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And, I think, that [was] protection for the future, when it did get a little uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On training with Mabel Fairbanks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1408px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944240\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002.jpg\" alt=\"Two child figure skaters, one girl with a blond ponytail, and one boy with dark, short hair, glide on the ice together in a black and white image.\" width=\"1408\" height=\"1392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002.jpg 1408w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-800x791.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-1020x1008.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/image002-160x158.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babilonia and skating partner Randy Gardner as young skaters gliding on the ice. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Tai Babilonia and Detective Sgt. Babilonia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a rink in Culver City. That’s where I started. I took [lessons] from Mabel Fairbanks. [She was a] pioneer, [the] first Black coach. She wasn’t allowed to compete or join a show. So, there’s no record of competitions or anything. But she fought and hustled just to make a living. She had to go abroad to make a name for herself and to pay the rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were her kids, actually, because she didn’t have kids. [She] had a stable of students, all different nationalities, rich, poor, celebrities’ kids. We didn’t feel different. The one thing she did say, because we were all different shades of brown and beige and Black, [was] we must “jump higher, spin faster and sparkle brighter.” Huge lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On competing at the highest levels\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11944232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11944232\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A male and female figure skater wearing matching red, sparkly outfits glide across the ice.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-2048x1341.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-515123508-1920x1257.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babilonia and Gardner glide through their routine in Atlanta on Jan. 20, 1980. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of a sudden we’re on ABC \u003cem>Wide World of Sports\u003c/em> and, you know, just the it pair team. These two kids, young teens from Los Angeles. We came out of nowhere. Our first nationals, I think I was 12, 1973, and it was white. [There were] maybe one or two other Black skaters. And, there’s my mom in a sea of white parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kP4LXNFeTU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was there to work and compete. Call [us] whatever you’re going to call us; put us in whatever category you want to put us in; I still have to go out and compete. And, you know, when you’re winning, it shuts people up. We were spinning faster and jumping higher and at the top of the podium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did I think about being a role model? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Now, looking back, I understand that I was. You start getting letters from kids in schools. 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We had a lot of food and we shared it a lot so that my house was a home, not only to me growing up, but to a lot of my friends and people around us. My circle got so used to eating it that they kind of expected certain dishes: pancit, adobo, lumpia especially. 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A stack of blue, plastic chairs are off to the side.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/PABATCHV2-117-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guap with his extended family in the Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Paul Middleton)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>On performing at an LA Clippers game for Filipino Heritage Night\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Shout out to the homie Roslynn and her company, 1587. She’s a connector for a lot of Filipino American artists, and because of her, I was able to perform at halftime at the Crypto Arena. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking up at 15,000 people or something like that. It was a great vibe and I was just super humbled by it. 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And I was like, you know, I always wanted a song that the Filipino kids or the islander kids with the ukulele can sing at the talent show, because we all know they’re going to do it. He was going through some beats and he was like, “You know, I have the perfect one.”\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/1DaovaJgytE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1DaovaJgytE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>And I was like, man, this makes me feel so warm. I want to make a love song. But if it’s for Filipino kids, I’ll talk about chicken adobo. That’s my favorite food. 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The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. The investigation “revealed systemic failures far larger and more serious than the actions of one police officer,” the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/OPD-IA-cases-NSA-compliance-report.pdf\">blistering report (PDF)\u003c/a> concluded. The next day Armstrong was placed on paid administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when he should’ve copped a plea and said, “My bad, y’all.” Instead, he campaigned for his job at a rally on the steps of Oakland City Hall. The NAACP held another rally on Feb. 20. I called Terry Wiley, the former Alameda County prosecutor who is handling press around the firing for the NAACP. Wiley told me that Armstrong had made the kind of progress people of color want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942080\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942080\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A profile shot of a group of roughly 10 people, most of them Black, listening while a woman in the middle claps her hands\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63165_GettyImages-1466897640-qut-1536x1033.