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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1340218886\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dueñas Car Club \u003c/a>is a sisterhood that rolls on 100-spoke rims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in 2019 and based in Sunnyvale, the head of the club is Angel Romero. She’s been cruising the strip since she was a kid in the passenger in her mother’s lowrider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three members of the Dueñas Car Club sit in a beige lowrider. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three members of the Dueñas Car Club. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was through her mother that Angel inherited her passion for cool cars, cruising through the city, and serving the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the members of the car club work with local organization to hold toy drives and distribute safety kits. They also pull up to events like car hops and car shows, stunting in full force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel says it’s amazing to see the look on the people’s faces when their fleet of dope cars driven by women pulls through, but it’s the young women whose imaginations they really love to inspire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we discuss coordinating outfits with the color of your lowrider, the criminalization of lowriding culture, and how Angel is passing on her love of cars to the next generation of young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C5%84as_15-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Angel Romero.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Being a woman and having to get yourself ready and get your car ready, it’s a long process. We’re up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to hit the shows… We have to wash it, wax it, clean the rims, vacuum it, get everything all nice. That morning we’ll usually get ready, get together, touch up our cars one last time. By that time, sometimes our eyebrows are kind of already coming off [laughs] you know what I mean, they’re like, ‘half your eyebrows missing!’ I’m like, ‘oh, I was sweating!’ I try to take off the sweat and I took my eyebrows at the same time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: I think we have it a little bit harder than men in lowriding because we got a lot more to do, I mean, especially when you got to draw on the eyebrows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What does Dueñas mean ?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: So Dueñas actually means the female owner. We used to get the ‘oh, it’s your daddy’s ride. It’s your boyfriend’s ride or whatever.’ So we want to show that, no, this is our ride. We are the owners of these cars. We bought them. We built them. This is our love, our passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13900034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C3%B1as-_12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at two low Riders, the Dueñas Car Club Logo is seen through a back window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s it like when you pull up to the scene and it’s a whole bunch of women in lowriders?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Especially when we first came out. Oh! Everybody would stop and stare. People couldn’t believe it. And you know what? I think the best thing was so many young girls and women coming up to us. Coming up to us and saying, “Oh, my God, is this really your car? Oh, it’s awesome. We think it’s great.” We get so much support and love from women and I’ve noticed there’s so many more women with cars out there… and I think it’s awesome, I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Yeah, so Dueñas Car Club has done community service with large organizations in the South Bay, raised thousands of dollars for breast cancer research, and organized different toy drives, like the one you did with the San Jose Earthquakes. My question is what’s it like when you pull up in the lowriders to do community service work?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Ahh, sometimes they take a double take, they’re not sure what they’re seeing sometimes because before [lowriding] was portrayed as a certain type of people, ya know. So we do what we can for our community. A lot of us know what it’s like to not have, not have everything, and sometimes even a roof over your head, so we wanna do something to give back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: … We’ve helped Envision Network donating toys to them as well. It kind of gives these kids something else to put their minds to not think about, ‘hey, I’m in a shelter.’ They see all these pretty cars, and they get all excited. 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This is our love, our passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13900034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C3%B1as-_12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at two low Riders, the Dueñas Car Club Logo is seen through a back window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s it like when you pull up to the scene and it’s a whole bunch of women in lowriders?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Especially when we first came out. Oh! Everybody would stop and stare. People couldn’t believe it. And you know what? I think the best thing was so many young girls and women coming up to us. Coming up to us and saying, “Oh, my God, is this really your car? Oh, it’s awesome. We think it’s great.” We get so much support and love from women and I’ve noticed there’s so many more women with cars out there… and I think it’s awesome, I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Yeah, so Dueñas Car Club has done community service with large organizations in the South Bay, raised thousands of dollars for breast cancer research, and organized different toy drives, like the one you did with the San Jose Earthquakes. My question is what’s it like when you pull up in the lowriders to do community service work?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Ahh, sometimes they take a double take, they’re not sure what they’re seeing sometimes because before [lowriding] was portrayed as a certain type of people, ya know. So we do what we can for our community. A lot of us know what it’s like to not have, not have everything, and sometimes even a roof over your head, so we wanna do something to give back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: … We’ve helped Envision Network donating toys to them as well. It kind of gives these kids something else to put their minds to not think about, ‘hey, I’m in a shelter.’ They see all these pretty cars, and they get all excited. 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What was your first skateboarding experience like?