nah. You go to black neighborhoods as a white man in any major city and you're not packing heat, you're in a rough spot. You go to white neighborhoods as a black man and you might get a roaming eyeball or two. Black people are much more racist in this way.Its funny how you can tell just from posts who the suburbanites are and who has actually lived in a real city. Oaktown is no worse that other cities and if you look deeper at the whole issue you would see its actually not bad at all. I regularly hang out in Oakland and never fear for my life,even after dark. I am browner than most so that may have alot to do with it. I also have grown up in places similar to Oakland in the South. They look scary cause you dont know them, the language or customs. Frankly people as scared as some of you, put off the vibe of victim regardless of where you are in the world. Ironic how places like Oakland make the masses feel like us minorities do every time we leave anywhere! The fear you cats feel is just like what we feel when we are in Walnut Creek, Sebastipol, or Half Moon bay! Cops harrassn, natives look like they want to hang you from the nearest tree, etc., etc.
I'll leave it at that.