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I think that ethnic and racial issues become very "back burner" in the West. The only thing might be the myriad of Latin Americans in LA and the numerous Chinese/South Asians in the Bay Area to which people just shrug and say "It is what it is."
That's what I heard from my Asian friends in Queens. There's a lot of passive aggressive hostility out in California against Asians that isn't nearly as present in the East Coast.
-A lot of it coming from Whites constantly emasculating Asian males
-A lot of it coming from Hispanic gangbangers threatening them all the time, even in "Asian friendly" cities such as San Francisco and San Jose where MS-13 and the Nortenos harass innocent Asian business owners.
There is a reason why there are plenty of lower class Asians forming gangs in a lot of the more Asian populated areas, in an extent you don't see Asians in NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, or DC despite having relatively large Asian populations of their own.
That's what I heard from my Asian friends in Queens. There's a lot of passive aggressive hostility out in California against Asians that isn't nearly as present in the East Coast.
-A lot of it coming from Whites constantly emasculating Asian males
-A lot of it coming from Hispanic gangbangers threatening them all the time, even in "Asian friendly" cities such as San Francisco and San Jose where MS-13 and the Nortenos harass innocent Asian business owners.
There is a reason why there are plenty of lower class Asians forming gangs in a lot of the more Asian populated areas, in an extent you don't see Asians in NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, or DC despite having relatively large Asian populations of their own.
Unless you want to live being a minority under the guidance of White, Hispanic, and Asian racists, then the West Coast is DEFINITELY not the place to be.
Notice how very little to no Black community leaders come out of the West Coast. Like it or not, the West is becoming increasingly hostile to our kind, and we must stick together. There aren't very many middle class or upper class communities out West that have a huge chunk of Black people. Sure, there are your Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills type places, but the vast majority of Black people out West LIVE in lower middle class areas or straight up impoverished, high crime ghettos that are increasingly being invaded by other minorities or being gentrified by the the Whites. Not saying that it's not happening to NYC, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, or other cities in the Northeast, but at least the communities are large enough in all those areas to still be self-sustaining.
In addition, there is a presence of foreign born Blacks from the Caribbean and Africa that is not present out West. Think of it this way, our country has always been at least 10% Black, if not more. The city of LONDON has more Black people than the whole of Los Angeles metro. That says a WHOLE lot on how desirable the West is for Blacks.
Better than selling out and thinking that being something that I'm not will get me ahead in life. At least out here, as a Black man, I can stall tall and proud and not have some foreigners from China, India, or Mexico tell me where I can and can't live. That is the ultimate insult to our people, who've been here for over 300 years, and toiled under an unfair system.
Because the combined Black population of ALL those metro areas is less than 500,000. You can find more Blacks in Brooklyn itself than in those areas. In addition, typical Western pattern, notice how everywhere that all the Blacks live tends to be on the poorer more ghetto side?
There really is no Black Middle Class out West. At least in the Northeast and the South, and hell, even in the Midwest, you can find areas that are predominantly Black but safe and middle class.
Out West, you'd have to force yourself to be a minority and have everyone else wonder why you're living in their neighborhood if you're Black.
I think our people deserve better.
There are quite a few middle class black folks in the East Bay as well as the LA area.
So you're denying the proof that racism against Asians exists on the West Coast, despite the fact that the Chinese Exclusion Act and nearly ALL of the anti-Asian legislation in the United States came from California?
Are you also denying that there are Asian gangs on the West Coast?
There are quite a few middle class black folks in the East Bay as well as the LA area.
Compare that to most metro areas east of the Rockies. There's a huge difference. We're talking about towns that are more than 50% Black that no one of any other race is scared of walking through.
It seems that all the towns that are more than 10% Black out West are all dumps, with very few exceptions
When you move to the West Coast you stop being East Coast
I disagree, if you grow up in say Philly and move to San Francisco when you are say 25, you still a Phillidelphian, despite being far away, you don"t just lose your roots.
So you're denying the proof that racism against Asians exists on the West Coast,
It exists everywhere, but to a much lesser degree out here than elsewhere, up to and including your sacred New York area. I have known many Asian-Americans from that area who moved out to CA or WA and have no desire to go back.
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despite the fact that the Chinese Exclusion Act and nearly ALL of the anti-Asian legislation in the United States came from California?
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Are you also denying that there are Asian gangs on the West Coast?
Would you knock it off this asinine "admit or deny" thing? NO ONE IS DENYING IT NOR HAVE THEY EVER DENIED IT. Come off it, you're proving nothing except that we have more Asians across all economic spectrums here
Compare that to most metro areas east of the Rockies. There's a huge difference. We're talking about towns that are more than 50% Black that no one of any other race is scared of walking through.
It seems that all the towns that are more than 10% Black out West are all dumps, with very few exceptions
Bull pucky through and through. I can't believe this thread hasn't been locked yet All this thread really is at this point is a sounding board for how much you hate California.
its like cali and the midwest who love cali don't see the racism over there
No one is denying that racism exists in CA. It does. It exists everywhere.
But, it isn't anywhere near as bad as some of the goons here are making it out to be... it simply isn't.
I saw way more examples of open, overt, and institutionalized racism when I lived in the Northeast than I ever have here.
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