Berkeley Still Has Racism Problem Says FBI Data, After W. Kamau Bell At Elmwood Cafe

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Berkeley Still Has Racism Problem Says FBI Data, After W. Kamau Bell At Elmwood Cafe

Berkeley Still Has Racism Problem Says FBI Data, After W. Kamau Bell At Elmwood Cafe

On January 29th 2015, local Oakland and Berkeley comedian W. Kamau Bell went to the Elmwood Cafe at 2900 College Avenue to meet his wife and friends. But all the Cafe worker saw was a black man talking to a white woman. The worker came out and told him to “shu” and go away. Mr. Bell reported what was an obvious act of racism.

Now, in 2017, Berkeley is not better. According to FBI hate crime statistics, there were 13 race based hate crimes in Berkeley alone: over one per month. And the same FBI statistics also report that the hate crime is more often to be a white person against a black person. Why?

It may be a function of the affordable housing problem as well as the lack of well paying low skilled jobs. These problems disproportionately hit blacks, especially in The SF Bay Area – and leads to such racism – classism problems.

But even with that, we have to work to make racism unfashionable. That is the key.

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