Big Stretch Talks about gentrification in LA. Mad about bloods kickin it with Crips.

[murksiderock]

Yea mos def I mean at this point Asians have even surpassed whites. It ain’t apples but you need more money to make more boss moves.

While we own the houses we have to be the buyers of these houses as well. Gentrification can’t be avoided so we gotta come at alll angles.

I do agree with that!

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Video is time stamped just click play

Breh makes it seem like Cali is a lost cause for Black people

Not a lost cause it’s just black folks yet again caught up in a sticky situation. LA is a global city so I would assume at least black folks in Cali have a window of opportunities to not let the city run them over.

Only thing I will say is that it’s messed up when they put bilingual on those job applications cause the truth is your average American isn’t bilingual and especially American born blacks so it makes the hiring process for Hispanics so much easier.

Miami has the same issue.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

LA lawst

Get gentrified out of your neighborhoods and communities by illegals brehs

Illegals do not gentrify communities



But then again idk if you’re being sarcastic.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

@Black Steph Curry im not from cali but researching the history of San Fran, the city seemed to always have a very low black population in general. I think the peak percentage was like 12%.

But they did have the Fillmore area which was their Harlem.

Correct me if I’m wrong Cali folks. Thanks!

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Can someone explain how blacks are priced outta L.A yet theres a large growing Mexican community made up of illegals

Group economics. Learn about it. That’s how immigrants are still able to live in expensive cities

 

[UberEatsDriver]

SO THEN SPEAK IT. THAT'S YOUR COMPETITION. ACT LIKE IT. IT'S TOO HARD SHOULD NOT BE IN YOUR VOCAB. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO CONFORM TO COMPETE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU START ON ON THE LOSING SIDE. PLAY THE GAME BREHS. IT AIN'T LIKE IT ISN'T TAUGHT IN SCHOOL. LEARN IT. PRACTICE IT. MASTER IT. WEAPONIZE IT. THAT'S THE GAME NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.

Sadly this is true. One of my
Jamaican friends who moved to Miami made the effort to learn Spanish and now she fits in well.

And besides learning a new language is an important thing that everyone no matter the race should invest time in.

 

[Just like bruddas]

Asians also have largely integrated themselves into White American culture, with the exception of a small percentage of impoverished Asians, so this isn't an apples to apples. Asians reap the benefits of basically whitewashing themselves over generations, and to start with they didn't come here with an equivalent level of restrictions and constraints that African descendants did, so they also reap the benefits of that...

I agree with the rest of your statement but we gotta keep proper context!

I remember working with this one super conservative Asian dude and boy let me tell you, this dude would watch fox news on his phone all day and wanna have debates with you. It was another Asian dude that worked there too, he was solid though.

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

@Black Steph Curry im not from cali but researching the history of San Fran, the city seemed to always have a very low black population in general. I think the peak percentage was like 12%.

But they did have the Fillmore area which was their Harlem.

Correct me if I’m wrong Cali folks. Thanks!

That is accurate, however SF has always been segregated so that 12% was highly concentrated in 5 neighborhoods (Fillmore, bayview, south Potrero Hill, Lakeview and Hayes Valley/Lower Haight). Lakeview at its peak was 80% black as were Bayview and Fillmore. South Potrero Hill (not just the projects) was half black and lower Haight was almost as black as Fillmore.

In other words, living in black SF was like living in a whole other city than the rest of it. The only sizeable concentrations of black SF natives outside of those 5 neighborhoods was for the most part in housing projects spread throughout the city and of course in the TL and SOMA.

 

[Wild self]

SO THEN SPEAK IT. THAT'S YOUR COMPETITION. ACT LIKE IT. IT'S TOO HARD SHOULD NOT BE IN YOUR VOCAB. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO CONFORM TO COMPETE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU START ON ON THE LOSING SIDE. PLAY THE GAME BREHS. IT AIN'T LIKE IT ISN'T TAUGHT IN SCHOOL. LEARN IT. PRACTICE IT. MASTER IT. WEAPONIZE IT. THAT'S THE GAME NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE.

