquo;t alwaysspan style=""nbsp; /spandirthellip;in East Oakland/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"Until we stop been a community, when we stop waving or nodding to our neighbors, letrsquo;s be real the economy does help us eitherhellip;and more guns in the streets than jobs is not a good recipehellip;for any city/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"See but the elders span data-scayt_word="say..Home" data-scaytid="5"say..Home/span always calls you Backhellip;Until we meet again Deep East Oaklandhellip;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"span data-scayt_word="Te" data-scaytid="23"Te/span span data-scayt_word="llevo" data-scaytid="24"llevo/span en mi span data-scayt_word="Corazon" data-scaytid="25"Corazon/span/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"I carry you in my heart/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"nbsp;/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"With your shine/font/p p class="yiv1308901841MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" font face="Times New Roman" size="3"And Flaws/font/p