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Posted on 08/12/2026 3:52:39 AM PDT by Libloather
A bitter battle has erupted over one of California’s wealthiest enclaves, with activists from neighboring Oakland calling for the predominantly white city of Piedmont to be “canceled.”
Oakland resident Jesse Rosemoore is behind the provocative “Cancel Piedmont” campaign targeting the 1.7-square-mile city of roughly 11,000 people that is surrounded by Oakland but maintains its own schools, police, parks and tax base, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rosemoore, 44, began handing out “CANCEL PIEDMONT” stickers and selling $10 T-shirts bearing the slogan 14 months ago.
The professional transit planner now regards the campaign as a way to tackle the sharp racial and economic divide between Piedmont and the rest of the city.
“It really is ridiculous that a place like Piedmont even exists,” Rosemoore told the outlet. “I felt like someone needed to bring even more attention to it, because what’s going on there says a lot about our society as a whole.”
The median price of homes in Piedmont is almost $2.6 million, which is more than three-and-a-half times that of Oakland’s.
Census data cited by the outlet shows Piedmont is roughly 70% white and around 1% black, while about one in five Oakland residents is black.
In some places, the divide comes down to a property line, with neighboring households potentially having access to different school districts and police departments depending on which side of the Piedmont-Oakland boundary they fall on.
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I know some people who live in Piedmont. After dark they take Uber or Lyft to go out to dinner so their car won't get broken into in Oakland.
Good idea
Stupid, angry, and queer is no way to go through life ...
The little city of Piedmont is a remarkable phenomenon.
For the fifty or more years that I’ve known of its existence, it has been relatively crime-free.
And that’s because of the Piedmont Police Department, which actively discourages criminally-oriented intruders from entering the City of Piedmont.
It’s quite a feat! You’d have to have been there!
Boy the racism against Piedmont is overwelming
ACLU should help
Not surprised.
That would be racist and very, very unfair.
It is a very wealthy area—always has been. The lots are large.
Oakland is a slum. Actually, 2.6 million median price isn’t that much for CA. It’s a starter home in other areas like Palo Alto, Atherton, etc.
The democrat way. Don’t build things up. Just drag everything down.
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR!
EQUAL MISERY FOR ALL!
THERE IS A REASON THE RAIDERS ARE NO LONGER IN OAKLAND.
WE NOW KNOW “WHO SHOULD BE CANCELLED”.
one in five Oakland residents is black
I would have thought the reverse, with one in 5 being white in Oakland. (Looked at demographics - it's closer to 1 in 4 being white (28%) so I wasn't far off on that. But I don't understand why Oakland is as bad as it is with only 20% Black, even with 28% being Mexican or Mexican adjacent.
A quick way to upset yourself is to watch any of a number of Youtube vids showing Oakland in the 1940-50s. Some focus on the train system that existed then.
You know what it shows.
That is a AI robot, right? Ain’t no way that is a full member of our species.
Interesting because the last two chief of Police are black and Jeremy Bowers I’ve known for 20 years...
Aging surfer dude lived in Germany and learned all about socialism, but left. Was it because of the muslims? Hypocrite.
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