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I mean, on one side, it’s what we had been asking for: for the Warriors to publicly recognize the turf on which they play. For them to tell the world that their gym is on 73rd Avenue in the heart of East Oakland. For them to claim their identity, not as the Golden State Warriors, but as the Oakland Warriors. For them to honor the city where they’ve recently renovated a handful of courts, complete with the new alternative logo. For them to represent The Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the other hand, the jerseys just look like recreation league gear. It doesn’t take too much imagination to use the same symbol that the City of Oakland uses for its various governmental departments. Since Nike designed the jersey, you’d think it would have a little more flavor. Go figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Warriors' 'Town' logo at center court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Warriors’ ‘Town’ logo at center court. \u003ccite>(Golden State Warriors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he other reason I’m torn — and this is a big one — is that the logo is a parting gift. It’s a last-ditch effort on the Warriors’ part to retain the East Bay fan base before the organization departs to The City in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving the Warriors these last few years has been like being in a relationship with a long-time significant other who finally gets their act together after years of falling short. They get you a couple pieces of nice jewelry to make up for it, and then they tell you they’re leaving you for your neighbor. But before they leave, they give you one last piece of clothing to remember them by: a damned \u003cem>short-sleeved hoodie\u003c/em> that has both of ya’ll names on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Who even wears short-sleeved hoodies?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But you know what? Even if the hoodies don’t sell, those jerseys will. People love representing the Warriors and the Town, separately. With those two combined, man, people will line up for those jerseys like they do for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/tag/bakesale-betty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bakesale Betty\u003c/a>’s sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re \u003cem>really\u003c/em> interested in representing the Town, buy from a local clothing designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you want something that says Warriors and Oakland, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/tresmercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TresMercedes\u003c/a>’ hat collection, or \u003ca href=\"http://orundide.bigcartel.com/product/oakland-warriors-huey-tee-in-gold-on-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eesuu Orundide\u003c/a>’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-800x786.jpg\" alt=\"Eesuu Orundide’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-800x786.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-768x755.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-960x944.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-240x236.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-375x369.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-520x511.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eesuu Orundide’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be familiar with \u003ca href=\"https://www.beastmodeonline.com/pages/locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BeastMode\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandish.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oaklandish\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland, cool. After you stop by those stores, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.townbizoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Town Biz Oakland\u003c/a> on 15th street or the \u003ca href=\"https://dope-era.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOPE ERA\u003c/a> store on 45th and Market, and look at their gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something fly that reps the Town but doesn’t scream OAKLAND? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://musahill.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musahill\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://rarekidz.bigcartel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rare Kidz Collection\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.runtheworldclothing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Run The World Clothing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something that represents the Town’s culture? Check out the Hyphy Taco Truck shirt or AC Transit Bus shirt by \u003ca href=\"http://therealoakland.bigcartel.com/product/hyphen-taco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Real Oakland\u003c/a> clothing line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13816355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"I Am The Town's 'Make Oakland The Town Again' hat.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Am The Town’s ‘Make Oakland The Town Again’ hat.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for those folks who like to make political statements while making fashion statements, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamthetown_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am The Town\u003c/a> has the “Make Oakland The Town Again” line of hats; a jab at gentrification and Mr. 45, all in one piece of headwear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those of you who like hoodies, you can buy a (long-sleeved!) hooded sweatshirt from \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsown1852.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s Own\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.beastoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beast Oakland\u003c/a>. It’s cold out here, and a short-sleeved hoodie isn’t doing anything for anybody; especially at $60 a pop!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the Warriors did something they should’ve done the year they moved to Oakland by incorporating us into the team’s identity. And a lot of people are happy. But if your mission is to represent the Town, do so in gear made by people that are based here, and plan on staying here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support the \u003cem>real\u003c/em> warriors of the Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This past Saturday, the Golden State Warriors debuted their “The Town” logo, a nod to Oakland adorned on their jerseys and plastered at center court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though they won the game against the New Orleans Pelicans, they lost my support of the logo as a fashion statement. Between DeMarcus Cousins and Draymond Green battling for boards, a timeout was called. The telecast cut away to a Warriors promotion for a short-sleeved hooded-sweatshirt with the Town logo on it. A \u003cem>short-sleeved hoodie\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when they lost me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13816354\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/ShortSleeveHoodie.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been on the fence about the logo since its announcement earlier this year. I mean, on one side, it’s what we had been asking for: for the Warriors to publicly recognize the turf on which they play. For them to tell the world that their gym is on 73rd Avenue in the heart of East Oakland. For them to claim their identity, not as the Golden State Warriors, but as the Oakland Warriors. For them to honor the city where they’ve recently renovated a handful of courts, complete with the new alternative logo. For them to represent The Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on the other hand, the jerseys just look like recreation league gear. It doesn’t take too much imagination to use the same symbol that the City of Oakland uses for its various governmental departments. Since Nike designed the jersey, you’d think it would have a little more flavor. Go figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816412\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Warriors' 'Town' logo at center court.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/TownLogo.Warriors-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Warriors’ ‘Town’ logo at center court. \u003ccite>(Golden State Warriors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he other reason I’m torn — and this is a big one — is that the logo is a parting gift. It’s a last-ditch effort on the Warriors’ part to retain the East Bay fan base before the organization departs to The City in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving the Warriors these last few years has been like being in a relationship with a long-time significant other who finally gets their act together after years of falling short. They get you a couple pieces of nice jewelry to make up for it, and then they tell you they’re leaving you for your neighbor. But before they leave, they give you one last piece of clothing to remember them by: a damned \u003cem>short-sleeved hoodie\u003c/em> that has both of ya’ll names on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Who even wears short-sleeved hoodies?\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But you know what? Even if the hoodies don’t sell, those jerseys will. People love representing the Warriors and the Town, separately. With those two combined, man, people will line up for those jerseys like they do for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/tag/bakesale-betty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bakesale Betty\u003c/a>’s sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you’re \u003cem>really\u003c/em> interested in representing the Town, buy from a local clothing designer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f you want something that says Warriors and Oakland, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/shop/tresmercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TresMercedes\u003c/a>’ hat collection, or \u003ca href=\"http://orundide.bigcartel.com/product/oakland-warriors-huey-tee-in-gold-on-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eesuu Orundide\u003c/a>’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13816356\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-800x786.jpg\" alt=\"Eesuu Orundide’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-800x786.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-160x157.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-768x755.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-960x944.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-240x236.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-375x369.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-520x511.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/WarriorsHuey.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eesuu Orundide’s Huey Newton-inspired Oakland Warriors shirt.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You might be familiar with \u003ca href=\"https://www.beastmodeonline.com/pages/locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BeastMode\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandish.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oaklandish\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland, cool. After you stop by those stores, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.townbizoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Town Biz Oakland\u003c/a> on 15th street or the \u003ca href=\"https://dope-era.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOPE ERA\u003c/a> store on 45th and Market, and look at their gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something fly that reps the Town but doesn’t scream OAKLAND? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://musahill.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musahill\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://rarekidz.bigcartel.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rare Kidz Collection\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.runtheworldclothing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Run The World Clothing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Want something that represents the Town’s culture? Check out the Hyphy Taco Truck shirt or AC Transit Bus shirt by \u003ca href=\"http://therealoakland.bigcartel.com/product/hyphen-taco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Real Oakland\u003c/a> clothing line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13816355\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13816355\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"I Am The Town's 'Make Oakland The Town Again' hat.\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/MakeTheTown-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Am The Town’s ‘Make Oakland The Town Again’ hat.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And for those folks who like to make political statements while making fashion statements, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamthetown_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am The Town\u003c/a> has the “Make Oakland The Town Again” line of hats; a jab at gentrification and Mr. 45, all in one piece of headwear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those of you who like hoodies, you can buy a (long-sleeved!) hooded sweatshirt from \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandsown1852.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland’s Own\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.beastoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beast Oakland\u003c/a>. It’s cold out here, and a short-sleeved hoodie isn’t doing anything for anybody; especially at $60 a pop!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the Warriors did something they should’ve done the year they moved to Oakland by incorporating us into the team’s identity. And a lot of people are happy. But if your mission is to represent the Town, do so in gear made by people that are based here, and plan on staying here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Support the \u003cem>real\u003c/em> warriors of the Town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> held my hand over my mouth as I read about last Sunday’s mass shooting in Texas that claimed the lives of 26 people, shaking my head at yet another example of how guns control this country. I wondered what would happen if you asked any random person in America, ‘How have guns controlled your life?’ I bet they’d all have a personal story to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, I put my theory to the test. Over the course of five days, I posed that exact question — ‘How have guns controlled your life?’ — to a high school counselor, two science journalists, three employees of a tech startup, and a dozen young folks at a youth center in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, I’d set out to talk to every single person I interacted with for the entire week. But bringing up the topic of guns to someone you’re casually conversing with — a teller at a bank, or a post office clerk — only causes alarm and suspicion. It isn’t what you do. Not in America. Not now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All I wanted to know is just how many people in this country are living a life that’s controlled by guns. How many folks have been physically wounded, or are dealing with the loss of loved ones, or live everyday with the fear of what might happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many are survivors of this everyday war we fight in America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Antionette Johnson holds a photo of her son Terrell Reams, 23, who was shot and killed in Oakland in 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antionette Johnson holds a photo of her son Terrell Reams, 23, who was shot and killed in Oakland in 2013. \u003ccite>(Rod Lamkey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he young people told me that guns control their lives daily. Two of them had stories of losing siblings to gun violence. One mentioned the perception of power that comes with owning a gun, and observed that it isn’t just the victim who is controlled by guns, but also the shooter. Another said that there are places they can’t go because of the potential for gun violence; fear of guns, they explained, is almost as controlling as guns themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Out of the nearly 20 people I spoke with, every single one had a story of how guns had controlled their lives.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the tech startup, one person told me that he’s more aware of people when they get onto a BART train; while he’s mindful to not profile others, he’s become overly sensitive to what could potentially happen. He also told me that after the 2012 shooting in a movie theater in Colorado that claimed the lives of 12 people, he can no longer sit anywhere in a theater that’s not near an exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the journalists told me how, earlier that same day, she’d had to console her young child who awoke bawling because of a nightmare that there was a shooter at her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the high school counselor how guns have controlled her life, figuring I’d get an answer about her students, who are commonly referred to as “at-risk youth.” But her answer went beyond her daily work — she told me that a close family member was shot and killed in a temple in the Bay Area over a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of pain and hurt caused by guns, and it’s not even complete. Out of the nearly 20 people I spoke with, every single one had a story of how guns had controlled their lives, in one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire, leaving 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, on Oct. 1, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire, leaving 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, on Oct. 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(David Becker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>oday, Veterans Day, America celebrates its members of the armed forces who’ve been involved in military combat. It’s a day to read about those who lost their lives in America’s deadliest war, the Civil War. A day to understand what it was like for those who fought in the bloodiest war the world has ever seen, World War II. A day to think about those involved in America’s longest war, the war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while this is a much-deserved national holiday for those uniformed service women and men, I wonder when we might have a day to recognize the civilian soldiers who have been killed, are wounded, or are living with PTSD from everyday gun combat in America. Those who face warfare but don’t don uniforms with the flag on the shoulder; the educators, writers, entrepreneurs, and young people who lead everyday lives controlled by guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a country where an average of 93 shooting deaths happen every day, imagine if we had just one day when we could strive for no shootings in America, anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine one day when we could openly talk about gun violence, so that people like the ones I talked to this week could see that they’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine a federal holiday to honor those who’ve lost their lives while attending church in Texas or South Carolina, while dancing in Miami, while singing along at a concert in Las Vegas, or walking to class in Colorado or Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that same day, we’d honor the young brothers and sisters we’ve lost in East Oakland as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just one day to collectively pay our respects to those killed by guns, and recognize that we are all veterans of this same combat. One day to help change our collective mentality. And then, the next day, we could get to work creating legislation so that we don’t have to continue living in a gun-controlled society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine that. Especially in America, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How many are survivors of this everyday war we fight in America?