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After consulting with some colleagues and doing a child psychiatry rotation, he knew his future was working with transgender children and not, as he puts it, rolling mice to their tanning beds. [aside postid='arts_13926077']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work that Turban has done since then as a researcher and an advocate now culminates in the release of his first book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/free_to_be/\">\u003cem>Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (out June 4 via Simon & Schuster). Written specifically for parents — although also a wonderful read for anyone who wants to be more educated about the current political debates around trans people — the book is a readable, engaging and accessible introduction to the basics of what it means to be a transgender child, and the many options open to those who wish to transition. Turban admirably engages a lot of the misinformation circulating about this heavily marginalized demographic, and grounds research in firsthand stories from his own clinical work with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban has spent much of his career in the \u003ca href=\"https://transcare.ucsf.edu/\">UCSF Gender Clinic\u003c/a>, one of the nation’s leading clinics serving transgender minors. During our interview, he noted that some states where he considered setting down roots — including Tennessee — have outlawed such care, meaning that if he had followed that path, his career would have been brought to an untimely halt by Republican legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think,” he says. [aside postid='arts_13957070']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to serving trans kids as a medical provider, Turban has also produced a substantial body of research. One of his frequently cited papers found that when trans youth want puberty blockers and don’t have access to them, it is correlated with a substantial increase in suicidality across their entire lifespan, even if they later are able to get gender-affirming care as an adult. Among other things, this paper demonstrated how letting trans kids go through their natal puberty was not a neutral act, and could in fact have serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another paper of his found that those who realized their gender identity in childhood tended to wait over a decade before disclosing it to anyone. Turban believes that these findings help dispel one of the most widely promulgated myths about trans kids, that of so-called rapid onset gender dysphoria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rapid onset gender dysphoria is just the thing that will not die,” he tells me. “This whole notion that when parents find out is when kids realized for the first time is clearly false. It’s heartbreaking that they have to wait so long before they even feel safe telling the people who are supposed to be the safest to talk to.” [aside postid='arts_13955066']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban shares his findings in ways that are vivid and easy to digest, which makes \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> so valuable. Among other important topics, Turban examines in detail the ill-fated attempts to find a “cause” for being trans (theories include bad mothering, mental illness among mothers and sexual abuse). As Turban notes, these have all been discredited, and he presents strong evidence that transness is likely biological in nature. This would accord with the experience of the vast majority of trans people, and it would also explain why attempts at conversion therapy have been such abject failures. In fact, many studies (including Turban’s own research) have demonstrated that conversion therapy is incredibly harmful, greatly increasing suicidality and depression and failing to have any impact on identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of all that, Turban does not argue that the “born this way” narrative is the best way to promote trans equality. What he argues for instead is just getting to know a trans person. “People have all these ideas and opinions about trans people, but when they finally go and meet a trans person, there’s a major ‘oh shit’ moment,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban described a presentation he gave to a group of medical students at Yale, using a pre-test and post-test to determine whether their attitudes shifted. He found that, even though the students left more informed, their beliefs about the ethics of trans medicine stayed the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Turban arranged for a trans young person to speak about her experiences to the class, everything changed. “Major props to this girl, who did not have to do this,” he says. “She just sat down and answered questions, and all the medical students came up afterwards and said things like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I ever considered taking medical care away from this kid, when it’s so clear how important this was.’” [aside postid='news_11966077']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em>, Turban strikes a parallel between gay equality and trans equality, even discussing his interviews with Evan Wolfson, widely credited as an leading architect of marriage equality in the United States. As Turban notes, Wolfson has long argued that “born this way” might have played some role for the gay rights movement, but that the bigger gains were made when straight Americans interacted with gay ones as the latter became increasingly visible throughout society. Turban believes the same will hold true for trans equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps this is why Turban chooses to take so much space in \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> to take us into the lives of the kids themselves, drawing on his own clinical work to compellingly share his clients’ searches for acceptance, bodily autonomy and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book, we meet Sam, a seven-year-old nonbinary child. Early on in working with them, Turban explains to Sam what will soon happen when they go through their natal puberty. Turban then asks Sam what they want to do — experience that puberty or try to change it — and Sam says they’ll think about it. Turban ends up following Sam through an adolescence in which they choose not to intervene in their puberty, instead addressing their trans identity simply through things like clothing and haircuts. This episode gives the lie to prevailing myths about trans kids — that they are too young and naive to know what they want for their own bodies, and that maintaining a trans identity and a social transition will inevitably lead to medical interventions. [aside postid='arts_13858877']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Turban has had a very successful and rewarding career as an advocate for trans kids, it has not been without its share of difficulties. “For the last five, ten years, there’s been this constant stream of death threats,” he shares. “It’s become a lot scarier, especially with the political environment right now. It’s definitely something that I think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-trans hate campaigns also impact the kids he works with, especially when peers at school parrot hate speech. “It just makes me want to cry,” he says. “They hear things like being trans is a mental illness. Or the sports thing comes up, and they all want to quit sports or intentionally lose. Or when dating comes up, they’re really afraid of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who has spent years of my professional life supporting the mental health of trans people, as well as educating other clinicians about best practices for serving this demographic, Turban’s work has been absolutely essential. His research papers are among those that I most often quote and share with colleagues and parents of trans children. They are impactful and eye-opening, and really help those who are not trans better understand the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> is a wonderful distillation of years of Turban’s research, as well as his advocacy and countless hours of face-to-face work with these kids and their parents. I know it is something I will be reaching for often, and recommending to my clients for some time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jack Turban will discuss ‘Free to Be’ at\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookpassage.com/event/jack-turban-md-free-be-understanding-kids-gender-identity-corte-madera-store\"> Book Passage in Corte Madera on June 2\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Veronica Esposito is a writer, transgender advocate and associate marriage and family therapist specializing in supporting transgender clients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jack Turban cuts through the noise of anti-trans panic with research and real-life patient stories. 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A gay son of a strongly unaccepting father, he took the tried-and-true path of trying to win family love through perfection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of pressure to become a dermatologist in medical school,” he tells me via video interview. “People don’t realize that it’s considered a very prestigious thing. I think I also had ‘best little gay boy in the world syndrome’ — like where you grow up thinking this thing is so bad and wrong that you should be perfect in every other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban’s ideas about his career prospects began to shift on a trip to Europe, as a part of a piece he was writing for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> on trans kids. “That trip changed everything,” he says. “It was the moment for me when it went from being this intellectualized discussion to the real-life kid in front of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban saw the vast difference between the kids who were being affirmed and those who weren’t. After consulting with some colleagues and doing a child psychiatry rotation, he knew his future was working with transgender children and not, as he puts it, rolling mice to their tanning beds. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13926077","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work that Turban has done since then as a researcher and an advocate now culminates in the release of his first book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.harvard.com/book/free_to_be/\">\u003cem>Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (out June 4 via Simon & Schuster). Written specifically for parents — although also a wonderful read for anyone who wants to be more educated about the current political debates around trans people — the book is a readable, engaging and accessible introduction to the basics of what it means to be a transgender child, and the many options open to those who wish to transition. Turban admirably engages a lot of the misinformation circulating about this heavily marginalized demographic, and grounds research in firsthand stories from his own clinical work with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban has spent much of his career in the \u003ca href=\"https://transcare.ucsf.edu/\">UCSF Gender Clinic\u003c/a>, one of the nation’s leading clinics serving transgender minors. During our interview, he noted that some states where he considered setting down roots — including Tennessee — have outlawed such care, meaning that if he had followed that path, his career would have been brought to an untimely halt by Republican legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary to think,” he says. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13957070","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to serving trans kids as a medical provider, Turban has also produced a substantial body of research. One of his frequently cited papers found that when trans youth want puberty blockers and don’t have access to them, it is correlated with a substantial increase in suicidality across their entire lifespan, even if they later are able to get gender-affirming care as an adult. Among other things, this paper demonstrated how letting trans kids go through their natal puberty was not a neutral act, and could in fact have serious consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another paper of his found that those who realized their gender identity in childhood tended to wait over a decade before disclosing it to anyone. Turban believes that these findings help dispel one of the most widely promulgated myths about trans kids, that of so-called rapid onset gender dysphoria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rapid onset gender dysphoria is just the thing that will not die,” he tells me. “This whole notion that when parents find out is when kids realized for the first time is clearly false. It’s heartbreaking that they have to wait so long before they even feel safe telling the people who are supposed to be the safest to talk to.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955066","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban shares his findings in ways that are vivid and easy to digest, which makes \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> so valuable. Among other important topics, Turban examines in detail the ill-fated attempts to find a “cause” for being trans (theories include bad mothering, mental illness among mothers and sexual abuse). As Turban notes, these have all been discredited, and he presents strong evidence that transness is likely biological in nature. This would accord with the experience of the vast majority of trans people, and it would also explain why attempts at conversion therapy have been such abject failures. In fact, many studies (including Turban’s own research) have demonstrated that conversion therapy is incredibly harmful, greatly increasing suicidality and depression and failing to have any impact on identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of all that, Turban does not argue that the “born this way” narrative is the best way to promote trans equality. What he argues for instead is just getting to know a trans person. “People have all these ideas and opinions about trans people, but when they finally go and meet a trans person, there’s a major ‘oh shit’ moment,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turban described a presentation he gave to a group of medical students at Yale, using a pre-test and post-test to determine whether their attitudes shifted. He found that, even though the students left more informed, their beliefs about the ethics of trans medicine stayed the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Turban arranged for a trans young person to speak about her experiences to the class, everything changed. “Major props to this girl, who did not have to do this,” he says. “She just sat down and answered questions, and all the medical students came up afterwards and said things like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I ever considered taking medical care away from this kid, when it’s so clear how important this was.’” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11966077","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em>, Turban strikes a parallel between gay equality and trans equality, even discussing his interviews with Evan Wolfson, widely credited as an leading architect of marriage equality in the United States. As Turban notes, Wolfson has long argued that “born this way” might have played some role for the gay rights movement, but that the bigger gains were made when straight Americans interacted with gay ones as the latter became increasingly visible throughout society. Turban believes the same will hold true for trans equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps this is why Turban chooses to take so much space in \u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> to take us into the lives of the kids themselves, drawing on his own clinical work to compellingly share his clients’ searches for acceptance, bodily autonomy and safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the book, we meet Sam, a seven-year-old nonbinary child. Early on in working with them, Turban explains to Sam what will soon happen when they go through their natal puberty. Turban then asks Sam what they want to do — experience that puberty or try to change it — and Sam says they’ll think about it. Turban ends up following Sam through an adolescence in which they choose not to intervene in their puberty, instead addressing their trans identity simply through things like clothing and haircuts. This episode gives the lie to prevailing myths about trans kids — that they are too young and naive to know what they want for their own bodies, and that maintaining a trans identity and a social transition will inevitably lead to medical interventions. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13858877","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Turban has had a very successful and rewarding career as an advocate for trans kids, it has not been without its share of difficulties. “For the last five, ten years, there’s been this constant stream of death threats,” he shares. “It’s become a lot scarier, especially with the political environment right now. It’s definitely something that I think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-trans hate campaigns also impact the kids he works with, especially when peers at school parrot hate speech. “It just makes me want to cry,” he says. “They hear things like being trans is a mental illness. Or the sports thing comes up, and they all want to quit sports or intentionally lose. Or when dating comes up, they’re really afraid of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who has spent years of my professional life supporting the mental health of trans people, as well as educating other clinicians about best practices for serving this demographic, Turban’s work has been absolutely essential. His research papers are among those that I most often quote and share with colleagues and parents of trans children. They are impactful and eye-opening, and really help those who are not trans better understand the experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Free to Be\u003c/em> is a wonderful distillation of years of Turban’s research, as well as his advocacy and countless hours of face-to-face work with these kids and their parents. I know it is something I will be reaching for often, and recommending to my clients for some time to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jack Turban will discuss ‘Free to Be’ at\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookpassage.com/event/jack-turban-md-free-be-understanding-kids-gender-identity-corte-madera-store\"> Book Passage in Corte Madera on June 2\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Veronica Esposito is a writer, transgender advocate and associate marriage and family therapist specializing in supporting transgender clients. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13958699/dr-jack-turban-free-to-be-simon-schuster","authors":["byline_arts_13958699"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10278","arts_3226","arts_702"],"featImg":"arts_13958700","label":"source_arts_13958699"},"arts_13956667":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13956667","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13956667","score":null,"sort":[1714086455000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1714086455,"format":"standard","title":"On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem","headTitle":"On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem | KQED","content":"\u003cp>America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There. I said it. I say it a lot, actually. At least once a week for the last 29 years to be precise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know the exact date of the first time I said it — Oct. 3, 1995 — because that was the day that O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. O.J. was acquitted by a jury despite a mountain of DNA evidence against him and an extremely long, well-documented history of his abuse of Nicole. The images of her battered face and the sound of her shaking voice telling a 911 dispatcher “He’s going to beat the shit out of me” have been living rent-free in my head ever since. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in my teens when the O.J. verdict happened. \u003ca href=\"https://vawnet.org/material/marital-rape-new-research-and-directions#:~:text=On%20July%205%2C%201993%2C%20marital,rape%20prosecution%20granted%20to%20husbands.\">Raping your spouse had only been declared illegal\u003c/a> in America two years earlier. At the time, I hoped that — if women banded together and worked hard enough — things would change in my lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I’m middle-aged now. And nothing has changed at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America does not care about women” were the first words I uttered this morning, this time prompted by the news that New York’s highest court just overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction. The ruling was based on the fact that “testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants” was included in his original trial. That the inclusion of those witnesses — also known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800938076/how-the-molineux-rule-permits-certain-witnesses-in-the-harvey-weinstein-trial\">Molineux witnesses\u003c/a>” or “prior bad act witnesses” — has been perfectly legal in New York for well over a century appears to have been deemed irrelevant by four out of the seven judges on the New York Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Writing for the majority, Judge Jenny Rivera asserted that “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.” Rivera, incidentally, was appointed to the court in 2013 by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/26/cuomo-sexual-harassment-doj-00138140#:~:text=The%20justice%20department%20found%20Cuomo,harassed%2C%E2%80%9D%20the%20DOJ%20concluded.