berkeley to oakland and jerry is from oakland so berkeley is the whitest city in the county. berkeley, i want to get out of berkeley. i want to move to the most right wing town. here i am. home to the most white wing town in my frustration in northern california and somebody said well, you ought to move to el cerrito and i moved there and my name -- my neighbor was a policeman, a nice guy. but, you know, what i found was that that's prepared me for the shock of oakland because the police in el cerrito, as long as you have a little cash, you're like the maitre d' and i moved to oakland because i bought my beautiful victorian. my family doesn't like it. they like something like howard johnson design. i'm going to get in trouble if i say that. queen anne victoria built in 1906. >> host: and you're still in that house. >> guest: we restored it. rain was getting in there. it was like all dilapidated and we restored that house. i thought i was in berkeley or somewhere and i said, you know, there's a crime operation that's happening on the block here. all i have to do is call the police. but we've been calling the police for 10 years. through my daughter's efforts and mine, tennessee, who ran for the school board, we got one of these crack houses shut down because people from my background are not going to tolerate. they're not going to tolerate criminal operations on our block. and what surprised me was that the inaction of downtown or the infancy of downtown not to do anything of crime relations is very blatant. there's still one there and we're trying to get rid of it but what people don't understand is that, you know, somebody writing from the "new york times" the columns might say well, you got crack -- you got crack mamas and, you know, antee fathers. .. >> is that these crime operations are black. well, that's not true. the gang leader on our block was with vietnamese. matter of fact, if you look at the newspapers in japantown, c