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members listen to speakers during a rally in support of terminated Oakland police Chief LeRonne Armstrong at City Hall on Feb. 16. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the balance of all of the positives he has brought to the department as the chief, the question becomes, was this incident such that he should be terminated?” said Wiley, who lost the November election for district attorney to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940920/when-da-boudin-investigated-police-killings-arrests-slowed-that-may-not-happen-with-da-pamela-price\">progressive Pamela Price\u003c/a>. “Our conclusion was that the mayor went too far on this, and that there should have been much more contemplation about the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released by Sam Singer, a crisis manager, shortly after Armstrong was terminated, Armstrong referred to himself as a “loyal and effective reformer.” But reform isn’t possible without zero tolerance for misconduct, and the failure to issue appropriate discipline is inexcusable, especially for someone who pledges loyalty to reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are incapable of policing the police. Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. And in Berkeley, the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932420/berkeley-postpones-hiring-of-new-police-chief-amid-controversy-over-another-officers-alleged-racist-texts\">former police union head allegedly sent racist, anti-unhoused text messages\u003c/a> to officers while pushing for more arrests, as multiple newsrooms, including KQED, reported in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Wesley Lowery, journalist, author and contributing editor to The Marshall Project\"]‘What type of resources are we pouring into communities if our aim is to cut down on crime? Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?’[/pullquote]In January, the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board published a report that found that \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2023.pdf\">police searched Black people at twice the rate of white people in 2021 (PDF)\u003c/a>. And get this: Officers were more likely to find contraband on white people than Black and Latino people, according to the report, which also found that police were twice as likely to use force against Black people than white people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/data-reveals-racial-disparities-police-stops-bay-17763091.php\">Black people were six times as likely to be stopped in Oakland than white people\u003c/a>, according to the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s analysis of the police-stop data recently released by the state attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black people were at least five times as likely to be stopped than white people. This is a city where officers accused of, among other infractions, sexual misconduct, domestic violence and sharing racist and antisemitic texts work desk duty in a windowless room while raking in millions collectively, according to the San Francisco Standard’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/cop-used-drugs-had-car-sex-with-a-teenager-then-sf-spent-1-2m-to-keep-him-on-desk-duty/\">three-part series on police accountability\u003c/a>. This is the city where \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/jenkins-police-investigate-17782463.php\">the law-and-order district attorney gutted the unit that investigates police misconduct and violence\u003c/a>, according to reporting by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892172/wesley-lowery-on-americas-elusive-racial-reckoning\">episode of Forum\u003c/a>, Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, talked with host Mina Kim about “\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/tyre-nichols-death-memphis-george-floyd-police-reform/672986/\">Why There Was No Racial Reckoning\u003c/a>,” a piece he wrote for \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>. George Floyd’s murder by police in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked nationwide uprisings not seen since 1967. Floyd’s death was supposed to also spark a reimagining of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, of course, hasn’t happened. Instead, the backlash against protests that demanded more funding for social services has empowered cities to continue criminalizing poverty. Posturing by police and politicians isn’t going to provide relief for families who have been living in poverty for generations. The police are trained in coercion, which renders their skills insufficient to respond to the circumstances which allow criminal activity to flourish: disinvestment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What type of resources are we pouring into those communities if our aim is to cut down on crime?” Lowery said on Forum. “Is the resource we’re sending in a bunch of armed guys told to rough people up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Reparations Coverage' tag='california-reparations']In July, the task force will deliver reparations recommendations, which are expected to include direct payments to eligible Black Californians. But reparations are more than compensation. Last summer, the task force \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-interim-report-preliminary-recommendations-2022.pdf\">released a preliminary report (PDF)\u003c/a> with recommendations to address, among other things, the unjust legal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police are the gatekeepers of that system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preliminary report suggests reducing “the scope of law enforcement jurisdiction within the