\">Andrew Cuomo, who has been accused of sexual harassment by 13 women\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13934462']The fact that the vast majority of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — more than 80 of them — were prevented from taking legal action against him in 2020 because of unjustly short statutes of limitations doesn’t matter either. Because America doesn’t care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, even on the morning of his 2020 conviction, I still found myself uttering those words. Because while Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act, those were only two of the five charges that he had faced. The wave of relief that followed his two convictions was powerful enough to obscure the fact that he was found not guilty on three other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein was found not guilty of first-degree rape, defined in the state of New York as “engag[ing] in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion.” This, despite Jessica Mann’s harrowing testimony that, “The more I fought, the angrier he got.” He was also found not guilty of two counts of predatory sexual assault. Annabella Sciorra appeared in court specifically in support of those charges, testifying that she was raped by Weinstein after he forced his way into her apartment. “I was punching, I was kicking him, I was trying to take him away from me,” she said. But still, he was found not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s case, from the jump, reflected just how hard it is for women to get justice in this country. But we already knew, just as we had known in 1995, America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908728']We knew it in 2021, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-conviction-overturned-5c073fb64bc5df4d7b99ee7fadddbe5a\">Bill Cosby was released\u003c/a> from prison on a technicality. Specifically, Pennsylvania’s highest court decided it wasn’t fair that the prosecutor who brought the case against Cosby had a predecessor who had promised to not charge the comedian. That was apparently too much for the court. The idea that 60 women who’d been living with untold trauma and interrupted careers would receive no justice after sharing their harrowing (and very credible) stories about Cosby with the whole world? Meh. Who cares about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice, when it comes to women, sometimes feels almost impossible to come by in any court in the land. In 2004, Robert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife Bonny Bakley, despite two separate witnesses testifying that Blake had attempted to hire them to kill her. Blake, like O.J. Simpson, was later found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a $30 million civil trial; Blake handled this by declaring bankruptcy in 2006. Hell, if O.J. Simpson could get away with not paying the Brown and Goldman families, why should Blake cough up? Even in the wake of Simpson’s death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oj-simpsons-lawyer-reverses-statement-civil-judgement-goldman-family-1235874717/\">those handling his estate are fighting\u003c/a> to ensure those families will never see a penny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America’s so-called justice system, history repeats itself. We know the outcomes before they land: In 2018, we knew Brett Kavanaugh would make it onto the Supreme Court despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239378828/for-christine-blasey-ford-the-fallout-of-the-kavanaugh-hearing-is-ongoing\">Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against him\u003c/a>. We knew because we’d already watched Clarence Thomas succeed after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1040911313/anita-hill-belonging-sexual-harassment-conversation\">Anita Hill testified against him\u003c/a> in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13918217']We knew Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee in 2024, because the fact that he confessed on recorded audio to “grab[bing]” women “by the pussy” did not impact his election chances in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was anyone really surprised when Ted Kennedy’s nephew William Kennedy Smith was found \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/03/dunne199203\">not guilty of raping Patricia Bowman\u003c/a>? Despite the fact that his defense attorney married one of the jurors shortly after the trial? It’s impossible to feign shock once you remember that, in 1969, Uncle Ted got off with a two-month suspended sentence for driving Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge, leaving her there to drown and then failing to report the accident for another 11 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the seismic #MeToo movement, despite the many conversations about cultural shifts and cancellations, the only two high-profile abusers punished in a court of law were Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. Now one is free and the other is working on it. And while Weinstein is still serving the 16-year sentence for rape and sexual assault imposed by his 2023 trial in Los Angeles, it’s impossible to feel any confidence in the system at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s decision reinforces what we already know,” Anita Hill said after this morning’s news broke. “We have seen a lack of progress in addressing the power imbalances that allow abuse to occur and that sexual assault continues to be a pervasive problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founder of #MeToo Tarana Burke managed — somehow — to strike a more optimistic note. “Because the brave women in this case broke their silence, millions and millions and millions of others found the strength to come forward and do the same. That will always be the victory. This doesn’t change that. And the people who abuse their power and privilege to violate and harm others will always be the villain. This doesn’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing that hasn’t changed? America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1267,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":22},"modified":1714087262,"excerpt":"Harvey Weinstein's overturned conviction makes it hard to have faith in the legal process, writes Rae Alexandra. ","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem","socialTitle":"Weinstein, Cosby, Simpson and America’s Misogyny Problem %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","ogTitle":"On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Harvey Weinstein's overturned conviction makes it hard to have faith in the legal process, writes Rae Alexandra. ","title":"Weinstein, Cosby, Simpson and America’s Misogyny Problem | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"On Weinstein, Cosby, OJ Simpson and America’s Systemic Misogyny Problem","datePublished":"2024-04-25T16:07:35-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-25T16:21:02-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"weinstein-overturned-conviction-me-too-misogyny-commentary","status":"publish","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary ","articleAge":"0","nprStoryId":"kqed-13956667","path":"/arts/13956667/weinstein-overturned-conviction-me-too-misogyny-commentary","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There. I said it. I say it a lot, actually. At least once a week for the last 29 years to be precise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know the exact date of the first time I said it — Oct. 3, 1995 — because that was the day that O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. O.J. was acquitted by a jury despite a mountain of DNA evidence against him and an extremely long, well-documented history of his abuse of Nicole. The images of her battered face and the sound of her shaking voice telling a 911 dispatcher “He’s going to beat the shit out of me” have been living rent-free in my head ever since. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in my teens when the O.J. verdict happened. \u003ca href=\"https://vawnet.org/material/marital-rape-new-research-and-directions#:~:text=On%20July%205%2C%201993%2C%20marital,rape%20prosecution%20granted%20to%20husbands.\">Raping your spouse had only been declared illegal\u003c/a> in America two years earlier. At the time, I hoped that — if women banded together and worked hard enough — things would change in my lifetime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I’m middle-aged now. And nothing has changed at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America does not care about women” were the first words I uttered this morning, this time prompted by the news that New York’s highest court just overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction. The ruling was based on the fact that “testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants” was included in his original trial. That the inclusion of those witnesses — also known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800938076/how-the-molineux-rule-permits-certain-witnesses-in-the-harvey-weinstein-trial\">Molineux witnesses\u003c/a>” or “prior bad act witnesses” — has been perfectly legal in New York for well over a century appears to have been deemed irrelevant by four out of the seven judges on the New York Court of Appeals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Writing for the majority, Judge Jenny Rivera asserted that “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.” Rivera, incidentally, was appointed to the court in 2013 by \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/26/cuomo-sexual-harassment-doj-00138140#:~:text=The%20justice%20department%20found%20Cuomo,harassed%2C%E2%80%9D%20the%20DOJ%20concluded.\">Andrew Cuomo, who has been accused of sexual harassment by 13 women\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13934462","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The fact that the vast majority of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers — more than 80 of them — were prevented from taking legal action against him in 2020 because of unjustly short statutes of limitations doesn’t matter either. Because America doesn’t care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, even on the morning of his 2020 conviction, I still found myself uttering those words. Because while Weinstein was convicted of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act, those were only two of the five charges that he had faced. The wave of relief that followed his two convictions was powerful enough to obscure the fact that he was found not guilty on three other charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein was found not guilty of first-degree rape, defined in the state of New York as “engag[ing] in sexual intercourse with another person by forcible compulsion.” This, despite Jessica Mann’s harrowing testimony that, “The more I fought, the angrier he got.” He was also found not guilty of two counts of predatory sexual assault. Annabella Sciorra appeared in court specifically in support of those charges, testifying that she was raped by Weinstein after he forced his way into her apartment. “I was punching, I was kicking him, I was trying to take him away from me,” she said. But still, he was found not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weinstein’s case, from the jump, reflected just how hard it is for women to get justice in this country. But we already knew, just as we had known in 1995, America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13908728","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We knew it in 2021, after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/bill-cosby-conviction-overturned-5c073fb64bc5df4d7b99ee7fadddbe5a\">Bill Cosby was released\u003c/a> from prison on a technicality. Specifically, Pennsylvania’s highest court decided it wasn’t fair that the prosecutor who brought the case against Cosby had a predecessor who had promised to not charge the comedian. That was apparently too much for the court. The idea that 60 women who’d been living with untold trauma and interrupted careers would receive no justice after sharing their harrowing (and very credible) stories about Cosby with the whole world? Meh. Who cares about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justice, when it comes to women, sometimes feels almost impossible to come by in any court in the land. In 2004, Robert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife Bonny Bakley, despite two separate witnesses testifying that Blake had attempted to hire them to kill her. Blake, like O.J. Simpson, was later found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a $30 million civil trial; Blake handled this by declaring bankruptcy in 2006. Hell, if O.J. Simpson could get away with not paying the Brown and Goldman families, why should Blake cough up? Even in the wake of Simpson’s death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/oj-simpsons-lawyer-reverses-statement-civil-judgement-goldman-family-1235874717/\">those handling his estate are fighting\u003c/a> to ensure those families will never see a penny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In America’s so-called justice system, history repeats itself. We know the outcomes before they land: In 2018, we knew Brett Kavanaugh would make it onto the Supreme Court despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239378828/for-christine-blasey-ford-the-fallout-of-the-kavanaugh-hearing-is-ongoing\">Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against him\u003c/a>. We knew because we’d already watched Clarence Thomas succeed after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1040911313/anita-hill-belonging-sexual-harassment-conversation\">Anita Hill testified against him\u003c/a> in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13918217","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>We knew Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee in 2024, because the fact that he confessed on recorded audio to “grab[bing]” women “by the pussy” did not impact his election chances in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was anyone really surprised when Ted Kennedy’s nephew William Kennedy Smith was found \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1992/03/dunne199203\">not guilty of raping Patricia Bowman\u003c/a>? Despite the fact that his defense attorney married one of the jurors shortly after the trial? It’s impossible to feign shock once you remember that, in 1969, Uncle Ted got off with a two-month suspended sentence for driving Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge, leaving her there to drown and then failing to report the accident for another 11 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the seismic #MeToo movement, despite the many conversations about cultural shifts and cancellations, the only two high-profile abusers punished in a court of law were Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. Now one is free and the other is working on it. And while Weinstein is still serving the 16-year sentence for rape and sexual assault imposed by his 2023 trial in Los Angeles, it’s impossible to feel any confidence in the system at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s decision reinforces what we already know,” Anita Hill said after this morning’s news broke. “We have seen a lack of progress in addressing the power imbalances that allow abuse to occur and that sexual assault continues to be a pervasive problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founder of #MeToo Tarana Burke managed — somehow — to strike a more optimistic note. “Because the brave women in this case broke their silence, millions and millions and millions of others found the strength to come forward and do the same. That will always be the victory. This doesn’t change that. And the people who abuse their power and privilege to violate and harm others will always be the villain. This doesn’t change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing that hasn’t changed? America does not care about women.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13956667/weinstein-overturned-conviction-me-too-misogyny-commentary","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_16989","arts_1873","arts_2767","arts_2777","arts_7580"],"featImg":"arts_13956685","label":"source_arts_13956667"},"arts_13955419":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13955419","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13955419","score":null,"sort":[1712189026000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1712189026,"format":"aside","title":"A Conspiracy Theory About the Oakland A’s Emerges — Here’s Why Fans Are Mad","headTitle":"A Conspiracy Theory About the Oakland A’s Emerges — Here’s Why Fans Are Mad | KQED","content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"Two baseball players slap hands in a dugout with orange Gatorade jugs in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteury Ruiz of the Oakland Athletics (at right) greets Brent Rooker in the dugout before a game against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on May 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ask any lifelong Oakland A’s fan about the dubious things we’ve seen in recent years, and you’ll get a novella’s worth of some of the worst atrocities seen in modern sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the whole marsupial fiasco — when \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10072517-possum-living-in-as-stadium-prevents-visiting-announcers-from-using-broadcast-booth\">possums overtook portions of the Coliseum\u003c/a> and, according to Bleacher Report, prevented visiting team’s announcers from using the broadcast booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the time \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/21/top-oakland-coliseum-fails-light-outage-just-the-latest-as-stadium-delay/\">the lights went out at the Coliseum during a game on Teacher’s Appreciation Night\u003c/a> — in which the start time was delayed and most teachers, ironically, didn’t get to watch the game. (I was a teacher at the time; we all left before the first inning because we had young people to teach early the next morning).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11981232']And let’s not forget the time that ESPN reported how the New York Yankees were “\u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/15647563/new-york-yankees-dugout-victimized-plumbing-issues-oakland-coliseum\">victimized by plumbing issues\u003c/a>” at the Coliseum, in which human feces, overflow and a mop were involved in the guest dugout. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d be forgiven to wonder: How could it possibly get worse for the Las Vegas-distracted team that is now looking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/as-to-meet-with-sacramento-city-officials-about-temporary-home-before-planned-las-vegas-move-per-report/\">a temporary Sacramento relocation\u003c/a>? (\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5WCz4XrW0I/?hl=en\">It’s official — they’re leaving Oakland after the 2024 season\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about demoting two of the team’s statistically best performers for — wait for it — allegedly wearing fan-made gear? Yes, I’m talking about — wait for it again — \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/mlb-news-oakland-s-wristbandgate-conspiracy-more-theory-1886247\">#WristbandGate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13952437']Esteury Ruiz — who as of this writing wields the team’s highest batting average, and led the A’s in stolen bases last year — was sent down to the Minor Leagues this week. And Brent Rooker — who, admittedly, has struggled to start of his 2024 campaign — has been benched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ruiz’s case, the move seems especially confounding, since he’s a fan favorite and one of the franchise’s sole luminaries. But \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar\">The Last Dive Bar\u003c/a> — a fan-owned online merch shop that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952437/oakland-as-fans-fest-jack-london-square-2024\">involved in organizing this year’s Oakland Fan Appreciation Day\u003c/a> in Jack London Square — thinks they know why both players were penalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent Tweet, The Last Dive Bar posted a photo of the players wearing their store’s popular wristbands, which are notoriously associated with a sweeping effort to convince current owner John Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar/status/1774917579842486699\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re not the only players to wear the wristbands and get let go — or demoted — by the team, either. Somewhat facetiously, The Last Dive Bar also posted photos of other former Athletics wearing the yellow wristband with the caption reading “Pache gone! Ruiz sent down! Rooker benched! Kap gone!… The truth is out there!!!!”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think this sounds like a conspiracy theory (which \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=a%27s%20conspiracy%20theory&src=typed_query\">many fans and baseball writers nationwide are suggesting\u003c/a>), then I will kindly remind you that nothing in the warped upside-down netherworld of the John Fisher-owned Oakland Athletics makes sense, \u003cem>ever\u003c/em> (see: no lights in the stadium, territorial possums, human feces).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re asking me — and I’ve seen everything imaginable at the Coliseum, including sexual acts and violent encounters — I think it’s a little more than a tongue-in-cheek theory. Simply put, there’s a reason why it’s believable: A’s management have neglected their duties for far too long and their egos are more fragile and untenable than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13921216']As a former season ticketholder who until recently attended A’s games religiously, I simply want the basic respect any loyal fan deserves. And yes, I want the basic condiments — I’m talking about having simple access to ketchup and barbecue sauce — inside my favorite team’s stadium. And I know I’m not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Oakland A’s have become under the soulless oversight of Fisher is hard to describe, unless you’ve sat in those rickety bleacher seats or in that mountainous concrete upper deck. But at this point, if you hear a wild-sounding conspiracy theory from A’s fans who’ve endured so much, at this point there’s probably a reason to believe them.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":778,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1712248219,"excerpt":"With the 2024 season underway, the Oakland A’s front office is once again in the crosshairs of fans and sports media. ","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"With the 2024 season underway, the Oakland A’s front office is once again in the crosshairs of fans and sports media. ","title":"A Conspiracy Theory About the Oakland A’s Emerges — Here’s Why Fans Are Mad | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Conspiracy Theory About the Oakland A’s Emerges — Here’s Why Fans Are Mad","datePublished":"2024-04-03T17:03:46-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-04T09:30:19-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary","WpOldSlug":"a-conspiracy-theory-about-the-oakland-as-emerges-heres-why-fans-are-mad","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"Two baseball players slap hands in a dugout with orange Gatorade jugs in the background.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Booker.Ruiz_.MAIN_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esteury Ruiz of the Oakland Athletics (at right) greets Brent Rooker in the dugout before a game against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on May 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ask any lifelong Oakland A’s fan about the dubious things we’ve seen in recent years, and you’ll get a novella’s worth of some of the worst atrocities seen in modern sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the whole marsupial fiasco — when \u003ca href=\"https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10072517-possum-living-in-as-stadium-prevents-visiting-announcers-from-using-broadcast-booth\">possums overtook portions of the Coliseum\u003c/a> and, according to Bleacher Report, prevented visiting team’s announcers from using the broadcast booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the time \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/21/top-oakland-coliseum-fails-light-outage-just-the-latest-as-stadium-delay/\">the lights went out at the Coliseum during a game on Teacher’s Appreciation Night\u003c/a> — in which the start time was delayed and most teachers, ironically, didn’t get to watch the game. (I was a teacher at the time; we all left before the first inning because we had young people to teach early the next morning).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981232","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And let’s not forget the time that ESPN reported how the New York Yankees were “\u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/15647563/new-york-yankees-dugout-victimized-plumbing-issues-oakland-coliseum\">victimized by plumbing issues\u003c/a>” at the Coliseum, in which human feces, overflow and a mop were involved in the guest dugout. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d be forgiven to wonder: How could it possibly get worse for the Las Vegas-distracted team that is now looking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/as-to-meet-with-sacramento-city-officials-about-temporary-home-before-planned-las-vegas-move-per-report/\">a temporary Sacramento relocation\u003c/a>? (\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5WCz4XrW0I/?hl=en\">It’s official — they’re leaving Oakland after the 2024 season\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about demoting two of the team’s statistically best performers for — wait for it — allegedly wearing fan-made gear? Yes, I’m talking about — wait for it again — \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/mlb-news-oakland-s-wristbandgate-conspiracy-more-theory-1886247\">#WristbandGate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13952437","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Esteury Ruiz — who as of this writing wields the team’s highest batting average, and led the A’s in stolen bases last year — was sent down to the Minor Leagues this week. And Brent Rooker — who, admittedly, has struggled to start of his 2024 campaign — has been benched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Ruiz’s case, the move seems especially confounding, since he’s a fan favorite and one of the franchise’s sole luminaries. But \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LastDiveBar\">The Last Dive Bar\u003c/a> — a fan-owned online merch shop that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952437/oakland-as-fans-fest-jack-london-square-2024\">involved in organizing this year’s Oakland Fan Appreciation Day\u003c/a> in Jack London Square — thinks they know why both players were penalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent Tweet, The Last Dive Bar posted a photo of the players wearing their store’s popular wristbands, which are notoriously associated with a sweeping effort to convince current owner John Fisher to sell the team.