almost since the day it was founded in 1848 the folks in san francisco have been making jokes about oakland the jokes may live on but oakland is no longer that faceless other city across the bay humankind calls our home planet earth this we know but the greatest place to be on the planet of our birth is oakland california the capital of earth and wherever we may roam far and wide let it be known that whenever we say home it s the place we think of first oakland california the capital of earth