Bi-racial President Obama just shytted on us in LA. WOW

[Tommy Knocks]

good you did not
you've got me there
but here is why I actually started this
it is because you said this (and here I will quote you)

So given that according to you, a gentrified can have up to 30+% minorities, how can putting money in there be "not beneficial to minorities AT ALL."?
so...

Gentrification doesn't happen overnight, it takes about 10 years, like white flight. Are you telling me you think this proposal is to keep minorities in these newly gentrified areas?

Are you telling me the more condos currently being built which most african americans will not be able to afford, will manage to keep them in these neighborhoods?

 

[rapbeats]

can't believe i'm saying this but i actually agree with twism.

this is old news folks. yall late.

we went over this in january.

READ before you comment

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/10/local/la-me-ln-promise-zone-poor-20140110

In Los Angeles, the area designated a "Promise Zone" covers a portion of the city, stretching through Pico-Union, Westlake, Koreatown, East Hollywood and Hollywood.

That distinction has raised questions about what will happen to the areas where money would be concentrated and to the rest of Los Angeles that won't be a beneficiary. (There is no new funding coming from the federal government. Instead, the program is intended to help cities cut through red tape to win existing grants from a variety of federal departments and then focus them in needy areas. At most, L.A. could get $500 million over 10 years.)

Chris Tilly, professor of urban planning at UCLA, said the extra money in the L.A. neighborhoods could definitely help people in poverty. However, he said that the growth of commercial centers could attract tourists and make prices rise, thereby displacing the people who live there now.

"It may end up hurting the poor," he said.

from another article the same thing but a bit more indepth

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/10/local/la-me-ln-promise-zone-poor-20140110

Chris Tilly, professor of urban planning at UCLA, said the extra money in the L.A. neighborhoods could definitely help people in poverty. However, he said that the growth of commercial centers could attract tourists and make prices rise, thereby displacing the people who live there now.

"It may end up hurting the poor," he said.

Manuel Pastor, director of the Program for Environment and Regional Equity at USC, said that the Los Angeles "Promise Zone" is much more likely to gentrify than the other two urban locations chosen, east San Antonio and west Philadelphia. Already, prices are rising in Los Angeles as more and more young people want to live within the city.

For that reason, Pastor said that though some city leaders thought the exclusion of South L.A. was misguided, the White House made a smart choice by designating the L.A. neighborhoods that they did. The risk of gentrification and the high immigrant population in the city's "Promise Zone" will allow the federal government to discover how this experiment in poverty-reduction works in various settings.

"It's an investment that's not being made in the four other areas and by those grounds, it's a pretty solid investment," Pastor said.

Like Tilly, Pastor said that the most important piece will be looking at whether these funds really help low-income people who live in these areas. A "Promise Zone" had to have an average poverty rate of at least 20%. If this plan succeeds in L.A., it could be a model for what to do in places like the Mission District in San Francisco, he said.

According to the city's application, Los Angeles' funding would go toward increasing affordable housing, investing in public transit and bike lanes, and giving people more access to career training through a partnership with the Los Angeles Community College District.

Money also would go to the L.A. Unified School District and the nonprofit Youth Policy Institute to increase support services at schools.

The initiative relies on an interconnected approach, through which cities can work to improve public housing, safety and education all at once. It was inspired by the Harlem Children's Zone project in New York, which inundated an area with resources to improve every aspect of children's lives.

black people need to shut up whining. and stop playing checkers.

how many of your black kids go to a public LAUSD school? i would say a good 80% of them if not more. so are black folks going to benefit from this? YES. your black children are.

it also says money is going to LA community College district. black folks. that includes you who go to community college for training or taking classes to get to a 4 year univ.

it didnt say just the schools in those areas. it says the districts. that means all schools will end up getting something. So again lets stop playing checkers.

 

[tmonster]

Gentrification doesn't happen overnight, it takes about 10 years, like white flight. Are you telling me you think this proposal is to keep minorities in these newly gentrified area?

are you telling me that lesbians can't make good babysitters?

Are you telling me the more condos being built which most african americans will not be able to afford, will manage to remain in these neighborhoods?

Why can't AA's afford those condos? you know of their prices already?

