Posted on 11/26/2017 11:35:35 AM PST by Simon Green
everal years ago, a woman who lives around the corner in Inglewood told me a story common to black people who were among the first to move into once-white cities. She and her husband bought their house in 1967. Every day that summer, she said, her next-door neighbor came out on his porch, glaring. Whenever he saw her, this white man shouted not a greeting, but a question: Why are you here? In a few months, he was gone, along with pretty much every other white family on the block.
I grew up in and around Inglewood and have lived here for the last 13 years. Walking home with my dogs three weeks ago, I was approached by a young white woman who, like me, is an animal lover. Turns out she and her husband had moved into the neighborhood recently. “We like it so far,” she said brightly. Like it? I felt a rush of resentment at a remark that to her, I’m sure, was perfectly innocent. All I could think was: White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?
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The fact that whites are coming back to this once very contested space is not, I fear, evidence of the meaningful integration that has long eluded us. It’s a warning that my black community is, once again, irretrievably at risk.
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Yup,there goes the neighborhood.
I would be willing to bet no such exchange occurred, except in the theater of the author’s imagination. Not only that, but Inglewood has been displacing Blacks with Latinos for quite some time. Fake news.
She just loves to live in her segregated community where self-inflicted lies can be believed whole cloth and without challenge.
that’s how it works
if whites move out —its racism
if whites move in— its racism
White can never be right.
Unfortunately they do.
This woman is a bigot, plain and simple. Her new, white neighbor is not an individual to her; she’s just a representative of white people, against whom the writer feels entitled to carry a grudge. Of course, the white people in Inglewood fifty years ago felt just as justified carrying grudges against black people. Bigotry is either right or wrong. It can’t be okay in certain situations.
“White folk” sounds to me alot like “nigger.”
Gentrification is far better than slumification.
As far as that unfriendly reaction from the white neighbor...maybe it had something to do with the Watts, Los Angeles riots of 1965. There goes the neighborhood...LITERALLY!!
My grandmother lived most of her life in Inglewood, California. Life got pretty rough there in the 80’s until recently, but things are changing for the better because of less crime. The weather/climate is great.
But the whites who left weren’t necessarily bigoted - they were merely (correctly) predicting that the property values were going to go down and the neighborhood was going to become more dangerous.
The blare of sirens and urine smells on the street hold such charm for neighborhoods. Why would anyone want to change that?
Yep, while gentrification does cause some people to be dislocated, is it preferable for the area to remain a slum?
The worst thing is that they start filling their children’s minds with this sort of crap from an early age. Remember—”Hands up. Don’t shoot.”?
“All I could think was: White folks abandoned Inglewood, and now they’re coming back with no memory or acknowledgment of all that, expecting neighborliness?“
I’m so sick of these people.
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” my black community is, once again, irretrievably at risk”
So, your community is not mine. You said it. So, Whites threaten Blacks. You said it. You are a racist, and I demand a retraction and an apology.
They turn their properties into pig styes on purpose just to prove “they don’t have to obey the white man’s rules”.
Yup.
It’s apparently okay for blacks to move into any area they want but “you white folk gotta stay so we can steal your stuff or we call you a racist”.
I don’t play that game.
Do dogs live with cats or do dogs chase cats?
They’re much more at risk with others like them if you look at all the crime statistics.
The Times drew fire for a last-minute story before the 2003 California recall election alleging that gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career. Columnist Jill Stewart wrote on the American Reporter website that the Times did not do a story on allegations that former Governor Gray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources.Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the Times decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources. The American Society of Newspaper Editors said that the Times lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.
The current editor of the LA Times is Ross Levinsohn, a white male person.
The LA Times is owned by Tronc, formerly Tribune Publishing, in Chicago. Tronc's owner is Michael W. Ferro Jr., a white male person.
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