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814651\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Antionette Johnson holds a photo of her son Terrell Reams, 23, who was shot and killed in Oakland in 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Antoinette-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antionette Johnson holds a photo of her son Terrell Reams, 23, who was shot and killed in Oakland in 2013. \u003ccite>(Rod Lamkey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he young people told me that guns control their lives daily. Two of them had stories of losing siblings to gun violence. One mentioned the perception of power that comes with owning a gun, and observed that it isn’t just the victim who is controlled by guns, but also the shooter. Another said that there are places they can’t go because of the potential for gun violence; fear of guns, they explained, is almost as controlling as guns themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Out of the nearly 20 people I spoke with, every single one had a story of how guns had controlled their lives.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At the tech startup, one person told me that he’s more aware of people when they get onto a BART train; while he’s mindful to not profile others, he’s become overly sensitive to what could potentially happen. He also told me that after the 2012 shooting in a movie theater in Colorado that claimed the lives of 12 people, he can no longer sit anywhere in a theater that’s not near an exit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the journalists told me how, earlier that same day, she’d had to console her young child who awoke bawling because of a nightmare that there was a shooter at her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the high school counselor how guns have controlled her life, figuring I’d get an answer about her students, who are commonly referred to as “at-risk youth.” But her answer went beyond her daily work — she told me that a close family member was shot and killed in a temple in the Bay Area over a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of pain and hurt caused by guns, and it’s not even complete. Out of the nearly 20 people I spoke with, every single one had a story of how guns had controlled their lives, in one way or another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814653\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire, leaving 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, on Oct. 1, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-960x641.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/GunControlled.Barricade-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas after a gunman opened fire, leaving 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, on Oct. 1, 2017. \u003ccite>(David Becker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>oday, Veterans Day, America celebrates its members of the armed forces who’ve been involved in military combat. It’s a day to read about those who lost their lives in America’s deadliest war, the Civil War. A day to understand what it was like for those who fought in the bloodiest war the world has ever seen, World War II. A day to think about those involved in America’s longest war, the war in Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while this is a much-deserved national holiday for those uniformed service women and men, I wonder when we might have a day to recognize the civilian soldiers who have been killed, are wounded, or are living with PTSD from everyday gun combat in America. Those who face warfare but don’t don uniforms with the flag on the shoulder; the educators, writers, entrepreneurs, and young people who lead everyday lives controlled by guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a country where an average of 93 shooting deaths happen every day, imagine if we had just one day when we could strive for no shootings in America, anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine one day when we could openly talk about gun violence, so that people like the ones I talked to this week could see that they’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine a federal holiday to honor those who’ve lost their lives while attending church in Texas or South Carolina, while dancing in Miami, while singing along at a concert in Las Vegas, or walking to class in Colorado or Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on that same day, we’d honor the young brothers and sisters we’ve lost in East Oakland as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just one day to collectively pay our respects to those killed by guns, and recognize that we are all veterans of this same combat. One day to help change our collective mentality. And then, the next day, we could get to work creating legislation so that we don’t have to continue living in a gun-controlled society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine that. Especially in America, especially now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen I got out of the car at my childhood home, I couldn’t look at first. I glanced up at the hills, then stared at the road. They’d repaved it since I lived here. I don’t know why I noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad joined me. We looked, and he said one word, in the eerie stillness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This house, on Angela Drive near the rural Santa Rosa neighborhood of Larkfield, was where I’d lived until I was 14. As my dad and I walked toward what little was left of it, every marker of growing up — my first bike, our wooden treehouse, my bedroom where I played Atari and listened to KREO — all of it came back to me in the burned-out ruins of our former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"The ruins of the author's childhood home in Larkfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-768x520.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-960x651.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-240x163.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ruins of the author’s childhood home in Larkfield. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the scarred front yard where we used to play catch on warm summer nights, my dad pointed out various building materials in the ash. A piece of mauve tile here. A cabinet hinge there. Floor joists, bathroom fixtures. The random ingredients of a home that survive, oddly recognizable now, certainly to my dad. When I was growing up, he’d built this entire house by himself, room by room, remodeling it from a former chicken coop into a home for our family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I trudged in foot-deep remains, retracing the floor plan I still have memorized, I was suddenly overwhelmed by how small it all felt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d had Christmases here, birthdays. We’d laughed and loved and cried and played in this house, my mom and dad and two sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All of that life couldn’t possibly have fit inside this 900-square-ft. grey rectangle on the ground\u003c/em>, I thought to myself. \u003cem>It just couldn’t\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A fallen freeway sign on Hwy. 101 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fallen freeway sign on Hwy. 101 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Liz Seward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s I write this, it’s 10:50pm, exactly one month after the fires began. Rain falls outside, almost as a cruel joke, the thing we needed most on Oct. 9. And although Santa Rosa has “turned the corner,” as the analysts and news anchors reporting on the fires’ containment have all told us, it doesn’t always feel that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If turning the corner means calls and texts not coming as frequently, donations slowing to a trickle, volunteers dwindling, out-of-town support waning, then sure, we’ve turned the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The national media has left town, leaving everyone back at square one, with burned-down houses and GoFundMe accounts.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows this feeling. That lonesome period after the funeral, usually a month or so later. People stop asking you how you’re doing, friends stop bringing you food. You feel like the world is silently telling you that you should be doing fine. But you aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Santa Rosa is now. The national media has left town, leaving everyone back at square one, with burned-down houses and GoFundMe accounts. The unity we once felt so #strongly has given way to uncertainty and occasional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve also seen goodwill and charity co-opted or twisted. ‘Santa Rosa Strong’ T-Shirts sold by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/586292148428439/permalink/616124328778554/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">companies that don’t donate profits to fire relief\u003c/a> like they’d promised. The housing market, already untenable with \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5347744-181/sonoma-county-supervisors-make-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skyrocketing rents and a 1-percent vacancy rate\u003c/a> before the fire, now seeing \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559748-181/rents-rise-after-sonoma-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rents jump 36 percent\u003c/a> across Sonoma County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/to-witt/Content?oid=4383340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lobbyists and developers\u003c/a> jockeying for rebuilding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all sadly common. I’ve seen it play out in other cities, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/BohoBlog/archives/2011/02/16/the-1986-guerneville-flood-photo-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guerneville floods\u003c/a> of my youth to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a> just last year. We’re in an uncomfortable period of transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13813990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13813990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Sudduth finds a pair of dimond earings she recived in the eight grade amost the remains of her childhood home in Coffey Park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Sudduth finds a pair of diamond earrings she received in the eighth grade among the remains of her childhood home in Coffey Park. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here’s what else I know: that we’re tough enough and smart enough to get through this phase. As the editor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/up-from-the-ashes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all the fire stories we’ve covered\u003c/a> here at KQED Arts, I’ve seen how artists are often the first to make sense of a senseless disaster. People like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/07/watch-a-santa-rosa-cartoonists-a-fire-story-come-to-life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Fies\u003c/a>, who translated his experience of losing his house and all its belongings into comics form, who provided understanding and catharsis for those still hurting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I see people who have lost everything with an intense determination for their own recovery — and the will to further upend their lives helping others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the story of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/11/08/after-heroic-efforts-by-restaurateurs-north-bay-restaurants-are-still-here-and-need-your-support/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark and Terri Stark\u003c/a>, who lost Willi’s Wine Bar but kept their other restaurants open to feed evacuees. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/30/no-house-few-belongings-an-artist-resolves-to-help-kids-heal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clementine Lee\u003c/a>, who arranged for her team of face-painters to keep evacuated children happy even after her own house burned down. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/08/amidst-its-own-loss-a-santa-rosa-violin-shop-assists-fire-victims/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loveland Violin Shop\u003c/a> loaning instruments to students whose violins burned in the fire, even as the owners’ longtime home is completely gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musical community stepping up to donate to radio host \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/04/a-musical-healing-on-the-airwaves/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Pressman\u003c/a> and musician and engineer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/07/allen-sudduth-santa-rosa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen Sudduth\u003c/a>, who both lost their homes and tools of their trade. Artists like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/01/after-the-fire-a-simple-rose-speaks-a-thousand-words/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikayla Butchart\u003c/a> and galleries like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/25/how-to-help-fire-survivors-through-art/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agent Ink\u003c/a> donating their talents and time to help raise thousands of dollars for fire relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These stories go on and on and on. We may still be a small town in many ways. But we have a big reserve of ingenuity and smarts when it comes to helping each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A small flower among the charred remains in Larkfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small flower among the charred remains in Larkfield. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter I left my former house on Angela Drive, I drove the roads of my old bus route. The school where I learned to skateboard. The restaurant where I celebrated getting engaged. The old La Mancha Apartments, where I’d fallen hard on my bike; I still have the scar. Past my friend Brandon’s house, and Jake’s house, and Eric’s house. All ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear with me here: The homes in Mark West Estates, where Sarah and Stacy and Mark all lived—gone. The east wing of the Luther Burbank Center, where I had my first kiss on the playground in kindergarten—gone. Cricklewood, where I’d bring friends for prime rib on their birthday—gone. Up the hill, Rancho Wikiup, where I officiated my little sister’s wedding—gone. Houses on Brighton Drive and Chelsea Drive and Dorchester Drive and Lambert Drive—gone, gone, gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I enumerate all this for a reason. This was just a one-mile stretch in Larkfield. Take the above memories and connections and multiply them by every region affected, and every resident, and you begin to understand the scale of destruction. Between Santa Rosa, Napa, Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Sonoma, Redwood Valley and more, the fires consumed \u003cem>281 square miles\u003c/em>. That’s equivalent to one thousand Disneylands. Over 5,000 homes burned completely to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, we still have a lot of people wondering what they’re going to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking near the charred border of Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking near the charred border of Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> can’t say what’s going to happen to my hometown. I know that wealthy people will be able to stay, while low-income residents, including teachers and servers and artists, have already had to move elsewhere. I know that Fountaingrove, the upper-class hilltop neighborhood where as a teenager I worked with my dad building houses, is awash in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7572376-181/fire-scorched-fountaingrove-in-santa-rosa?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">renewed controversy\u003c/a> over ridgetop ordinances and fire-zone warnings. I don’t know what’s going to happen with the site of the historic Fountaingrove Round Barn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither do I know what will become of the former home of our family friends \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Art-and-Suiko-Grant-A-decades-long-love-story-12278287.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art and Suiko Grant\u003c/a>, who sold me my first car, and who died in their house the night of the fires. I can’t say if another house will be built where my childhood home once stood—or, for that matter, the home of our neighbors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Le-Roy-and-Donna-Halbur-died-trying-to-flee-Tubbs-12274766.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leroy and Donna Halbur\u003c/a>, two houses down, who also didn’t make it out of the fire in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”hHIaa1SZ0D20tCq5PMko3cfoUm9ApRWc”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I know that we can do it, if only because we’ve been here before. Through the 1906 earthquake, the 1964 Hanly Fire, the 1969 earthquakes, the 1986 flood, there is a history of rising from our losses here with grit and spirit. Sometimes we’ve made mistakes in rebuilding from natural disasters, and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/25/up-from-the-ashes-a-panel-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we can learn from those\u003c/a>. But mostly, we can be inspired by the ways people took care of each other then, and how we continue to take care of each other now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also know that we’ll be telling stories about this month for the next 50 years. And I know that we’ll be sculpting — architecturally and demographically — the city to come. Santa Rosa and the entire affected region will now be, in our memories, two Santa Rosas: “before the fire” and “after the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How different will they look from one another? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen I got out of the car at my childhood home, I couldn’t look at first. I glanced up at the hills, then stared at the road. They’d repaved it since I lived here. I don’t know why I noticed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad joined me. We looked, and he said one word, in the eerie stillness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This house, on Angela Drive near the rural Santa Rosa neighborhood of Larkfield, was where I’d lived until I was 14. As my dad and I walked toward what little was left of it, every marker of growing up — my first bike, our wooden treehouse, my bedroom where I played Atari and listened to KREO — all of it came back to me in the burned-out ruins of our former home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"The ruins of the author's childhood home in Larkfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-768x520.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-1180x800.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-960x651.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-240x163.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-375x254.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.HouseGone-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ruins of the author’s childhood home in Larkfield. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the scarred front yard where we used to play catch on warm summer nights, my dad pointed out various building materials in the ash. A piece of mauve tile here. A cabinet hinge there. Floor joists, bathroom fixtures. The random ingredients of a home that survive, oddly recognizable now, certainly to my dad. When I was growing up, he’d built this entire house by himself, room by room, remodeling it from a former chicken coop into a home for our family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I trudged in foot-deep remains, retracing the floor plan I still have memorized, I was suddenly overwhelmed by how small it all felt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d had Christmases here, birthdays. We’d laughed and loved and cried and played in this house, my mom and dad and two sisters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All of that life couldn’t possibly have fit inside this 900-square-ft. grey rectangle on the ground\u003c/em>, I thought to myself. \u003cem>It just couldn’t\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A fallen freeway sign on Hwy. 101 in Santa Rosa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fallen freeway sign on Hwy. 101 in Santa Rosa. \u003ccite>(Liz Seward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s I write this, it’s 10:50pm, exactly one month after the fires began. Rain falls outside, almost as a cruel joke, the thing we needed most on Oct. 9. And although Santa Rosa has “turned the corner,” as the analysts and news anchors reporting on the fires’ containment have all told us, it doesn’t always feel that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If turning the corner means calls and texts not coming as frequently, donations slowing to a trickle, volunteers dwindling, out-of-town support waning, then sure, we’ve turned the corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The national media has left town, leaving everyone back at square one, with burned-down houses and GoFundMe accounts.