Reality of LA's 'black neighborhoods' (Los Angeles: middle-class, high crime, live in)

[proteus]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

Of course, that $2 million house in Ladera Heights would probably be worth $3 million or so in Manhattan Beach. With real estate, it's all about location.

Right.... and same goes for Woodland Hills, Culver City, Torrance, Winnetka, Canoga Park - you'll get much more for your money in these cities than in Ladera Heights.

[proteus]

Originally Posted by desertdawgx

Who cares as long as they are not pullin white folk out of cars kicking their face in and rioting.

There is a lot of envy-based resentment and that always seems to come from 'below'. ;-) A 'good for them' would've been worth your comment. Enough hating.

[songcry]

its not black neighborhoods.. its poor neighborhoods.

[James T]

Originally Posted by abstrak_tokatl

"becoming to a neighborhood."

bad grammer?

No. BTW, you misspelled 'grammar'.

[calidude]

i live in inglewood with alot of blacks on my street probably more than hispanic in my eyes LA does have alot of black neighborhoods. ANd for the person that posted Watts is hispanic now ya right i was just there yesterday and saw tons of blacks walking arnd oh yea iforgot to mention im white and live in the hood

[abstrak_tokatl]

Originally Posted by James T

No. BTW, you misspelled 'grammar'.

i do that on purpose. For the grammar nazis (oops N wasn't capitalized!)

[abstrak_tokatl]

but seriously... where you talking old english style?

[the one]

no, it was middle english. anyhow its is about ecoomics. the less economically stable a place is the more people look for alternate ways to come up. some work at burger kings, others snatch and run, but you know what is great, i read the daily mirror blog on the times every so often and it highlights 1957 los angeles. even all white neighborhoods were crazy. people still killed eachother, raped, fought and stole. crime is not respectful of color. everybody does it. LA has a gang of mexicans, central americans, etc so of course they will be well represented in crime statistics. thats natural. who do you think is committing crime in other parts of the US? where no hispanics are? but if you live in 90210 or baldwin hills or what ever affluent hood, you wont have as much population density or crime. maybe some home invasion, but crime is not as frequent. rich people got money to stay away from desperate disadvantaged areas. its nothing new. its called the wrong side of the tracks. havent you ever seen outsiders? ajajajaja it happens yo.

[AdmiralNorton]

Baldwin Hills and Ladera Heights are nice neighborhoods. Guys who live there are all black, but their neighborhoods are nice. The word "black" has become over many years a synonym for "poor" and that's wrong. The "hispanic = trouble" trend is becoming more and more popular. That's bad.

And BTW if the car James T saw has golden rims, I'm sure the owner deosn't have to mug people on the streets to afford them. If he has to, he wouldn't be buying wheel rims. This is not GTA.

[abstrak_tokatl]

i don't think crime is about economics. Though i am certain that it can play a factor in the desperate. I don't see it as an underlying cause or reason. Certainly that rich gangster could have killed for those rims, or maybe he just stole them and put them on his ride. I think that it's false to say that it's economics or skin color.

I would lean towards mental issues. And my comment still stands that some crimes just aren't reported. So they don't show up in reports. Across the board. From Black, to mexicans, to hispanics to rich and poor. So the whole scale is jaded.

P.s. i've seen outsiders, but other then being a very funny movie, i ain't gonna base it in reality.