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1774917579842486699"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>They’re not the only players to wear the wristbands and get let go — or demoted — by the team, either. Somewhat facetiously, The Last Dive Bar also posted photos of other former Athletics wearing the yellow wristband with the caption reading “Pache gone! Ruiz sent down! Rooker benched! Kap gone!… The truth is out there!!!!”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think this sounds like a conspiracy theory (which \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=a%27s%20conspiracy%20theory&src=typed_query\">many fans and baseball writers nationwide are suggesting\u003c/a>), then I will kindly remind you that nothing in the warped upside-down netherworld of the John Fisher-owned Oakland Athletics makes sense, \u003cem>ever\u003c/em> (see: no lights in the stadium, territorial possums, human feces).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re asking me — and I’ve seen everything imaginable at the Coliseum, including sexual acts and violent encounters — I think it’s a little more than a tongue-in-cheek theory. Simply put, there’s a reason why it’s believable: A’s management have neglected their duties for far too long and their egos are more fragile and untenable than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13921216","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a former season ticketholder who until recently attended A’s games religiously, I simply want the basic respect any loyal fan deserves. And yes, I want the basic condiments — I’m talking about having simple access to ketchup and barbecue sauce — inside my favorite team’s stadium. And I know I’m not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Oakland A’s have become under the soulless oversight of Fisher is hard to describe, unless you’ve sat in those rickety bleacher seats or in that mountainous concrete upper deck. But at this point, if you hear a wild-sounding conspiracy theory from A’s fans who’ve endured so much, at this point there’s probably a reason to believe them.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955419/oakland-as-athletics-booker-ruiz-wristbandgate","authors":["11748"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_13238"],"tags":["arts_10092","arts_2767","arts_1143","arts_1551"],"featImg":"arts_13955415","label":"source_arts_13955419"},"arts_13952162":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13952162","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13952162","score":null,"sort":[1707869510000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1707869510,"format":"standard","title":"Who Pays When Oakland Is on Trial?","headTitle":"Who Pays When Oakland Is on Trial? | KQED","content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the sixth floor of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, hard-bottom dress shoes and high heels echo down the hall. As I sit on a bench next to floor-to-ceiling windows, I can see downtown Oakland and the hills beyond. Dark clouds gather in the distance — another storm is rolling in. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tall, slender man in a suit identifies himself as a public defender. While shaking my hand, he tells me that the young man I’m here to support is facing a second-degree robbery charge for two or three incidents where he’s alleged to have used a BB gun to hold up pizza stores in Oakland. Aside from shaken emotions and money taken, no one was injured, and the public defender says he’s going to ask that he be released on his own recognizance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, the public defender lays out the argument just as he did to me in the hallway. But it doesn’t go as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the prosecutor from the district attorney’s office responds, the judge nods repeatedly. Though the young man has no prior record, and could clearly use more guidance and less penalizing, the prosecutor pointedly reminds the courtroom of “everything going on in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge continues to nod throughout the prosecutor’s statement, which ends with his recommendation to keep the young man in jail and leave his bail at an astronomical $400,000. If the young person and his family were in a financial bind before, getting him released by paying 10% of the bail — $40,000 — is far from feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They schedule a follow-up court date, and the meeting is adjourned. I walk out the courtroom and back into the hallway near the big windows, trying to make sense of it all. \u003cem>Did I just watch Oakland itself go on trial, with this young man taking the blame?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he prosecution used “everything going on in Oakland” as a way to connect one individual to the larger issues this city faces, pointing to a prevalent mindset in the community: on edge and weary of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Town is in the midst of another perfect storm, where the decades-old image of Oakland as a violent city is augmented by an uptick in non-violent crime. When this problem becomes politicized, elected officials return to the old “tough on crime” ideology. Inevitably, this results in a flood of folks serving time in state prisons, breathing more life into the beast known as mass incarceration. [aside postid='news_11975692']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it worse is that the concern isn’t completely unfounded. We’re in the United States, where every major city, especially since the pandemic, has issues with crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, motor vehicle theft has been on an increase since 2020, according to city records. Last year, robberies and burglaries, along with car theft, all reportedly increased by double-digit percentages from the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers show that after a dip in homicides through the 2010s, the pandemic-plagued year of 2020 brought Oakland its first year with more than 100 homicides in nearly a decade. The homicide count has been over 100 every year since. Oakland’s overall crime index, a calculation used to assess the volume of violent crimes in a specific place, has increased in four of the past five years. [aside postid='arts_13918908']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the numbers, viral videos of crimes in progress have fueled fear and panic. This fear seeps into our social interactions — at the bar, the barbershop or in neighborhood cafes, people all over are conversing about broken car windows and stolen catalytic converters, home break-ins and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To somebody with all this on their mind, having a BB gun pointed at them essentially constitutes an attempt on their life. That’s essentially what I heard the prosecutor saying. But when the prosecutor brings this into court, he’s leaving out the city, state and federal government’s complicity in creating this environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That young man on trial is another person trying to make ends meet in a region where the living wage is $10 more than the minimum wage. He’s one of the many people bouncing from couch to couch — functionally unhoused — in a state that’s host to half of this country’s unhoused population. Last year, his home county, Alameda County, declared a state of emergency due to the amount of people living without homes. And over the past five years, Oakland has seen an astronomical rise in homelessness, one that’s left a disproportionate amount of African American people, like him, without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t to blame for the state of society — he’s a victim of it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen the state of the Town is mentioned, there’s no discussion about a public school system that had a 72% graduation rate during the 2020-2021 school year, the year this young man was supposed to graduate. And while that rate is an improvement from past years, only 40% of those graduates have A-G requirements, which are needed to qualify for the UC and CSU systems. In short, you can graduate without qualifying for the state’s higher education system, which in turn means you’ve got a longshot at entering fields like nursing, tech or any other industry that pays enough to stay afloat in one of the most expensive regions in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and social programs such as Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention and MACRO struggle for funding, while this city’s top investment — the Oakland Police Department — has been riddled with scandals and constant turnover in the position of chief. The organization has received billions of dollars while literally being under federal monitor since 2003, the same year that the young defendant in the courtroom was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Employment/f9u6-zi33/\">report from the the City of Oakland,\u003c/a> just over 10% of people aged 16–24 qualify as “disconnected youth,” which means they’re neither working nor in school. For African Americans, that number is just shy of 15%. The 20-year-old African American man at the center of this trial is one of those disconnected youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg\" alt='A woman stands outside a building with her fist up. A sign next to her says \"stop the war on public education.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator protests Oakland school closures on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given all these mitigating factors, is it still wrong to commit a crime? Yes. Should one individual have to pay not only for their alleged crime but for decades of civic neglect that have gotten us to this point? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” works to fit any agenda you so wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou’ve seen the reports of chain restaurants like Denny’s and In-N-Out citing “everything that’s going on in Oakland” as the reason why they’re shuttering their storefronts. The media only adds to the fire by parroting business owners’ reasons for closing, whether or not it’s accurate. Supported by major outlets, news reporters tell story after story about crime without providing context or suggestions for change. Social media accounts upload video after video of negative depictions of the Town — again, without context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this media-backed narrative gets mixed in with politics and leaks into courtrooms, we end up right back in the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13950363']The notion of the “superpredator,” as defined by the person who coined the term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/they-were-sentenced-as-superpredators-who-were-they-really/\">John DiIulio\u003c/a>, is “a young juvenile criminal who is so impulsive, so remorseless, that he can kill, rape, maim, without giving it a second thought.” The term was employed by media outlets across the nation, pinned on people fighting court cases and tossed around by elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, politicians on both sides of the aisle discussed how to be tougher on crime. It resulted in the passing of numerous local and state bills, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355/text\">Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act\u003c/a> of 1994, a federal crime bill that at the time was touted as the largest crime bill in the nation’s history. Significant portions of the bill were written by the former Senate Judiciary chairman from Delaware — you know him as President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg\" alt=\"Two politicians greet each other warmly.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden is greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Moffett Federal airfield in Mountain View, California, on June 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This crime bill wasn’t about the prevalence of drugs, police brutality or the over-policing of addiction in working-class Black and Brown communities. Nor was it about the closure of numerous factories and the lack of job opportunities. Nope, it was just as simple as being “tough on crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the ’90s was far from the first time this narrative was used. In the late ’80s, an extremely wealthy real estate mogul by the name of Donald Trump spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html\">$85,000 to take out a full page advertisement\u003c/a> in four New York newspapers wishing death on the now-exonerated “Central Park 5.” [aside postid='forum_2010101904609']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This country has a history of attributing the ills of society to Black and Brown working class individuals put in compromising positions due to lack of education and sufficient finances. Whether or not they’ve ever committed a crime, they’re often charged for the crimes plaguing the larger society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an election year, one that leaves us once again to choose between Biden and Trump for the highest office in the land. Two politicians who see no issue with further investment in the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Alameda county, where District Attorney Pamela Price faces a recall effort for being too soft on crime, the pendulum is already swinging back toward more investment in law enforcement. Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the “Surge Operation,” which will deploy \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/06/governor-newsom-deploys-chp-officers-alarming-crime-increase-oakland/\">120 CHP officers to Oakland\u003c/a> and the surrounding area — “a nearly 900% increase in CHP personnel” to target different forms of theft and violent crime. That was followed by an announcement that the operation will be supported by attorneys from the California National Guard and Deputy attorneys general from the California Department of Justice. “An arrest isn’t enough,” said Governor Newsom. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More cops, tough on crime stances and the “everything going on in Oakland” narrative are a recipe for mass incarceration. Mind you, this state was sued by the federal government for its overcrowded prisons two decades ago, and it wasn’t until the pandemic that the prison population dipped down to non-overcrowded levels. As of last week, California’s prisons were at 117% capacity, and a continued increase is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1218023784-1-e1591601310455.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(VIVIAN LIN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat can be done? Crime is up. People are on edge. Neighbors are wary of delivery drivers and any other unidentified car on the street; the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” is on a lot of people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s exactly because of everything going on in Oakland that it’s a good time to be cautious. Decisions made today will dictate not only where individuals being sentenced will end up in 20 years, but what the state of the Town — and this country — will be in two decades and beyond. The “tough on crime” era resulted in a lot of lives wasted away in overcrowded prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the courthouse, I walk through the hallway, sneaking one last look through the translucent wall of windows while I wait on the elevator. The wind is blowing. One of the people who walked past me earlier in hard bottom shoes is out on the street running toward their car. Looks like the storm is getting closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":2145,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":36},"modified":1707918757,"excerpt":"Fixing ‘everything going on in Oakland’ will require more than being tough on crime, writes Pendarvis Harshaw.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Fixing ‘everything going on in Oakland’ will require more than being tough on crime, writes Pendarvis Harshaw.","title":"Who Pays When Oakland Is on Trial? | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who Pays When Oakland Is on Trial?","datePublished":"2024-02-13T16:11:50-08:00","dateModified":"2024-02-14T05:52:37-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-public-safety-crime-commentary","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/category/commentary","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary ","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13952162/oakland-public-safety-crime-commentary","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the sixth floor of the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, hard-bottom dress shoes and high heels echo down the hall. As I sit on a bench next to floor-to-ceiling windows, I can see downtown Oakland and the hills beyond. Dark clouds gather in the distance — another storm is rolling in. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tall, slender man in a suit identifies himself as a public defender. While shaking my hand, he tells me that the young man I’m here to support is facing a second-degree robbery charge for two or three incidents where he’s alleged to have used a BB gun to hold up pizza stores in Oakland. Aside from shaken emotions and money taken, no one was injured, and the public defender says he’s going to ask that he be released on his own recognizance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, the public defender lays out the argument just as he did to me in the hallway. But it doesn’t go as planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the prosecutor from the district attorney’s office responds, the judge nods repeatedly. Though the young man has no prior record, and could clearly use more guidance and less penalizing, the prosecutor pointedly reminds the courtroom of “everything going on in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge continues to nod throughout the prosecutor’s statement, which ends with his recommendation to keep the young man in jail and leave his bail at an astronomical $400,000. If the young person and his family were in a financial bind before, getting him released by paying 10% of the bail — $40,000 — is far from feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They schedule a follow-up court date, and the meeting is adjourned. I walk out the courtroom and back into the hallway near the big windows, trying to make sense of it all. \u003cem>Did I just watch Oakland itself go on trial, with this young man taking the blame?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952170\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in red glasses sits at a table in an indoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/20230909-DAProtest-37-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a public safety town hall at Genesis Worship Center in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he prosecution used “everything going on in Oakland” as a way to connect one individual to the larger issues this city faces, pointing to a prevalent mindset in the community: on edge and weary of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Town is in the midst of another perfect storm, where the decades-old image of Oakland as a violent city is augmented by an uptick in non-violent crime. When this problem becomes politicized, elected officials return to the old “tough on crime” ideology. Inevitably, this results in a flood of folks serving time in state prisons, breathing more life into the beast known as mass incarceration. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975692","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making it worse is that the concern isn’t completely unfounded. We’re in the United States, where every major city, especially since the pandemic, has issues with crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, motor vehicle theft has been on an increase since 2020, according to city records. Last year, robberies and burglaries, along with car theft, all reportedly increased by double-digit percentages from the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers show that after a dip in homicides through the 2010s, the pandemic-plagued year of 2020 brought Oakland its first year with more than 100 homicides in nearly a decade. The homicide count has been over 100 every year since. Oakland’s overall crime index, a calculation used to assess the volume of violent crimes in a specific place, has increased in four of the past five years. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13918908","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the numbers, viral videos of crimes in progress have fueled fear and panic. This fear seeps into our social interactions — at the bar, the barbershop or in neighborhood cafes, people all over are conversing about broken car windows and stolen catalytic converters, home break-ins and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To somebody with all this on their mind, having a BB gun pointed at them essentially constitutes an attempt on their life. That’s essentially what I heard the prosecutor saying. But when the prosecutor brings this into court, he’s leaving out the city, state and federal government’s complicity in creating this environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That young man on trial is another person trying to make ends meet in a region where the living wage is $10 more than the minimum wage. He’s one of the many people bouncing from couch to couch — functionally unhoused — in a state that’s host to half of this country’s unhoused population. Last year, his home county, Alameda County, declared a state of emergency due to the amount of people living without homes. And over the past five years, Oakland has seen an astronomical rise in homelessness, one that’s left a disproportionate amount of African American people, like him, without a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He isn’t to blame for the state of society — he’s a victim of it as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952165\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg\" alt='RVs in an encampment with signs that read \"Where do we go?\" and \"Respect existence or expect resistance.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/013_KQED_WoodStreet_JessicaFountaine_09082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs cover two RVs at the Wood Street encampment in Oakland on Sept. 8, 2022, while CalTrans moved in to clear the area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen the state of the Town is mentioned, there’s no discussion about a public school system that had a 72% graduation rate during the 2020-2021 school year, the year this young man was supposed to graduate. And while that rate is an improvement from past years, only 40% of those graduates have A-G requirements, which are needed to qualify for the UC and CSU systems. In short, you can graduate without qualifying for the state’s higher education system, which in turn means you’ve got a longshot at entering fields like nursing, tech or any other industry that pays enough to stay afloat in one of the most expensive regions in this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and social programs such as Oakland’s Department of Violence Prevention and MACRO struggle for funding, while this city’s top investment — the Oakland Police Department — has been riddled with scandals and constant turnover in the position of chief. The organization has received billions of dollars while literally being under federal monitor since 2003, the same year that the young defendant in the courtroom was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://data.oaklandca.gov/stories/s/Employment/f9u6-zi33/\">report from the the City of Oakland,\u003c/a> just over 10% of people aged 16–24 qualify as “disconnected youth,” which means they’re neither working nor in school. For African Americans, that number is just shy of 15%. The 20-year-old African American man at the center of this trial is one of those disconnected youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952167\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg\" alt='A woman stands outside a building with her fist up. A sign next to her says \"stop the war on public education.