public safety system” and shifting “more funding for prevention and mental health care.” The report also calls for the elimination of “discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force and racial profiling” of Black people; the elimination of racial disparities in police stops; and the elimination of over-policing of predominantly Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force could pave the road to viable racial equity in America. But to get to that place, it’s guaranteed to be a bumpy journey. Make sure you buckle up for safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Racial terror swept this country for decades after emancipation as white mobs — some dressed in robes and hoods, some flashing badges and guns — destroyed homes, towns and lives. The racial segregation enforced in the South initiated the migration of Black people to states like California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a year, the reparations task force, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/task-force-notice-agenda-03032023-03042023.pdf\">which meets Friday and Saturday in Sacramento (PDF)\u003c/a>, has documented the unsavory truth about Black history — a history that is more than the cherry-picked sections of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream speech. Honoring Black history must include the centuries of state-sanctioned violence that America willfully ignores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black history is American history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After I watched the footage of Nichols being brutalized by the officers who immediately began constructing a false narrative as they gasped for air, I thought about Rodney King, the Black man who was savagely beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers in 1991, an assault recorded by an amateur videographer. The grainy footage of King writhing in pain as officers swung batons as if they were chopping sugarcane will stick in my mind forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about Delphine Allen, the Black man who, while walking in West Oakland in 2000, was kidnapped and assaulted by rogue Oakland police officers. His feet were struck with a baton before he was driven to a secluded highway overpass, where the beating continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen was the lead plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit that alleged \u003ca href=\"https://clearinghouse.net/case/5541/\">misconduct and excessive use of force by four Oakland police officers\u003c/a> — and a lack of discipline and accountability for officer misconduct within the Oakland Police Department. More than 100 residents alleged mistreatment — brutal beatings, unlawful detention, intimidation — in the lawsuit that led to the federal monitoring of the OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quartet of officers known as “The Riders” rampaged West Oakland, an area once patrolled by the Black Panthers \u003cem>because of\u003c/em> police brutality, after sunset. An enduring vestige of enslavement is the over-policing of Black neighborhoods. As part of the $11 million settlement with the plaintiffs in 2003, the police department was forced to comply with court-ordered reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two decades after the settlement, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/15/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrong-fired-mayor-sheng-thao/\">LeRonne Armstrong, OPD’s police chief, was fired on Feb. 15\u003c/a>, in part, because of an independent report that detailed the police department’s mishandling of officer misconduct — the kind of violation that led to federal monitoring in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11942048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11942048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bald Black man in a blue police uniform stands outside in the sun holding a microphone and squinting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS49478_044_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, pictured at a 2021 NAACP event paying tribute to George Floyd, was fired by Mayor Sheng Thao on Feb. 15. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month, I interviewed Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston, co-authors of \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/01/13/oakland-police-darwin-bondgraham-riders-ali-winston-book-opd/\">\u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/video/uncovering-brutality-cover-and-corruption-oakland\">Commonwealth Club of California event\u003c/a>. In the book, BondGraham, news editor for The Oaklandside, and Winston, an independent journalist, present a riveting and profound portrait of out-of-control policing in Oakland. \u003cem>The Riders Come Out at Night\u003c/em> is a compelling argument for why the police can’t be trusted with reforming the institution of policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, OPD cycled through three police chiefs in eight days, an infamous stretch initiated by another misconduct scandal, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11080955/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager\">sex-trafficking of a minor by Oakland police officers and officers from multiple Bay Area jurisdictions\u003c/a>. The same year, two officers were suspended because of a racist text scandal. In 2021, nine officers were disciplined for racist and sexist social media posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what led to the firing of Armstrong, who is from West Oakland and became chief two years ago this month: In 2021, an OPD sergeant driving a police vehicle hit a parked car in the garage of his San Francisco apartment building. The driver, Sgt. Michael Chung, who was instrumental in OPD’s response to crime in Chinatown, didn’t report the accident. In 2022, Chung fired his gun in an elevator at police headquarters. Again, no report was filed. An investigation by a law firm found that an OPD captain had Chung’s violations reduced so his punishment was less severe. According to the investigators with Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP, Armstrong was aware of the light discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 18, the federal judge monitoring OPD’s reform efforts made the report by Clarence Dyer & Cohen public. 