Reality of LA's 'black neighborhoods' (Los Angeles, Burbank: move to, bars, areas)

[kywill98]

Hey thanks Nslander.

[pbergen]

Originally Posted by imaterry78259

San Antonio and Austin is becoming the new LA with so many LA people moving here.

who cares? this is the los angeles forum, and this topic has nothing to do with texas.

of course, you can boost the lone star state all you want in the texas forums, as i'm sure you'll find a more rapt audience for your agenda over there among your fellow texans. you can even knock LA (explicitly or implicitly) all you want in the texas forums if it makes you feel good about yourself.

but if you're going to come into the los angeles forum to post your anti-LA/pro-texas propaganda - and this is the umpteenth time you've done this - you can expect to get called out on your nonsense.

[ima30something]

Interesting to see this thread from 10 years ago pop up. I'm in one of these neighbors and am white. My neighbors are white. Granted, we are in a minority, but don't really think of it as a black neighborhood anymore.

[Angelino19]

Many African Americans still live in Compton, South Central, Watts, Southwest, and Athens Heights.

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by ima30something

Interesting to see this thread from 10 years ago pop up. I'm in one of these neighbors and am white. My neighbors are white. Granted, we are in a minority, but don't really think of it as a black neighborhood anymore.

Newsflash: "Black neoghborhoods" in LA have always had whites and ESPECIALLY Latinos...

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Newsflash: "Black neoghborhoods" in LA have always had whites and ESPECIALLY Latinos...

Go back to 1973 and those whites were a few senior citizens, the wives of black men, fire fighters, police and teachers in classrooms, by the way until 1979 LAUSD by plan sent their black teachers to South LA as much as possible. Large enough numbers of Latinos for anybody to even think about counting as an ethnic group needing representation did not occur until the 80s and exploded after the Simpson Mazolli Act amnesty

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by Taiko

Go back to 1973 and those whites were a few senior citizens, the wives of black men, fire fighters, police and teachers in classrooms, by the way until 1979 LAUSD by plan sent their black teachers to South LA as much as possible. Large enough numbers of Latinos for anybody to even think about counting as an ethnic group needing representation did not occur until the 80s and exploded after the Simpson Mazolli Act amnesty

Latinos have always been deep in South LA and areas like Lennox. Ask anyone who lived there at the time. That ethnic thing didn't happen until the 70s with the Nixon Administration and the 1970 Census. That was the first time Hispanics were added as a group nationwide. They were always very visible in Los Angeles. At the same time Crips and Bloods were forming, there were a boatload of Latino gangs in those same areas too. Yeah some spots were more heavily/majority Black but many weren't.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Newsflash: "Black neoghborhoods" in LA have always had whites and ESPECIALLY Latinos...

only in very small numbers before the 70s. So central L.A. when it turned from lilly white to black became all black rather quickly with few exceptions. Watts was black, as well as other cities and neighborhoods south of downtown. There were not even many Latinos. Baldwin Hills became the upper class neighborhood for successful blacks. Lennox, was not black or Latino in the 60s. I think some just do not remember or were not even born back then. It was east L.A. Lincoln Heights and that section of Los Angeles that had a lot of immigration, with Latinos being the majority before the 60s.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by nmnita

only in very small numbers before the 70s. So central L.A. when it turned from lilly white to black became all black rather quickly with few exceptions. Watts was black, as well as other cities and neighborhoods south of downtown. There were not even many Latinos. Baldwin Hills became the upper class neighborhood for successful blacks. Lennox, was not black or Latino in the 60s. I think some just do not remember or were not even born back then. It was east L.A. Lincoln Heights and that section of Los Angeles that had a lot of immigration, with Latinos being the majority before the 60s.

Yeah I think because there are huge Hispanic populations in those areas now people think it’s been like that forever .

[ima30something]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Newsflash: "Black neoghborhoods" in LA have always had whites and ESPECIALLY Latinos...

Agreed, but parts of South LA hasn't always been black.

In fact, the neighborhoods west of Van Ness used to be very white in the 30s and 40s. It wasn't until the 50s when whites started moving to the suburbs it turned black, and it turned black quickly.

Sadly, once blacks started moving into the South LA neighborhoods, home values would decrease and whites wanted to sell before values dropped even more. You can find good documentaries on YouTube about the history of South LA... it's fascinating.