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The description of work inside a frozen foods warehouse, where wheezing lugs destroy their health hefting 80 pound ice bricks of fish sticks, is worthy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle . The recounting of a brutal "workout" session, in which bankers try to break a defaulting debtor down psychologically, is brilliantly drawn, as are the scenes set in a dehumanized Oakland prison.
The new program, headquartered in Oakland, was the result of a merger between San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance (SFNLAF), Community Legal Services in San Jose, and Legal Foundation of Contra Costa.
"It's white people who are suffering disproportionately yet no white politicians want to talk about it," said Herman Pepper, a professor at the Eldridge Cleaver School of Law in Oakland, Calif., who has written extensively on the roots of white crime.
The Oakland School Board proclaimed that Ebonics was a language, and that teaching English to speakers of Ebonics was an exercise in bilingualism, comparable, in principle, to teaching English to speakers of Spanish or Vietnamese.
Black radicalism accelerated after the Watts riots in Los Angeles in 1965 and reached its peak with the Black Panthers in Oakland, a paramilitary organization led by Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale.