[SoCal Pubbie]

Just trying to understand why you’d consider Los Angeles such a racist city. I don’t live there, but I do live about 55 miles from it. Aside from general racial conflict arising from gangs and the never mentioned but real animus of blacks toward other groups, I don’t agree with the label. It isn’t perfect by any means. But like the United States in general, there are more groups of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds living side by side in relative harmony than most places.

I do agree that the South gets unfairly stereotyped. Places like Chicago are much worse in my experience. However the poster who wrote that he never heard a person from the South use the N word must not have been around in the sixties. I heard it plenty from people from the South in those days.

[boycott]

I’ve traveled the nation throughout my career. Twice to LA so far this year. I have been surprised at some of the things people say but that is not exclusive to LA. No area has the monopoly on ignorant people.

I have worked with plenty good blacks, Koreans, Latinos, Chinese, and whites from LA too.

Over 30 years of travel, I would put LA area near the top. I didn’t just come up with that.