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s lost a loved one knows this feeling. That lonesome period after the funeral, usually a month or so later. People stop asking you how you’re doing, friends stop bringing you food. You feel like the world is silently telling you that you should be doing fine. But you aren’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where Santa Rosa is now. The national media has left town, leaving everyone back at square one, with burned-down houses and GoFundMe accounts. The unity we once felt so #strongly has given way to uncertainty and occasional infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve also seen goodwill and charity co-opted or twisted. ‘Santa Rosa Strong’ T-Shirts sold by \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/586292148428439/permalink/616124328778554/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">companies that don’t donate profits to fire relief\u003c/a> like they’d promised. The housing market, already untenable with \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5347744-181/sonoma-county-supervisors-make-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skyrocketing rents and a 1-percent vacancy rate\u003c/a> before the fire, now seeing \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7559748-181/rents-rise-after-sonoma-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rents jump 36 percent\u003c/a> across Sonoma County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/to-witt/Content?oid=4383340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lobbyists and developers\u003c/a> jockeying for rebuilding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all sadly common. I’ve seen it play out in other cities, from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/BohoBlog/archives/2011/02/16/the-1986-guerneville-flood-photo-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guerneville floods\u003c/a> of my youth to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghost Ship fire\u003c/a> just last year. We’re in an uncomfortable period of transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13813990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13813990\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Laura Sudduth finds a pair of dimond earings she recived in the eight grade amost the remains of her childhood home in Coffey Park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Laura-Sudduth-finds-a-pair-of-dimond-earings-she-recived-in-the-eight-grade-amost-the-remains-of-her-childhood-home-in-Coffee-park-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laura Sudduth finds a pair of diamond earrings she received in the eighth grade among the remains of her childhood home in Coffey Park. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzales)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here’s what else I know: that we’re tough enough and smart enough to get through this phase. As the editor overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/up-from-the-ashes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all the fire stories we’ve covered\u003c/a> here at KQED Arts, I’ve seen how artists are often the first to make sense of a senseless disaster. People like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/07/watch-a-santa-rosa-cartoonists-a-fire-story-come-to-life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Fies\u003c/a>, who translated his experience of losing his house and all its belongings into comics form, who provided understanding and catharsis for those still hurting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I see people who have lost everything with an intense determination for their own recovery — and the will to further upend their lives helping others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the story of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/11/08/after-heroic-efforts-by-restaurateurs-north-bay-restaurants-are-still-here-and-need-your-support/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark and Terri Stark\u003c/a>, who lost Willi’s Wine Bar but kept their other restaurants open to feed evacuees. There’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/30/no-house-few-belongings-an-artist-resolves-to-help-kids-heal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clementine Lee\u003c/a>, who arranged for her team of face-painters to keep evacuated children happy even after her own house burned down. There’s the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/08/amidst-its-own-loss-a-santa-rosa-violin-shop-assists-fire-victims/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loveland Violin Shop\u003c/a> loaning instruments to students whose violins burned in the fire, even as the owners’ longtime home is completely gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The musical community stepping up to donate to radio host \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/04/a-musical-healing-on-the-airwaves/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Pressman\u003c/a> and musician and engineer \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/07/allen-sudduth-santa-rosa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen Sudduth\u003c/a>, who both lost their homes and tools of their trade. Artists like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/01/after-the-fire-a-simple-rose-speaks-a-thousand-words/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikayla Butchart\u003c/a> and galleries like \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/25/how-to-help-fire-survivors-through-art/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agent Ink\u003c/a> donating their talents and time to help raise thousands of dollars for fire relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These stories go on and on and on. We may still be a small town in many ways. But we have a big reserve of ingenuity and smarts when it comes to helping each other out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A small flower among the charred remains in Larkfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Flower-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A small flower among the charred remains in Larkfield. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter I left my former house on Angela Drive, I drove the roads of my old bus route. The school where I learned to skateboard. The restaurant where I celebrated getting engaged. The old La Mancha Apartments, where I’d fallen hard on my bike; I still have the scar. Past my friend Brandon’s house, and Jake’s house, and Eric’s house. All ruins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bear with me here: The homes in Mark West Estates, where Sarah and Stacy and Mark all lived—gone. The east wing of the Luther Burbank Center, where I had my first kiss on the playground in kindergarten—gone. Cricklewood, where I’d bring friends for prime rib on their birthday—gone. Up the hill, Rancho Wikiup, where I officiated my little sister’s wedding—gone. Houses on Brighton Drive and Chelsea Drive and Dorchester Drive and Lambert Drive—gone, gone, gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I enumerate all this for a reason. This was just a one-mile stretch in Larkfield. Take the above memories and connections and multiply them by every region affected, and every resident, and you begin to understand the scale of destruction. Between Santa Rosa, Napa, Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Sonoma, Redwood Valley and more, the fires consumed \u003cem>281 square miles\u003c/em>. That’s equivalent to one thousand Disneylands. Over 5,000 homes burned completely to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, we still have a lot of people wondering what they’re going to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13814260\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13814260\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Hiking near the charred border of Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/11/Fire.Quarry.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiking near the charred border of Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellen. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> can’t say what’s going to happen to my hometown. I know that wealthy people will be able to stay, while low-income residents, including teachers and servers and artists, have already had to move elsewhere. I know that Fountaingrove, the upper-class hilltop neighborhood where as a teenager I worked with my dad building houses, is awash in \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7572376-181/fire-scorched-fountaingrove-in-santa-rosa?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">renewed controversy\u003c/a> over ridgetop ordinances and fire-zone warnings. I don’t know what’s going to happen with the site of the historic Fountaingrove Round Barn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither do I know what will become of the former home of our family friends \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Art-and-Suiko-Grant-A-decades-long-love-story-12278287.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art and Suiko Grant\u003c/a>, who sold me my first car, and who died in their house the night of the fires. I can’t say if another house will be built where my childhood home once stood—or, for that matter, the home of our neighbors \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Le-Roy-and-Donna-Halbur-died-trying-to-flee-Tubbs-12274766.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leroy and Donna Halbur\u003c/a>, two houses down, who also didn’t make it out of the fire in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I know that we can do it, if only because we’ve been here before. Through the 1906 earthquake, the 1964 Hanly Fire, the 1969 earthquakes, the 1986 flood, there is a history of rising from our losses here with grit and spirit. Sometimes we’ve made mistakes in rebuilding from natural disasters, and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/10/25/up-from-the-ashes-a-panel-discussion/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we can learn from those\u003c/a>. But mostly, we can be inspired by the ways people took care of each other then, and how we continue to take care of each other now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also know that we’ll be telling stories about this month for the next 50 years. And I know that we’ll be sculpting — architecturally and demographically — the city to come. Santa Rosa and the entire affected region will now be, in our memories, two Santa Rosas: “before the fire” and “after the fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How different will they look from one another? From here on out, that’s up to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>America loves to watch a woman fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prettier she is, the more magnetic her presence, the less attainable her talents, the better. The swan dive from good graces is longer, then, and that much more satisfying. On some subconscious level, I’d wager, it’s what we think she deserves; the scales of justice balancing themselves; due punishment for those who would dare to have it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13807423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the sick logic that lingered in my stomach last week as the credits rolled on \u003cem>Whitney: Can I Be Me\u003c/em>, the new documentary chronicling the rise and fall of a woman considered by some to be the best singer of all time. A literally breathtaking talent. That smile. That \u003cem>voice\u003c/em>. Houston died alone, in a bathtub, at 48. I turned down the volume, took off my headphones, and sat with the feeling: sadness, frustration, guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around me, on a darkened airplane, people were sleeping, or watching separate, small, silently flashing screens: \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> or \u003cem>When Harry Met Sally\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Baby Driver\u003c/em>. We were crossing the Atlantic Ocean, headed home to the U.S. after two weeks in Europe, two weeks I’d spent trying to enjoy simple things like ancient architecture and wine at lunch, without being suctioned into the vortex of Twitter and cable news and Trump’s latest horrors and oh god, the entirety of the monstrous Harvey Weinstein mountain tumbling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me.jpg\" alt=\"'Whitney: Can I Be Me' was released this year.\" width=\"710\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-240x127.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-375x198.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-520x275.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ was released in August 2017. \u003ccite>(Showtime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My success rate was dismal, of course, especially on that last one. Something unavoidable was shifting —\u003cem> is\u003c/em> shifting — and it’s for the better; I know that. Women are talking. Women are screaming. Women are flying blimps overhead bearing 12-foot-high banners that read \u003cem>This can’t just be how it is anymore. We’re f-cking DONE\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney\u003c/em> provided a short detour for my rage on that flight, a side street, if you will, on my already considerable map of anger. Because as long as our culture views female bodies and voices as commodities — which is of course not just an ingrained belief but the basis of entire industries: massive, tentacular economic systems — we are going to keep killing talented women. The least we could do is stop acting surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s a formula to how we chew up and spit out young female entertainers by now, and you know it as well as I do: we track the rise of a new It Girl who’s somewhere between the ages of 12 and 19. There are drooling \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> profiles, best-dressed lists at awards shows. A few years later, she “goes bad” — addiction, mental illness, abusive relationships, nonsensical tweets — and \u003ca href=\"http://www.contactmusic.com/britney-spears/news/britney-spears-2007-breakdown-a-timeline-of-the-darker-years-and-her-eventual-climb-back-to-stability_3823491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we make a spectacle of it\u003c/a>, barely containing our collective glee. Bored at the office, we make chit-chat with coworkers, mocking each social media post, every failed rehab attempt; \u003ca href=\"http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/amanda-bynes-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she becomes a punchline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, when said It Girl dies, we get a sorrowful documentary with a sneaky, snaking narrative underneath about the inevitability of it all. Her death was tragic, we are told, but also fated somehow. Romantic, even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy\u003c/em>, the 2015 documentary about another startlingly talented woman done in by the demons of fame and addiction, skillfully and rightfully implicated you and I — the viewers — in this entire arc. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/22/why-cant-we-leave-amy-winehouse-alone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We rubbernecked\u003c/a>, we were reminded, at every trainwreck of a tabloid story. Her hit single was about refusing to get help, and it was sexy as hell — even as photos screamed \u003cem>This is a person killing herself\u003c/em>. Her father was a piece of work, to be sure, as were her romantic partners. But we were \u003cem>all\u003c/em> complicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Whitney Houston in the video for 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitney Houston in the video for ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody.’ \u003ccite>(Arista Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney\u003c/em> didn’t drive this narrative home quite as forcefully as I might have liked, but in its place was a whole other one, full of ugly truths about racism and homophobia and the very narrow boxes we allow women to occupy. Whitney Houston was under every bit as much pressure as any starlet ever has been — \u003cem>and\u003c/em> she was black. It might be tough to imagine in 2017, when Beyoncé’s domination borders on theocracy, but it wasn’t so long ago that R&B did not drive pop culture; black women in particular were almost entirely absent from the mainstream charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Houston had to be not just a perfect singer, not just a perfect-looking woman, but a perfect representative for all black women: an ambassador to the white pop world.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Whitney was selected specifically to change that. Fresh out of high school, already a \u003cem>Seventeen\u003c/em> cover girl and a backup singer for Chaka Khan, she landed in the hands of Clive Davis, who molded her career with the explicit intention of creating the perfect crossover artist. To accomplish this, Houston had to be not just a perfect singer, not just a perfect-looking woman, but a perfect representative for \u003cem>all\u003c/em> black women: an ambassador to the white pop world. Her image — crafted at the direction of a white man 30 years her senior — was calculated, coy, and inoffensive. And then there was the real Whitney shining through: sweet, eager to please, a little rough around the edges, with charm for miles and a voice unlike anything the world had heard before or since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To say it worked is an understatement. She was the first black woman to receive real rotation on MTV. Her self-titled 1985 debut was, at the time, the best-selling debut album by a solo artist ever. Her foray into acting yielded a blockbuster movie and perhaps the single best song to ever appear on a motion picture soundtrack (and certainly the best key change). She’s received \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Whitney_Houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so many awards\u003c/a> I’d need a whole other column just to list them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWTaaS7LdU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also paid the costs. At the 1989 Soul Train Awards, when her name was read as a nominee, she got booed. \u003cem>Loudly\u003c/em>. The Soul Train Awards are about black music, and the show had a largely black audience. The daughter of a gospel singer, raised in a tight-knit black community, she was now perceived as having sold out: her music was “too white.” Those close to her said it broke her heart. It is maybe no coincidence that this is also the night she met Bobby Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he saddest moment in the film arrives, however, when Houston’s best friend from high school and likely sometime-girlfriend, Robyn Crawford, is forcibly removed from the singer’s circle. She had always clashed with Brown (who was cheating left and right by this point, and enabling if not pushing Houston’s drug use). But more importantly, bisexuality rumors did not fit into the story Houston’s people were selling. Crawford didn’t participate in the documentary, but it’s clear that as Houston began her dive toward rock bottom with drugs and alcohol, this friend was one of the last people left who truly wanted the best for the singer. Gone. And that’s about when the media began to cover Whitney Houston like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13812868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner.jpg 560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-240x139.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-375x218.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America loves to watch a woman fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that’s not even getting into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ellen_Tuchman/publication/43227854_Women_and_Addiction_The_Importance_of_Gender_Issues_in_Substance_Abuse_Research/links/00b7d53287b97279c2000000/Women-and-Addiction-The-Importance-of-Gender-Issues-in-Substance-Abuse-Research.