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/IMG_7890-scaled-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator protests Oakland school closures on May 26, 2022. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Given all these mitigating factors, is it still wrong to commit a crime? Yes. Should one individual have to pay not only for their alleged crime but for decades of civic neglect that have gotten us to this point? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” works to fit any agenda you so wish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ou’ve seen the reports of chain restaurants like Denny’s and In-N-Out citing “everything that’s going on in Oakland” as the reason why they’re shuttering their storefronts. The media only adds to the fire by parroting business owners’ reasons for closing, whether or not it’s accurate. Supported by major outlets, news reporters tell story after story about crime without providing context or suggestions for change. Social media accounts upload video after video of negative depictions of the Town — again, without context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When this media-backed narrative gets mixed in with politics and leaks into courtrooms, we end up right back in the early 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13950363","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The notion of the “superpredator,” as defined by the person who coined the term, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/they-were-sentenced-as-superpredators-who-were-they-really/\">John DiIulio\u003c/a>, is “a young juvenile criminal who is so impulsive, so remorseless, that he can kill, rape, maim, without giving it a second thought.” The term was employed by media outlets across the nation, pinned on people fighting court cases and tossed around by elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, politicians on both sides of the aisle discussed how to be tougher on crime. It resulted in the passing of numerous local and state bills, as well as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355/text\">Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act\u003c/a> of 1994, a federal crime bill that at the time was touted as the largest crime bill in the nation’s history. Significant portions of the bill were written by the former Senate Judiciary chairman from Delaware — you know him as President Joe Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952174\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg\" alt=\"Two politicians greet each other warmly.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-1258830044-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden is greeted by California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Moffett Federal airfield in Mountain View, California, on June 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This crime bill wasn’t about the prevalence of drugs, police brutality or the over-policing of addiction in working-class Black and Brown communities. Nor was it about the closure of numerous factories and the lack of job opportunities. Nope, it was just as simple as being “tough on crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the ’90s was far from the first time this narrative was used. In the late ’80s, an extremely wealthy real estate mogul by the name of Donald Trump spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html\">$85,000 to take out a full page advertisement\u003c/a> in four New York newspapers wishing death on the now-exonerated “Central Park 5.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101904609","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This country has a history of attributing the ills of society to Black and Brown working class individuals put in compromising positions due to lack of education and sufficient finances. Whether or not they’ve ever committed a crime, they’re often charged for the crimes plaguing the larger society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an election year, one that leaves us once again to choose between Biden and Trump for the highest office in the land. Two politicians who see no issue with further investment in the penal system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Alameda county, where District Attorney Pamela Price faces a recall effort for being too soft on crime, the pendulum is already swinging back toward more investment in law enforcement. Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the “Surge Operation,” which will deploy \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/06/governor-newsom-deploys-chp-officers-alarming-crime-increase-oakland/\">120 CHP officers to Oakland\u003c/a> and the surrounding area — “a nearly 900% increase in CHP personnel” to target different forms of theft and violent crime. That was followed by an announcement that the operation will be supported by attorneys from the California National Guard and Deputy attorneys general from the California Department of Justice. “An arrest isn’t enough,” said Governor Newsom. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More cops, tough on crime stances and the “everything going on in Oakland” narrative are a recipe for mass incarceration. Mind you, this state was sued by the federal government for its overcrowded prisons two decades ago, and it wasn’t until the pandemic that the prison population dipped down to non-overcrowded levels. As of last week, California’s prisons were at 117% capacity, and a continued increase is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13881491\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13881491\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/GettyImages-1218023784-1-e1591601310455.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters pose with Black Lives Matter signs on the Golden Gate Bridge during a demonstration against racism and police brutality in San Francisco, California, on June 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(VIVIAN LIN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hat can be done? Crime is up. People are on edge. Neighbors are wary of delivery drivers and any other unidentified car on the street; the narrative of “everything that’s going on in Oakland” is on a lot of people’s minds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s exactly because of everything going on in Oakland that it’s a good time to be cautious. Decisions made today will dictate not only where individuals being sentenced will end up in 20 years, but what the state of the Town — and this country — will be in two decades and beyond. The “tough on crime” era resulted in a lot of lives wasted away in overcrowded prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving the courthouse, I walk through the hallway, sneaking one last look through the translucent wall of windows while I wait on the elevator. The wind is blowing. One of the people who walked past me earlier in hard bottom shoes is out on the street running toward their car. Looks like the storm is getting closer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13952162/oakland-public-safety-crime-commentary","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_21822","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1143"],"featImg":"arts_13952187","label":"source_arts_13952162"},"arts_13950821":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13950821","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13950821","score":null,"sort":[1706052554000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1706052554,"format":"standard","title":"Greta Gerwig’s Oscars Snub Should Come as No Surprise","headTitle":"Greta Gerwig’s Oscars Snub Should Come as No Surprise | KQED","content":"\u003cp>This years’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950768/2024-oscar-nominations\">Oscar nominations have arrived\u003c/a>, and the most controversial snub by far is the exclusion of Greta Gerwig from the Best Director category for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931753/allan-doll-michael-cera-greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-review\">\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Gerwig pulled off the rare feat of making a movie both critically lauded and enormously commercially successful. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> broke the opening-weekend record for North American movie theaters\u003c/a> in 2023 with $162 million in ticket sales.) It was a visual and creative triumph which took a doll critiqued by feminists for decades and turned her into a patriarchy-smashing icon. Additionally, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> contributed significantly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193283472/barbie-taylor-swift-beyonce\">the return of the monoculture\u003c/a> in 2023; it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13939092/bay-area-trends-of-2023\">impacted pop culture\u003c/a> in so many indelible ways, it bordered on the obnoxious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it wasn’t enough for the Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13950768']Not only was Gerwig passed over for Best Director, but Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, was left out of the Best Actress category. This despite Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera getting nods in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories. Movie lovers, including MSNBC’s Jennifer Palmieri, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/greta-gerwig-barbie-2024-oscar-snub-backlash-1235804650/\">quickly took to social media to bemoan the snubs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both Gerwig and Robbie ignored,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1749814660956828007\">Palmieri posted on X\u003c/a>. “It’s still so easy for Hollywood to overlook and discount artistic contributions of women — EVEN WHEN ITS THE POINT OF THE YEAR’S BIGGEST MOVIE! My God. It was nominated for best picture. Didn’t direct itself, friends!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1749814660956828007\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is this an irritating turn of events? Yes. Did the Academy miss all of the (not-even-subtly-conveyed) lessons of the film, about the quiet injustices doled out to women due to sexism? Probably. Should any of us really be surprised? Despite Gerwig previously receiving a Best Director nomination for \u003cem>Lady Bird\u003c/em>? Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy has always been a law unto itself; it has historically favored white men doing white man things. When it comes to female directors getting their due, the most we can hope for is a little tokenism. Justine Triet is this year’s, for \u003cem>Anatomy of a Fall\u003c/em> — and, in the Academy Awards’ entire 95-year history, she’s only the eighth woman to be nominated in the directing category. Just three of those have ever actually taken home the trophy: Kathryn Bigelow for \u003cem>The Hurt Locker\u003c/em> in 2009, Chloé Zhao for \u003cem>Nomadland\u003c/em> in 2020 and Jane Campion for \u003cem>The Year of the Dog\u003c/em> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_105648']Consider also the Academy’s maddening habit of doling out awards to established giants at the expense of younger talent. Do we really think Leonardo DiCaprio did better work in \u003cem>The Revenant\u003c/em> (the movie he finally won for) than in \u003cem>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?\u003c/em> (the first movie he was nominated for)? Would you rather Martin Scorsese have an Oscar for \u003cem>Raging Bull\u003c/em> or \u003cem>The Departed\u003c/em>? Most would say the former, but the Academy made him wait 26 years. What we end up with are Oscars doled out because it’s time for a major figure to have one, rather than the actual work at hand or its cultural impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Perhaps Greta Gerwig will finally get her statue 30 years from now for a movie that does moderate box office and gets film nerds talking. But there are no guarantees that even the highest echelons of female talent will get there in the end — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/105648/why-does-the-academy-keep-denying-glenn-close-an-oscar\">Glenn Close has never won an Oscar\u003c/a>, despite being nominated as an actress eight times in the past 40 years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, the Oscars have rarely — if ever — reflected the will of the people. (No, not even since they expanded the Best Picture category to 10 nominees in 2009.) For a while, it seemed, people were nearly done with the Academy Awards altogether. In 2016, the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895845/neither-oscarssowhite-nor-oscarssomale-what-a-difference-a-pandemic-makes\">#OscarsSoWhite\u003c/a> dominated social media after two years of every single nominee in lead and supporting acting categories being white. The fact that \u003cem>Beasts of No Nation\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Straight Outta Compton\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Creed\u003c/em> were shut out of almost every category that year caused further ire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13938908']During the many discussions around #OscarsSoWhite, Spike Lee, Will Smith and Michael Moore boycotted the Oscars. A recurring conversation emerged: Black women, in particular, were being ignored by the Academy. Only 11 Black women have ever won an Oscar, none for directing. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leylamohammed/angela-bassett-jamie-lee-curtis-oscars-snubbed\">after Angela Bassett’s loss to Jamie Lee Curtis\u003c/a>, the Academy scrambled to correct its snafu by giving Bassett an honorary award a few months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, and always has been, who makes up the Academy. Consider this: Between 1929 and 2015, on average, only 16 percent of nominees in all Oscar categories were women. Why? As late as 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/321286/voters-academy-awards-gender/\">women only accounted for one third of Academy voters\u003c/a> — and the number that year was 10 percent higher than the prior year. So I ask again: Is it really all that surprising that Greta Gerwig didn’t get a Best Director nod for \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy is a mess that often finds itself woefully out of touch. Despite a variety of token efforts in the past decade, the Academy will continue to slip until women and people of color are appropriately represented in its ranks. For now, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> is at least nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay — a chance for Gerwig to get her Oscar. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself throwing your cocktail at the TV on March 12. If history is to repeat itself, that award will probably go to a movie much less pink and much less female.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":946,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":15},"modified":1706054160,"excerpt":"The Academy Awards has failed to acknowledge women, over and over. Why should this year be any different?","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"Greta Gerwig’s Oscars Snub Should Come as a Surprise to No One","socialTitle":"Greta Gerwig and the Many Ways the Oscars Fails Female Talent %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","ogTitle":"Greta Gerwig’s Oscars Snub Should Come as a Surprise to No One","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The Academy Awards has failed to acknowledge women, over and over. 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(\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931981/greta-gerwig-box-office-record-female-directors\">\u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> broke the opening-weekend record for North American movie theaters\u003c/a> in 2023 with $162 million in ticket sales.) It was a visual and creative triumph which took a doll critiqued by feminists for decades and turned her into a patriarchy-smashing icon. Additionally, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> contributed significantly to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/1193283472/barbie-taylor-swift-beyonce\">the return of the monoculture\u003c/a> in 2023; it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13939092/bay-area-trends-of-2023\">impacted pop culture\u003c/a> in so many indelible ways, it bordered on the obnoxious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it wasn’t enough for the Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13950768","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not only was Gerwig passed over for Best Director, but Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, was left out of the Best Actress category. This despite Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera getting nods in the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories. Movie lovers, including MSNBC’s Jennifer Palmieri, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/greta-gerwig-barbie-2024-oscar-snub-backlash-1235804650/\">quickly took to social media to bemoan the snubs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both Gerwig and Robbie ignored,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jmpalmieri/status/1749814660956828007\">Palmieri posted on X\u003c/a>. “It’s still so easy for Hollywood to overlook and discount artistic contributions of women — EVEN WHEN ITS THE POINT OF THE YEAR’S BIGGEST MOVIE! My God. It was nominated for best picture. Didn’t direct itself, friends!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1749814660956828007"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Is this an irritating turn of events? Yes. Did the Academy miss all of the (not-even-subtly-conveyed) lessons of the film, about the quiet injustices doled out to women due to sexism? Probably. Should any of us really be surprised? Despite Gerwig previously receiving a Best Director nomination for \u003cem>Lady Bird\u003c/em>? Absolutely not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy has always been a law unto itself; it has historically favored white men doing white man things. When it comes to female directors getting their due, the most we can hope for is a little tokenism. Justine Triet is this year’s, for \u003cem>Anatomy of a Fall\u003c/em> — and, in the Academy Awards’ entire 95-year history, she’s only the eighth woman to be nominated in the directing category. Just three of those have ever actually taken home the trophy: Kathryn Bigelow for \u003cem>The Hurt Locker\u003c/em> in 2009, Chloé Zhao for \u003cem>Nomadland\u003c/em> in 2020 and Jane Campion for \u003cem>The Year of the Dog\u003c/em> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_105648","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Consider also the Academy’s maddening habit of doling out awards to established giants at the expense of younger talent. Do we really think Leonardo DiCaprio did better work in \u003cem>The Revenant\u003c/em> (the movie he finally won for) than in \u003cem>What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?\u003c/em> (the first movie he was nominated for)? Would you rather Martin Scorsese have an Oscar for \u003cem>Raging Bull\u003c/em> or \u003cem>The Departed\u003c/em>? Most would say the former, but the Academy made him wait 26 years. What we end up with are Oscars doled out because it’s time for a major figure to have one, rather than the actual work at hand or its cultural impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Perhaps Greta Gerwig will finally get her statue 30 years from now for a movie that does moderate box office and gets film nerds talking. But there are no guarantees that even the highest echelons of female talent will get there in the end — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/105648/why-does-the-academy-keep-denying-glenn-close-an-oscar\">Glenn Close has never won an Oscar\u003c/a>, despite being nominated as an actress eight times in the past 40 years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truth is, the Oscars have rarely — if ever — reflected the will of the people. (No, not even since they expanded the Best Picture category to 10 nominees in 2009.) For a while, it seemed, people were nearly done with the Academy Awards altogether. In 2016, the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895845/neither-oscarssowhite-nor-oscarssomale-what-a-difference-a-pandemic-makes\">#OscarsSoWhite\u003c/a> dominated social media after two years of every single nominee in lead and supporting acting categories being white. The fact that \u003cem>Beasts of No Nation\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Straight Outta Compton\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Creed\u003c/em> were shut out of almost every category that year caused further ire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13938908","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the many discussions around #OscarsSoWhite, Spike Lee, Will Smith and Michael Moore boycotted the Oscars. A recurring conversation emerged: Black women, in particular, were being ignored by the Academy. Only 11 Black women have ever won an Oscar, none for directing. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leylamohammed/angela-bassett-jamie-lee-curtis-oscars-snubbed\">after Angela Bassett’s loss to Jamie Lee Curtis\u003c/a>, the Academy scrambled to correct its snafu by giving Bassett an honorary award a few months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, and always has been, who makes up the Academy. Consider this: Between 1929 and 2015, on average, only 16 percent of nominees in all Oscar categories were women. Why? As late as 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/321286/voters-academy-awards-gender/\">women only accounted for one third of Academy voters\u003c/a> — and the number that year was 10 percent higher than the prior year. So I ask again: Is it really all that surprising that Greta Gerwig didn’t get a Best Director nod for \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy is a mess that often finds itself woefully out of touch. Despite a variety of token efforts in the past decade, the Academy will continue to slip until women and people of color are appropriately represented in its ranks. For now, \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> is at least nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay — a chance for Gerwig to get her Oscar. Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself throwing your cocktail at the TV on March 12. If history is to repeat itself, that award will probably go to a movie much less pink and much less female.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13950821/greta-gerwig-oscars-snub","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_74","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_3701","arts_9943","arts_21887","arts_2767","arts_10278","arts_21780","arts_2084","arts_3698","arts_7580"],"featImg":"arts_13938915","label":"source_arts_13950821"},"arts_13950809":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13950809","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13950809","score":null,"sort":[1706039381000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1706039381,"format":"aside","title":"New Biography ‘The Showman’ Follows Zelensky Inside the War Room","headTitle":"New Biography ‘The Showman’ Follows Zelensky Inside the War Room | KQED","content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 993px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13950825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins.jpg\" alt=\"The black-and-white cover of 'The Showman' features a portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looking at the camera. \" width=\"993\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins.jpg 993w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-768x1160.