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⌈ Secret Post #3424 ⌋

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Comments

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Oakland, NJ and Oakland, MI both have under 20,000 people. On the other hand, there is a Pittsburg, California, with 60,000 people (coincidentally very close to Oakland).

So clearly, someone from California would be even MORE justified in being confused.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

That's... not how you spell Pittsburgh.

If it were Oaklande, I would agree with you.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Damn, you've defeated me. You're right, being ignorant about American geography owns.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say that, but if you want to claim it for yourself, be my guest. I'm between both other Oaklands and am familiar with one of them, so CA is not the first to pop into mind. I figured it was some other Oakland somewhere, knowing there are more than one.

You acted like it was crazy for someone to not be aware exactly which Oakland was being referred to, that it was predominantly black and/or poor, and also familiar with the song referencing it as though every person is familiar with 20 year old rap, which is a little ridiculous. I'm not white, either.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Well, no, I thought it was reasonable to expect someone to recognize that talking about "Oakland booty" in a rap song might somehow be associated with blackness.

This subthread is a result of someone saying they didn't even know what state Oakland is in, which is - to me - a larger claim.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

I am that person. I didn't know what state Oakland was in. Oakland is not culturally, financially, or physically relevant to me in the least and I'm puzzled at why you would expect everyone in America to know where it is. It's got under half a million people, it's not even big by my standards. It barely makes the top 50 in the US.

Can you name the eighth largest city in New York without wikipedia?

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and Utica aren't particularly relevant to me, but I still know something about them, or at least that they exist.

It just seems weird to have no idea about places in America, I guess. That's all.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Heh, you know, in retrospect, most of those have famous universities that most people over college age would have heard of so it's a little less equivalent. Bad analogy on my part.

If me not knowing that is weird to you, then you assuming the city I haven't heard of before is famous enough so that every American should know exactly which Oakland is being talked about and that it is in California or else they're, quote, "ignorant," is just as weird to me.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon

I will agree that being from Cali or around there and not knowing could be ignorant though. It's the part where all America is expected to know that puzzles me because it just plain isn't that famous.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[diet_poison]

I haven't heard of Utica before, and I'm neither east nor west coast.

Your insistence that everyone in the US should apparently know the names and locations of all the 50 largest cities is a bit weird, to me. I vaguely knew Oakland was in Cali but I'd have had to think about it, and I certainly don't know anything about it's racial composition or racial history; I think I've only heard of it because they have an NFL team and I have a brother and some friends who are really into football (I passed time with my manager at my old job by seeing if I could name all the NFL teams without looking them up, once).

tl;dr not everyone is a geography buff and your expectations are a bit high for your average non-Californian

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it is the case that I know more about geography than most people / that I'm expecting too much in general? IDK, it's certainly possible.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

It is in Kansas.

Re: LA face with an Oakland booty

[(Anonymous)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburg,_Kansas

Except not?