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social stigmas women face with regard to addiction\u003c/a>; how often they hide it compared to men and why; how very rarely we as a culture forgive them. Bobby Brown has been arrested for driving under the influence and attended rehab about a half-dozen times since Whitney died in 2012. Their daughter died under circumstances similar to her mother in 2015. Brown remarried, and by all accounts he’s doing fine. At the very least: the tabloids don’t care \u003cem>what\u003c/em> he’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I’m sick of romantic eulogies for people done in by industry abuse\u003c/em> is another sentence that kept popping up in my brain this past week, as former It Girl Lindsay Lohan said some not-so-eloquently phrased things about the alleged assault she suffered at the hands of her former fiancé, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmagazine.com/story/lindsay-lohan-ex-fiance-abuse-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how few women in America seemed to care\u003c/a>. Lohan is problematic AF, as the kids say, but this statement — no matter how awkwardly issued — had the ring of grotesque truth. I have laughed at LiLo messes; my personal favorite involves the 2007 arrest in which a police officer found cocaine in her pants pocket, and Lohan’s response was “These aren’t my pants.” You gotta hand it to her, right? Funny stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Whitney Houston on the video screen onstage during the 2012 BET Awards on July 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.Memorial-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of Whitney Houston on the video screen onstage during the 2012 BET Awards on July 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Christopher Polk/Getty Images For BET)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But I also bet you one million dollars that when Lohan dies, there will be sad documentaries, morose op-eds chronicling her rise and fall. This was inevitable, their narratives will say, throwing up their hands: we certainly couldn’t have stopped it. \u003cem>Nope, America’s expectations for young women didn’t slowly but surely kill this human being\u003c/em>. I will gobble up said documentaries and articles. I will do this the way I have read everything I possibly can about Brittany Murphy. I will do it and I will feel like shit about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked out of SFO that day to the smell of burning homes, burning livelihoods, 60 miles north. Half the state of California was on fire and it was horrible and sickening and sickeningly appropriate, also, for the state of the world. In between photos of fire and devastation, my Facebook feed was all women describing their sexual assaults in varying degrees of stomach-churning detail. It’s been hard to watch, hard to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But somewhere under the nausea, for me, there’s also a kernel of hope. It has to do with that old cliché but reliable line about the cleansing power of sunlight on truth, I think. Who knows, but at the moment I’m hopeful I won’t be hearing these same stories in 2037.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, we have no choice but to hear them. Headed into the city, I inhaled the smoky air and thought, \u003cem>Welcome home, this is America at the moment, and headphones won’t help you\u003c/em>. There’s no turning down the volume right now, no changing the channel, and that’s a good thing. But it also makes sense that, in so many ways right now, it’s simply very difficult to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Emma Silvers lives in San Francisco. Find her on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emmaruthless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>America loves to watch a woman fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prettier she is, the more magnetic her presence, the less attainable her talents, the better. The swan dive from good graces is longer, then, and that much more satisfying. On some subconscious level, I’d wager, it’s what we think she deserves; the scales of justice balancing themselves; due punishment for those who would dare to have it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13807423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-160x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/EmmaSilvers.Headshot.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the sick logic that lingered in my stomach last week as the credits rolled on \u003cem>Whitney: Can I Be Me\u003c/em>, the new documentary chronicling the rise and fall of a woman considered by some to be the best singer of all time. A literally breathtaking talent. That smile. That \u003cem>voice\u003c/em>. Houston died alone, in a bathtub, at 48. I turned down the volume, took off my headphones, and sat with the feeling: sadness, frustration, guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around me, on a darkened airplane, people were sleeping, or watching separate, small, silently flashing screens: \u003cem>Friends\u003c/em> or \u003cem>When Harry Met Sally\u003c/em> or \u003cem>Baby Driver\u003c/em>. We were crossing the Atlantic Ocean, headed home to the U.S. after two weeks in Europe, two weeks I’d spent trying to enjoy simple things like ancient architecture and wine at lunch, without being suctioned into the vortex of Twitter and cable news and Trump’s latest horrors and oh god, the entirety of the monstrous Harvey Weinstein mountain tumbling down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me.jpg\" alt=\"'Whitney: Can I Be Me' was released this year.\" width=\"710\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-240x127.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-375x198.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney-can-i-be-me-520x275.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ was released in August 2017. \u003ccite>(Showtime)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My success rate was dismal, of course, especially on that last one. Something unavoidable was shifting —\u003cem> is\u003c/em> shifting — and it’s for the better; I know that. Women are talking. Women are screaming. Women are flying blimps overhead bearing 12-foot-high banners that read \u003cem>This can’t just be how it is anymore. We’re f-cking DONE\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney\u003c/em> provided a short detour for my rage on that flight, a side street, if you will, on my already considerable map of anger. Because as long as our culture views female bodies and voices as commodities — which is of course not just an ingrained belief but the basis of entire industries: massive, tentacular economic systems — we are going to keep killing talented women. The least we could do is stop acting surprised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s a formula to how we chew up and spit out young female entertainers by now, and you know it as well as I do: we track the rise of a new It Girl who’s somewhere between the ages of 12 and 19. There are drooling \u003cem>GQ\u003c/em> profiles, best-dressed lists at awards shows. A few years later, she “goes bad” — addiction, mental illness, abusive relationships, nonsensical tweets — and \u003ca href=\"http://www.contactmusic.com/britney-spears/news/britney-spears-2007-breakdown-a-timeline-of-the-darker-years-and-her-eventual-climb-back-to-stability_3823491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we make a spectacle of it\u003c/a>, barely containing our collective glee. Bored at the office, we make chit-chat with coworkers, mocking each social media post, every failed rehab attempt; \u003ca href=\"http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/amanda-bynes-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she becomes a punchline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, when said It Girl dies, we get a sorrowful documentary with a sneaky, snaking narrative underneath about the inevitability of it all. Her death was tragic, we are told, but also fated somehow. Romantic, even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Amy\u003c/em>, the 2015 documentary about another startlingly talented woman done in by the demons of fame and addiction, skillfully and rightfully implicated you and I — the viewers — in this entire arc. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/22/why-cant-we-leave-amy-winehouse-alone/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We rubbernecked\u003c/a>, we were reminded, at every trainwreck of a tabloid story. Her hit single was about refusing to get help, and it was sexy as hell — even as photos screamed \u003cem>This is a person killing herself\u003c/em>. Her father was a piece of work, to be sure, as were her romantic partners. But we were \u003cem>all\u003c/em> complicit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Whitney Houston in the video for 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-768x508.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-240x159.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-375x248.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Whitney.WannaDance-520x344.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitney Houston in the video for ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody.’ \u003ccite>(Arista Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Whitney\u003c/em> didn’t drive this narrative home quite as forcefully as I might have liked, but in its place was a whole other one, full of ugly truths about racism and homophobia and the very narrow boxes we allow women to occupy. Whitney Houston was under every bit as much pressure as any starlet ever has been — \u003cem>and\u003c/em> she was black. It might be tough to imagine in 2017, when Beyoncé’s domination borders on theocracy, but it wasn’t so long ago that R&B did not drive pop culture; black women in particular were almost entirely absent from the mainstream charts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Houston had to be not just a perfect singer, not just a perfect-looking woman, but a perfect representative for all black women: an ambassador to the white pop world.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Whitney was selected specifically to change that. Fresh out of high school, already a \u003cem>Seventeen\u003c/em> cover girl and a backup singer for Chaka Khan, she landed in the hands of Clive Davis, who molded her career with the explicit intention of creating the perfect crossover artist. To accomplish this, Houston had to be not just a perfect singer, not just a perfect-looking woman, but a perfect representative for \u003cem>all\u003c/em> black women: an ambassador to the white pop world. Her image — crafted at the direction of a white man 30 years her senior — was calculated, coy, and inoffensive. And then there was the real Whitney shining through: sweet, eager to please, a little rough around the edges, with charm for miles and a voice unlike anything the world had heard before or since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To say it worked is an understatement. She was the first black woman to receive real rotation on MTV. Her self-titled 1985 debut was, at the time, the best-selling debut album by a solo artist ever. Her foray into acting yielded a blockbuster movie and perhaps the single best song to ever appear on a motion picture soundtrack (and certainly the best key change). She’s received \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Whitney_Houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">so many awards\u003c/a> I’d need a whole other column just to list them.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3JWTaaS7LdU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3JWTaaS7LdU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>She also paid the costs. At the 1989 Soul Train Awards, when her name was read as a nominee, she got booed. \u003cem>Loudly\u003c/em>. The Soul Train Awards are about black music, and the show had a largely black audience. The daughter of a gospel singer, raised in a tight-knit black community, she was now perceived as having sold out: her music was “too white.” Those close to her said it broke her heart. It is maybe no coincidence that this is also the night she met Bobby Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he saddest moment in the film arrives, however, when Houston’s best friend from high school and likely sometime-girlfriend, Robyn Crawford, is forcibly removed from the singer’s circle. She had always clashed with Brown (who was cheating left and right by this point, and enabling if not pushing Houston’s drug use). But more importantly, bisexuality rumors did not fit into the story Houston’s people were selling. Crawford didn’t participate in the documentary, but it’s clear that as Houston began her dive toward rock bottom with drugs and alcohol, this friend was one of the last people left who truly wanted the best for the singer. Gone. And that’s about when the media began to cover Whitney Houston like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13812868\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner.jpg 560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-240x139.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-375x218.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/whitney.Examiner-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America loves to watch a woman fall apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that’s not even getting into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ellen_Tuchman/publication/43227854_Women_and_Addiction_The_Importance_of_Gender_Issues_in_Substance_Abuse_Research/links/00b7d53287b97279c2000000/Women-and-Addiction-The-Importance-of-Gender-Issues-in-Substance-Abuse-Research.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social stigmas women face with regard to addiction\u003c/a>; how often they hide it compared to men and why; how very rarely we as a culture forgive them. Bobby Brown has been arrested for driving under the influence and attended rehab about a half-dozen times since Whitney died in 2012. Their daughter died under circumstances similar to her mother in 2015. Brown remarried, and by all accounts he’s doing fine. At the very least: the tabloids don’t care \u003cem>what\u003c/em> he’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I’m sick of romantic eulogies for people done in by industry abuse\u003c/em> is another sentence that kept popping up in my brain this past week, as former It Girl Lindsay Lohan said some not-so-eloquently phrased things about the alleged assault she suffered at the hands of her former fiancé, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.wmagazine.com/story/lindsay-lohan-ex-fiance-abuse-instagram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how few women in America seemed to care\u003c/a>. Lohan is problematic AF, as the kids say, but this statement — no matter how awkwardly issued — had the ring of grotesque truth. I have laughed at LiLo messes; my personal favorite involves the 2007 arrest in which a police officer found cocaine in her pants pocket, and Lohan’s response was “These aren’t my pants.” You gotta hand it to her, right? 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This was inevitable, their narratives will say, throwing up their hands: we certainly couldn’t have stopped it. \u003cem>Nope, America’s expectations for young women didn’t slowly but surely kill this human being\u003c/em>. I will gobble up said documentaries and articles. I will do this the way I have read everything I possibly can about Brittany Murphy. I will do it and I will feel like shit about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked out of SFO that day to the smell of burning homes, burning livelihoods, 60 miles north. Half the state of California was on fire and it was horrible and sickening and sickeningly appropriate, also, for the state of the world. In between photos of fire and devastation, my Facebook feed was all women describing their sexual assaults in varying degrees of stomach-churning detail. It’s been hard to watch, hard to read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But somewhere under the nausea, for me, there’s also a kernel of hope. It has to do with that old cliché but reliable line about the cleansing power of sunlight on truth, I think. Who knows, but at the moment I’m hopeful I won’t be hearing these same stories in 2037.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, we have no choice but to hear them. Headed into the city, I inhaled the smoky air and thought, \u003cem>Welcome home, this is America at the moment, and headphones won’t help you\u003c/em>. There’s no turning down the volume right now, no changing the channel, and that’s a good thing. 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"content": "\u003cp>“There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I broke my stride and pumped the brakes on the baby stroller I was pushing. There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt — I said it aloud, but the only person within earshot was my daughter, and she’s only a year old, so she didn’t understand. Someone. Is fishing. In Lake Merritt. I didn’t understand it either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I momentarily postponed the conclusion of my clockwise lap, just long enough to take a photo of the sherbet-colored fall evening sky, the ideal backdrop for the image of someone not just fishing in Lake Merritt, but standing in it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was he doing? Fly-fishing? \u003cem>Does he know that’s Lake Merritt\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions cascaded as I continued to the car. More than anything, I wondered: What was he going to catch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, I posted the photo and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/922636615305986048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posed the question\u003c/a> to the social media world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/922636615305986048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answers ranged from “Cassette single of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqQwzgixHAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MC Hammer’s ‘Addams Groove’\u003c/a>” to “A Sharkeisha.” A couple people suggested he might be attempting to reel in a Ford Bike, as a handful of the bicycles were \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BE_DIZZLE/status/922502743817719808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrown into the water\u003c/a> earlier that same day. Another guy added a photo of himself and a friend cruising the lake on an inflatable couch, suggesting that the fisherman might be hoping to catch a sofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of the jokes, some serious replies emerged. The actual medical terminology for diseases related to consuming contaminated water was added to the discussion: \u003cem>Shigellosis Giardia Amoebiasis\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was sent a link to info about lakeside sightings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/oakland/comments/2e28y1/bioluminescence_in_lake_merritt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bioluminescent organisms\u003c/a>, and another about the rare \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/biodiversity/enigmatica/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transorchestia Enigmatica\u003c/a>, a small beach hopper that hasn’t been spotted anywhere in the world outside of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt.jpg\" alt=\"A sea hare in Lake Merritt.\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt.jpg 760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea hare in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Jef Poskanzer / Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was even sent a photo of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jef_poskanzer/status/922657889679917056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sea Hare\u003c/a>. And when I saw it, I almost lost my lunch. Evidently, the obscure looking thingamabob \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an alien species sent to attack us — the large member of the sea slug family can often be found in the lake’s water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fish can be found there too: stripers, bat rays and gobies frequent the Lake Merritt’s southern channel. The channel has recently undergone construction and experienced improvements of the waterway, thanks to funding from Oakland’s Measure DD. Aside from the controlled tidal gates, there’s a direct connection to the San Francisco Bay, making Lake Merritt technically a tidal lagoon instead of a lake. And because of the enhancement efforts, it’s open to a lot more life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-800x419.jpg\" alt=\"An inflatable couch in Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-800x419.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-768x402.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-1020x534.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-1180x618.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-960x502.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-240x126.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-375x196.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-520x272.