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Showman’ by Simon Shuster. \u003ccite>(Harper Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Moscow-born journalist Simon Shuster was growing up in San Francisco in the 1990s, he couldn’t have imagined that there would be a war between Russia and Ukraine, or that he would be the one accompanying the Ukrainian president on top-secret trips to the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuster, now a \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/author/simon-shuster/\">senior correspondent for \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is the only foreign reporter to receive unprecedented access to Ukraine’s President Zelensky, his wife and his cabinet during the first year of Russia’s invasion, which he chronicles in his new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-showman-simon-shuster?variant=41083800682530\">\u003cem>The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Shuster shows us the invasion from inside the war room to demonstrate both the effect the comedian-turned-politician has had on the war — and the effect the war has had on him. At the heart of this book is a question: What path best prepares us for the unimaginable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1925px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13950822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1925\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-scaled.jpg 1925w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1020x1356.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-768x1021.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1540x2048.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1920x2553.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1925px) 100vw, 1925px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Time’ senior correspondent and author Simon Shuster. \u003ccite>(Debora Mittelstaedt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The author’s own path toward that war room wasn’t straightforward. Few immigrants from the former Soviet Union return to visit their homeland. Fewer still move there to build a career. Shuster said it was while he was dabbling in journalism at Stanford that he realized his ability to speak Russian and write in English was “a pretty cool competitive advantage that I should not squander.” He moved to Moscow to work as a reporter in 2006 and has remained a key figure in the coverage of the region ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when asked what it was about him that made Zelensky grant him unique access, he said he doesn’t fully know. “I think he saw my long-term commitment to covering the story. But also, the way he makes decisions is usually shooting from the hip. It’s quite intuitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelensky’s decision-making style is evident from the start of the book. \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> opens with a striking scene at the president’s villa at 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Russia’s invasion, when Zelensky, already dressed in a suit, tells his wife, “It’s started.” We follow him as his driver takes him toward Kyiv’s center, while “in the other direction the traffic had started to thicken.” People are fleeing. Soon, Zelensky will get offers from foreign heads of state to help him flee as well. He will find them offensive. The opening scene sets the tone for the rest of the narrative, where the president’s confidence in his decisions (some brave, some irrational) forges a path for Ukraine that no one could have predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We follow him down into the Soviet-era nuclear bunker where he will spend the first dramatic weeks of the invasion and deliver some of his most stirring speeches. His life there is far from glamorous: He and his team subsist on tinned meat and packaged sweets while sleeping on twin-size cots with no sunlight, fresh air or a way to see their families. The description is a riveting reminder of just how precarious and mind boggling those initial weeks of Europe’s first 21st-century war really were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> isn’t a play by play of the first year of the full-scale war. Once the scene of the invasion is set, Shuster takes us back to Zelensky’s upbringing in a rough industrial town, through his growing popularity as a comedian and TV producer, and to his pivotal warzone tours at the start of the conflict in 2014 that sent him on his path toward politics. We also see a portrait of the president’s marriage as he and Olena Zelenska try to get comfortable with politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelensky emerges as a candid guy who isn’t politically savvy, but who is able to harness his skills as a showman to convince, inspire, fundraise and ultimately stage an unlikely resistance to annihilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shuster isn’t blind to his protagonist’s more problematic sides. [aside postid='arts_13950449']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most revealing threads of \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> is Zelensky’s mistaken belief in his power of persuasion when it came to negotiating peace with Russia. While visiting the massacre site in Bucha in April 2022, Zelensky said of Putin, “I’m not sure he knows what is happening.” Shuster, just as the reader, finds this naivete astonishing. He writes, “He seemed to believe that if he could only take Putin on a tour of Bucha […], the war might stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuster also worries whether Zelensky, who has stamped out competition and \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/3795160-zelensky-signs-controversial-law-expanding-government-power-to-regulate-media/\">instituted control of the media\u003c/a>, “will have the wisdom and restraint to part with the extraordinary powers granted to him under martial law, or whether he will, like so many leaders through history, find that power too addictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is tricky to write a work of longform journalism against the backdrop of a relentless news cycle, \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> stands as a clear-eyed insider look into this conflict. As the war enters its third year, \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> serves as a reminder of what could happen if we turn away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Simon Shuster discusses ‘The Showman’ at the \u003ca href=\"https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0S8Z00000HNsxLUAT\">Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Jan. 29\u003c/a> and at \u003ca href=\"https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/simon-shuster\">Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Jan. 30\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":931,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":16},"modified":1706039381,"excerpt":"SF-raised journalist Simon Shuster traveled to the front and emerged with a complex portrait of the leader.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"SF-raised journalist Simon Shuster traveled to the front and emerged with a complex portrait of the leader.","title":"New Biography ‘The Showman’ Follows Zelensky Inside the War Room | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"New Biography ‘The Showman’ Follows Zelensky Inside the War Room","datePublished":"2024-01-23T11:49:41-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-23T11:49:41-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-showman-simon-shuster-zelensky-biography-ukraine","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/commentary","templateType":"standard","nprByline":"Sasha Vasilyuk","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary ","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13950809/the-showman-simon-shuster-zelensky-biography-ukraine","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 993px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13950825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins.jpg\" alt=\"The black-and-white cover of 'The Showman' features a portrait of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looking at the camera. \" width=\"993\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins.jpg 993w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-800x1208.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-160x242.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/the-showman-cover-harper-collins-768x1160.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Showman’ by Simon Shuster. \u003ccite>(Harper Collins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Moscow-born journalist Simon Shuster was growing up in San Francisco in the 1990s, he couldn’t have imagined that there would be a war between Russia and Ukraine, or that he would be the one accompanying the Ukrainian president on top-secret trips to the front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuster, now a \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/author/simon-shuster/\">senior correspondent for \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, is the only foreign reporter to receive unprecedented access to Ukraine’s President Zelensky, his wife and his cabinet during the first year of Russia’s invasion, which he chronicles in his new book \u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-showman-simon-shuster?variant=41083800682530\">\u003cem>The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Shuster shows us the invasion from inside the war room to demonstrate both the effect the comedian-turned-politician has had on the war — and the effect the war has had on him. At the heart of this book is a question: What path best prepares us for the unimaginable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13950822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1925px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13950822\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1925\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-scaled.jpg 1925w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-800x1064.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1020x1356.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-768x1021.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1540x2048.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/simon-shuster-1920x2553.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1925px) 100vw, 1925px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Time’ senior correspondent and author Simon Shuster. \u003ccite>(Debora Mittelstaedt)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The author’s own path toward that war room wasn’t straightforward. Few immigrants from the former Soviet Union return to visit their homeland. Fewer still move there to build a career. Shuster said it was while he was dabbling in journalism at Stanford that he realized his ability to speak Russian and write in English was “a pretty cool competitive advantage that I should not squander.” He moved to Moscow to work as a reporter in 2006 and has remained a key figure in the coverage of the region ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, when asked what it was about him that made Zelensky grant him unique access, he said he doesn’t fully know. “I think he saw my long-term commitment to covering the story. But also, the way he makes decisions is usually shooting from the hip. It’s quite intuitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelensky’s decision-making style is evident from the start of the book. \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> opens with a striking scene at the president’s villa at 4:30 a.m. on the morning of Russia’s invasion, when Zelensky, already dressed in a suit, tells his wife, “It’s started.” We follow him as his driver takes him toward Kyiv’s center, while “in the other direction the traffic had started to thicken.” People are fleeing. Soon, Zelensky will get offers from foreign heads of state to help him flee as well. He will find them offensive. The opening scene sets the tone for the rest of the narrative, where the president’s confidence in his decisions (some brave, some irrational) forges a path for Ukraine that no one could have predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We follow him down into the Soviet-era nuclear bunker where he will spend the first dramatic weeks of the invasion and deliver some of his most stirring speeches. His life there is far from glamorous: He and his team subsist on tinned meat and packaged sweets while sleeping on twin-size cots with no sunlight, fresh air or a way to see their families. The description is a riveting reminder of just how precarious and mind boggling those initial weeks of Europe’s first 21st-century war really were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> isn’t a play by play of the first year of the full-scale war. Once the scene of the invasion is set, Shuster takes us back to Zelensky’s upbringing in a rough industrial town, through his growing popularity as a comedian and TV producer, and to his pivotal warzone tours at the start of the conflict in 2014 that sent him on his path toward politics. We also see a portrait of the president’s marriage as he and Olena Zelenska try to get comfortable with politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zelensky emerges as a candid guy who isn’t politically savvy, but who is able to harness his skills as a showman to convince, inspire, fundraise and ultimately stage an unlikely resistance to annihilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shuster isn’t blind to his protagonist’s more problematic sides. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13950449","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most revealing threads of \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> is Zelensky’s mistaken belief in his power of persuasion when it came to negotiating peace with Russia. While visiting the massacre site in Bucha in April 2022, Zelensky said of Putin, “I’m not sure he knows what is happening.” Shuster, just as the reader, finds this naivete astonishing. He writes, “He seemed to believe that if he could only take Putin on a tour of Bucha […], the war might stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuster also worries whether Zelensky, who has stamped out competition and \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/3795160-zelensky-signs-controversial-law-expanding-government-power-to-regulate-media/\">instituted control of the media\u003c/a>, “will have the wisdom and restraint to part with the extraordinary powers granted to him under martial law, or whether he will, like so many leaders through history, find that power too addictive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is tricky to write a work of longform journalism against the backdrop of a relentless news cycle, \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> stands as a clear-eyed insider look into this conflict. As the war enters its third year, \u003cem>The Showman\u003c/em> serves as a reminder of what could happen if we turn away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Simon Shuster discusses ‘The Showman’ at the \u003ca href=\"https://commonwealthclub.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0S8Z00000HNsxLUAT\">Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Jan. 29\u003c/a> and at \u003ca href=\"https://www.keplers.org/upcoming-events-internal/simon-shuster\">Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park on Jan. 30\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13950809/the-showman-simon-shuster-zelensky-biography-ukraine","authors":["byline_arts_13950809"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_2303"],"tags":["arts_928","arts_2767","arts_10278","arts_16761"],"featImg":"arts_13950826","label":"source_arts_13950809"},"arts_13950363":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13950363","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13950363","score":null,"sort":[1705097563000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1705097563,"format":"standard","title":"What Keith Lee’s Sudden Exit From the Bay Area Says About Our Struggles","headTitle":"What Keith Lee’s Sudden Exit From the Bay Area Says About Our Struggles | KQED","content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] didn’t want to start the year like this. I’m not the type of person who likes to feed into negativity, and I want to be clear: I absolutely love the Bay, where I was born and raised since 1987. I have the old Bay Bridge tattooed on my right arm to remind me where I come from — a symbol of what we’ve long stood for as an interconnected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">But at times, I hate it here, too. And after viral TikTok influencer \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125\">Keith Lee\u003c/a> suddenly cut his visit to the Bay Area short on Thursday, just twelve days into 2024, I can’t help but wonder: Are the Bay Area’s struggles actually worse than we’ve been telling ourselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a former MMA fighter from Detroit, has built up a national following for his blunt, plainspoken food review videos, which he films inside his car. With more than 15 million followers on TikTok, the young tastemaker can completely change a restaurant’s fortunes with a single positive mention — especially the largely unknown, mostly Black-owned mom-and-pop businesses that he reviews. He’s been dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/keith-lee-bay-area-restaurants-18592120.php\">the internet’s most famous food critic\u003c/a>,” and there’s even a term to describe a restaurant he’s visited: It’s been “Keith Lee-d.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when Lee announced that his first review tour of 2024 would be a trip to the Bay Area, local food lovers were positively giddy. But less than a week after he arrived, Lee unexpectedly cut his visit short, citing lackluster food, an allergic reaction and general shock and dismay at the living conditions he found in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, it’s unlike Lee. He’s generally seen as conscientious, with no history of mindlessly tarnishing small businesses, let alone diminishing an entire region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area unsettled him. This is the first time Lee has ended a trip on short notice, explaining, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125/video/7323079692276288798?lang=en\">farewell video\u003c/a>, that he “[doesn’t] believe the Bay is a place for tourists right now… the people of the Bay are just focused on \u003cem>surviving\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125/video/7323079692276288798\" data-video-id=\"7323079692276288798\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@keith_lee125\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@keith_lee125\u003c/a> Bay Area taste test 💕 would you try it ? 💕 \u003ca title=\"foodcritic\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foodcritic?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foodcritic\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Keith Lee\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7323079767438871327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Keith Lee\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok][dropcap]A[/dropcap]lthough I’m a food writer by title, I practically never watch food videos online, and I generally don’t care if Lee — or any other critic or influencer — thinks a greasy pouch of French fries should be scored a 7.2 or a 6.7. Ironically, I don’t really want to hear in detail about the food itself. Food either smacks, or it doesn’t. Rather, it’s the people, and the contexts — social, racial, economic, cultural — that feed my sense of wholeness, and which requires nuance and perspective to appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps there’s something to be said for why, despite the Bay Area’s sparkling reputation as a food destination, Lee seemed unable to find very much that was even half-decent to eat. But when he implied, for basically the first time in his career, that the Bay Area is too out of pocket, too distressed, too dysfunctional, too disarrayed, too unsafe, too \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> except whatever trendy food-take people wanted to hear, I felt him. His seeming dissatisfaction with the Bay Area wasn’t even mostly about the food. It was about our living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born in the Bay to immigrant parents, raised in the Bay with hella types of friends and have seen a lot of shit here. But you can’t tell me that right now, in 2024, the Bay Area isn’t more overpriced, overcrowded and unlivable than it has been at any other point in my lifetime — even the food is often outrageously expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Check the housing prices. The other day, my dad genuinely asked me why I don’t consider buying a mobile home for my family because it’s “still affordable.” My wife and I have a son, and we both have master’s degrees. We’ve worked tremendously hard as first-generation college graduates. And we can’t afford much more than a room or two here. Many people here don’t have the time or money to chase after the most trending meal. They don’t even have regular access to meals. Period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13939383,arts_13907726,arts_13906384']How many more people living in tents do we have to pass by before we reach a collective tipping point? I know I’m not alone in feeling a sense of dystopia, even as a proud local. Neither is Lee in feeling that way as a curious outsider. And his comments are bringing that to light in a compassionate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s social media feeds provided ample evidence that Lee struck a nerve. I’ve never seen a piece of food content stir up more debate among Bay Area thought leaders, particularly in the local hip-hop community. Oakland lyricist Tajai from the mighty Souls of Mischief chimed in, agreeing with Lee: “This is not to be a doomsayer or be negative about the Bay, but I think we’ve gotten used to some shit, y’all, that is not normal.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RapNoir/status/1745696413043093755\">brief video\u003c/a>, he references a major Latin American city that’s twice the size of the Bay Area — and how we have a “600% higher homeless rate” than a “developing nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Popular San Francisco artist Stunnaman02 \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stunnaman02/status/1745694988510679086\">got in on it as well\u003c/a>: “Keith Lee’s synopsis of The Bay was necessary. Humbling, environmentally The Bay is a shell of itself. Overpriced, not as crackin as it has been in the past, and economically Oakland is being stripped unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland rapper ALLBLACK said he was “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/22NDWAYS/status/1745653462811935223\">embarrassed\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, other people made jokes about it all. Some posted clips from movies like \u003cem>Next Friday\u003c/em> (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Numbah1/status/1745688458960728386\">we live raw\u003c/a>”); others affirmed Lee’s synopsis but with extra spice (“I 100% agree. This mf [Bay Area] is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marismenu/status/1745699350146421210\">raggedy\u003c/a>!”); more than a few called out his poor choices (“respectfully \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paocarisweat/status/1745731992350781515\">keith lee kinda be eating anywhere\u003c/a>”); and some just playfully owned the crappiness of it all (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KhadijahTaine/status/1745692611636343262\">Bay Area can’t never keep anything\u003c/a>, the Raiders, The A’s, The Warriors, Keith Lee. Nothing.”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dr. Ameer Hasan Loggins, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, pointed out that “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/1745710522077716604\">some of y’all are focused on the food, when Lee was focused on the effects of structural inequality\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RunJuly/status/1745692576274145790\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are all valid takes. And they all speak to a certain part of my Bay Area soul, upbringing and loyalty. There’s even a part of me that is like, \u003cem>man, who even is Keith Lee, and what does he know about us and our food scene?