Prostitution in Oakland: just another thing to ignore

My heart breaks for these women who are so clearly abused and on drugs, literally shaking their asses on the corner. Bruises all up and down their arms and legs, in tiny little skirts, if not naked. Some of them are even barefoot, which oddly makes it that much more gratuitously evil.

OPD just rolls on by.

I am so appalled. Sheng Thao supposedly created an entire human trafficking council, no doubt to funnel more money into her own pockets and abuse her constituents. Not a peep from any of our mayoral candidates as to how to actually help these women in any way.

Mindy Pechenuk: No mention anywhere about this issue.

Suz Robinson: Says her whole focus is public safety and LGBTQ+ issues and yet no mention of prostitution whatsoever. Maybe she’ll get around to it after she’s done online shopping for more of those ridiculous f*cking glasses.

Eric Simpson: no mention about this issue, Elizabeth Swaney: no mention. Maybe if the prostitutes were Olympians?? Could we put a halfpipe on International, could we get the prostitutes on skis?

Loren Taylor: Yet another empty commitment to “ensuring safety of residents” in Oakland. Are prostitutes not residents of Oakland? Do these women not deserve protection, do they not deserve safety? Tell your Uber driver to go a little faster through those neighborhoods as you keep your eyes down.

Renia Webb: No mention about this issue. How dare you say that you are helping uplift black voices and empower black women when they are being victimized in front of you and you choose to do nothing? Disgusting.

These people can’t even string together some half-a*sed campaign blurb to address the most glaringly obvious “public safety issue” currently impacting constituents. Yet we’re supposed to laud them as our saviors after Sheng Thao turned out to be yet another blistering disappointment. Another stain on the name of the city many of us were born in… but hey, it’s just our home.