Chip Johnson is an Irresponsible Journalist for the SF Chronicle.



Chip Johnson wrote an article on crime in Oakland that I have major beef with.

He calls himself drawing attention to the lack of police presence in the well heeled neighborhoods and how long it takes for them to respond, in the event that they do.

What he failed to do was realize how biased, dangerous, racist his descriptions of Oakland’s “shadowy characters”.

With Oakland police resources stretched to the limit from the patrol to the investigations divisions, it’s not surprising that citizens all over the city are feeling the pinch in their neighborhoods.

The city’s spike in homicides, which last year reached the highest number in more than a decade, grabbed headlines. But at the same time, residents and business owners across Oakland are finding that they can’t count on officers responding to their calls for help — and their patience is wearing thin.

There has always been a tug-of-war between residents in the city’s hills who clamor for more protection from property crimes and those living in the flatlands areas with the highest violent crime, which is where police recently have been focusing many of their resources.

Now people in both areas are alarmed by rising crime that police don’t seem to be able to handle.

Residents’ experiences run the gamut. A woman on an Adams Point street crowned a would-be burglar with a wine bottle to stop him from entering her Harrison Street home, while a software consultant in tonier Crocker Highlands successfully discouraged a knife-wielding robber last week.

Ken Marcus was walking home from a bus stop when he saw a man who didn’t fit in with the surroundings. Casting the thought off as paranoia, he turned and started to make his way up a steep grade.

How does someone not fit into their surroundings. Was he Black? A crackhead. A d-boy? Was he pusing a buggy? Did he have locks and a white T. This is statement is so irresponsbile as a journalist. So loaded.

But when Marcus turned around, the man he suspected doubled back on him and confronted him, weapon in hand.

With Oakland police resources stretched to the limit from the patrol to the investigations divisions, it’s not surprising that citizens all over the city are feeling the pinch in their neighborhoods.

Implicit in this statement is that crime is reasonable and tolerable in some neighborhoods and forbidden, out of character and intolerable in others. Even while this may be a TRUE, as a journalist you have an obligation and duty to be mindful that you are talking about communities with HUMAN BEINGS, with children and families that live there now, and have been living there for years.


The city’s spike in homicides, which last year reached the highest number in more than a decade, grabbed headlines. But at the same time, residents and business owners across Oakland are finding that they can’t count on officers responding to their calls for help — and their patience is wearing thin.

There has always been a tug-of-war between residents in the city’s hills who clamor for more protection from property crimes and those living in the flatlands areas with the highest violent crime, which is where police recently have been focusing many of their resources.

Now people in both areas are alarmed by rising crime that police don’t seem to be able to handle.

Residents’ experiences run the gamut. A woman on an Adams Point street crowned a would-be burglar with a wine bottle to stop him from entering her Harrison Street home, while a software consultant in tonier Crocker Highlands
successfully discouraged a knife-wielding robber last week.

Ken Marcus was walking home from a bus stop when he saw a man who didn’t fit in with the surroundings. Casting the thought off as paranoia, he turned and started to make his way up a steep grade.

What the f*ck is don’t fit the surroundings. Was he black? Did he have on a hoodie? Was he a crack head? Was he homeless. This is so loaded.

Marcus stepped away from the man and into Santa Ray Avenue as he demanded money.

“Once I got enough distance, I could either run or stand my ground,” Marcus said Monday.

He challenged the man — then threatened him at the top of his lungs and scared him back into a waiting car.

“I wasn’t thinking of my stuff or the $20 in my pocket,” Marcus said. “I was thinking this guy wants to hurt me, maybe kill me. Not indulging into foreplay Most of discount viagra sale the women complain about the amount of time men give to proper foreplay during sex. They have managed to convince the consumers over the years have highlighted how sildenafil citrate is canada generic viagra one of the popular mens vitamins supplements that have found to be beneficial to male health. To generic india viagra understand the actual mode of action for treating female low libido. Even if you smoke more than one pack of cigarettes per day were at a 60% higher risk or developing erectile dysfunction in comparison to men that never smoked. 15% of the past and present smokers have experienced cialis cost erectile dysfunction. I was afraid for my safety.”

The kicker came later, when Marcus walked home and called police. They showed up 15 minutes later and took a report — and one of them remarked that it was rare to get calls in that neighborhood.

