Talk:Acorn, Oakland, California
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Suggested guide for inclusion of Oakland neighborhoods[edit]
Since there's an ongoing dispute over several articles about Oakland neighborhoods and whether these articles (mostly about very small areas, or in some cases about housing projects), I'd like to propose a guide for which entities should be considered valid for inclusion as neighborhoods.
The Oakland Museum of California has a very nice web page that lets one browse a map of the city and look at neighborhoods and districts. (Caution: requires Flash.) I'd like to suggest that since this map has been compiled by an eminently reputable source, the Museum, that it can serve as a pretty good guide to whether a neighborhood in Oakland actually exists and should be included here. +ILike2BeAnonymous (talk) 06:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Newton wasn't killed here.[edit]
He was shot at 9th Street, between Chester and Center, which is west of Acorn, and a residential neighborhood, not the projects.
Take a look at http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/aug-22-1989-huey-newton-killed-10651274 and about 30 seconds in, they show blood on the sidewalk of his shooting location. Then take a look at google maps. On the north side of the street, you can very clearly see many of the same houses, and the light posts on that street.
I know it's nitpicking about the block of difference, but Mandela (then Cypress) is a pretty big dividing line between the neighborhoods.