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable couch in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Philip Banks / Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jude Cormier, who often fishes at the lake, told me, “I’d been waiting my whole lifetime to throw my line out there.” The 43 year-old Oakland native acknowledged the history of the lake’s rancidness, saying the lake had never been this clean in his life. “Now that they’ve cleaned up the ecological structure of the lake, they’ve got all kinds of fish running through there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Robinson, Executive Director of the Lake Merritt Institute, agreed that the lake is cleaner that it’s ever been. He added that the new channel structures have allowed more creatures to come through: “We even had a sighting of a harbor seal recently.” But he subsequently noted that the lake also receives water through over 60 unfiltered urban storm drains, which can pose health threats. Plus, he said the fish swimming in from the bay have another issue: “You have to deal with mercury, which can appear in the larger fish that people tend to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So fishing in Lake Merritt isn’t too different than fishing off the coast of Alameda, off the Berkeley pier, or at Point Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard to accept. Maybe it’s the fact that years ago, the lake was dredged because of fecal matter buildup. Or, maybe it’s the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNA2YIAVoAAFzFL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there was a car in the lake\u003c/a> just yesterday!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt.jpg\" alt=\"A car in Lake Merritt.\" width=\"725\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt.jpg 725w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-240x191.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-375x299.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-520x415.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt is beautiful. It’s a great place to hang out with friends. I take pride in the fact that it was the first wildlife refuge established in the nation. I even applaud the fact there are more and more thriving organisms due to healthier waterways. And if you can land the big catch, more power to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if I’m jogging the lake, and I see you holding a fishing pole and inviting me to your fish fry, I’m still going to run right by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I broke my stride and pumped the brakes on the baby stroller I was pushing. There’s someone fishing in Lake Merritt — I said it aloud, but the only person within earshot was my daughter, and she’s only a year old, so she didn’t understand. Someone. Is fishing. In Lake Merritt. I didn’t understand it either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I momentarily postponed the conclusion of my clockwise lap, just long enough to take a photo of the sherbet-colored fall evening sky, the ideal backdrop for the image of someone not just fishing in Lake Merritt, but standing in it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was he doing? Fly-fishing? \u003cem>Does he know that’s Lake Merritt\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questions cascaded as I continued to the car. More than anything, I wondered: What was he going to catch?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, I posted the photo and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/922636615305986048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posed the question\u003c/a> to the social media world.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Answers ranged from “Cassette single of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqQwzgixHAM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MC Hammer’s ‘Addams Groove’\u003c/a>” to “A Sharkeisha.” A couple people suggested he might be attempting to reel in a Ford Bike, as a handful of the bicycles were \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BE_DIZZLE/status/922502743817719808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrown into the water\u003c/a> earlier that same day. Another guy added a photo of himself and a friend cruising the lake on an inflatable couch, suggesting that the fisherman might be hoping to catch a sofa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of the jokes, some serious replies emerged. The actual medical terminology for diseases related to consuming contaminated water was added to the discussion: \u003cem>Shigellosis Giardia Amoebiasis\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was sent a link to info about lakeside sightings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/oakland/comments/2e28y1/bioluminescence_in_lake_merritt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bioluminescent organisms\u003c/a>, and another about the rare \u003ca href=\"https://baynature.org/biodiversity/enigmatica/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transorchestia Enigmatica\u003c/a>, a small beach hopper that hasn’t been spotted anywhere in the world outside of Lake Merritt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812863\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt.jpg\" alt=\"A sea hare in Lake Merritt.\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt.jpg 760w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/seahares.lakemerritt-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sea hare in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Jef Poskanzer / Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was even sent a photo of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jef_poskanzer/status/922657889679917056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sea Hare\u003c/a>. And when I saw it, I almost lost my lunch. Evidently, the obscure looking thingamabob \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> an alien species sent to attack us — the large member of the sea slug family can often be found in the lake’s water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fish can be found there too: stripers, bat rays and gobies frequent the Lake Merritt’s southern channel. The channel has recently undergone construction and experienced improvements of the waterway, thanks to funding from Oakland’s Measure DD. Aside from the controlled tidal gates, there’s a direct connection to the San Francisco Bay, making Lake Merritt technically a tidal lagoon instead of a lake. And because of the enhancement efforts, it’s open to a lot more life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-800x419.jpg\" alt=\"An inflatable couch in Lake Merritt. \" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-800x419.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-768x402.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-1020x534.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-1180x618.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-960x502.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-240x126.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-375x196.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt-520x272.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Couch.LakeMerritt.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inflatable couch in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Philip Banks / Twitter)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jude Cormier, who often fishes at the lake, told me, “I’d been waiting my whole lifetime to throw my line out there.” The 43 year-old Oakland native acknowledged the history of the lake’s rancidness, saying the lake had never been this clean in his life. “Now that they’ve cleaned up the ecological structure of the lake, they’ve got all kinds of fish running through there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Robinson, Executive Director of the Lake Merritt Institute, agreed that the lake is cleaner that it’s ever been. He added that the new channel structures have allowed more creatures to come through: “We even had a sighting of a harbor seal recently.” But he subsequently noted that the lake also receives water through over 60 unfiltered urban storm drains, which can pose health threats. Plus, he said the fish swimming in from the bay have another issue: “You have to deal with mercury, which can appear in the larger fish that people tend to eat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So fishing in Lake Merritt isn’t too different than fishing off the coast of Alameda, off the Berkeley pier, or at Point Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s hard to accept. Maybe it’s the fact that years ago, the lake was dredged because of fecal matter buildup. Or, maybe it’s the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNA2YIAVoAAFzFL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there was a car in the lake\u003c/a> just yesterday!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13812860\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt.jpg\" alt=\"A car in Lake Merritt.\" width=\"725\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt.jpg 725w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-240x191.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-375x299.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Car.Lake_.Merritt-520x415.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car in Lake Merritt. \u003ccite>(via Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake Merritt is beautiful. It’s a great place to hang out with friends. I take pride in the fact that it was the first wildlife refuge established in the nation. I even applaud the fact there are more and more thriving organisms due to healthier waterways. And if you can land the big catch, more power to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if I’m jogging the lake, and I see you holding a fishing pole and inviting me to your fish fry, I’m still going to run right by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pendarvis Harshaw is the author of ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-og-harshaw-20170409-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OG Told Me\u003c/a>,’ a memoir about growing up in Oakland. Find him on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Why is Lil B \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm3dew/facebook-confirms-it-has-banned-rapper-lil-b-for-hate-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned from Facebook\u003c/a> for calling out white supremacy when dozens of \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> white supremacists roam free on the platform?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question many have asked in the weeks since the East Bay rapper was temporarily booted from his own Facebook page — and the answer reveals what the current free-speech debate gets wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free speech is the right to say what we want without fear of government censorship, but the term is becoming polarized with the recent rise of white supremacists and neo-Nazis on the far right. In response to liberal outrage against these hate groups, many people and institutions — like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-could-you-represent-someone-milo-yiannopoulos?redirect=blog/speak-freely/how-could-you-represent-someone-milo-yiannopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACLU\u003c/a> — have become concerned with defending extreme right-wing speech to preserve the sanctity of free speech for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what separates free speech from hate speech is the intent to incite violence: In September, for example, Milo Yiannopolous posted photos and identifying information of two UC Berkeley students who vocally opposed his campus appearance, exposing them to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/21/uc-berkeley-students-harassed-after-milo-yiannopoulos-publicly-identifies-them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death threats from his supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s disconcerting enough. But as Joseph Bernstein revealed in his Buzzfeed report, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.ymY5Jq0YB#.xprqLdKBZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream\u003c/a>,” even while Yiannopoulos may not explicitly call for violence against minorities himself, he sources his ideology directly from white supremacists and neo-Nazis who advocate for ethnic cleansing. It follows, then, that violence seems to trail Yiannopoulos wherever he goes: For the past month since his Sept. 24 appearance in Berkeley, for instance, his supporters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/75137-revolution-books-confronted-by-conservative-activists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led a harassment campaign\u003c/a> against Berkeley’s Revolution Books, at one point elbowing a bookstore supporter in the face and breaking his glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s ironic that while well-meaning liberals and moderates rally around protecting neo-Nazis’ free speech, people like Lil B who are most vulnerable to real-life ramifications of hate speech are censored on social media platforms for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do the white nationalist or the kkk or Neo nazis really hate me? I don’t belive it and I love them ! I’m serious I love all humans – Lil B\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LILBTHEBASEDGOD/status/915662818065752066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Facebook operates from the “\u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59dvxb/rapper-lil-b-sent-us-the-posts-facebook-calls-hate-speech-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">race neutral\u003c/a>” point of view that all speech is created equal, so arguments against white supremacy — especially ones that use generalizations about whiteness or white people — get swept into the same category as racists’ posts that target marginalized groups. Lil B sent \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59dvxb/rapper-lil-b-sent-us-the-posts-facebook-calls-hate-speech-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherboard\u003c/a> a photo of the Facebook posts that got him banned for 30 days: “White people are the only ones who really love they guns U can tell they are violent people! I don’t live in fear I don’t have a gun,” he wrote in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WHITE PEOPLE SO SCARED THEY THE REASON GUNS ARE A PROBLEM,” reads his other post. “IF WHITE PEOPLE PUT DOWN THE GUNZ WE ALL BE SAFE BUT NOPE! THEY VILENT [sic].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812805\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-800x1066.jpeg\" alt=\"Lil B sent Motherboard photos of the posts that got him banned from Facebook. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-800x1066.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-520x693.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil B sent Motherboard photos of the posts that got him banned from Facebook. \u003ccite>(Lil B/Motherboard )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s followed Lil B on either Facebook or Twitter knows that he has an eccentric way of expressing himself online, but that he gears his posts towards promoting understanding across race, class, and gender lines. He often writes as if he’s thinking through controversial issues aloud in real time, and up until the Facebook ban, he had been posting prolifically about systemic racism and racial divisions in the current political climate. Someone who’s followed him for more than a few months would be able to tell that his posts about white people and guns were hyperbolic — and a legitimate reaction to the Las Vegas shooting and the oft-ignored issue of white terrorism in America. But Facebook’s content monitors clearly missed the nuance of his message and banned him based on two posts without considering their context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban for hate speech is particularly ironic given that Lil B is most famous using his social media platforms to preach positivity. As I’ve observed through following him on social media for nearly ten years, he mostly uses his platforms to advocate for human rights, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/12/17/thank-you-based-god-10-reasons-why-you-should-see-lil-b-this-weekend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">animal rights, and the environment\u003c/a> and promote peace. For instance, after A Boogie wit da Hoodie and his crew jumped Lil B at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/23/lil-b-a-boogie-squashed-beef-after-rolling-loud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Loud\u003c/a> festival last weekend, Lil B took to social media to preach a message of forgiveness instead of retaliating. Nothing about his social media presence — including those posts that got him banned — could be construed as inciting violence, which is the true definition of hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProPublica report\u003c/a> detailing Facebook’s hate speech policy, hate speech is defined on the platform as an attack against a “protected category” of people, which includes race, gender, and religious affiliation. But the policy — which has been widely criticized as convoluted and inconsistently enforced — doesn’t protect “subsets” of people. One training document showed that according to Facebook’s content moderators, making posts about “white men” is out, but “black doctors” or “female employees” don’t get the same protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, this policy plays out counterintuitively: White supremacists have found ways to veil their hate speech — justifying posts of anti-black racism with crime statistics, for instance — to evade Facebook’s content monitors. Black Lives Matter activist \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@thedididelgado/mark-zuckerberg-hates-black-people-ae65426e3d2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didi Delgado\u003c/a> was banned from Facebook for a week for writing “White people are racist,” while \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/search/str/clay+higgins+kill+them+all/keywords_blended_featured_posts?esd=eyJlc2lkIjoiUzpfSTU4MTQzNjU0MTk1OTM2MjpWSzo5OTc4NzgwMTAzMTUyMTEiLCJwc2lkIjp7IjU4MTQzNjU0MTk1OTM2Mjo5OTc4NzgwMTAzMTUyMTEiOiJVenBmU1RVNE1UUXpOalUwTVRrMU9UTTJNanBXU3pvNU9UYzROemd3TVRBek1UVXlNVEU9In0sImNyY3QiOiJ0ZXh0IiwiY3NpZCI6IjNiMTk0M2ZiYTE5MGYwMzMxZjRjYjlkMjE0OGMzOGI1In0%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congressman Clay Higgins\u003c/a>, a Republican from Louisiana, received no repercussions from the company for advocating for the deaths of radicalized Muslims, posting “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I report neo-Nazis all the time,” says Olga Tomchin, an Oakland activist and human rights lawyer who recently \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@olgatomchin/open-letter-from-a-jewish-refugee-resignation-from-the-aclu-of-northern-california-board-of-a2a4cfdfa614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned\u003c/a> from Northern California’s ACLU board following the organization’s decision to represent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/aclu-condemned-for-defending-charlottesville-white-nationalist-protest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a white supremacist from the Charlottesville protest\u003c/a> in a lawsuit. “They still get to keep their pages. There’s a page on Facebook called ‘Jewish Ritual Murder’ and that page gets to stay on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/anthoknees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Williams\u003c/a>, a Bay Area activist with a large Twitter presence, quit Facebook last December because he received repeated penalties for violating community guidelines for posts critiquing white supremacy and racism. He believes that Facebook disproportionately censors black activists. “It’s not like they’re banning Lil B \u003cem>and\u003c/em> banning Richard Spencer,” he says. “You’re letting all these people say, ‘Let’s do ethnic cleansing.’ But if someone critiques it in self-defense, they’re banned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the first amendment has ever applied to black people,” says Berkeley activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BlakeDontCrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Simons\u003c/a>, a prominent Twitter user who is currently banned from the platform for a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HellaBlackPod/status/923578481849507840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet\u003c/a> that critically discussed a racialized trope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, Facebook’s disproportionate enforcement of its policies echoes the discrepancies in free speech protection we see in real life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Why is Lil B \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm3dew/facebook-confirms-it-has-banned-rapper-lil-b-for-hate-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned from Facebook\u003c/a> for calling out white supremacy when dozens of \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> white supremacists roam free on the platform?