It takes me back to the stories my dad would tell Coolhand and I when we were kids, about all the Raider players who lived in the neighborhood and shopped in the same stores as the town folk. Now with the high salaries, players can afford to live in the surrounding suburbs, which doesn't endow them with that urban Oakland grittiness. Thank you Stephen for at least living in Oakland, and please brighten those gray skies you are now seeing from your balcony.
PS: Hopefully we'll see you at the Lake Chalet (bottom left) on Tuesdays. Cheers!
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Coolhand's Post text: One of the most interesting aspects of Curry's new digs is that he is now living in the same building that Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton once did. After Huey was released from prison, he was put up in the high-rise as a precautionary measure. His critics of course would see this as Huey drinking his own Kool-Aid and living the celebrity high life. However, former Panther David Hilliard maintains that Huey would have been in danger elsewhere, and that placing him in the penthouse across from A's owner Charlie Finley was a strategic move.It is true that Huey began a bit of a downward spiral during this period of his life, but Hilliard, a childhood friend, insists that they both battled a variety of addictions their entire lives. This revelation may surprise some who have placed the revolutionary on a pedestal, but it also humanizes the dynamic leader.
So Mr. Curry, though you will never be as great as Huey was, hopefully your end will be more glorious. Bueno suerte!
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Dope post!
interesting to note that Huey hated that he lived up there, but the Panthers put him up there as a security measure (per Elaine Brown's book A Taste of Power)...Huey wanted to be living with the people and not isolated up in a penthouse.....but thats just my tangent
Yeah, I read that, but it seems like a rather ostentatious security measure to me. Also, I've met Elaine a few times and she's.... interesting to say the least. lol. Not to say that her account is inaccurate, but she's a strange character.
No that living situation was Huey all the way. If he was paranoid why did he hangout at the Lamp Post, on Telegraph? After he left there he moved to Montclair, drove a Merce, which he wrecked in Shepa=erd Canyon and generally finished the job of wrecking the party that Cointelpro began. To say he was messing with white women is like ludicrous, he was a co-dependant who was married to two stunning sisters. He was a libertine with all types of women who would buy into the hype of who they thought he was. He was a man whose addictions completely marginalized his intellect. Sad parody of who he was when he met his maker.
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