Long-time Antioch residents talk about how race plays a role in city

[@AuroraBoarder1]

Antioch was a sundown town? Weird! I'm African American, from Oakland. In the early 70s, ww went to Antioch to buy a brand new car, because they were cheaper there. No one so much as gave us a dirty look. I understand when Oakland started making an attempt at gentrification, a lot of its residents moved to Antioch, and that's when things started going downhill. My best friend's mother in law lived there, and when she died, her house had to be constantly occupied so squatters wouldn't move in and vandalize the place. Some had already trashed the house across the street. Staying alone there must have been UNNERVING!!!

[@randonicus1]

Lived in Antioch from like 85-2010….it wasn’t big racist or anything lol, it was diverse, I went to park jr high and Deer valley when it opened…this smells like BS. In the late 2000s during the housing crisis, a bunch of short sales were “bought” by government and made into section 8, since then the area near deer valley high went to crap….increased crime, so ghetto the new Regal movie theater had to close cuz nobody wanted to go. My old house (area close to deer valley high) got broken into, drive by shooting of a section 8 house like 4 houses down….kid got shot and killed after basketball game at DV…none of that crap happened back in late 90s-2000s in that area, it was nice middle class area. Idiotic idea to move section 8 into middle class where people worked hard to buy, naive to think people would just change their behavior just cuz they moved into a new area…they just brought bad behavior with them from Oakland and Richmond (people who worked for the county verified this is how the section 8 movement went down). Anyone who lived there in the 90s thought today will tell you that’s what made that area of Antioch go down hill.

[@Monke15329]

@@randonicus1yeah u spot on

[@BanditBandito-db8tp]

You are correct, as people started to trickle in from Oakland, they destroyed Antioch. Antioch is so ghetto nowadays, it is such a shame. I grew up in Antioch in the 2000s, when the first wave of Oaklanders started coming. They were all complaining constantly about how hot it was in Antioch. I went past my old neighborhood not too long ago, it doesn't even seem safe anymore to walk around in that neighborhood. Such a shame that so much section 8 housing was provided. Unfortunately, i feel like Brentwood is going to be next. I don't understand why any city would allow so much section 8 recipients into a city, in mass waves. The city won't be earning any tax revenue from them and when you so many section 8 recipients are processed all at the same time, its going to destroy the city's cash flow and cause the actual tax payers/ contributors to society, to flee the city.

[@richardcarroll9864]

I h8 Antioch.

[@Fallopianjunglejuice]

Cali is crazy my bro

[@robertmendezsr1586]

I grown up in the 80’s from Pittsburg. Antioch was safe till they built New Antioch. Small minds for a bigger town.

[@propblast82nd]

Antioch should be more like Oakland ❤

[@Bmwstephen]

I hope you’re joking

[@HeyUncleA]

Actually that’s what happened to Antioch. Early 2000s they started bussing in “special” kids from Oakland to Antioch high schools. Then the Antioch kids started acting more ghetto and doing more and more serious crimes.

[@middleguy1776]

Who do you think moved to Antioch? Oakland residents.

[@deesnoots]

What?! Lol Oakland is a shit hole. Can’t even go outside without seeing a crime happen. Have you seen how many abandoned stolen cars are just left in the streets after they crash? Good joke

[@amanrob]

​@@HeyUncleA It was bad before then. Of course it got worse. But as someone who grew up on Sycamore in the 80's and 90's, it was never that good to begin with.

[@andrewboyle3770]

I bet he'd still rather live there then move into a predominately black town.

[@DrDonnyTheBookofYou]

I'm glad we're learning the history. I know we haven't learned it from KPIX. This station sucks. There are people on KZbin with no budget doing far better than this....

[@therecoverycoach1463]

Praying over this city

[@AuroraBoarder1]

@@therecoverycoach1463 - any effects yet?

[@Fallopianjunglejuice]

​@@AuroraBoarder1 Naw

[@carlozchv]

Cops infringe and terrorize the public so they are definition of a domestic terrorist

[@LambertBowden56]

The funny thing is that you could use that same stupid argument about the black population committing crime... Are African Americans domestic terrorists?

[@crisfoster2553]

I lived there back in 1993 til 2000 always was racist

[@Fallopianjunglejuice]

Where u live now? Oakland?

[@academyofjkd7674]

Yep certain areas are racist. I would get jumped almost every other day. just for being white. I walked from sycamore to marsh elementary everyday. I lived in antioch from 1980-1996. Just moved back in 2021.

[@carlozchv]

Abolish Qualified Immunity

[@carlozchv]

Put those racists to sleep for good

[@dski8097]

Sticks and stones, who cars if people called you names. get over it.

[@aumarigan]

Sadly, the racist sentiments (texts) of these cops do affect the way they actually interact with the community. This ain't your kids playground.

[@Mike-y1g9x]

MOVE !!!

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

good for them