 

[NERO]

This thread is ridiculous. South Central and parts westward are now Latino. They drove the black people out a while ago. My entire family is from there and I used to visit all the time seeing more and more chilipopsicles and corncob on a stick carts over the years and now compton should be renamed Los Comptones.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

are you telling me that lesbians can't make good babysitters?


Why can't AA's afford those condos? you know of their prices already?

then why is this happening?

In the western part of Bedford Stuyvesant, the white population shot up 634%, while blacks fell 14.6% - from 69% of the population to less than half. Northern Crown Heights lost more than 10,000 black residents, a 12% drop, while the white population grew 186%. Similar changes took place in Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-borough-city-article-1.1076068#ixzz2yJhmiVzA

and I'm not even talking about NY. This thread is about LA.

 

[ℒine ☈acks]

My fam still live in South Central, its still fukked up as ever. I've come to the conclusion that dronebama is hellbent on that bootstraps/get over it narrative.

the bootstrap myth is useful to plutocrats...it keeps the 99% from realizing the rules they play by dont work in a rigged game...

"Promise Zone. South-Central. Why?" she asked as they walked.

"It didn't qualify," Garcetti said.

"Come on, now," she said in disbelief.

"The White House said you had to win a previous grant," Garcetti responded. "And South L.A. didn't win one."


http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-...20140407,0,2833076.story?page=2#ixzz2yJgxpp3F

a game where some win by the fact they are a former chosen winner...

 

[tmonster]

then why is this happening?




and I'm not even talking about NY. This thread is about LA.

Because we don't buy land or politicians
matter of fact it is because we don't buy politicians

 

[Leasy]

fukk Obama. Been telling ya'll he doesn't give a fukk about blacks. Why are you nikkas still shocked?

fukk that nikka/cracka

Smh say fukk your people because they don't want change and I am black too but black people don't want better. Call me c00n or whatever but I am tired of this complaining Shyt.

Ive Come To Realize Most Poor People In This Country Dont Deserve shyt, Just Standing Around Waiting For Another Handout From This Country

And Thats Not To Single Out ANY RACE Incase Someone Is Feeling Over Sensitive

Agree. Driving 2014 but live in Housing Authority or projects.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

This thread is ridiculous. South Central and parts westward are now Latino. They drove the black people out a while ago. My entire family is from there and I used to visit all the time seeing more and more chilipopsicles and corncob on a stick carts over the years and now compton should be renamed Los Comptones.

latinos are minorities as well. did you read my OP?

Minorities in LA are done. He's not our president.

Their are NO predominately black areas on that list regardless. ZERO. South LA is close to 50/50 with hispanics and watts ain't on the list and that's probably the poorest of them all?

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Because we don't buy land or politicians
matter of fact it is because we don't buy politicians

that doesn't subtract from my point. he's throwing money into areas where 600% of black people have moved out in the last 5 yrs.

 

[tmonster]

that doesn't subtract from my point. he's throwing money into areas where 600% of black people have moved out in the last 5 yrs.

you win:zfg:

 

[PoPimp84]

"Poverty is poverty — and just because area A is more impoverished than area B doesn't mean area B isn't in great need," the official said.

Translation, you see them bootstraps, pull em up on your own nikkas

 

[Thoughts]

What y'all doing to change LA's situation? Violence has been going on for years ...enough is enough. Hood LA ain't even that bad anymore, in terms of aestics and people still fukkin' it up.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

the bootstrap myth is useful to plutocrats...it keeps the 99% from realizing the rules they play by dont work in a rigged game...



a game where some win by the fact they are a former chosen winner...

cold blooded.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

What y'all doing to change LA's situation? Violence has been going on for years ...enough is enough. Hood LA ain't even that bad anymore, in terms of aestics and people still fukkin' it up.

nikka black people in LA aren't even doing damage like that, it's the mexicans doing most of the killing. Like some people have stated many have since moved to the burbs, but those in watts really have it bad, I mean its the worst of the worst, and that grant should be going to them, not hollywood.

why do you people think hollywood needs ANY assistance if they've already had their straps fastened and walking.

we're giving financial help to upper middle class and that's A-OK? Bailing out private banks is too huh?