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Residents of View Park have a thinly veiled code for the signs of change they see in their upscale neighborhood: "joggers" ... "dog walkers."
"It's like an alien sighting," says Karen Martin, who grew up in this hilltop community framed by La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard. "We never saw them before."
White people. With fluffy dogs. And fluorescent Spandex.
And for some longtime residents who cherish View Park as a symbol of African American success and a stronghold of black culture, that's unsettling.
Now they know how the white people felt when "they" started moving into once white communities such as Bed Stuy, Harlem, Newark, Roosevelt LI, and hundreds of other cities around the country. There goes the neighborhood. I love hypocrisy!
What I find amazing is change black for white and the inverse and loads of folks and the media would be in on the racist MFers.
Country has gone crazy.
Has occurred in my city even in the rundown neighborhoods where the new residents-Hispanic cleaned up and revitalized an abandoned park which is now safe instead of being a haven for drug sales.
Now they know how the white people felt when "they" started moving into once white communities such as Bed Stuy, Harlem, Newark, Roosevelt LI, and hundreds of other cities around the country. There goes the neighborhood. I love hypocrisy!
Interestingly, too, there's also elitism at play here. Notice how they rallied against a nearby low-income housing project--which would, I'm assuming, benefit a considerable number of blacks, too.
Uh, black people where possible, are the most likely group to live in diverse communities. Don't be so quick to breathe a sigh of relief in thinking, "Ah, they're racist too".
If you read the article beyond the headline, you'd understand that affluent white folks will raise the house value of homes, tempting black home owners to sell out. The black folks are there originally because the house prices dropped when black people started to move in and white folks left.
What that leads to is homes that black folks are less able to purchase as the house prices rocket and the remaining black residents are likely to be 'forced out', as has happened in too many other places in the US. 'Forced out' as in not being made to feel welcome in their neighbourhood, not, not feeling at home because people with a different skin color moved next door.
Lets get this crystal clear; black people don't move out because an area became diverse. Wanting something to be true, doesn't mean you have to twist a story you either didn't read or just don't understand.
Uh, black people where possible, are the most likely group to live in diverse communities. Don't be so quick to breathe a sigh of relief in thinking, "Ah, they're racist too".
If you read the article beyond the headline, you'd understand that affluent white folks will raise the house value of homes, tempting black home owners to sell out. The black folks are there originally because the house prices dropped when black people started to move in and white folks left.
What that leads to is homes that black folks are less able to purchase as the house prices rocket and the remaining black residents are likely to be 'forced out', as has happened in too many other places in the US. 'Forced out' as in not being made to feel welcome in their neighbourhood, not, not feeling at home because people with a different skin color moved next door.
Lets get this crystal clear; black people don't move out because an area became diverse. Wanting something to be true, doesn't mean you have to twist a story you either didn't read or just don't understand.
Seems like market forces to me. If the blacks caused whites to leave they shouldn't feel too bad when the whites "force" them to leave (with a nice check in hand).
Yeah, the Asians "forced out" the whites in places like Cupertino. Really, most white people don't mind living next to middle-class Asians, Hispanics, or blacks. Because Asians worked hard and have more money than white people do it's unfair and we need to protect the neighborhoods from going Asian. I like Cupertino but I can't afford $1.5 million. Too late to start coming up with code words like rice eaters and protecting the neighborhood in Cupertino though.
Now they know how the white people felt when "they" started moving into once white communities such as Bed Stuy, Harlem, Newark, Roosevelt LI, and hundreds of other cities around the country. There goes the neighborhood. I love hypocrisy!
Residents of View Park have a thinly veiled code for the signs of change they see in their upscale neighborhood: "joggers" ... "dog walkers."
"It's like an alien sighting," says Karen Martin, who grew up in this hilltop community framed by La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard. "We never saw them before."
White people. With fluffy dogs. And fluorescent Spandex.
And for some longtime residents who cherish View Park as a symbol of African American success and a stronghold of black culture, that's unsettling.
Funny how they skirt right over that it was white to begin with. Funny how it was okay for them but not whites. lol What's mine is mine but I want what's yours as well.
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