I was there on the street in 85 as a sophomore at lower merino high school
I loved close to overbrook and Osage ave was walkable
One Wilson Goode , mayor , dropped that bomb and let the whole block burn to the ground killing most of the “ family “
Firefighters were told to stand down so as not to get shot
one of the more surreal things I’ve ever seen in my adult life - the other was the 1991 Oakland firestorm where I was there on bike long before firefighters and road closures
if Wilson good was not a black mayor , Dropping that bomb on all those black people and burning them to death,there would’ve been riots in the street every day for months
but the fact that he was black meant it just all get swept under the rug like
“ oh well ! the mayor dropped a bomb on a city block burned to the ground and killed a bunch of people A la David koresh
“if Wilson good was not a black mayor , Dropping that bomb on all those black people and burning them to death,there would’ve been riots in the street every day for months
but the fact that he was black meant it just all get swept under the rug like
“ oh well ! the mayor dropped a bomb on a city block burned to the ground and killed a bunch of people...”
Tell that to the then serving police & fire commissioners — both of whom were left holding the political bag for the first black mayor. During the televised hearings it was almost as if Wilson Goode was suddenly ‘invisible’. He went from being very high-profile to virtually non-existent.