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question many have asked in the weeks since the East Bay rapper was temporarily booted from his own Facebook page — and the answer reveals what the current free-speech debate gets wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free speech is the right to say what we want without fear of government censorship, but the term is becoming polarized with the recent rise of white supremacists and neo-Nazis on the far right. In response to liberal outrage against these hate groups, many people and institutions — like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-could-you-represent-someone-milo-yiannopoulos?redirect=blog/speak-freely/how-could-you-represent-someone-milo-yiannopoulos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ACLU\u003c/a> — have become concerned with defending extreme right-wing speech to preserve the sanctity of free speech for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what separates free speech from hate speech is the intent to incite violence: In September, for example, Milo Yiannopolous posted photos and identifying information of two UC Berkeley students who vocally opposed his campus appearance, exposing them to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/21/uc-berkeley-students-harassed-after-milo-yiannopoulos-publicly-identifies-them/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">death threats from his supporters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s disconcerting enough. But as Joseph Bernstein revealed in his Buzzfeed report, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.ymY5Jq0YB#.xprqLdKBZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here’s How Breitbart and Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream\u003c/a>,” even while Yiannopoulos may not explicitly call for violence against minorities himself, he sources his ideology directly from white supremacists and neo-Nazis who advocate for ethnic cleansing. It follows, then, that violence seems to trail Yiannopoulos wherever he goes: For the past month since his Sept. 24 appearance in Berkeley, for instance, his supporters have \u003ca href=\"https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/75137-revolution-books-confronted-by-conservative-activists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">led a harassment campaign\u003c/a> against Berkeley’s Revolution Books, at one point elbowing a bookstore supporter in the face and breaking his glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s ironic that while well-meaning liberals and moderates rally around protecting neo-Nazis’ free speech, people like Lil B who are most vulnerable to real-life ramifications of hate speech are censored on social media platforms for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do the white nationalist or the kkk or Neo nazis really hate me? I don’t belive it and I love them ! I’m serious I love all humans – Lil B\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Lil B THE BASEDGOD (@LILBTHEBASEDGOD) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LILBTHEBASEDGOD/status/915662818065752066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Facebook operates from the “\u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59dvxb/rapper-lil-b-sent-us-the-posts-facebook-calls-hate-speech-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">race neutral\u003c/a>” point of view that all speech is created equal, so arguments against white supremacy — especially ones that use generalizations about whiteness or white people — get swept into the same category as racists’ posts that target marginalized groups. Lil B sent \u003ca href=\"https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59dvxb/rapper-lil-b-sent-us-the-posts-facebook-calls-hate-speech-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherboard\u003c/a> a photo of the Facebook posts that got him banned for 30 days: “White people are the only ones who really love they guns U can tell they are violent people! I don’t live in fear I don’t have a gun,” he wrote in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“WHITE PEOPLE SO SCARED THEY THE REASON GUNS ARE A PROBLEM,” reads his other post. “IF WHITE PEOPLE PUT DOWN THE GUNZ WE ALL BE SAFE BUT NOPE! THEY VILENT [sic].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13812805\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13812805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-800x1066.jpeg\" alt=\"Lil B sent Motherboard photos of the posts that got him banned from Facebook. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-800x1066.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-960x1280.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-240x320.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-375x500.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1-520x693.jpeg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/1507752742421-vyYqURi1.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lil B sent Motherboard photos of the posts that got him banned from Facebook. \u003ccite>(Lil B/Motherboard )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s followed Lil B on either Facebook or Twitter knows that he has an eccentric way of expressing himself online, but that he gears his posts towards promoting understanding across race, class, and gender lines. He often writes as if he’s thinking through controversial issues aloud in real time, and up until the Facebook ban, he had been posting prolifically about systemic racism and racial divisions in the current political climate. Someone who’s followed him for more than a few months would be able to tell that his posts about white people and guns were hyperbolic — and a legitimate reaction to the Las Vegas shooting and the oft-ignored issue of white terrorism in America. But Facebook’s content monitors clearly missed the nuance of his message and banned him based on two posts without considering their context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ban for hate speech is particularly ironic given that Lil B is most famous using his social media platforms to preach positivity. As I’ve observed through following him on social media for nearly ten years, he mostly uses his platforms to advocate for human rights, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/12/17/thank-you-based-god-10-reasons-why-you-should-see-lil-b-this-weekend/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">animal rights, and the environment\u003c/a> and promote peace. For instance, after A Boogie wit da Hoodie and his crew jumped Lil B at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefader.com/2017/10/23/lil-b-a-boogie-squashed-beef-after-rolling-loud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Loud\u003c/a> festival last weekend, Lil B took to social media to preach a message of forgiveness instead of retaliating. Nothing about his social media presence — including those posts that got him banned — could be construed as inciting violence, which is the true definition of hate speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProPublica report\u003c/a> detailing Facebook’s hate speech policy, hate speech is defined on the platform as an attack against a “protected category” of people, which includes race, gender, and religious affiliation. But the policy — which has been widely criticized as convoluted and inconsistently enforced — doesn’t protect “subsets” of people. One training document showed that according to Facebook’s content moderators, making posts about “white men” is out, but “black doctors” or “female employees” don’t get the same protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In practice, this policy plays out counterintuitively: White supremacists have found ways to veil their hate speech — justifying posts of anti-black racism with crime statistics, for instance — to evade Facebook’s content monitors. Black Lives Matter activist \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@thedididelgado/mark-zuckerberg-hates-black-people-ae65426e3d2a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didi Delgado\u003c/a> was banned from Facebook for a week for writing “White people are racist,” while \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/search/str/clay+higgins+kill+them+all/keywords_blended_featured_posts?esd=eyJlc2lkIjoiUzpfSTU4MTQzNjU0MTk1OTM2MjpWSzo5OTc4NzgwMTAzMTUyMTEiLCJwc2lkIjp7IjU4MTQzNjU0MTk1OTM2Mjo5OTc4NzgwMTAzMTUyMTEiOiJVenBmU1RVNE1UUXpOalUwTVRrMU9UTTJNanBXU3pvNU9UYzROemd3TVRBek1UVXlNVEU9In0sImNyY3QiOiJ0ZXh0IiwiY3NpZCI6IjNiMTk0M2ZiYTE5MGYwMzMxZjRjYjlkMjE0OGMzOGI1In0%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congressman Clay Higgins\u003c/a>, a Republican from Louisiana, received no repercussions from the company for advocating for the deaths of radicalized Muslims, posting “Hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I report neo-Nazis all the time,” says Olga Tomchin, an Oakland activist and human rights lawyer who recently \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@olgatomchin/open-letter-from-a-jewish-refugee-resignation-from-the-aclu-of-northern-california-board-of-a2a4cfdfa614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resigned\u003c/a> from Northern California’s ACLU board following the organization’s decision to represent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/aclu-condemned-for-defending-charlottesville-white-nationalist-protest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a white supremacist from the Charlottesville protest\u003c/a> in a lawsuit. “They still get to keep their pages. There’s a page on Facebook called ‘Jewish Ritual Murder’ and that page gets to stay on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/anthoknees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Williams\u003c/a>, a Bay Area activist with a large Twitter presence, quit Facebook last December because he received repeated penalties for violating community guidelines for posts critiquing white supremacy and racism. He believes that Facebook disproportionately censors black activists. “It’s not like they’re banning Lil B \u003cem>and\u003c/em> banning Richard Spencer,” he says. “You’re letting all these people say, ‘Let’s do ethnic cleansing.’ But if someone critiques it in self-defense, they’re banned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think the first amendment has ever applied to black people,” says Berkeley activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BlakeDontCrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Simons\u003c/a>, a prominent Twitter user who is currently banned from the platform for a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HellaBlackPod/status/923578481849507840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet\u003c/a> that critically discussed a racialized trope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If anything, Facebook’s disproportionate enforcement of its policies echoes the discrepancies in free speech protection we see in real life. Case in point: over the past several years, police across the country have responded forcefully \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/st-louis-police-protestors-clash-jason-stockley-acquittal_us_59bd0ceae4b086432b076f18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">against Black Lives Matter protests\u003c/a> but sat back and watched as white supremacists assaulted counter-protesters in Berkeley in April and at the more recent September demonstration. Similarly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/charlottesville-protest-police.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police watched\u003c/a> as white supremacists marched at the Charlottesville protest where Heather Heyer was murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as free speech in the first place,” says writer and activist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoé Szamudzi\u003c/a>. “Look how the state sides with fascists in these protests, giving them protection, but violently arrests counter-protesters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin advocated for labeling Antifa, a leaderless coalition of anti-fascists, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/08/31/heels-rally-berkeley-mayor-jesse-arreguin-condemns-violent-extremism/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a street gang\u003c/a>, but didn’t advocate the same label for highly organized white supremacist groups like Identity Evropa, whose uniformed leader \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/14/californian-who-helped-organize-charlottesville-protests-used-berkeley-as-a-test-run/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Damigo\u003c/a> assaulted a woman on video at the April Berkeley protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Lil B, a black artist famous for his pacifist message, is currently banned from the platform for “hate speech” — demonstrating how lopsided the free speech debate has become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I mindlessly scroll past images — of former classmates, a famous person, a gym selfie, a sunset, a sponsored post, something my nephew posted that I wished he didn’t, a couple memes, an adorable baby smiling as if all is well with the world. I like a photo here. I scroll. I like another photo there. I scroll. I refresh and repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it dawns on me: Instagram, a photography-based social media application, isn’t made for photographers. Na, it’s for socialites. 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During a therapy session he was asked what he appreciates, and “all I could come up with was flowers and sunsets,” he says. “So, the therapist told me to capture that.” Beyond nature, he captures his environment, from the hood in San Francisco’s Double Rock to North Oakland’s Ice City. I love it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMFMsJFDkt/?taken-by=chali_aesthetics\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s another photographer who goes by the handle \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/amandasade/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Amandasade\u003c/a>. I love how she practices her craft in the traditional sense, by regularly going on photo walks and documenting what’s happening at the golden hour — a window to what it’s like to be a human on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda, who has never been “published,” tells me, “You know what’s crazy beautiful? I get most of my IG compliments in person! 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"content": "\u003cp>Early Monday morning, KQED Arts’ Gabe Meline awoke to a glimmer of fire over the ridgeline of his hometown in Santa Rosa. Within a few short hours, it was evident the fire had taken a turn toward the extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This fire is unlike anything Santa Rosa has ever seen. We evacuated at 6 am to drive through thick smoke to a house in Petaluma, spent the day there with three other families.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Take a look at a first-hand glimpse into the surreal situation unfolding here in Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811423 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-6-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monday at dawn, Gabe Meline’s family evacuated their Santa Rosa home. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917414990348394501\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811415 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign tipped over along Hwy. 101 offers a glimpse into the chaos. \u003ccite>(Liz Seward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811417 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366437_10212836218597832_3656422554930344145_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts) \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22405690_10212836218917840_4069611786941770735_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ash on a car near Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811434 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310281_10212836219477854_7821548998509117991_n-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fairgrounds outside of Santa Rosa provided shelter for many evacuees. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917868109960118273\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811438\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22406302_10212836222357926_72858294155616367_n-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water was quick to fly off the shelves during the first hours after thousands were evacuated from their homes. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811411 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22365175_10212836220397877_5327242324250560275_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gathering supplies at the Rohnert Park Walmart after evacuation. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811409\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811409\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22366548_10212836221877914_3915052602505672603_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the fairgrounds evacuation center on day two of the fires. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811410 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22308806_10212836220997892_8457223481568206357_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabe’s family arrives at the fairgrounds evacuation center with emergency supplies. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811444\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310679_10212836221237898_1265188983967732795_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Producer Mike DeWald behind the board at KSRO 1350, which has been a lifeline of information to the region. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13811406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310355_10212836223797962_3429434540228201377_n-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabe Meline in a dust mask at the Veterans Memorial Building evacuation center. Bay Area air quality this week has been the worst on record. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu for free food posted at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811405 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/22310342_10212836224117970_6577120916699815326_n-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Cash Only” is a common sign since many credit card readers are down. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/918295647018655744\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Car in downtown \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/SantaRosa?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SantaRosa\u003c/a> filled with photos, files, papers, boxes, and giant framed family photo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parked outside a bar. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/6oPpG1ia7T\">pic.twitter.com/6oPpG1ia7T\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Gabe Meline (@gmeline) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/918303355134283777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/918299928643846144\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811447\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7-520x693.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-7.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunrise over Stony Point Road on Oct. 9, the morning after the fires struck. 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"description": "Early Monday morning, KQED Arts' Gabe Meline awoke to a glimmer of fire over the ridgeline of his hometown in Santa Rosa. Within a few short hours, it was evident the fire had taken a turn toward the extreme. "This fire is unlike anything Santa Rosa has ever seen. We evacuated at 6 am to drive through thick smoke to a house in Petaluma, spent the day there with three other families." Take a look at a first-hand glimpse into the surreal situation unfolding here in Northern California. https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917414990348394501 https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917868109960118273 https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/918295647018655744 https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/918299928643846144 KQED’s Gabe Meline, Carly Severn and Lina Blanco",