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Just look around the Bay Area. In Vallejo, a city that blithely dodges police scrutiny, \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/02/05/vallejo-destroyed-evidence-of-police-killings/\">the city destroyed evidence in multiple police killings\u003c/a> despite being under investigation by the state attorney general, according to reporting by Open Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">Officers in Antioch and Pittsburg are under investigation by the FBI and the Contra Costa district attorney\u003c/a> for fraud and civil rights violations, and federal prosecutors have already dismissed more than a dozen cases that hinged on officer testimony, according to \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. 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Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. The group also makes \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/memorial-quilts\">memorial quilts\u003c/a> as gifts for victims’ families and published an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/antiracist-guidebook\">Anti-Racist Guidebook.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940705\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940705\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance banner with images stretched across a street at night time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_149.jpg-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA Remembrance Project banners on display under the lights of downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The SJSA remains completely volunteer-run, and workshops are still at the center of their work. But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. Political quilts by artists like \u003ca href=\"https://quiltcon.com/featured-lecturer-exhibit/\">Chawne Kimber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisabutler.com/\">Bisa Butler\u003c/a> are getting more attention. \u003ca href=\"https://simplicity.com/\">Garment patterns\u003c/a> now feature more racially diverse models and come in a wider range of sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for me, the motivating factor is, I want to see this industry change,” Trail said. “The more little hurdles we knock over, that’s what keeps me going for months on end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a kid, Sara Trail was a bit of a crafting marvel. She was 4 years old when she started helping her mom sew. By the time she was 14, she had published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sew-Sara-Pillows-More-Fun-Stuff/dp/1571206035\">book of sewing projects\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ttSuK4_Y2mM/UIV2_nbH11I/AAAAAAAAAbs/BEDUYN1gItc/s1600/SewSara.jpg\">a line of patterns\u003c/a>. On weekends, she traveled around the country teaching sewing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940717\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940717\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5582.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail, June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Trail’s relationship with sewing drastically changed when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083233572/trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter\">was shot in 2012\u003c/a>. Trail identified with Martin. They were both teenagers, with birthdays only a few weeks apart. A few days after he was killed, Trail went to a quilting class. She wanted to talk about his murder and how their community could act for justice. But many of her classmates, who were older and white, didn’t understand why she was so affected by his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You know that’s really not our problem,’” Trail recalled them saying. “‘We’re here to sew. We paid 150 [dollars] for this class. Be quiet about politics.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trail \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606b5ab47ef31f2545e0a504/e014e9bb-5df0-41f2-bd1d-e7d71b6b5ea4/Rest+in+Power%2C+Trayvon_+2012.jpg?format=1500w\">sewed a portrait of Trayvon Martin\u003c/a>, based on the now \u003ca href=\"http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201807/634143962.jpg\">ubiquitous black-and-white photo of him in a hoodie\u003c/a>. His young face and haunting eyes peer out from a patchwork of light fabrics. She called it “Rest in Power Trayvon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first quilt that I made where [I wasn’t] trying to teach everyone to make this quilt,” said Trail. “I made this quilt so we can talk about an issue that’s being silenced in this quilting community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people did not celebrate this quilt like they had Trail’s other projects. Not one quilt show accepted it. Bay Area stores that proudly displayed her other work in their windows wanted nothing to do with the portrait of Trayvon Martin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940697\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A quilt image of a black youth with a gray hoodie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Rest-In-Power-Trayvon-Sara-Trail_70W-x-60L_Overall-1920x1275.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Trail's quilt 'Rest in Power Trayvon.