\u003c/em> And there’s been no shortage of Bay Area defenders hopping online to lightly condemn, or at minimum question, Lee’s take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rexx Life Raj’s manager, Ari Simon, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeAri/status/1745691709479223314\">stuck his chest out for the Bay\u003c/a>: “I fw Keith Lee but I think him cutting early reflects more on him than us… Sounds like bro bought into doomloop narrative and psyched himself out / was doin anything with not a lot of help lol (that sf burger spot).” Ari concluded that the issue is with Lee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeAri/status/1745694175482486874\">poor taste\u003c/a>, rather than the Bay Area’s shortcomings (“I’m either blaming lack of palette [sic] or lack of planning”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were plenty of comments along those lines — those who took up arms for our zip codes and were, to a degree, unwilling to hear Lee’s polite criticisms. But what many upset folks are missing is that Lee wasn’t necessarily saying the food here is trash. Instead, he’s fixated on something more important. He’s saying that the state of our day-to-day living — crime, safety, congestion, cost, tents, burned-out cars — is, in his eyes, precariously unwell, and bordering on social crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also gave the Bay some deserved props, too. How could you not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people from the Bay were absolutely amazing, and I’ll never forget the hospitality and the love that y’all showed me,” he said. Facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902366\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1.jpg\" alt=\"Women laugh and smile at a street fair in Oakland.\" width=\"1560\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1.jpg 1560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-1536x1051.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1560px) 100vw, 1560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival-goers attend First Friday in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Oakland First Fridays/\u003ca href=\"https://www.aliciarphoto.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Rodriguez\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Bay is special. It is diverse, flavorful and full of sauce. We dance a little different. This is the home of where game recognizes game. But the Bay Area is also struggling, and that’s okay to admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad Keith Lee used his platform to bring attention to what really matters. It’s not just about what dish makes a good Instagram story. It’s not just about the succulence of those adobo wings at your favorite Filipino joint. It’s also about the conditions in which we are living — the amount of hours we’re working, the rent we’re paying, all while seeing our friends get pushed out, watching our parents and siblings sacrifice and make that longer commute just to stay on the edges of it all, having new neighbors move in and old ones get evicted, dodging a weaving car on the freeway, constantly generating side hustles, hoping that your window doesn’t get bipped even when there’s nothing in your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, more than ever, I’ve been wondering: Is the Bay Area going to be okay? The gas and housing prices will come back down, right? People in need will receive care and support services, right? We can’t just keep running around and speeding through red lights while it’s all getting harder to sustain our families everyday, right? I guess we are all just either ignoring the madness, or participating in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for one food influencer, who’s extensively traveled the country and seen his fair share of both struggling and thriving areas, the Bay Area in its current state doesn’t seem to be living up to its full potential and has become unwelcoming to many outsiders. And right now, maybe we should stop biting into a burger for a moment — no matter how good we think it is — and chew on that instead.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1827,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":27},"modified":1705959343,"excerpt":"The viral food influencer didn’t enjoy his time in the Bay Area — and it mostly didn’t have to do with the food.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The viral food influencer didn’t enjoy his time in the Bay Area — and it mostly didn’t have to do with the food.","title":"What Keith Lee’s Sudden Exit From the Bay Area Says About Our Struggles | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"What Keith Lee’s Sudden Exit From the Bay Area Says About Our Struggles","datePublished":"2024-01-12T14:12:43-08:00","dateModified":"2024-01-22T13:35:43-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"keith-lee-tiktok-oakland-sf-bay-area-struggles","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary ","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13950363/keith-lee-tiktok-oakland-sf-bay-area-struggles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> didn’t want to start the year like this. I’m not the type of person who likes to feed into negativity, and I want to be clear: I absolutely love the Bay, where I was born and raised since 1987. I have the old Bay Bridge tattooed on my right arm to remind me where I come from — a symbol of what we’ve long stood for as an interconnected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13927875\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/Alan.Chazaro.headshot-160x184.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">But at times, I hate it here, too. And after viral TikTok influencer \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125\">Keith Lee\u003c/a> suddenly cut his visit to the Bay Area short on Thursday, just twelve days into 2024, I can’t help but wonder: Are the Bay Area’s struggles actually worse than we’ve been telling ourselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, a former MMA fighter from Detroit, has built up a national following for his blunt, plainspoken food review videos, which he films inside his car. With more than 15 million followers on TikTok, the young tastemaker can completely change a restaurant’s fortunes with a single positive mention — especially the largely unknown, mostly Black-owned mom-and-pop businesses that he reviews. He’s been dubbed “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/keith-lee-bay-area-restaurants-18592120.php\">the internet’s most famous food critic\u003c/a>,” and there’s even a term to describe a restaurant he’s visited: It’s been “Keith Lee-d.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when Lee announced that his first review tour of 2024 would be a trip to the Bay Area, local food lovers were positively giddy. But less than a week after he arrived, Lee unexpectedly cut his visit short, citing lackluster food, an allergic reaction and general shock and dismay at the living conditions he found in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, it’s unlike Lee. He’s generally seen as conscientious, with no history of mindlessly tarnishing small businesses, let alone diminishing an entire region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area unsettled him. This is the first time Lee has ended a trip on short notice, explaining, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125/video/7323079692276288798?lang=en\">farewell video\u003c/a>, that he “[doesn’t] believe the Bay is a place for tourists right now… the people of the Bay are just focused on \u003cem>surviving\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125/video/7323079692276288798\" data-video-id=\"7323079692276288798\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@keith_lee125\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@keith_lee125?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@keith_lee125\u003c/a> Bay Area taste test 💕 would you try it ? 💕 \u003ca title=\"foodcritic\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foodcritic?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foodcritic\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Keith Lee\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7323079767438871327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – Keith Lee\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"tiktok","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lthough I’m a food writer by title, I practically never watch food videos online, and I generally don’t care if Lee — or any other critic or influencer — thinks a greasy pouch of French fries should be scored a 7.2 or a 6.7. Ironically, I don’t really want to hear in detail about the food itself. Food either smacks, or it doesn’t. Rather, it’s the people, and the contexts — social, racial, economic, cultural — that feed my sense of wholeness, and which requires nuance and perspective to appreciate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps there’s something to be said for why, despite the Bay Area’s sparkling reputation as a food destination, Lee seemed unable to find very much that was even half-decent to eat. But when he implied, for basically the first time in his career, that the Bay Area is too out of pocket, too distressed, too dysfunctional, too disarrayed, too unsafe, too \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> except whatever trendy food-take people wanted to hear, I felt him. His seeming dissatisfaction with the Bay Area wasn’t even mostly about the food. It was about our living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was born in the Bay to immigrant parents, raised in the Bay with hella types of friends and have seen a lot of shit here. But you can’t tell me that right now, in 2024, the Bay Area isn’t more overpriced, overcrowded and unlivable than it has been at any other point in my lifetime — even the food is often outrageously expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Check the housing prices. The other day, my dad genuinely asked me why I don’t consider buying a mobile home for my family because it’s “still affordable.” My wife and I have a son, and we both have master’s degrees. We’ve worked tremendously hard as first-generation college graduates. And we can’t afford much more than a room or two here. Many people here don’t have the time or money to chase after the most trending meal. They don’t even have regular access to meals. Period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13939383,arts_13907726,arts_13906384","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>How many more people living in tents do we have to pass by before we reach a collective tipping point? I know I’m not alone in feeling a sense of dystopia, even as a proud local. Neither is Lee in feeling that way as a curious outsider. And his comments are bringing that to light in a compassionate way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday night’s social media feeds provided ample evidence that Lee struck a nerve. I’ve never seen a piece of food content stir up more debate among Bay Area thought leaders, particularly in the local hip-hop community. Oakland lyricist Tajai from the mighty Souls of Mischief chimed in, agreeing with Lee: “This is not to be a doomsayer or be negative about the Bay, but I think we’ve gotten used to some shit, y’all, that is not normal.” In a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RapNoir/status/1745696413043093755\">brief video\u003c/a>, he references a major Latin American city that’s twice the size of the Bay Area — and how we have a “600% higher homeless rate” than a “developing nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Popular San Francisco artist Stunnaman02 \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stunnaman02/status/1745694988510679086\">got in on it as well\u003c/a>: “Keith Lee’s synopsis of The Bay was necessary. Humbling, environmentally The Bay is a shell of itself. Overpriced, not as crackin as it has been in the past, and economically Oakland is being stripped unfortunately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland rapper ALLBLACK said he was “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/22NDWAYS/status/1745653462811935223\">embarrassed\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, other people made jokes about it all. Some posted clips from movies like \u003cem>Next Friday\u003c/em> (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Numbah1/status/1745688458960728386\">we live raw\u003c/a>”); others affirmed Lee’s synopsis but with extra spice (“I 100% agree. This mf [Bay Area] is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marismenu/status/1745699350146421210\">raggedy\u003c/a>!”); more than a few called out his poor choices (“respectfully \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/paocarisweat/status/1745731992350781515\">keith lee kinda be eating anywhere\u003c/a>”); and some just playfully owned the crappiness of it all (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KhadijahTaine/status/1745692611636343262\">Bay Area can’t never keep anything\u003c/a>, the Raiders, The A’s, The Warriors, Keith Lee. Nothing.”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Dr. Ameer Hasan Loggins, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, pointed out that “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/1745710522077716604\">some of y’all are focused on the food, when Lee was focused on the effects of structural inequality\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1745692576274145790"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>These are all valid takes. And they all speak to a certain part of my Bay Area soul, upbringing and loyalty. There’s even a part of me that is like, \u003cem>man, who even is Keith Lee, and what does he know about us and our food scene?\u003c/em> And there’s been no shortage of Bay Area defenders hopping online to lightly condemn, or at minimum question, Lee’s take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rexx Life Raj’s manager, Ari Simon, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeAri/status/1745691709479223314\">stuck his chest out for the Bay\u003c/a>: “I fw Keith Lee but I think him cutting early reflects more on him than us… Sounds like bro bought into doomloop narrative and psyched himself out / was doin anything with not a lot of help lol (that sf burger spot).” Ari concluded that the issue is with Lee’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeAri/status/1745694175482486874\">poor taste\u003c/a>, rather than the Bay Area’s shortcomings (“I’m either blaming lack of palette [sic] or lack of planning”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were plenty of comments along those lines — those who took up arms for our zip codes and were, to a degree, unwilling to hear Lee’s polite criticisms. But what many upset folks are missing is that Lee wasn’t necessarily saying the food here is trash. Instead, he’s fixated on something more important. He’s saying that the state of our day-to-day living — crime, safety, congestion, cost, tents, burned-out cars — is, in his eyes, precariously unwell, and bordering on social crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also gave the Bay some deserved props, too. How could you not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people from the Bay were absolutely amazing, and I’ll never forget the hospitality and the love that y’all showed me,” he said. Facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902366\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902366\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1.jpg\" alt=\"Women laugh and smile at a street fair in Oakland.\" width=\"1560\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1.jpg 1560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-800x547.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-1020x698.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/202001-Oakff-AliciaRodriguez-082-1-1536x1051.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1560px) 100vw, 1560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Festival-goers attend First Friday in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Oakland First Fridays/\u003ca href=\"https://www.aliciarphoto.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Rodriguez\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he Bay is special. It is diverse, flavorful and full of sauce. We dance a little different. This is the home of where game recognizes game. But the Bay Area is also struggling, and that’s okay to admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad Keith Lee used his platform to bring attention to what really matters. It’s not just about what dish makes a good Instagram story. It’s not just about the succulence of those adobo wings at your favorite Filipino joint. It’s also about the conditions in which we are living — the amount of hours we’re working, the rent we’re paying, all while seeing our friends get pushed out, watching our parents and siblings sacrifice and make that longer commute just to stay on the edges of it all, having new neighbors move in and old ones get evicted, dodging a weaving car on the freeway, constantly generating side hustles, hoping that your window doesn’t get bipped even when there’s nothing in your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately, more than ever, I’ve been wondering: Is the Bay Area going to be okay? The gas and housing prices will come back down, right? People in need will receive care and support services, right? We can’t just keep running around and speeding through red lights while it’s all getting harder to sustain our families everyday, right? I guess we are all just either ignoring the madness, or participating in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for one food influencer, who’s extensively traveled the country and seen his fair share of both struggling and thriving areas, the Bay Area in its current state doesn’t seem to be living up to its full potential and has become unwelcoming to many outsiders. And right now, maybe we should stop biting into a burger for a moment — no matter how good we think it is — and chew on that instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13950363/keith-lee-tiktok-oakland-sf-bay-area-struggles","authors":["11748"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_12276"],"tags":["arts_16989","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_1297","arts_8017"],"featImg":"arts_13950368","label":"source_arts_13950363"},"arts_13934462":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13934462","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13934462","score":null,"sort":[1694138215000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1694138215,"format":"standard","title":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","headTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson | KQED","content":"\u003cp>Former \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> actor Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction in May on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know\">charges that he had raped two women\u003c/a>. The decision represents rarely seen justice in the post-#MeToo era, following years in which his victims were belittled and pushed aside repeatedly. Masterson and his team, however, remain unrepentant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we have great respect for the jury, and for our system of justice,” Masterson lawyer Shawn Holley said after the verdict, “sometimes they get it wrong. And that’s what happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928256']Steadfast assertions about Masterson’s innocence have been par for the course for everyone in his camp ever since accusations by four women — including one ex-girlfriend — first came to public attention in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Each of those women accused Masterson of drugging and raping them at his home between 2001 and 2003. Masterson, his representatives and the Church of Scientology — of which Masterson has been a lifelong member — have been issuing aggressive denials ever since. The first came from attorney Tom Mesereau in 2017: “Mr. Masterson is innocent,” Mesereau said in a statement, “and we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a statement from Masterson himself said: “This is beyond ridiculous. I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years. I will beat her in court … And once her lawsuit is thrown out, I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s unrelenting approach was noted even by Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo directly before she handed down her sentence on Thursday. “I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence,” Olmedo noted, “and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you. But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here … One way or another, you will have to come to terms with your prior actions and their consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those consequences come now only because of the tenacity, determination and bravery of the women who survived Masterson’s assaults. Referred to during the trial as N. Trout, Jen B. and Christina B. — Masterson’s fourth accuser’s charges never made it to trial — those women have been fighting to be heard for upwards of two decades now. The fact that justice is finally theirs (mostly — the jury failed to reach a verdict when it came to one of the women) must be a gargantuan relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13928974']In the earliest days after the alleged attacks, the women, all Scientology members, first had to get past the church’s code of silence and its commitment to handling criminal matters internally. Documents leaked to journalist Tony Ortega in 2017 suggested that when the women reported Masterson to fellow church members in the early 2000s, \u003ca href=\"https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/03/lapd-probing-scientology-and-danny-masterston-for-multiple-rapes-cover-up/\">they were pressured to not report him to outside authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents later revealed that when Christina B. reported her rape to a Scientology “ethics officer,” she was told: “You can’t rape someone that you’re in a relationship with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when Jen B. asked permission from the church to report Masterson to the police, Scientology officials suggested that the action might result in “disconnection” for her — the practice of shunning church members deemed to be a threat to Scientology. Despite the risk of losing her family, friends and way of life, Jen B. reported her rape to the police the following year — a feat that must have required unbelievable resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accusations against Masterson did finally come to light more than a decade later, Scientology did its darnedest to discredit the women. So much so that in 2019, Masterson’s four accusers sued Masterson and the church for stalking, invading their privacy and attempting to obstruct justice. At the time, counsel for the Church of Scientology denied all charges and told \u003cem>People\u003c/em>: “This baseless lawsuit will go nowhere because the claims are ludicrous and a sham.