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I wanted a bike really bad, I was like 13 or 14. I grew up in the city. My mom was a single mother. So we really didn’t have, like, money at all. We lived in shelters sometimes, we were very, very low on the socioeconomic scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: There used to be this thing where St. Anthony’s in San Francisco would have a bunch of toys that they would give to the kids at Christmas time and families could come wait in this super long line and get toys to re-gift to their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: One of the things my mom got was a skateboard from that line. And I was like, I didn’t want a skateboard, I wanted a bike. But it was free. And my mom was like, ‘you gonna get what I give you.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I just started riding the skateboard around. At first I was just knee boarding it, on my knees, just pushing around, not looking cool at all. And then I made some friends at school. I was already into punk music, so I was already kind of associated with a lot of the white kids in my middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: So when they saw I had a skateboard they’re like, ‘oh, you skateboard, cool, let’s do it, like you’re part of the crew.’ So I just started hanging out with a bunch of little white dudes at school. They were super nice. They would take me to the skate park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: So tell me, what was it like being one of the only girls around on a skateboard?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: The only space for a woman in skateboarding back in my day was modeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: These were different times… exploiting women was, like, OK or acceptable back then. And I didn’t even realize I was being exploited because I was loving it. 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Let’s not even hit her up.’ So sometimes I did feel like I should just chill and I would hang out and smoke weed or whatever because I didn’t want to make it weird or have anybody questioning their manhood. But ugh [laughs] with the girls, it’s like a whole different vibe. Nobody gives a shit if you’re skating good, if you’re skating bad… There is no skating good, skating bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: There’s a lot of collaboration. Everybody’s teaching each other, there’s a lot of learning from each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: So ever since I made my little group of friends – which isn’t really that little – it’s like a big group of like 30 women. [laughs] I am very adamant about not skating with boys to the point where my friends are annoyed at me for it. Like, I’ll ask them, ‘is there going to be a dude there? Is it a girl sesh?’ And if it’s not, I’m just not interested. Just because I went so long without having any girls and having to skate with all these boys and having them come kill my vibe sometimes, I’m just like, I don’t have to do that. I have 30 other girls that I can hit up if you’re skating with dudes today. It’s cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: Ladies only! [laughs] because I’ve been deprived!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Given what you had to go through to get there it makes sense.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsha: I didn’t even mention all of the different ways that I’ve been like talked down to racially. There’s so many different things that have happened to me throughout my skateboarding career that just has caused me to move further and further away from the boys club and more towards ‘we need to empower more women to be excited about this sport,’ because there are a lot of girls that like it. 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Those bikers are Jones and his good friend from North Oakland, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/almighty__gioo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Almighty Gio.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CL94_HRDH78/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I saw as a major tech company leveraging culture to earn cool points, Jones sees as a platform benefiting the culture he represents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s room for both to be true, Jones points out something that I overlooked: we breed hustlers in this region, so he’ll figure out a way to make it work in his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, Jones is working to expand opportunities to a younger generation of East Bay bikers, setting them up with brands and employment opportunities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tune in for the second entry on the intersection of wheels, community, and culture as Jones and I discuss biking, billboards, and being a community “big bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Omar Jones.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: So one of the bike groups you ride with and photograph is ABC– who are they?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar: So ABC is a bike club in the Bay Area and every Wednesday we meet at King Kog in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9905854391\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richardhumphrey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Humphrey\u003c/a> has been on quad skates for five decades, so it’s no wonder why we’d talk to him first for our series on wheels, community and culture in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1979 to 1988, Richard was a part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RMjcwqCTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Rollers\u003c/a>, a trio of skaters who performed in Golden Gate Park every Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since first getting his roll on, Richard has been featured in the television pilot, \u003cem>Dancing Wheels,\u003c/em> was Damon Wayan’s skating stunt double in \u003cem>The Underground\u003c/em>, performed on stage with the creator of “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll,” Vaughan Mason, and has been featured in Ebony Magazine. Richard also has custom wheels that bear his name, and worked with Riedell to manufacture a signature skating boot with no laces called, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollerdance.com/shop.html#videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>No Strings Attached\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898280\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898280 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-e1622758826411.jpg\" alt=\"The cast of Dancing Wheels in 1979 at the end of a table, eleven of them stare into the camera. 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On social media, videos of skaters in fly fits doing tricks to the latest hits has made for top tier content, especially on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqKtMw4CZ9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Richard thinks the growing number of quad skaters is a great, he wants to make sure folks know that skating has a deep-seated culture with a history that pre-dates the internet, and moves that sparkled on the rink long before most viral stars were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, we get rolling with Richard in the first episode of our summer series about wheels and the cultures they carry in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Richard Humphrey.