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sara Trail)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And in that moment, I felt really shunned by an industry that I’d given not only so much of my youth, my childhood, but really my love, too,” Trail said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She never went back to quilting traditional patterns. Her idea of what textile art could and should express expanded as she studied public policy and education at UC Berkeley. And she kept thinking about the lack of empathy the quilting community had shown when Martin was murdered. She wanted to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Starting the Social Justice Sewing Academy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the summer after she graduated from Cal, Trail was ready to teach again, but this time it would be on her terms. She created a six-week summer program on the Cal campus, open to all students, and called it the “Social Justice Sewing Academy.” By the end of the program, each student finished a quilt and wrote a research paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had kids on ankle monitors,” Trail said. “We had kids who, you know, were sagging, cussing. They were like, ‘I never thought I’d be at a UC Berkeley summer thing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students read about identity and social movements. They approached historical events from multiple perspectives, not simply those presented in traditional textbooks. Trail introduced them to textile artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.faithringgold.com/about-faith/\">Faith Ringgold\u003c/a>, and they discussed what it meant to be “art activists.” She admits that it was pretty academic and that the students resisted sewing at first. But eventually they got into it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of leaving the classroom for their one-hour lunch break like they were encouraged to do, they would stay,” she said. “We would have music and they'd eat their lunch and they'd be working on their quilts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years later, that one-time summer program morphed into a nonprofit with a bevy of programs including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sjsacademy.org/remembrance-project\">The Remembrance Project\u003c/a>, in which quilted banners celebrate individuals who died by violence. 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But now, the workshops last only a few hours or a couple of days. Instead of the Cal campus, SJSA brings its lessons to high schools, detention centers and public events. Participants no longer sew individual quilts; they use glue to create a block, or section of a quilt, centered on an issue that’s important to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely started SJSA as a space where anyone can become a textile artist and make their own art,” said Trail. “I think there’s something really special in making art with the purpose to be seen and to have your voice heard over and over in different communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a sewing workshop Trail led as part of the city of Sonoma’s first Juneteenth celebration, Thomas Haines made a block representing how people who identify as trans or nonbinary often don’t receive burial services that reflect their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940700\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11940700 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg\" alt=\"A white person with long brown hair works on a quilt with scissors in their hand and a thread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-800x563.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-1020x717.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248-160x113.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_5555-e1676067705248.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Haines works on a quilt block at a Social Justice Sewing Academy workshop in Sonoma on June 18, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I'm going to have the trans flag’s colors on the stripes of the hand,” they explained to fellow participants. “And then she’s pulling the cross off of the coffin because a lot of trans folks are forced to have religious funerals, even though they may not align with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haines and the other participants would also write out an artist statement explaining their design and how the issue they’d chosen affects their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks were then handed off to SJSA volunteers around the country to add embroidery details or embellishments the artists requested, but didn’t know how to create themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Haines wanted the fingernails on the hand scraping the coffin image to be embroidered with pink thread and the words “Here Lies X.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then that goes off to an embroidery artist that is in a completely different class divide, a different generation, and has had different experiences,” said Stephanie Valencia, SJSA’s program coordinator. “They'll get the artist statement and they sit with that and really let it resonate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of SJSA’s volunteers, this exposure to life experiences outside their own is part of what draws them to the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I work on them, I’m thinking about what this person was thinking,” said Marcia Cary, a regular volunteer at SJSA sewing days who has worked on many blocks that deal with violence. “It’s kind of emotional.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the often difficult themes she encounters, Cary likes the work because it builds her empathy for people living lives different from hers, and forces her to reflect on her privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of people have echoed that response,” said Martha Wolfe, another SJSA volunteer. She worked on a Remembrance Project banner honoring \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058240388/ahmaud-arbery-murder-trial-verdict-travis-greg-mcmichael\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, a Black man who was chased and gunned down by three white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"A white woman looks at blocks on a wall.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/IMG_6088.