As a black man, will I be safe in LA? (middle-class, renters)

[Jonah K]

Originally Posted by Amyluv77

I live in Beverly Hills and of course the only thing that matters is $$$$. People could care less if you are black, white, brown, red or yellow.

Unfortunately, you haven't heard of "shopping while Black." Even the money that Oprah Winfrey, Robert Johnson, and Leslie Lewis possess doesn't necessarily shield them from discrimination while shopping in Beverly Hills.

Originally Posted by Amyluv77

And the race vs' race thing is totally pathetic. Like any of us had a choice how we'd look, once we were born. Sometimes humans are truly the devil in disguise. What a shame!

It's 2007! Agree that we're the same and live life joyfully.

Amy

Sadly in Southern California (and many other places), "appearances" count and if one doesn't possess the "right appearance" in a given situation, they will oftentimes receive the "short end of the stick."

Cheers,

Jonah K

[pirate_lafitte]

I think southern CA(at least LA County) feels very overrated now. I never imagined(until I was at least 15 or 16 years old) that LA had such problems. I always envisioned LA as a place on the beach with palm trees, nice Mediterranean climate, and free or racism. Now I know(in my short 21 years) that LA is nothing close to that. I never imagined, however, the types of murders occurring in LA today and from what I have heard from these posts, I am starting to believe that Orange County and San Diego County are the only places in southern CA that have maintained some type of calm.

[Jonah K]

Originally Posted by mr_evergreen

I think southern CA(at least LA County) feels very overrated now. I never imagined(until I was at least 15 or 16 years old) that LA had such problems. I always envisioned LA as a place on the beach with palm trees, nice Mediterranean climate, and free or racism. Now I know(in my short 21 years) that LA is nothing close to that. I never imagined, however, the types of murders occurring in LA today and from what I have heard from these posts, I am starting to believe that Orange County and San Diego County are the only places in southern CA that have maintained some type of calm.

Hopefully, I won't spoil your impressions of Orange County by mentioning the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove or those of San Diego County by mentioning Chula Vista, Santee, Imperial Beach, San Ysidro, and Calexico.

[Sal Monella]

The bigger question is; as a black man, will you be safe in the USA?.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by Sal Monella

The bigger question is; as a black man, will you be safe in the USA?.

I live in GA and there are some places in GA I would never live(Forsyth County for instance.). As for safety in the USA, hopefully as a black man I will be safe wherever I choose to live. I am looking for places to live outside of the Southeast for when I graduate college. GA is not very fun and after some of my experiences, a change in geography would sound bad.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by Jonah K

Hopefully, I won't spoil your impressions of Orange County by mentioning the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove or those of San Diego County by mentioning Chula Vista, Santee, Imperial Beach, San Ysidro, and Calexico.

What are those places like. All I know is that Orange County is very conservative and San Diego(the city of) isn't too bad(expensive, but not that bad, cleaner at least),although I am questioning Southern CA.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by mr_evergreen

What are those places like. All I know is that Orange County is very conservative and San Diego(the city of) isn't too bad(expensive, but not that bad, cleaner at least),although I am questioning Southern CA.

There's two Orange Counties: The one you see on TV (rich, white, republican) and the one in real life. The TV one most resembles the coastal area and south county but TV still exaggerates it to a large degree. North OC (including Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Anaheim) is much older, more run down and a whole lot less white. Throw a rock in Santa Ana and your odds of hitting an illegal alien is pretty good. Santa Ana actually used to have a pretty big black community but they all left for greener pastures as Santa Ana turned more into Tijuana. All that's left of that is one BBQ place surrounded by decaying houses with Mexicans staring you down from the front porches when all you want is some food.

[goldminer]

Originally Posted by BornDC

Okay, I know this is probably a tough question to answer, but I really feel the need to ask. My job wants to transfer me to Los Angeles, so I started doing research on the area. Well, I had no idea that there was all this Black vs. Latino violence going on in LA. It's really starting to upset me, particularly the stories about innocent people being targeted just because of their race. There seems to be a lot of anti-black feelings among Latinos and it seems like blacks could be a target anywhere. This sounds more like 19th-century Mississippi than 21st-century, "liberal" southern california. Here's one of the stories I found in the LA times:
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So please give me an honest answer. As a black man, will I be safe living in LA or is there just not much of a future for African American in southern california? Thank you so much for your help. I'm really worried about this.

I lived as a white girl in Koreatown it's safe I think just stay out of gang places/hoods and you will be as safe as any yellow,white or red person.

[Candid Canuck]

as a black man your not safe anywhere......

[Trajjic]

In my opinion as a black man I feel Los Angeles is a lost cause for us blacks. Like many friends of mine who have moved south mainly to the ATL things are looking up for us there. You can go to Buckhead which is the rich spot and find a gang of blacks living there in Los Angeles go to beverly hills you will have a hard time finding blacks there. Or the valley in the rich parts like Malibu you won't many blacks there and if you go there to visit the police will pull you over. I saw a poll on a website I think it's called topix or something where somebody had a poll called black people better with them or without them in Los Angeles the people on there voted majority better without us. That made me think from the jobs I worked and how I was treated they don't want us here really in the ATL I can be myself black culture is the popular culture there. Sure the weather is great in Hell A but the people and their racist mentality superficial mentality make this city a joke now.