The incident made Marcus wonder if his neighborhood was the newest spot on the bandits’ radar screen after historically having been largely untouched by the city’s crime.

“It’s like Halloween, where kids go into certain neighborhoods to get the good stuff, except now it’s happening with crime,” he said.

Awww. The itty bitty baby is getting a taste of how trill the town is. Unless YOU do something to address the underlying issues, this is only the begining. I hate when people get hella surprised when the calamaties that affect the hood creep into their lives and they have the nerve to be SCARED. Ha.

There have been shootings on Lakeshore Avenue, near Lake Merritt, an the attempted robbery on Santa Ray Avenue, where Mayor Ron Dellums’ mother lived for years, and shootings in Adams Point.

No matter how you slice it, the perception of crime in Oakland, like a bad moon, is rising again. There are unexpected locations for random violence in Oakland, and a barometer reading suggests more rough times ahead.

There are two cases among scores of such crimes in recent months that illustrate the frustration that real, would-be and near-miss victims experience in their dealings with officers who are required to rank the threat level of each service call and respond in an appropriate manner.

Where is the mention of how the police interact w/ the non monied? The article would have been that much better if he would have interviewed some working class folks that live on High Street or Seminary or Fruitvale. You would infer from this article that the police are actually being effective in the flatlands. But naw. If the Lake got crime, then thats what matters.

In the first incident, an unidentified woman who was attacked at Oakland‘s Fruitvale BART Station on Jan. 25 jumped on a train to evade her assailant, rode to Fremont and reported the attack to authorities.

When Oakland police were notified of the incident, they asked Fremont police to take the report because they had no one to send. An attack at a public transit stop is a pretty serious crime, right?

This should be of paramount concern to Dellums and could well define his first term in office. Until a plan to reduce such violence is hatched, the flow of middle-class African Americans from this city will continue. It’s an emigration that has already prompted calls for meetings of the largest black churches in the city, said Bishop Bob Jackson, pastor of Acts Full Gospel Church, one of Oakland‘s largest black churches.

Jackson said losses had been felt in all the city’s big congregations, including his own church, which he estimated had seen more than 300 former members move out of the area because of the growing violence.

Negroes been moving out of the Oakland to Antioch, Atlanta and Vegas for a hot minute now, and it is not about to stop.

Public perception may not accurately reflect the outcomes of the war on crime in Oakland, but it still provides a sense of the general scene. If all that holds true, the city needs to present a plan for shoring up its short-staffed police department and devise some strategy to adequately address serious felony crimes before public confidence falls through the floor.

This statement presumes that public confidence of the Lake dwellers is all that is relevent. What about folks in the lower bottom, 11/5, dog town, etc? I would imagine that the rationale is that “they hood n*ggas anyways, so they use to hella crime”.

Chip Johnson’s column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. E-mail him at chjohnson@sfchronicle.com.

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I Sold Watuh Last Year or Beyond Beats and Rhymes is Dope.

My top ten favorite moments in the Documentary: Beyond Beats and Rhymes:

1. Seeing Stephen Hill from BET walk away from Byron when asked how he felt about the Black male images on BET.

2. Hearing dude being interviewed on the street say, I SOLD WATUH last summah. WHAT!

3.Seeing dudes grab girls booties and assert that they had a RIGHT to tap-a-@ss at BET’s Spring Bling. All I could think was, these sistas ain’t got guns. (‘yall know I’m violent: Tre ironic hunh? lol).

5. Seeing Jada Kiss ask Byron “What Kinda Movies you Watch?”, when Byron asked Jada about his murked filled lyrics.

6. Where was Greg Tate?

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8. I love the ITS JUST ENTERTAINMENT DEFENSE. SLICK real slick.

9. Realizing that I know Asha Jennings from Oakland.

10. And Finally. Hearing dudes on the street say, “If you take that rightous rap to the labels, they ain’t trynna hear that”.

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Hip Hop Docs Rock!

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The New York Times Loves Dramagate.


How Assimilated Negro gon’ get a New York Times Mention.

Shhh***T. Hummingbyrd wanta Times Mention.