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Bay Area air quality this week has been the worst on record. (Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13811418 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-5-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Menu for free food posted at the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. 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(Gabe Meline/KQED Arts)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I am a Vietnamese American, a refugee, and I grew up learning about the Vietnam War the same way most people do here: through movies like \u003cem>Platoon\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Born on the Fourth of July\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em>, and during the brief amount of time spent on the war in history classes. Everything I learned focused on American lives lost and on how the war divided America. No one dwelled on Vietnamese lives lost. People talked about Vietnam as an object, a strategy, a source of tragic upheaval. There was no idea of it without war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family had been refugees twice. The first time was in 1954, when they left Hanoi for Saigon. Then my father and his three brothers became soldiers in the South Vietnamese Army. They weren’t high-ranking officials who might have been promised evacuation (promises, we now know, that would have been hollow). Yet on April 29, 1975, the night before the end of Saigon, they found a way out — a boat on the river that would take them to a naval ship in the South China Seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We became refugees. I was 8 months old; my sister was 2 years old. We would grow up in the American Midwest, with another language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine realizing you have to leave your country. Not just your house and home but your entire country. Imagine leaving in the night, in a city gripped with panic and chaos. You don’t know where you will go or if you will even survive. But you know that it is safer to try than it is to stay. So you leave everything you’ve known. You take what you can and you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811061\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-800x1076.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's grandmother with her children, not too long after they moved from the north to the south in 1954\" width=\"800\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-800x1076.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-160x215.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-768x1033.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-1020x1372.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-1180x1587.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-960x1291.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-375x504.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-520x699.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen’s grandmother with her children, not too long after they moved from the north to the south in 1954 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I told myself I had to watch \u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em> by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick because it would surely be hailed as “definitive” (which it has been by several reviewers) and because I needed to understand what much of America would think and see as “definitive.” I didn’t want to watch. I didn’t want to face what I knew would come: 18 hours that focused mainly on (white) American pain and relegated Vietnamese people, as ever, to being secondary in their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the United States who, like me, have ideas of Vietnam informed by Hollywood, are used to seeing Vietnamese people depicted and referred to as gooks, violent guerillas, and whores. This is so expected that I fear it’s what people actually believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em> doesn’t quite dispel this notion, but Burns and Novick do bring in commentary from both North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese people. This inclusion of Vietnamese voices has been lauded, but maybe that’s because prior texts on the war are so lacking in Vietnamese voices that any inclusion is seen as a profound advancement. Still, the film heavily favors white American voices. And while it doesn’t avoid violence, it does try to avoid discussing inherent racism on the part of the Americans and, except for a section on My Lai, issues of sexual assault, rape, and the treatment of women. It mentions, in one sentence, the thousands of half-American children who were left in Vietnam after U.S. troops left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I keep saying to people that the documentary should be subtitled “The American Experience” (or more accurately, “The Mostly White American Experience”). But perhaps that would be redundant. I do not think that the filmmakers intended offense, in the way that most good liberals never intend offense. It’s more that their perspective is so trenchant, so supported, that they seem to have had no need to reconsider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I watched the first episode as it premiered. Within the first ten minutes, the filmmakers opt for a strange reverse-sequence of events. We see the famous image of the naked, napalmed Vietnamese girl, running backward instead of forward. We see helicopters coming up from the water instead of being pushed into it. I suppose these reversed moments could be seen as a literal notion of rewind, a way to start at the beginning. But the visual result is awkward and even accidentally mocking. The rest of the episode is worse. At first, it seems that the filmmakers will provide a history of Vietnam, possibly covering the complicated history of colonization. Yet the filmmakers interject this history with flash-forwards to images of combat in 1960s, when the U.S. is very much involved in Vietnam. The message is clear: the Americans think of the war as their experience; the history of Vietnam on its own doesn’t matter. To me, it feels like the same erasure or diminishment of the Vietnamese experience that we have always seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811060\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811060\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-800x1161.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's uncle in the United States\" width=\"800\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-800x1161.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-768x1115.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-1020x1481.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-960x1394.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-240x348.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-375x544.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-520x755.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen’s uncle in the United States \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had resolved to watch this entire series. I tried to focus on the footage and photos, which are extraordinary and prove once again how heroic and necessary journalists are. I tried to focus, too, on what I could learn. I found myself wanting to hear so much more from Bao Ninh, author of \u003cem>The Sorrow of War\u003c/em>, who provides beautiful and moving commentary throughout the series. I wanted to hear more from African American soldiers and non-white soldiers, who had to endure racism no matter their rank and no matter where they went. I wished for a more explicit discussion of how much U.S. involvement hinged on the fear of Communism spreading and its toxic masculinity, and how the Americans could not bear the thought of losing or surrendering, so they kept going even when they knew they shouldn’t. I tried to focus on all the now-iconic music that emerged from the Vietnam war era. (Much of it now seems cliché but that’s not the music’s fault.) I was glad to take a break from the violent images to consider presidential power, protest power, and Nixon’s idea of the “silent majority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though no Vietnamese person in this 18-hour documentary gets a profile on a scale equal to any white American who is profiled, I tried to get as much as I could from their limited time on screen. What it was like to be North Vietnamese during the war? What it was like to be South Vietnamese during the war? I kept hoping to see more commentary from those who fought, especially on the South Vietnamese side, but that hope was not fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is painful to hear Lyndon Johnson saying, “There ain’t no daylight in Vietnam.” To hear Kissinger say to Nixon that soon Vietnam will be a backwater. To hear Maj. Charles Beckwith quoted as saying, “You can shoot the little brown men outside the wire. You may not shoot the little brown men inside the wire. They are mine.” It is difficult to hear a U.S. veteran say about those left dead after a battle: “I wouldn’t let the Vietnamese touch the Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not painful because it is new information but because the words, spoken out loud, confirm what I’ve always known — what I’ve always read in the faces of so many white Americans. As a Vietnamese refugee says in the documentary about the humiliation of loss: “I carry that humiliation with me to the United States, when I get in line to sign up for jobs. I remind them of the war in Vietnam, which the Americans hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans were not in Vietnam, fighting a war, for the love of Vietnamese people — the American soldiers were fighting because they’d been told to. In episode three, a screen image of a once-top secret plan of action document shows that 70 percent of U.S. aims were “to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat (to our reputation).” To the Americans, the South Vietnamese will always be seen as incompetent and corrupt, while the Americans were supposed to be the providers and the saviors. And when that failed, they didn’t know what to do. Failure and retreat go against all the exceptionalism we are taught in American schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-800x1138.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's dad with a motorcycle in Vietnam\" width=\"800\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-800x1138.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-160x228.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-768x1092.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-240x341.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-375x533.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-520x740.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen: “My dad and the motorcycle he would end up using to get us to the Saigon river where we would find passage toward refugee life” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last episode of the series spends fewer than 15 minutes on the refugee crisis and what life was in like in Vietnam after 1975. Any sense of reconciliation or “healing” — that old phrase “healing wounds” is invoked more than once — is for the Americans. You can do aerial shots of a country that is green again, the scorch of napalm replaced by new growth. You can do pans of a city in the midst of bustle. It can look like the present, the future — it can look like reconciliation. Plenty of time is given to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC and the experience of U.S. soldiers who visit it. More time is given to the stories of soldiers who returned to Vietnam, twenty years after the end of the war, to see former battlegrounds and to shake hands and smile with former enemies. It is beyond jarring, beyond disconcerting, to see this after so many hours of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Americans can get a little more healing. As for the Vietnamese… Well, it’s unclear. Their lives and experiences aren’t given as much space for viewers to find out. Vietnam may exist on its own now but the Americans still view it through their own lens: as a place for closure or tourism or commerce. The country, as ever, matters only in terms of what it can do for the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em>, white American men get the first and last words in the film, and most of the profiles and words in between. In the United States, I grew up understanding that no Vietnamese life is worth the same as an American life; that over two million Vietnamese dead is always overshadowed by 58,000 U.S. soldiers dead. I grew up respecting U.S. veterans but seeing no respect given to Vietnamese veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, even still, people have asked me what “side” my family was on. The question always baffles me. Isn’t it obvious that if we’re in the United States as refugees, having lost a war and a country — isn’t it obvious what “side” we were on? Somehow, many Americans still don’t know the history of what in Vietnam is called The American War. Burns and Novick had a chance to change that in a more substantial, equitable way, one that did not fall back on the same old assumption that the American perspective must be dominant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, a veteran — a South Vietnamese who found a way for his family to leave Saigon, who has been here for decades now and has grown his family and his community, does not want to watch this documentary. I can’t blame him. The film tells us to feel sorry for the Vietnamese, but it demands that we feel for the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father and my uncles and every Vietnamese refugee in America live with the shame that Americans feel about the war in Vietnam. We are seen as reminders of that shame, and we are asked to bear it with no word in return except gratitude. I remind them of the war in Vietnam, which the Americans hate. I have felt this my whole life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.bichminhnguyen.com/about-me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beth Nguyen \u003c/a>is the author of three books, including ‘Stealing Buddha’s Dinner.’ She teaches in and directs the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To see more stories and photographs from KQED’s series about the impact of the Vietnam War on the Bay Area and other communities in California, visit \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/vietnamwar/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kqed.org/vietnamwar\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I am a Vietnamese American, a refugee, and I grew up learning about the Vietnam War the same way most people do here: through movies like \u003cem>Platoon\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Born on the Fourth of July\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em>, and during the brief amount of time spent on the war in history classes. Everything I learned focused on American lives lost and on how the war divided America. No one dwelled on Vietnamese lives lost. People talked about Vietnam as an object, a strategy, a source of tragic upheaval. There was no idea of it without war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family had been refugees twice. The first time was in 1954, when they left Hanoi for Saigon. Then my father and his three brothers became soldiers in the South Vietnamese Army. They weren’t high-ranking officials who might have been promised evacuation (promises, we now know, that would have been hollow). Yet on April 29, 1975, the night before the end of Saigon, they found a way out — a boat on the river that would take them to a naval ship in the South China Seas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We became refugees. I was 8 months old; my sister was 2 years old. We would grow up in the American Midwest, with another language and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imagine realizing you have to leave your country. Not just your house and home but your entire country. Imagine leaving in the night, in a city gripped with panic and chaos. You don’t know where you will go or if you will even survive. But you know that it is safer to try than it is to stay. So you leave everything you’ve known. You take what you can and you go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811061\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811061\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-800x1076.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's grandmother with her children, not too long after they moved from the north to the south in 1954\" width=\"800\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-800x1076.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-160x215.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-768x1033.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-1020x1372.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-1180x1587.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-960x1291.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-240x323.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-375x504.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children-520x699.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/grandmother-children.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen’s grandmother with her children, not too long after they moved from the north to the south in 1954 \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I told myself I had to watch \u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em> by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick because it would surely be hailed as “definitive” (which it has been by several reviewers) and because I needed to understand what much of America would think and see as “definitive.” I didn’t want to watch. I didn’t want to face what I knew would come: 18 hours that focused mainly on (white) American pain and relegated Vietnamese people, as ever, to being secondary in their own story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people in the United States who, like me, have ideas of Vietnam informed by Hollywood, are used to seeing Vietnamese people depicted and referred to as gooks, violent guerillas, and whores. This is so expected that I fear it’s what people actually believe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em> doesn’t quite dispel this notion, but Burns and Novick do bring in commentary from both North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese people. This inclusion of Vietnamese voices has been lauded, but maybe that’s because prior texts on the war are so lacking in Vietnamese voices that any inclusion is seen as a profound advancement. Still, the film heavily favors white American voices. And while it doesn’t avoid violence, it does try to avoid discussing inherent racism on the part of the Americans and, except for a section on My Lai, issues of sexual assault, rape, and the treatment of women. It mentions, in one sentence, the thousands of half-American children who were left in Vietnam after U.S. troops left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I keep saying to people that the documentary should be subtitled “The American Experience” (or more accurately, “The Mostly White American Experience”). But perhaps that would be redundant. I do not think that the filmmakers intended offense, in the way that most good liberals never intend offense. It’s more that their perspective is so trenchant, so supported, that they seem to have had no need to reconsider it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I watched the first episode as it premiered. Within the first ten minutes, the filmmakers opt for a strange reverse-sequence of events. We see the famous image of the naked, napalmed Vietnamese girl, running backward instead of forward. We see helicopters coming up from the water instead of being pushed into it. I suppose these reversed moments could be seen as a literal notion of rewind, a way to start at the beginning. But the visual result is awkward and even accidentally mocking. The rest of the episode is worse. At first, it seems that the filmmakers will provide a history of Vietnam, possibly covering the complicated history of colonization. Yet the filmmakers interject this history with flash-forwards to images of combat in 1960s, when the U.S. is very much involved in Vietnam. The message is clear: the Americans think of the war as their experience; the history of Vietnam on its own doesn’t matter. To me, it feels like the same erasure or diminishment of the Vietnamese experience that we have always seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811060\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811060\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-800x1161.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's uncle in the United States\" width=\"800\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-800x1161.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-160x232.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-768x1115.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-1020x1481.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-960x1394.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-240x348.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-375x544.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty-520x755.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Uncle-statueofliberty.