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Scientologists have been fighting to stall a resolution in the lawsuit. The church has argued repeatedly that any arbitration must be handled within Scientology and not in a Los Angeles Superior Court. When a ruling came down against that assertion last year, the church then tried to take the case all the way to \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-denies-scientologys-bid-to-ban-danny-masterson-accusers-lawsuit/\">the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. (The court refused to hear the case.) The lawsuit remains frustratingly up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13921719']Moving through the criminal trial phase has been just as arduous. Though originally charged with sexual misconduct in 2017, then with three counts of rape in June 2020, it took until May 2021 for Masterson’s preliminary hearing to begin. When it did, the actor started proceedings by \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/05/19/danny-masterson-posts-courthouse-selfie-before-rape-case-hearing/\">posting a smiling selfie taken outside the courthouse\u003c/a> to his Instagram account. Next to his wife Bijou Philips in her car, the caption read: “Had the most beautiful Uber driver drop me off at school today. #uberwife #bijouphillips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image was a smug middle finger to each of his accusers just as they were about to share, on the stand, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-allegedly-spit-on-victim-during-rape/\">harrowing and haunting accounts\u003c/a> of the respective nights they spent at his house. Their assaults, they say, included Masterson hitting, spitting on, insulting, restraining, choking them and making threats with a gun. After listening to their stories, the judge asserted that Masterson must face trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trial didn’t start until October 2022, at which time the women had to tell their respective stories yet again — this time, with Masterson’s lawyer asserting throughout that their sexual encounters with the actor had been consensual. When that case resulted in a mistrial, it was hard to imagine how much more these women could take. Still each of them returned to court and told their stories yet again this year. If they hadn’t, Masterson would undoubtedly still be free and living his life, just as he did during the many years when fear and intimidation kept three of his accusers silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake, Masterson’s survivors have had to scale impossibly high hurdles from the get-go. This has been a case that, for them, has dragged on and on, first behind closed doors, then within an institution they trusted but that ultimately failed them, then more recently in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Masterson’s sentencing, one of the women emphasized: “I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life. I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13914526']Despite it all, once these women committed to see this case through, they never gave up. They never backed down. They kept telling their stories again and again and again. They kept going despite every miserable, soul-destroying thing that got thrown at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to cases involving sexual violence, the wheels of justice move at a pace that is excruciating to watch, let alone live through. The way these cases drag on only extends the length of time that accusers must tolerate barbs, insults and insinuations about their character. That isn’t just deeply frustrating for those involved, it acts as a major disincentive to other survivors considering coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the women who prompted Danny Masterson’s trial just did wasn’t just an important reminder to survivors to keep going, it was profoundly satisfying for those of us who have long been frustrated by the lack of real, quantifiable justice that has resulted from the #MeToo movement. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude for the relief of seeing that sometimes justice is possible, no matter how many barriers are standing in the way.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1395,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":21},"modified":1705005050,"excerpt":"Masterson has been smug and unremorseful since first facing rape allegations in 2017. But his accusers refused to be cowed.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","socialTitle":"Danny Masterson’s Survivors Deserve a Moment of Appreciation %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","ogTitle":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Masterson has been smug and unremorseful since first facing rape allegations in 2017. But his accusers refused to be cowed.","title":"Danny Masterson’s Survivors Deserve a Moment of Appreciation | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"A Moment of Awe and Appreciation for the Women Who Fought Danny Masterson","datePublished":"2023-09-07T18:56:55-07:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T12:30:50-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"Commentary","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13934462/danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former \u003cem>That ’70s Show\u003c/em> actor Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction in May on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928256/danny-mastersons-rape-retrial-key-things-to-know\">charges that he had raped two women\u003c/a>. The decision represents rarely seen justice in the post-#MeToo era, following years in which his victims were belittled and pushed aside repeatedly. Masterson and his team, however, remain unrepentant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though we have great respect for the jury, and for our system of justice,” Masterson lawyer Shawn Holley said after the verdict, “sometimes they get it wrong. And that’s what happened here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928256","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Steadfast assertions about Masterson’s innocence have been par for the course for everyone in his camp ever since accusations by four women — including one ex-girlfriend — first came to public attention in 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement. Each of those women accused Masterson of drugging and raping them at his home between 2001 and 2003. Masterson, his representatives and the Church of Scientology — of which Masterson has been a lifelong member — have been issuing aggressive denials ever since. The first came from attorney Tom Mesereau in 2017: “Mr. Masterson is innocent,” Mesereau said in a statement, “and we’re confident that he will be exonerated when all the evidence finally comes to light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a statement from Masterson himself said: “This is beyond ridiculous. I’m not going to fight my ex-girlfriend in the media like she’s been baiting me to do for more than two years. I will beat her in court … And once her lawsuit is thrown out, I intend to sue her and the others who jumped on the bandwagon for the damage they caused me and my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s unrelenting approach was noted even by Judge Charlaine F. Olmedo directly before she handed down her sentence on Thursday. “I know that you’re sitting here steadfast in your claims of innocence,” Olmedo noted, “and thus no doubt feeling victimized by a justice system that has failed you. But Mr. Masterson, you are not the victim here … One way or another, you will have to come to terms with your prior actions and their consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those consequences come now only because of the tenacity, determination and bravery of the women who survived Masterson’s assaults. Referred to during the trial as N. Trout, Jen B. and Christina B. — Masterson’s fourth accuser’s charges never made it to trial — those women have been fighting to be heard for upwards of two decades now. The fact that justice is finally theirs (mostly — the jury failed to reach a verdict when it came to one of the women) must be a gargantuan relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928974","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the earliest days after the alleged attacks, the women, all Scientology members, first had to get past the church’s code of silence and its commitment to handling criminal matters internally. Documents leaked to journalist Tony Ortega in 2017 suggested that when the women reported Masterson to fellow church members in the early 2000s, \u003ca href=\"https://tonyortega.org/2017/03/03/lapd-probing-scientology-and-danny-masterston-for-multiple-rapes-cover-up/\">they were pressured to not report him to outside authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court documents later revealed that when Christina B. reported her rape to a Scientology “ethics officer,” she was told: “You can’t rape someone that you’re in a relationship with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when Jen B. asked permission from the church to report Masterson to the police, Scientology officials suggested that the action might result in “disconnection” for her — the practice of shunning church members deemed to be a threat to Scientology. Despite the risk of losing her family, friends and way of life, Jen B. reported her rape to the police the following year — a feat that must have required unbelievable resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accusations against Masterson did finally come to light more than a decade later, Scientology did its darnedest to discredit the women. So much so that in 2019, Masterson’s four accusers sued Masterson and the church for stalking, invading their privacy and attempting to obstruct justice. At the time, counsel for the Church of Scientology denied all charges and told \u003cem>People\u003c/em>: “This baseless lawsuit will go nowhere because the claims are ludicrous and a sham.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Scientologists have been fighting to stall a resolution in the lawsuit. The church has argued repeatedly that any arbitration must be handled within Scientology and not in a Los Angeles Superior Court. When a ruling came down against that assertion last year, the church then tried to take the case all the way to \u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/supreme-court-denies-scientologys-bid-to-ban-danny-masterson-accusers-lawsuit/\">the Supreme Court\u003c/a>. (The court refused to hear the case.) The lawsuit remains frustratingly up in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13921719","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Moving through the criminal trial phase has been just as arduous. Though originally charged with sexual misconduct in 2017, then with three counts of rape in June 2020, it took until May 2021 for Masterson’s preliminary hearing to begin. When it did, the actor started proceedings by \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2021/05/19/danny-masterson-posts-courthouse-selfie-before-rape-case-hearing/\">posting a smiling selfie taken outside the courthouse\u003c/a> to his Instagram account. Next to his wife Bijou Philips in her car, the caption read: “Had the most beautiful Uber driver drop me off at school today. #uberwife #bijouphillips.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image was a smug middle finger to each of his accusers just as they were about to share, on the stand, \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/tv/danny-masterson-allegedly-spit-on-victim-during-rape/\">harrowing and haunting accounts\u003c/a> of the respective nights they spent at his house. Their assaults, they say, included Masterson hitting, spitting on, insulting, restraining, choking them and making threats with a gun. After listening to their stories, the judge asserted that Masterson must face trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trial didn’t start until October 2022, at which time the women had to tell their respective stories yet again — this time, with Masterson’s lawyer asserting throughout that their sexual encounters with the actor had been consensual. When that case resulted in a mistrial, it was hard to imagine how much more these women could take. Still each of them returned to court and told their stories yet again this year. If they hadn’t, Masterson would undoubtedly still be free and living his life, just as he did during the many years when fear and intimidation kept three of his accusers silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Make no mistake, Masterson’s survivors have had to scale impossibly high hurdles from the get-go. This has been a case that, for them, has dragged on and on, first behind closed doors, then within an institution they trusted but that ultimately failed them, then more recently in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Masterson’s sentencing, one of the women emphasized: “I lost everything. I lost my religion. I lost my ability to contact anyone I’d known or loved my entire life. I didn’t exist outside the Scientology world. I had to start my life all over at 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13914526","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite it all, once these women committed to see this case through, they never gave up. They never backed down. They kept telling their stories again and again and again. They kept going despite every miserable, soul-destroying thing that got thrown at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to cases involving sexual violence, the wheels of justice move at a pace that is excruciating to watch, let alone live through. The way these cases drag on only extends the length of time that accusers must tolerate barbs, insults and insinuations about their character. That isn’t just deeply frustrating for those involved, it acts as a major disincentive to other survivors considering coming forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the women who prompted Danny Masterson’s trial just did wasn’t just an important reminder to survivors to keep going, it was profoundly satisfying for those of us who have long been frustrated by the lack of real, quantifiable justice that has resulted from the #MeToo movement. We all owe these women a debt of gratitude for the relief of seeing that sometimes justice is possible, no matter how many barriers are standing in the way.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13934462/danny-masterson-rape-conviction-accusers-scientology-sentencing","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_75","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2798","arts_14452","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2462"],"featImg":"arts_13928257","label":"source_arts_13934462"},"arts_13932204":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13932204","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13932204","score":null,"sort":[1690573762000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1690573762,"format":"standard","title":"Who 'Oppenheimer' Erases","headTitle":"Who ‘Oppenheimer’ Erases | KQED","content":"\u003cp>After Li Lai watched an advance screening of \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> in Seattle, she didn’t expect her take on the movie to go viral — or for it to receive so much backlash from “WWII bros,” as Lai calls them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People seem to love #Oppenheimer, but I’ll just say it,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MediaversityRev/status/1681534717043277824\">wrote Lai\u003c/a>, the Bay Area-born Taiwanese American founder of a site called Mediaversity that grades films based on their diversity, before she went to bed that night. “I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script — Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans — had no voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t about Japanese Americans or native Americans,” one Twitter user replied. “Anything more you wanna cry about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11906518']One only has to glance at the replies to Lai to see that people have complicated feelings about \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, and that some still justify the atomic bombing of Japan and its ongoing consequences for victims’ families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Japanese and Filipina American who has lived with the generational trauma caused by the bomb, I felt conflicted about whether or not to even see \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>. Of course, it turned out I wasn’t alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Who was this movie intended for?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Miya Sommers is a fifth-generation Japanese American living in Oakland who doesn’t plan on seeing \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>. Sommers’ grandfather lived in a town outside of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb hit, killing several of her family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m feeling more and more resistant to wanting to pay money to sit through that, knowing that it’s going to be pretty traumatizing,” Sommers said. “I don’t care about [Oppenheimer’s sense of] guilt. Basically my whole family is dead because of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A thin white man with sharp cheekbones stands alone outside, concern etched on his face. He is wearing a brown suit and hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-1020x634.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-768x478.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-1536x955.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM.png 1878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cillian Murphy stars in ‘Oppenheimer.’ \u003ccite>(Syncopy/ Universal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, the post-bomb carnage that Sommers’ grandfather once described to her in vivid detail — severed limbs, bodies stripped of skin — goes unseen by the viewer. In its place are the reactions of Robert Oppenheimer and other white Americans as he watches a slideshow of the aftermath, his stiff, haunted face illuminated by the white glow of a projector screen thousands of miles from the final resting places of over 100,000 Japanese people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, Oppenheimer’s own perspective is to be expected in an Oppenheimer biopic. But the total absence of Japanese people in the film raises questions for Lai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very chilling that you never get to see any Japanese or Japanese Americans in the movie,” Lai said. “Like, who was this movie intended for? Was the erasure of Japanese voices purposeful or was it just lazy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Umemoto, a second-generation Japanese American and the director of Asian American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles, says that she can’t erase the graphic images of bomb victims she saw at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan from her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But those images were what made me so resolute in my belief that the nuclear option is bad and should be destroyed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Atomic Bomb Dome at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ahead of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Hiroshima on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Umemoto, a former community organizer for Bay Area Asians for Nuclear Disarmament, says that the vast majority of Americans don’t understand the full horrific gravity of nuclear warfare, which is what makes images of the atomic bombings so powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would show depictions of the bombings that are raw and honest,” Umemoto said. “But that’s not what sells movie tickets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes a film like \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> feel even weightier is absence of blockbuster Hollywood films that represent nonwhite perspectives on the war, says Umemoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A powerful tool for white male perspectives’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the film has also received praise — even from critics of its exclusively white male viewpoint of Asian pain. For some, its technical and cinematic merits have made the debate about its narrow perspective even more fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was cool that the movie achieved this sense of uneasiness, which I think was purposeful,” Lai said. “I just don’t feel good about it for other reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11821133']Ponipate Rokolekutu, a professor of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, said he wanted to scream out into the theater of mostly white moviegoers when he saw the film. As an Indigenous Fijian, Rokolekutu had hoped that Oppenheimer might shed light on the Manhattan project’s consequences for the Pacific Islands; \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/\">the U.S. dropped 67 nuclear test bombs\u003c/a> on and above the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. He was also hoping for the perspectives of Japanese and Japanese American people, whose home nation was also brutally occupying islands in the Pacific during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was struck by the dilemma that Oppenheimer had when he was fighting with the morality of the whole project,” Rokolekutu said. But what was more striking, he said, was everyone who was left out, who is consistently left out in blockbuster war movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hollywood is a powerful tool for white perspectives,” he said. “They don’t want other histories to be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film does bring nuance to Oppenheimer’s experience, from his emotional suffering over the atomic bomb to the anti-Communist witch hunt levied against him in 1954. Elsewhere in the film, though, Nolan hints at people of color as expediently as possible.[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Miya Sommers']Basically my whole family is dead because of him.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Manhattan project breaks ground in Los Alamos, Oppenheimer makes a short quip about the “Indians” who live there, but the film doesn’t elaborate on that detail. \u003ca href=\"https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/impacts-native-communities-hanford-site#:~:text=The%20Manhattan%20project%20had%20profound,uranium%20mining%20and%20Los%20Alamos\">The Native peoples who were displaced by the project\u003c/a> and whose resources were contaminated by uranium mining and nuclear testing are mentioned only one more time: after the bombing, when Oppenheimer, talking about the land, says, “give it back to the Indians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lai, watching the point of view that Hollywood deemed worthy of a $100 million budget, “I felt very invisible and lonely for another three hours dedicated to a white male genius.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"movie posters for 'barbie' and 'oppenheimer' next to each other\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie posters for ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are pictured outside of the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey. \u003ccite>(Hannah Beier/Washington Post/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the end, I decided it was worth seeing \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, because I wanted to know how the film did and didn’t uphold Hollywood’s legacy. When my partner and I made our way to the auditorium through crowds of monochromatic Barbie-goers, we felt nervous about what we were about to put ourselves through as Japanese Americans. (The “Barbenheimer” media frenzy, including fan-made costumes and movie poster mashups of Barbie with a fiery mushroom cloud, only further obscures \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>’s omissions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oppenheimer and friends triumphed onscreen — their successful test bomb bathing the theater in blinding orange light — we sobbed quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11956611']“That scene made me think of how my grandfather climbed to the top of a hill near his house outside Hiroshima when he was 10 and watched the mushroom cloud get bigger,” my partner told me as we exited the theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the film’s end, Oppenheimer is remorseful — not that he ever apologized for the atrocities in Japan — and completes his heavy-hearted hero’s journey with a profound understanding of how his invention will change the world. I was left thinking of the quote by Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle: “Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people … they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> does stay true to its scope, which is one man’s perspective. It’s also disappointingly faithful to a Hollywood canon that prioritizes white American experiences, leaving the pain, self-reflections and nuanced interiority of America’s victims unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1439,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":31},"modified":1705005220,"excerpt":"The film's omission of Japanese bombing victims is an all too common failure in Hollywood.