THE White Castle on East Fordham Road in the Bronx shimmered as if glazed. A Valentine?s Day of snow and freezing rain had left a thin layer of ice on its crenellated exterior and several inches of accumulation in the parking lot and on the sidewalk. There were few cars and even fewer pedestrians.

For this year, a mix of fawning and snarky local news media coverage ? including a win-a-date contest with the blogger The Assimilated Negro ? seemed to augur well. After all, Ms. Simpson said, reading from a plaque, the fast-food chain has operated an outpost on East Fordham Road in Belmont since Aug. 10, 1930.

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New York Times Breaks Down Dramagate. Its so funny observing how a writer breaks down mix tapes to the largely white masses.

A mixtape can consist of remixes of hit songs ? for instance, the Aphilliates offered a CD of classic Michael Jackson songs doctored by a Detroit D.J. Or it can feature a rapper ?freestyling,? or improvising raps, over the beat from another artist?s song; so, on one mixtape, LL Cool J?s ?Love You Better? became 50 Cent?s ?After My Cheddar.? In most cases, the D.J. modifies the original song without acquiring the rights to it, and if he wants to throw in a sample of Ray Charles singing or a line from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, he doesn?t worry about copyright. The language on mixtapes is raw and uncensored; rappers sometimes devote a whole CD to insulting another rapper by name.

Ummmm raw and uncensored. Thats the way we like it.

But Drama and Cannon?s studio was not a bootlegging plant; it was a place where successful new hip-hop CDs were regularly produced and distributed. Drama and Cannon are part of a well-regarded D.J. collective called the Aphilliates. Although their business almost certainly violated federal copyright law, as well as a Georgia state law that requires CDs to be labeled with the name and address of the producers, they were not simply stealing from the major labels; they were part of an alternative distribution system that the mainstream record industry uses to promote and market hip-hop artists. Drama and Cannon have in recent years been paid by the same companies that paid Kilgo to help arrest them.

Sh*t is alternative AND STILL ILLEGAL. Record industry don’t have no codes.

Music+Capitalism = Greasy.

One of the CDs confiscated by R.I.A.A. investigators during the Atlanta raid was ?Dedication 2,? a mixtape that DJ Drama made with Lil Wayne, a New Orleans rapper; it appeared on the Billboard hip-hop and R&B charts and was widely reviewed in the mainstream press. (Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times chose ?Dedication 2? as one of the 10 best recordings of 2006.) As the R.I.A.A. agents boxed up Drama?s stash of ?Dedication 2,? the CD continued to sell well at major retailers like Best Buy and FYE (a national chain of record stores) and also at the iTunes Store online.

The economics of mixtapes appeal to XL, and so do their politics; as he sees it, mixtapes undermine the power of major record labels and radio stations. ?Most artists can?t afford to get their music on the radio, but an artist has the right to let his fan base hear what he?s done,? XL said. Seek impotence cures just as you would obtain http://deeprootsmag.org/2013/12/11/christmas-as-he-knew-it/ cialis price treatment for impotence. What are shoe insert types? Comfort insoles are a type of cheap online tadalafil and are also known as PDE5 inhibitors. As the attack of impotency starts making human penile tissues become weaker as a result of the blood flow viagra canada prescription being interrupted. When both VigRX Plus and VigRX Oil all have a combination of ancient herbs that uk viagra are known to contribute to sexual performance. ?Who is the label to dictate how to feed the fan base?

Ahhhhh. Drama, drama, drama. Easy Star. The labels don’t GIVE out vaseline w/ contracts.

Labels prefer to use established mixtape D.J.?s like Drama, rather than produce promotional CDs themselves, Stewart said, because ?the best D.J.?s have a better brand than the average label does.?

Not only this, but they also have a rep to maintain so the damn mixtapes are gonna reflect that.

Although the deals are informal and often secret, labels typically pay a prominent D.J. like Drama $10,000 to $15,000 to produce a mixtape for an artist. The label?s representatives, Stewart explained, adopt what amounts to a don?t ask, don?t tell policy about the D.J.?s plans to sell the work; what the D.J. does with his copy of the master, Stewart said, ?is his own business.? For successful D.J.?s, mixtape sales can bring considerable revenue. Mixtapes sell for anywhere from $5 to $10 on the street or on a Web site like Mixunit, and overhead is low, since the CDs cost only about 50 cents to manufacture and D.J.?s rarely pay royalties or licensing fees.