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen’s uncle in the United States \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, I had resolved to watch this entire series. I tried to focus on the footage and photos, which are extraordinary and prove once again how heroic and necessary journalists are. I tried to focus, too, on what I could learn. I found myself wanting to hear so much more from Bao Ninh, author of \u003cem>The Sorrow of War\u003c/em>, who provides beautiful and moving commentary throughout the series. I wanted to hear more from African American soldiers and non-white soldiers, who had to endure racism no matter their rank and no matter where they went. I wished for a more explicit discussion of how much U.S. involvement hinged on the fear of Communism spreading and its toxic masculinity, and how the Americans could not bear the thought of losing or surrendering, so they kept going even when they knew they shouldn’t. I tried to focus on all the now-iconic music that emerged from the Vietnam war era. (Much of it now seems cliché but that’s not the music’s fault.) I was glad to take a break from the violent images to consider presidential power, protest power, and Nixon’s idea of the “silent majority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though no Vietnamese person in this 18-hour documentary gets a profile on a scale equal to any white American who is profiled, I tried to get as much as I could from their limited time on screen. What it was like to be North Vietnamese during the war? What it was like to be South Vietnamese during the war? I kept hoping to see more commentary from those who fought, especially on the South Vietnamese side, but that hope was not fulfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is painful to hear Lyndon Johnson saying, “There ain’t no daylight in Vietnam.” To hear Kissinger say to Nixon that soon Vietnam will be a backwater. To hear Maj. Charles Beckwith quoted as saying, “You can shoot the little brown men outside the wire. You may not shoot the little brown men inside the wire. They are mine.” It is difficult to hear a U.S. veteran say about those left dead after a battle: “I wouldn’t let the Vietnamese touch the Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not painful because it is new information but because the words, spoken out loud, confirm what I’ve always known — what I’ve always read in the faces of so many white Americans. As a Vietnamese refugee says in the documentary about the humiliation of loss: “I carry that humiliation with me to the United States, when I get in line to sign up for jobs. I remind them of the war in Vietnam, which the Americans hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Americans were not in Vietnam, fighting a war, for the love of Vietnamese people — the American soldiers were fighting because they’d been told to. In episode three, a screen image of a once-top secret plan of action document shows that 70 percent of U.S. aims were “to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat (to our reputation).” To the Americans, the South Vietnamese will always be seen as incompetent and corrupt, while the Americans were supposed to be the providers and the saviors. And when that failed, they didn’t know what to do. Failure and retreat go against all the exceptionalism we are taught in American schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13811058\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13811058\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-800x1138.jpg\" alt=\"Nguyen's dad with a motorcycle in Vietnam\" width=\"800\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-800x1138.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-160x228.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-768x1092.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-240x341.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-375x533.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle-520x740.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Dad-motorcycle.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nguyen: “My dad and the motorcycle he would end up using to get us to the Saigon river where we would find passage toward refugee life” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Beth Nguyen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last episode of the series spends fewer than 15 minutes on the refugee crisis and what life was in like in Vietnam after 1975. Any sense of reconciliation or “healing” — that old phrase “healing wounds” is invoked more than once — is for the Americans. You can do aerial shots of a country that is green again, the scorch of napalm replaced by new growth. You can do pans of a city in the midst of bustle. It can look like the present, the future — it can look like reconciliation. Plenty of time is given to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC and the experience of U.S. soldiers who visit it. More time is given to the stories of soldiers who returned to Vietnam, twenty years after the end of the war, to see former battlegrounds and to shake hands and smile with former enemies. It is beyond jarring, beyond disconcerting, to see this after so many hours of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Americans can get a little more healing. As for the Vietnamese… Well, it’s unclear. Their lives and experiences aren’t given as much space for viewers to find out. Vietnam may exist on its own now but the Americans still view it through their own lens: as a place for closure or tourism or commerce. The country, as ever, matters only in terms of what it can do for the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>The Vietnam War\u003c/em>, white American men get the first and last words in the film, and most of the profiles and words in between. In the United States, I grew up understanding that no Vietnamese life is worth the same as an American life; that over two million Vietnamese dead is always overshadowed by 58,000 U.S. soldiers dead. I grew up respecting U.S. veterans but seeing no respect given to Vietnamese veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, even still, people have asked me what “side” my family was on. The question always baffles me. Isn’t it obvious that if we’re in the United States as refugees, having lost a war and a country — isn’t it obvious what “side” we were on? Somehow, many Americans still don’t know the history of what in Vietnam is called The American War. Burns and Novick had a chance to change that in a more substantial, equitable way, one that did not fall back on the same old assumption that the American perspective must be dominant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father, a veteran — a South Vietnamese who found a way for his family to leave Saigon, who has been here for decades now and has grown his family and his community, does not want to watch this documentary. I can’t blame him. The film tells us to feel sorry for the Vietnamese, but it demands that we feel for the Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father and my uncles and every Vietnamese refugee in America live with the shame that Americans feel about the war in Vietnam. We are seen as reminders of that shame, and we are asked to bear it with no word in return except gratitude. I remind them of the war in Vietnam, which the Americans hate. 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"content": "\u003cp>I saw it last night at midnight — the glow from the ridgeline. \u003cem>So that’s what the smell of smoke is from\u003c/em>, I thought. And then I turned on the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 12 hours later, my city is on fire. Santa Rosa, home to so many strong, wonderful people, my home where I was born and raised. The \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/alvinjornada/status/917442860483461120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luther Burbank Center\u003c/a>, where I went to kindergarten, my senior prom, countless concerts. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/suzyesp/status/917500594570485760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardinal Newman High School\u003c/a>, which I grew up next to, where I learned to skate. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/davidrdowns/status/917508340745363456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coffey Park\u003c/a>, where my friends and I decided to start our first band. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/status/917401232632877056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kmart\u003c/a>, where my mom bought all my school clothes every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hardest of all to fathom, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sonomaflyer/status/917515854144606208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikiup\u003c/a>, where my dad’s house — a house he built himself, where he’s lived for almost 30 years — is in serious danger, with flames spreading rapidly all over the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13810995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Driving-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My dad is not alone. When we finally evacuated a few hours ago, my wife and daughter and I, we hastily threw things into the car. All those things run through your head: Grab photos. Letters. Clothes. The cat. Water. A 72-hour emergency kit. What else? A gas can. \u003cem>Will we really need to put gas in the car? Why didn’t I turn off the gas main at the house? What else did I forget?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These thoughts come at a manic pace when you’re driving out of town with thousands of others, all wondering if they did the right thing, all worrying about their loved ones and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fire on this scale is completely unexpected. Santa Rosa doesn’t get natural disasters like this often. Before today, the most devastating one of the last 100 years came in 1969, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2629497-181/lebaron-santa-rosas-69-earthquakes?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of violent earthquakes\u003c/a> struck the city. Hit hardest was the downtown area, and the city has never been the same: ugly ’70s concrete brutalist architecture rose up from the rubble, and the downtown core was bisected by a giant imposing shopping mall, giving everybody something to constantly complain about ever since. You’re not a true Santa Rosan if you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is different — far more destructive, far more unimaginable. Nobody will grouse about this one for style points. Hopefully nobody will politicize the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/917389349754347520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leveling of Fountaingrove\u003c/a>, the sprawling hillside neighborhood that’s home to the city’s wealthiest business owners, developers, lawyers, politicians and doctors, because just down the hill, Journey’s End Mobile Home park is reportedly gone too. Coffey Park is still burning. Hopefully nobody will use this as a springboard for whatever niche issue they push. There is no cachet of cool in celebrating any of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13810997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-960x600.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-375x234.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-520x325.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because today? Santa Rosa has taken a beating and as I write this, I’m not sure when we’ll be able to fully get back up. Whether you once climbed the hill with friends up to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/917391621838168064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fountaingrove Round Barn\u003c/a> to explore the inside at night, or you took a first date to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7507522-181/fire-destroys-fountaingrove-inn-willis?gallery=7508401&artslide=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willi’s Wine Bar\u003c/a>, or you parked afterward at the city’s inspiration point make-out spot \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7507522-181/fire-destroys-fountaingrove-inn-willis?gallery=7508401&artslide=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Altruria Drive\u003c/a> on a Saturday night, you know how this hurts. Even the things you love to hate, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.kzst.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KZST\u003c/a>, the middle-of-the-road radio station which plays incessantly in every dentist’s office in town — when you hear even \u003cem>they\u003c/em> had to evacuate their studio, you can’t help but pause at the disrupt of it all. Santa Rosa without KZST means that something is seriously wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today, I just have to say: this is how we do this. Gathering around \u003ca href=\"http://v6.player.abacast.net/961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSRO\u003c/a> for live updates from the great team there, following \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Porter\u003c/a> for his stellar photos, listening to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/10/09/napa-and-sonoma-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> for the multitude of callers from all over the region, and of course, turning to social media to provide support, information, help with lost pets, offers of places to stay, and more. Giving out water and food. Opening up our homes. I have seen so many displays of togetherness from total strangers this morning that I’ve lost count. You hear this same exact thing about every community in the wake of every tragedy. But in Santa Rosa it really is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13810998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-960x660.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the time since I started writing this, amazingly, my dad’s house looks to be safe for now, as does mine. Safari West says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oakzoo/status/917452559534530561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all their animals are OK\u003c/a>. The Luther Burbank Center’s main theater may \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917462331096932352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actually be safe\u003c/a> after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so many others have lost everything. Entire neighborhoods destroyed. Other cities like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BillSwindell/status/917451252325163009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenwood\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chelsconnors11/status/917366732250947585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glen Ellen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sourdoughgal/status/917427350823829504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma\u003c/a> and others are hurting like we are. Now’s the time we do the work we do best — helping each other, listening to each other, and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.sonoma.net/burbstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">famous resident of ours\u003c/a> once wrote that this is the chosen spot of all the Earth as far as nature is concerned. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These thoughts come at a manic pace when you’re driving out of town with thousands of others, all wondering if they did the right thing, all worrying about their loved ones and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fire on this scale is completely unexpected. Santa Rosa doesn’t get natural disasters like this often. Before today, the most devastating one of the last 100 years came in 1969, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/2629497-181/lebaron-santa-rosas-69-earthquakes?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a pair of violent earthquakes\u003c/a> struck the city. Hit hardest was the downtown area, and the city has never been the same: ugly ’70s concrete brutalist architecture rose up from the rubble, and the downtown core was bisected by a giant imposing shopping mall, giving everybody something to constantly complain about ever since. You’re not a true Santa Rosan if you don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is different — far more destructive, far more unimaginable. Nobody will grouse about this one for style points. Hopefully nobody will politicize the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/917389349754347520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leveling of Fountaingrove\u003c/a>, the sprawling hillside neighborhood that’s home to the city’s wealthiest business owners, developers, lawyers, politicians and doctors, because just down the hill, Journey’s End Mobile Home park is reportedly gone too. Coffey Park is still burning. Hopefully nobody will use this as a springboard for whatever niche issue they push. There is no cachet of cool in celebrating any of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13810997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-960x600.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-240x150.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-375x234.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Fire1-520x325.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because today? Santa Rosa has taken a beating and as I write this, I’m not sure when we’ll be able to fully get back up. Whether you once climbed the hill with friends up to the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos/status/917391621838168064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fountaingrove Round Barn\u003c/a> to explore the inside at night, or you took a first date to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7507522-181/fire-destroys-fountaingrove-inn-willis?gallery=7508401&artslide=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willi’s Wine Bar\u003c/a>, or you parked afterward at the city’s inspiration point make-out spot \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7507522-181/fire-destroys-fountaingrove-inn-willis?gallery=7508401&artslide=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Altruria Drive\u003c/a> on a Saturday night, you know how this hurts. Even the things you love to hate, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.kzst.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KZST\u003c/a>, the middle-of-the-road radio station which plays incessantly in every dentist’s office in town — when you hear even \u003cem>they\u003c/em> had to evacuate their studio, you can’t help but pause at the disrupt of it all. Santa Rosa without KZST means that something is seriously wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today, I just have to say: this is how we do this. Gathering around \u003ca href=\"http://v6.player.abacast.net/961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSRO\u003c/a> for live updates from the great team there, following \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kentphotos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent Porter\u003c/a> for his stellar photos, listening to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/10/09/napa-and-sonoma-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> for the multitude of callers from all over the region, and of course, turning to social media to provide support, information, help with lost pets, offers of places to stay, and more. Giving out water and food. Opening up our homes. I have seen so many displays of togetherness from total strangers this morning that I’ve lost count. You hear this same exact thing about every community in the wake of every tragedy. But in Santa Rosa it really is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13810998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-960x660.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-240x165.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-375x258.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/10/Sun-520x358.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the time since I started writing this, amazingly, my dad’s house looks to be safe for now, as does mine. Safari West says \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/oakzoo/status/917452559534530561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all their animals are OK\u003c/a>. The Luther Burbank Center’s main theater may \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/917462331096932352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actually be safe\u003c/a> after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so many others have lost everything. Entire neighborhoods destroyed. Other cities like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BillSwindell/status/917451252325163009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenwood\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chelsconnors11/status/917366732250947585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glen Ellen\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sourdoughgal/status/917427350823829504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonoma\u003c/a> and others are hurting like we are. Now’s the time we do the work we do best — helping each other, listening to each other, and rebuilding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.sonoma.net/burbstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">famous resident of ours\u003c/a> once wrote that this is the chosen spot of all the Earth as far as nature is concerned. 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