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","socialTitle":"The Japanese Erasure of 'Oppenheimer' %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The film's omission of bombing victims is an all too common Hollywood failure.","socialDescription":"The film's omission of bombing victims is an all too common Hollywood failure.","title":"The Japanese Erasure of 'Oppenheimer' | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Who 'Oppenheimer' Erases","datePublished":"2023-07-28T12:49:22-07:00","dateModified":"2024-01-11T12:33:40-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oppenheimer-japanese-erasure","status":"publish","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","templateType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","featuredImageType":"standard","sticky":false,"source":"commentary","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13932204/oppenheimer-japanese-erasure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After Li Lai watched an advance screening of \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> in Seattle, she didn’t expect her take on the movie to go viral — or for it to receive so much backlash from “WWII bros,” as Lai calls them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People seem to love #Oppenheimer, but I’ll just say it,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MediaversityRev/status/1681534717043277824\">wrote Lai\u003c/a>, the Bay Area-born Taiwanese American founder of a site called Mediaversity that grades films based on their diversity, before she went to bed that night. “I was uncomfy watching yet another movie about tortured white male genius when the victims of the atrocities glossed over by the script — Japanese people, interned Japanese Americans, and Native Americans — had no voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It isn’t about Japanese Americans or native Americans,” one Twitter user replied. “Anything more you wanna cry about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11906518","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One only has to glance at the replies to Lai to see that people have complicated feelings about \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, and that some still justify the atomic bombing of Japan and its ongoing consequences for victims’ families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Japanese and Filipina American who has lived with the generational trauma caused by the bomb, I felt conflicted about whether or not to even see \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>. Of course, it turned out I wasn’t alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Who was this movie intended for?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Miya Sommers is a fifth-generation Japanese American living in Oakland who doesn’t plan on seeing \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>. Sommers’ grandfather lived in a town outside of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb hit, killing several of her family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m feeling more and more resistant to wanting to pay money to sit through that, knowing that it’s going to be pretty traumatizing,” Sommers said. “I don’t care about [Oppenheimer’s sense of] guilt. Basically my whole family is dead because of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A thin white man with sharp cheekbones stands alone outside, concern etched on his face. He is wearing a brown suit and hat.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-1020x634.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-768x478.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM-1536x955.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Screen-Shot-2023-07-13-at-11.44.49-AM.png 1878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cillian Murphy stars in ‘Oppenheimer.’ \u003ccite>(Syncopy/ Universal)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, the post-bomb carnage that Sommers’ grandfather once described to her in vivid detail — severed limbs, bodies stripped of skin — goes unseen by the viewer. In its place are the reactions of Robert Oppenheimer and other white Americans as he watches a slideshow of the aftermath, his stiff, haunted face illuminated by the white glow of a projector screen thousands of miles from the final resting places of over 100,000 Japanese people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, Oppenheimer’s own perspective is to be expected in an Oppenheimer biopic. But the total absence of Japanese people in the film raises questions for Lai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very chilling that you never get to see any Japanese or Japanese Americans in the movie,” Lai said. “Like, who was this movie intended for? Was the erasure of Japanese voices purposeful or was it just lazy?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Umemoto, a second-generation Japanese American and the director of Asian American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles, says that she can’t erase the graphic images of bomb victims she saw at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan from her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But those images were what made me so resolute in my belief that the nuclear option is bad and should be destroyed,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"The Atomic Bomb Dome at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1255649844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Atomic Bomb Dome is seen at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ahead of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Hiroshima on May 18, 2023. \u003ccite>(Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Umemoto, a former community organizer for Bay Area Asians for Nuclear Disarmament, says that the vast majority of Americans don’t understand the full horrific gravity of nuclear warfare, which is what makes images of the atomic bombings so powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would show depictions of the bombings that are raw and honest,” Umemoto said. “But that’s not what sells movie tickets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes a film like \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> feel even weightier is absence of blockbuster Hollywood films that represent nonwhite perspectives on the war, says Umemoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A powerful tool for white male perspectives’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, the film has also received praise — even from critics of its exclusively white male viewpoint of Asian pain. For some, its technical and cinematic merits have made the debate about its narrow perspective even more fraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought it was cool that the movie achieved this sense of uneasiness, which I think was purposeful,” Lai said. “I just don’t feel good about it for other reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11821133","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ponipate Rokolekutu, a professor of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, said he wanted to scream out into the theater of mostly white moviegoers when he saw the film. As an Indigenous Fijian, Rokolekutu had hoped that Oppenheimer might shed light on the Manhattan project’s consequences for the Pacific Islands; \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/\">the U.S. dropped 67 nuclear test bombs\u003c/a> on and above the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. He was also hoping for the perspectives of Japanese and Japanese American people, whose home nation was also brutally occupying islands in the Pacific during the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was struck by the dilemma that Oppenheimer had when he was fighting with the morality of the whole project,” Rokolekutu said. But what was more striking, he said, was everyone who was left out, who is consistently left out in blockbuster war movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hollywood is a powerful tool for white perspectives,” he said. “They don’t want other histories to be known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film does bring nuance to Oppenheimer’s experience, from his emotional suffering over the atomic bomb to the anti-Communist witch hunt levied against him in 1954. Elsewhere in the film, though, Nolan hints at people of color as expediently as possible.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Basically my whole family is dead because of him.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Miya Sommers","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Manhattan project breaks ground in Los Alamos, Oppenheimer makes a short quip about the “Indians” who live there, but the film doesn’t elaborate on that detail. \u003ca href=\"https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/impacts-native-communities-hanford-site#:~:text=The%20Manhattan%20project%20had%20profound,uranium%20mining%20and%20Los%20Alamos\">The Native peoples who were displaced by the project\u003c/a> and whose resources were contaminated by uranium mining and nuclear testing are mentioned only one more time: after the bombing, when Oppenheimer, talking about the land, says, “give it back to the Indians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lai, watching the point of view that Hollywood deemed worthy of a $100 million budget, “I felt very invisible and lonely for another three hours dedicated to a white male genius.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"movie posters for 'barbie' and 'oppenheimer' next to each other\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1555745048.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Movie posters for ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ are pictured outside of the Cinemark Somerdale 16 and XD in Somerdale, New Jersey. \u003ccite>(Hannah Beier/Washington Post/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the end, I decided it was worth seeing \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>, because I wanted to know how the film did and didn’t uphold Hollywood’s legacy. When my partner and I made our way to the auditorium through crowds of monochromatic Barbie-goers, we felt nervous about what we were about to put ourselves through as Japanese Americans. (The “Barbenheimer” media frenzy, including fan-made costumes and movie poster mashups of Barbie with a fiery mushroom cloud, only further obscures \u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em>’s omissions.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oppenheimer and friends triumphed onscreen — their successful test bomb bathing the theater in blinding orange light — we sobbed quietly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11956611","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That scene made me think of how my grandfather climbed to the top of a hill near his house outside Hiroshima when he was 10 and watched the mushroom cloud get bigger,” my partner told me as we exited the theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the film’s end, Oppenheimer is remorseful — not that he ever apologized for the atrocities in Japan — and completes his heavy-hearted hero’s journey with a profound understanding of how his invention will change the world. I was left thinking of the quote by Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle: “Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people … they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Oppenheimer\u003c/em> does stay true to its scope, which is one man’s perspective. It’s also disappointingly faithful to a Hollywood canon that prioritizes white American experiences, leaving the pain, self-reflections and nuanced interiority of America’s victims unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13932204/oppenheimer-japanese-erasure","authors":["11872"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_4672","arts_11977","arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_2640","arts_17106","arts_3465","arts_21156"],"featImg":"arts_13932247","label":"source_arts_13932204"},"arts_13931533":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13931533","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"arts","id":"13931533","score":null,"sort":[1689289540000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1689289540,"format":"standard","title":"The FBI, IRS and Other Cringe-Makers Trying To Reach Gen Z on Social Media","headTitle":"The FBI, IRS and Other Cringe-Makers Trying To Reach Gen Z on Social Media | KQED","content":"\u003cp>You know that feeling you get every time a Fox News presenter uses the word “woke”? That full-body cringe? You probably also experience it every time your dad says “on fleek” or your aunt talks about getting a “glow up.” And I’m fairly certain everyone who watched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925510/senators-are-calling-on-the-justice-department-to-look-into-ticketmasters-practices\">Ticketmaster Senate hearing\u003c/a> last January knows exactly what I’m talking about. (Thanks for all the forced Taylor Swift references, politicians!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z347R_2R0HM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s become virtually impossible to avoid these kinds of pandering pop culture references and cringeworthy puns, even in what should be the dullest corners of the internet. There have lately been some major offenders! Let us now collectively point in their direction and judge them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The FBI Wants You to ‘Speak Now’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s take a moment to think this one through, because honestly, it boggles the mind on multiple levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after Taylor Swift released her much-hyped \u003cem>Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) \u003c/em>album, someone at the actual Federal Bureau of Investigation noticed, had an incredibly misguided ‘ah-ha’ moment, then came up with … this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FBIWFO/status/1678524780230656000\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, sure, one of the best ways to get federal crime tips is to wink at a bunch of Taylor Swift fans on Twitter and expect them to immediately spill the many felony-related secrets they’ve been harboring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snitching: Apparently just one well-placed “Better Than Revenge” reference away!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>H&R Block Goes to ‘Taxchella’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Remember that nerdy kid from math club who decided one summer they were going to be cool next year? So they showed up Sophomore year wearing a brand new, stiff-as-all-get-out leather jacket over their regular nerd clothes, and thought that would do the trick? This H&R Block tweet reminds me of that kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HRBlock/status/1646875959537147906\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we can all agree that Portugal, the Tax Pro is a real low point here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Velveeta Gets in on the Stupid Coachella Thing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Say what you want about H&R Block’s abomination, but at least it was timed to coincide with the first day of Coachella. Velveeta (you heard me) waited two full months to hit the internet with this — a fake festival lineup full of dairy puns that uses the word “drip” repeatedly and still expects us to want to eat cheese afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CuUsRBiSyiA/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, Velveeta social media person? You’re just gonna go ahead and leave Cheesy XCX sitting there right above Cheesy XX? For shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of New Jersey Knows a Song\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scene: An over-decorated corner of an office block in Trenton, NJ. Two social media employees smile at each other, fresh from Photoshopping the state of New Jersey onto a picture of Baby Yoda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan: Man. We are killing it, bro.\u003cbr>\nDave: I know, dude. What’s next?\u003cbr>\nSusan: I mean… I’ve got this GIF of a pier at sunset?\u003cbr>\nDave: Should we Photoshop Baby Yoda onto it?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Hold my Snapple, friend, because I’ve got an even better idea.\u003cbr>\nDave: Is the idea just “Lizzo”?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Yes!\u003cbr>\nDave: Isn’t she from Detroit though?\u003cbr>\nSusan: Yeah, but… That’s close enough though, right?\u003cbr>\nDave: Totally, dude. Still a genius idea. Just make sure you do the text in lowercase like The Kids do it.\u003cbr>\nSusan: Done!\u003cbr>\nDave and Susan: *high five*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NJGov/status/1227975614742876160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How Deep is the Ocean?” by Frank Sinatra — who actually \u003cem>is\u003c/em> from New Jersey — was right there, Susan. Right friggin’ there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The IRS Wants You to Think It Gets Nintendo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Someone at the IRS thinks that if you need a six-month extension on filing your taxes, you’re probably a Super Mario Bros. fan. (Gamers, amiright?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these killer and not at all boxy graphics!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CqrEcdsLZUR/?img_index=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No fire will come your way”? Really, IRS? This is not as seamless as you think it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board Has a Full-Blown Meltdown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not gonna lie, I did have to look up what the New York Conflicts of Interest Board does exactly. If you also don’t know — and to put it as briefly as possible — it’s a government agency that “seeks to prevent ethics questions from becoming ethics problems for public servants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less easy to understand is why on God’s green Earth these tweets happened:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NYCCOIB/status/1228399887588392960\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What just happened? I mean… What. Just. Happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>United Tries to Do a ‘Barbie’ Something\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thanks, United. This makes no sense. No sense at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqq271EuOrh/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laziness is brazen.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The TSA Turns ‘Barbie’ Into a Slasher Movie\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What is it with air travel-related accounts and Greta Gerwig’s friggin’ \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> movie?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone by United, someone at the TSA took it upon themselves to transform an amusing, tongue-in-cheek \u003cem>Barbie\u003c/em> publicity image into a Cronenberg-ian nightmare that:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Extracts any and all semblance of humor from the image\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Severs Barbie’s legs from her torso (!)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jams Barbie’s body full of knives (!!)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Punishes anyone foolish enough to keep looking at this with a list of godawful puns\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CqtMDJtP1AX/?img_index=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This feels like an HR violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Parks and … what the heck?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>New York City’s Parks Department is prone to leaning into hip-hop culture, posting recent clips of rappers Sean Combs, Fat Joe and Jim Jones. One still has to wonder what its social media team was trying to say when it posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQwnSXgY2U/?hl=en\">this clip from 1991’s \u003cem>New Jack City\u003c/em>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQwnSXgY2U/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps “Come hang out at our New York City playgrounds where guns are plentiful, men are intimidating and women wear terrible hats?” Slow clap, Parks and Rec department. Slow clap.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Product Safety Folks Do … Whatever This is\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are a dull entity insisting on making pop culture references in your social media posts, the least you can do is reference things that normal people understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let us ponder the wonder contained in this U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission post:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1230277447859474433\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tried hard to understand what the bejesus was going on here and, beyond the obvious laser cat meme, all I managed to figure out is “Should have sent a poet” is a quote from (*checks notes*) the 1997 Jodie Foster alien movie \u003cem>Contact.\u003c/em> (Way to keep it current, guys!) Who Franklin and Dr. Jackson are remains a mystery that not even Google can solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good luck out there.\u003c/p>\n\n","stats":{"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1192,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":32},"modified":1705005275,"excerpt":"The FBI and IRS are among the many formal institutions trying to be Down With The Kids on social media. The results are beyond cringe. ","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"The FBI, the IRS and Other Cringe-Makers Trying To Reach Gen Z on Social Media","socialTitle":"The FBI Just Asked Taylor Swift Fans for Crime Tips %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","ogTitle":"The FBI, the IRS and Other Cringe-Makers Trying To Reach Gen Z on Social Media","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"The FBI and IRS are among the many formal institutions trying to be Down With The Kids on social media. 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That full-body cringe? You probably also experience it every time your dad says “on fleek” or your aunt talks about getting a “glow up.” And I’m fairly certain everyone who watched the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13925510/senators-are-calling-on-the-justice-department-to-look-into-ticketmasters-practices\">Ticketmaster Senate hearing\u003c/a> last January knows exactly what I’m talking about. 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Velveeta (you heard me) waited two full months to hit the internet with this — a fake festival lineup full of dairy puns that uses the word “drip” repeatedly and still expects us to want to eat cheese afterwards.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CuUsRBiSyiA"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Really, Velveeta social media person? You’re just gonna go ahead and leave Cheesy XCX sitting there right above Cheesy XX? For shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of New Jersey Knows a Song\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The scene: An over-decorated corner of an office block in Trenton, NJ. Two social media employees smile at each other, fresh from Photoshopping the state of New Jersey onto a picture of Baby Yoda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan: Man. We are killing it, bro.\u003cbr>\nDave: I know, dude. 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Right friggin’ there.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The IRS Wants You to Think It Gets Nintendo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Someone at the IRS thinks that if you need a six-month extension on filing your taxes, you’re probably a Super Mario Bros. fan. (Gamers, amiright?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these killer and not at all boxy graphics!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CqrEcdsLZUR"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“No fire will come your way”? Really, IRS? This is not as seamless as you think it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New York City’s Conflicts of Interest Board Has a Full-Blown Meltdown\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Not gonna lie, I did have to look up what the New York Conflicts of Interest Board does exactly. 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