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: How would you describe the scene when you first started skating?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: … What was so cool about the rink days, especially the late 70s, man, everybody’s passion was unbelievable. I mean, it was like the coolest thing in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: When we started skating together, we had all our big radios, our big boom boxes, we would put two or three of them together, wait for a song to come on the radio just so we could dance. And one of the coolest things – matter of fact, I still have one in my room today – it’s called the bone phone. You just put it right over your neck and it’s like a little sleeve and you can just listen to the radio, ya know, everybody can hear the bone phones. That was hot… So a lot of things happened in the 70s that just made skating what it is today. And it just kind of grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: As an African-American person, how would you say that Black folks skate differently?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: Ay, you know, we got that bounce, we got that swag, we got that rhythm. For a lot of us, man, we grew up with music and poppin’ our fingers and dancing and just having fun. The skates kind of gave it a different dimension, that’s all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: If you look at the history of roller skating we were excluded… when we finally were included… they gave us one night. One night of skating, which has pretty much been happening for the last 40, 50 years, almost even to this day! They don’t use the word “Black Night,” [more like] “Rhythm Night” or whatever. We got names associated with the night that we’re going to be there, all the other nights is just a regular night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: And even to this day, we still have issues when it comes to skating and being Black at rinks because… when we go into a rink, we are searched… they’re looking in our bags, they’re looking at our clothes. Such a turn off to go to a rink and say, OK, I need to stand up against the wall, [get] pat down like everybody’s a criminal. Oh, I hate that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: But what we did find out: we don’t really need a rink if we got a smooth surface or space. We got Bluetooth now, we don’t have to have a DJ. That’s what we do on Sundays. Regardless of whether they give us a night or not. We’ll make it happen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I was checking out your roller dance website, and there’s this one photo… it’s black and white it’s you and two other gentlemen. It looked like y’all were doing a Temptation-esque, in a diagonal formation striking a pose almost down in the splits — really low to the ground — with your arms stretched out… It looked like a performance. What was going on in this photo?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: In that photo, we were called the Golden Rollers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: Back in the early part of ‘79, we didn’t have the wheels that absorb the shock that we do now. So 1979 became epic because the polyurethane wheel came out and once that soft wheel came out, rollerskating outdoors exploded! We all were into the splits cuz the splits back then was like the hottest move on roller skates. If you could do the splits, you bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: For me, it was perfect because in high school, college, I was a hurdler, so I ran hurdles. That was my thing. So that particular move right there was straight up my alley. I mean, I could go all the way down, put my chin literally on my knee and come back up in like two moves: down, come back up, and rolling all at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: That became like our signature pose, every time we ended our [performance], it was sort of like a thank you. So that move has just become iconic, I guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: But there’s more to the art.. It’s not just the dance, as you mentioned before, it’s kind of the swag attitude and it’s also the fashion, that is a part of it. 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They are peak late seventies style, with big smiles.\" width=\"588\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-e1622758826411.jpg 588w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-1-e1622758826411-160x132.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cast of Dancing Wheels in 1979\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By now, Richard has taught thousands of people his signature skating style of “roller dance” (even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aGVHWAgz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dr. Oz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>) through in-person classes and video tutorials. And he noticed skatings rising popularity since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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I mean, it was like the coolest thing in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: When we started skating together, we had all our big radios, our big boom boxes, we would put two or three of them together, wait for a song to come on the radio just so we could dance. And one of the coolest things – matter of fact, I still have one in my room today – it’s called the bone phone. You just put it right over your neck and it’s like a little sleeve and you can just listen to the radio, ya know, everybody can hear the bone phones. That was hot… So a lot of things happened in the 70s that just made skating what it is today. And it just kind of grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: As an African-American person, how would you say that Black folks skate differently?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: Ay, you know, we got that bounce, we got that swag, we got that rhythm. For a lot of us, man, we grew up with music and poppin’ our fingers and dancing and just having fun. The skates kind of gave it a different dimension, that’s all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: If you look at the history of roller skating we were excluded… when we finally were included… they gave us one night. One night of skating, which has pretty much been happening for the last 40, 50 years, almost even to this day! They don’t use the word “Black Night,” [more like] “Rhythm Night” or whatever. We got names associated with the night that we’re going to be there, all the other nights is just a regular night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: And even to this day, we still have issues when it comes to skating and being Black at rinks because… when we go into a rink, we are searched… they’re looking in our bags, they’re looking at our clothes. Such a turn off to go to a rink and say, OK, I need to stand up against the wall, [get] pat down like everybody’s a criminal. Oh, I hate that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: But what we did find out: we don’t really need a rink if we got a smooth surface or space. We got Bluetooth now, we don’t have to have a DJ. That’s what we do on Sundays. Regardless of whether they give us a night or not. We’ll make it happen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: I was checking out your roller dance website, and there’s this one photo… it’s black and white it’s you and two other gentlemen. It looked like y’all were doing a Temptation-esque, in a diagonal formation striking a pose almost down in the splits — really low to the ground — with your arms stretched out… It looked like a performance. What was going on in this photo?