Hello Community
Your are welcome to send contributions to this project to
Mailing address:
kakakiki
3591 Quail lakes Dr Ste 202
Stockton, CA 95207
Oakland is not Bad! Hello Everyone, We will have the camera's filming at DeFremery Park on 29TH Sept to show how positive Black Oakland is as part of the West Oakland Stories TV show in the making. We need a team of enthusiastic volunteers to make sure the West Oakland Stories TV show production continues to run smoothly. For information on the WOSTV show click on the links below.
click here to visit our channel 78 home for west oakland stories film project
UPDATE FOR SEPT 2012
Oakland is Not Bad
Saturday September 29 was a beautiful day, Leonard Gardner and I did our first filming for our West Oakland Stories TV series at the Defremery Park West Oakland Annual Reunion. We are gathering film clips to be used in the WOS.
Let me tell you this was such a positive event. The elders, the middle age, the young adults, the teenagers and the children were just glowing and full of confidence in themselves. You see this image is not projected about Black people by the Slave System. But when you see the West Oakland Stories TV Series on OURTV, CH 78, Oakland, when we complete it next year, you will not accept nothing short of seeing Black Oakland portrayed any other way.
Let me give you an example of what I experienced when interviewing one group of little children in the age group of about five to seven or eight years old. I asked a young lady to gather a group of young children and ask them to say “Oakland Is Not Bad” altogether. The Young lady began to talk to them and when she came back to me and said they asked could they say “Oakland Is Kind Of Bad?” - I then asked them if they could tell me what they had seen that was bad about Oakland. None of them could tell me any bad experience that they had in Oakland period. But they could not say “Oakland Is Not Bad.”
What I am showing you here is that the TV, newspaper, books, magazines, radio, schools, churches are all expressing the negative things that we read and hear about every day which the Slave System pumps out to us and the world nonstop about Black people. You grownups are old enough to tell the difference but our children's minds are being shaped every day by the Slave System.
After reading this I hope you will understand how Oakland is always leading the way when it comes to waking our people up by showing how we really are. We don't fake we just be ourselves and let it flow. Watch the West Oakland Stories TV show and you will see the Real Black Oakland and not the Slave System Oakland which has been projected to the World.
We have scheduled three more filming events, the McClymond’s 1962 Class Reunion, October 20th 2012: the Teens of the 40's, 50's and 60's on November 24, 2012 and live interviews of the real West Oakland people of the 40's 50's and 60's at DeFremery Park in the Club House Ballroom on February 16, 2013 at 12:30 PM.
Now show us some love so we can make this happen by making a donation, be as generous as you can.
Make check or money order out to Ed Howard/WOS or just send cash.
1305 Franklin St, Ste 205
Oakland CA 94612
Contact: Ed Howard, Producer, Director 510 734 9759
Leonard Gardner, Producer 510 238 4600
To learn more about the Slave System click on the links below:
http://kakakiki.com/kakakiki/2011/02/21/opposition-to-the-word-slave-growing/
http://kakakiki.com/kakakiki/2011/06/13/slavesystem/
''OAKLAND IS NOT BAD''
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