StuAzole said:
Surfdog said:
Do you think Compton, South Central, Watts and other notorious regions of LA were always black dominated communities? My wifes parents and grandparents lived in those communities back in the 20's thru 50's. They are/were (RIP most all now) as Jewish as you can get. Immigrant parents moved there from eastern Europe back in the early days of LA, late 1890's-early 1900's. Those communities were pretty damn sheet white back then. Not until the mid-late 50's did it change, like so many other much older cities in our nation. Post WWII kinda ushered that change most in towns with military bases or related manufacturing nearby.
Their homes and businesses were burnt down in the first riots in 1965, and never went back. Would you?
That's how "white flight" gets started.
Ya, they rebuilt. "Someone" made sure there was a liquor store on every corner of town.
My mom grew up in Inglewood. No, she'd never go back. But to suggest that white flight was a result of the riots is a joke. There was a good 20 years of white-imposed "unofficial" segregation in the Compton area before that - the riots were a result of decades of prior social policy failure in the area.
I'm not making a judgment on anyone who bailed for the suburbs. F*ck, I live in whitesville. It's naive to suggest, however, that today's "chosen segregation" is really chosen, at least by minorities.
I live in an area with assorted blacks, latinos, asians, east Indian and yes whites. Pretty much equal to their national percentage totals actually. We and they have no problems with others and we treat each other as equal color-blind humans. What MLK stood for and represented. Not some Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson version of it, that continues to pander to those too young to think the black struggles of the 50's and 60's never happened.
And as I hinted, post WWII was the seeds of the racial injustices that would eventually lead to the boiling pot that was ready to spill over. It was worse before WWII, but eventual integration in the military forced its recognition time was coming. True social justice was needed back then, and proved itself worthy. MLK showed the world it was time. It was eventually going to have to happen somewhere, and the changing urban areas were the unfortunate, but necessary battle grounds for it. Ancient and forgotten, if not untold history today. 50 years ago is eon's to today's history deprived youth.
Today, the ones claiming the most racial inequality, especially the supposed "compassionate" whites and politicians, are usually the elites that live in very, very white privilege areas, more often than not. They talk the talk, but rarely walk the walk.
They now teach "white privilege" in kindergarten on up, re-writing and bastardizing history in doing so. Now it''s "You "white" in the USA, you born a racist, and no getting around it". White privilege and PC are messing up our youth worse than any drug could ever do. Mind-fooking delusional hypocrisy at it's lib-progro finest.