Is LA in danger of losing all of it's African American communites? (Los Angeles: for sale, house)

[notaproblem39]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

Not to butter up black folks, but I'm really impressed with black people, they seem like they really pulled themselves up that last 30 yrs and are doing a lot better... not all problems have gone away, but you can't say that for any race... but rock on....

maybe in la, not in chicago where i just came from. probably worse than ever.

[palisades310]

Palmdale..come back to meeeee...all black people are moving up to Palmdale and Lancaster.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by notaproblem39

maybe in la, not in chicago where i just came from. probably worse than ever.

not to mention Detroit, and St Louis, plus the some of the small, rural towns in states like AR and Mississippi for starters.

I would love to see all people, black, white or whatever with jobs, educations if they want and living in a safe neighborhood, but until young girls stop having babies out of wedlock and teens realize they can not make a decent honest living without a high school education, the inner city problems will continue. Yes, many are black.

[West of Encino]

Originally Posted by nmnita

not to mention Detroit, and St Louis, plus the some of the small, rural towns in states like AR and Mississippi for starters.

I would love to see all people, black, white or whatever with jobs, educations if they want and living in a safe neighborhood, but until young girls stop having babies out of wedlock and teens realize they can not make a decent honest living without a high school education, the inner city problems will continue. Yes, many are black.

And many mothers quite trying to keep the fathers from their kids' lives.

[Thaddeus_Hewitt]

Did anyone know that the 2nd president of Mexico was a black man?..Interesting fact. I think the west coast would appreciate blacks more if they were more in touch with their black heritage like the east coast Latinos. I have Latino family members and I'm black. I cannot even imagine us hating one another like they do on the West coast.

[afdinatl]

Originally Posted by nmnita

not to mention Detroit, and St Louis, plus the some of the small, rural towns in states like AR and Mississippi for starters.

I would love to see all people, black, white or whatever with jobs, educations if they want and living in a safe neighborhood, but until young girls stop having babies out of wedlock and teens realize they can not make a decent honest living without a high school education, the inner city problems will continue. Yes, many are black.

Many are also white. White teens are dying in record numbers from prescription pills and herion but the media doesn't like discussing this

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Thaddeus_Hewitt

I can't believe Latinos in the west coast don't get along with the blacks..Wow. I know in the East Coast it's a different story. From experience the Latinos and Blacks get along really well.Maybe it's more of a gang issue in LA. LA isn't as attractive as it use to be in my opinion.I say that because of the gangs and so on. I say the same for Chicago. No one really wants to reside somewhere where they have to fret for their child's safety or deal with much racism. Point of the matter is I love Latinos, Blacks,Whites,Asians all human races.

The Latinos out West are mainly Mexican and Central Americans, nations that have far fewer people of African descent. New York has a lot of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, many of whom are Black or mixed race. So that's the difference.

The New York latinos that are Mexican, Central, or South American aren't that close to Blacks either.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Thaddeus_Hewitt

Did anyone know that the 2nd president of Mexico was a black man?..Interesting fact. I think the west coast would appreciate blacks more if they were more in touch with their black heritage like the east coast Latinos. I have Latino family members and I'm black. I cannot even imagine us hating one another like they do on the West coast.

Why not? Blacks in Latin America were slaves just like Blacks in English North America. There's racism and persecution of Blacks in Latin countries just as you have it here in the US. So of course we don't all like each other.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Bonez765

reasons for decline of black population in LA;
-manufacturing jobs (blacks have heavily depended on manufacturing jobs) have left CA in general and off to the South and East Asia
-cheaper housing in other parts of the LA metro area or other parts of the country
-desire to be in safer areas (I know blacks here in Nor-Cal who are from LA who have moved here because it's safer out here)
-Latin Americans have taken over their communities and thus, feel out of place.


The same can be said here in Northern California. Black population in general has declined here heavily for the reasons that I have stated. Oakland has also seen its black population decline as well.

This can be summed up in one sentence. They couldn't afford it and were priced out!

[Kobe25]

No Los Angeles is still a top 10 African American city & California still has the 5th highest Black population in the u.s