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA volunteer Martha Wolfe working on a design, July 10, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You sit with the deceased and their families and you walk in their shoes for a few minutes,” Wolfe said. “To look into somebody’s eyes as you're creating their face … It was a good experience, but it was a hard experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prejudice in the sewing world\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is as willing to confront topics like racism, gun violence or LGBTQ equality while quilting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she’s been at quilt shows “where people have really negative things to say about The Remembrance Project, about Sara herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comments she’s heard range from, “‘It’s one of those exhibits of \u003cem>those\u003c/em> people,’” to, “‘Why do you always talk about Black people?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia says she can tell when prejudice is getting to Trail because Trail will remind white SJSA volunteers that their presence at quilt shows is important and ask them to put their “own community in check.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11940712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11940712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman works on a quilt at a table in the foreground with four white women working on quilts behind her in a workshop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-800x580.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1020x740.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/Copy-of-11459_159.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SJSA founder Sara Trail and other quilters participate in a special sewing day led by Tara Faughnan at the Bay Quilts store in Richmond, to complete the construction of the SJSA Inclusion community quilt. \u003ccite>(From \"Stitching Stolen Lives,\" by Sarah Trail and Teresa Duryea Wong, C&T Publishing, 2021)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People of color are always deemed as the representation of their community,” said Valencia. “Anything Sara does is automatically going to turn her into ‘that angry Black girl.’ If she were to say something to defend herself, even though people are treating her with so much disrespect, it's going to shine a negative light on SJSA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valencia said it’s heartbreaking to see Trail treated so rudely. “I'd be sitting next to somebody on a long bench and as soon as Sara would come over, people literally got up and left,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Hewett is a printmaker and designer who identifies as Black and Asian American. She surveyed women of color about their experiences in craft spaces for her book \u003ca href=\"https://jenhewett.com/books/\">\u003cem>This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. She wrote it in part because she didn’t see herself “represented in any of the mainstream portrayals of who practices these crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women consistently described being the only crafters of color at events, getting mistaken for other women of color, or being followed in fabric stores because the workers thought they were going to shoplift. One of the crafters featured in the book was even kicked out of her quilting group for talking about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1116942725/the-charlottesville-rally-5-years-later-its-what-youre-still-trying-to-forget\">violent and deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not allowed to talk about that at a quilting event when people asked her how she was, and she was uninvited because she talked about it,” Hewett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When people say things like, “Don’t get political. I just want to enjoy my weekend,” Hewett thinks they really mean, “Don’t disturb my whiteness. Don’t point out that as a white person, I may not have to think about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Opting out isn't a choice\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Trail has a message for crafters who say they don’t think discussions of racism or controversial social issues belong in hobby spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While you choose to opt in or opt out, Black bodies can’t do that,” she said. “The ability to separate is such a privilege. I wish I had it, too. When politics impact your everyday lived experience, you're going to care more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of awareness she sees in the white quilting community has gradually become a place she focuses her efforts. In the organization’s first few years, she prioritized giving young people positive quilting experiences and finding places to display their art. But over time, she found herself more willing to educate the often older, white SJSA volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think as 2020 really hit, the quilting community became a lot more receptive to learning,” Trail said. “Once they learn, they can do better. It’s like a domino effect. They can bring it to their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are encouraging signs at the industry level as well. Major companies like \u003ca href=\"https://windhamfabrics.com/\">Windham Fabrics\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aurifil.com/threads-of-diversity\">Aurifil\u003c/a> have championed SJSA’s work despite criticism from customers. Political quilts by artists like \u003ca href=\"https://quiltcon.com/featured-lecturer-exhibit/\">Chawne Kimber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bisabutler.com/\">Bisa Butler\u003c/a> are getting more attention. \u003ca href=\"https://simplicity.com/\">Garment patterns\u003c/a> now feature more racially diverse models and come in a wider range of sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think for me, the motivating factor is, I want to see this industry change,” Trail said. “The more little hurdles we knock over, that’s what keeps me going for months on end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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