Ahhh. Here is the Rub. The labels are a business w/ shareholders and like the governement, they want they cut.

Pimp C, a Texas rapper who is half of the popular underground hip-hop duo UGK, has repeatedly refused to participate in a UGK mixtape despite requests by his record label and, he said, from countless mixtape D.J.?s. Pimp C told me that because there is no paper trail, mixtape D.J.?s are able to invent sales figures, and they routinely claim that, after their overhead, they just break even. But based on his experience producing two of his own mixtapes, Pimp C suspects D.J.?s make plenty; they just don?t want to give artist a cut.

Pimp C kinda gully for coming w/ it in media like this. So DJ’s got the labels AND the Artist in that @ss. Muy interesante.

Drama?s arrest shook up mixtape D.J.?s and promoters across the country. But even in the days immediately following the raid, D.J.?s continued to release tapes ? some with hastily added tracks on which rappers cursed the R.I.A.A. ? and major labels continued to e-mail them new tracks.

Capitalism is such a delicious shark.

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Dramagate Scores are in.

Drama 1. Labels 1. Artists. 0.

Watch Beyond Beats and Rhymes Tonight on PBS.

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Currrrrtissss: 50 Starts ’07 Off w/ a Bang.

Do you think Jay would have answered the phone if Cam called HIM while he was Hot 97?

The top ten funniest things about this video:

1. Setting the tone w/ the GQ photograph.

2. Cam Ghost ridin’ tha whip.

3. Dude @ at the end of the video saying:

If you don’t f*ck with the street and you a legit
muthafucka you got a pass, If you fuck with the street, you a @sshole. Cuurrrrtis.

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4. Cam poppin’ out the casket.

5. Cam rapping and fryin’ up bacon in the bodega kitchen. Priceless.

I can’t say that he is lacking in charisma. HE NEEDS HIS OWN MTV SHOW.

My only question is, which of these two cats has projects coming out in the 1st or 2nd quarter?

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Watchu think?

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17 Billion Spent on Valentines Day.


Whenever I see Black women on magazines I am reminded of the fact that when Black women are on the cover of magazines, the mag’s sell 30-40% less than when a white women is on the cover.

According to the magazine editors, black faces do sell – at least, if the personality is well-liked. If she isn’t, it won’t, it’s as simple as that, and it has nothing to do with colour.

“There are a limited number of (black) subjects that we can use,” says Sam Baker, editor of Cosmopolitan.

“There is one I won’t name because she is quite litigious, but is really not very popular with readers, and you want to feature subjects that people actually like. Cosmo has featured Beyonce and Mel B, so I know that placing black women works.”

What dismayed me was that so few editors even thought about their cover choices in terms of race or colour. If you grow up and mix with people who look like you, and if you haven’t met anyone who doesn’t, then you wouldn’t think about fashion advice or make-up tips going beyond your clique.


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I ain’t make this sh*t up. This was out of the mouth of a Parsons Media Design
student. Deep hunh.

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Kiplingers says 17B is spent on Valentines. The National Retail Foundation says 13.2B. Either way you slice it its, HELLLA PAPER N*GGA. This is my first single V-tines day, in how many years? I think I need two hands to count. Don’t cry for me Argentina. Actually I feel less pressed.

Its cool to not be worried about what im gonna or not gonna get.

It helps when you have jump off representing lovely and don’t mind puttin in nat twerk. Heeey.

Last year, BL and I HAD HELLA FUNK. He was on some, “I don’t feel society telling me what and when I should spend”. That was cool. But then I was like, “Didn’t you spend HELLA PAPER for XMAS 7 weeks ago?”.

Xmas is different apparently.

Looking back on this time last year reminds me that the dope thing about being neurotic is that your life is allways different than it was last year.

A fellow scandless a*s blogger had a jawn use her major department store discount to buy the next jawn a v-tines present.

He Buggin!

Which leads me to the question of, what are your v-tines best/worst gift stories? Or rant about how you hate the sh*t in general.

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Did I mention that its snowin’ hella hard, and I need to go to the library? I feel like if I walk outside, Im not gonna be in Kansas anymore.

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