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: In that photo, we were called the Golden Rollers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard: Back in the early part of ‘79, we didn’t have the wheels that absorb the shock that we do now. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is car country, we know that. The beautiful highways, brilliant weather and room to cruise makes this place paradise for automobiles. From NASCAR events at the Sonoma Raceway to sideshows on East Oakland streets, car culture is thick out here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we’ve got more than just cars rolling through the Golden State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next few weeks, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rightnowish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team is turning to the stories behind the tires on Northern California’s terrain. In five interviews, we’ll look at how wheels power community, culture, self-expression and fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Roller Skating \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13898279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of The Golden Rollers. 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He’s been in films, on TV shows and even has a signature skate shoe. Over the past year, while teaching his roller dance techniques at parks in Alameda and San Leandro, he’s seen the uptick in roller skaters twirling to pop songs and spinning to R&B tunes. Now his goal is to make sure these new skaters understand that their moves aren’t just part of a social media trend brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a part of a deep-seated culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Biking\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Photo-credit_-@creatvedev-800x1200.jpg\" alt='Omar \"Meez\" Jones' width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar “Meez” Jones \u003ccite>(@creatvedev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9664600248\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOfBoIFcRs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omar “Meez” Jones \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bends corners all throughout California with his bike crew, photographing their lives and branding what they do. He also appears in front of the lens. Recently, a photo of him and his buddy, Almighty Gio, was pasted on billboards around the Bay Area as part of an Apple campaign. Meez talks about his perspective on biking culture and what it means to make a living off your lifestyle, even if that means working with big corporations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Skateboarding\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Photo-cred_-Tom-Shattuck-e1622767914753-800x1213.jpg\" alt=\"Marsha Howard balances on her skateboard atop a giant cement ball. Palm trees are in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsha Howard \u003ccite>(Tom Shattuck)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5106607389\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marshaann_duh/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marsha Howard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> calls her hometown \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skateboarding mecca\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She’d know, given her experience: on top of bombing Twin Peaks and hitting kick flips outside of the Ferry Building, Marsha is a former skateboarding model and longtime employee at Thrasher Magazine. We discuss how she created her own network of women who skate after she got tired of navigating the “boys club” that exists within the skateboarding world. And we talk about how she currently uses videos of her falling off her board to teach elementary school students about the concept of perseverance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Wheelchair Sports\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-800x324.png\" alt=\"Randy and Garnett\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-800x324.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-1020x413.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-160x65.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-768x311.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM.png 1025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy and Garnett \u003ccite>(Dave Rollans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3525100469\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Rosa’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rizdeauxjones/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy Harlan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Bolinas’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/garnett_silverhall/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garnett Silver-Hall\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are co-founders of the Northern Californian chapter of the extreme wheelchair sport league, WCMX. Lately, Randy has been holding it down in NorCal while Garnett plays wheelchair basketball for the University of Arizona. On this episode, Garnett and Randy\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> discuss \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the culture and camaraderie in “chair skating,” and how they’re\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> working to ensure that other athletes have a clear path to participating in this extreme sport.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Lowriders\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 490px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Ramos\" width=\"490\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-800x979.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-768x940.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Ramos\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1340218886\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunnyvale’s Angel Romero says her mother made sure she knew two things: the value of community service and how to cruise the strip in a lowrider. 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So, while we’re pushing out these stories over the next month and a half, we’d also like to hear from you about what your set of wheels, your community and your culture mean to you. 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