I cant wait until the insta-translator comes out in the marketplace. That would eliminate so much trauma and years of pointless headache. Fluent Spanish would be the death of me.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I use to work for the city of New York and everything this dude is saying is true.

Black folks will march on the streets complaining all day but when you go to a local community board meeting in a black community it is literally crickets.



Go to a white area and the community board is practically a live event.

I also want to add that buying a home is only half of what the black community needs to do. He said something about people moving into the homes which means the people who can afford them.

Black folks in the future need to bust their ass in high paying fields like Asians so we can buy properties at ease when gentrification comes.

Asian folks for example are practically gentrification proof.

This culture we have of constantly running away or ignoring these issues when they arent in our radar needs to Change.

Real estate is not a game. There should be no reason why a black person has to move to a less progressive society to avoid housing cost.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I can't even fathom that shyt.

Out of all the cities in the LA area, wasn't Inglewood one of the main ones where the Black population was bigger or at least even with the Hispanics? I never thought Inglewood would see gentrification to this extent

Yup. But it makes sense the way city prices are going, when rents in the nice parts of town are going out of control those people begin looking for anywhere they can to take over and make big bucks.

yep
Inglewood
South Central
and Compton

mexicans started coming thru heavy during the late 80s/early 90s

Inglewood stayed Black well longer than those other two spots too. Compton was already majority latino by the 1990s, Inglewood didn't have latinos outnumber Black people until at least 10-15 years later.

Can someone explain how blacks are priced outta L.A yet theres a large growing Mexican community made up of illegals

Two different situations entirely. Lower-income Black people have been leaving L.A. for 30 years now to get away from gang violence. The illegals tend to move into the places that were already vacated by them.

Now, it's more the middle-income Black people who are getting priced out. They're not getting replaced by illegals, they're getting replaced by upper-middle income professionals and business people who are moving back into the city after having done the "long commutes into the suburbs" thing for too long.

I peeped the bilingual thing when i went to fatburger in torrance. It's damn near impossible for a young 16-21 year old black kid to work retail/fast food in LA
Too many customers who speak spanish only.

Torrance?

nm, the only Fatburger in Torrance is basically in Carson, actual Torrance don't have Spanish speakers like that.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

That is accurate, however SF has always been segregated so that 12% was highly concentrated in 5 neighborhoods (Fillmore, bayview, south Potrero Hill, Lakeview and Hayes Valley/Lower Haight). Lakeview at its peak was 80% black as were Bayview and Fillmore. South Potrero Hill (not just the projects) was half black and lower Haight was almost as black as Fillmore.

In other words, living in black SF was like living in a whole other city than the rest of it.

Makes sense.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

nikka is lost and confused. Talks pro black shyt then tells black men to hate other black men who are apart of another bullshyt street gang from around the corner.

Funny, his mentality is more pro Blood than pro Black.

at him being pissed at blood dudes dating Crip women,as if they aren't the same race and ethnicity lol. Sad part about it I actually knew cats like this in real life who took that gang shyt too serious SMH.

This shyt would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. 90% of gangbangers leave that life when they grow up, if you in your late 30s/40s and still gangbanging then either you're getting a big cut of someone's profits or you got some real arrested development issues.

Want to kill someone over which random block of the city they were born on brehs.

Speaking as somebody not from LA I would guess that’s because a lot more of the bigger blood hoods are in the jects than crips with some exceptions like grape street. 9/10 the jects are gonna be more cutthroat, just how it is.

Nah, most Bloods in LA ain't in the projects like that. Inglewood Family ain't in the projects, Crenshaw Mafia ain't in the projects, P-Stones ain't in the projects. A lot of these bloods are living in what damn near look like nice family homes from the outside.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

You're speaking truth there, even in Inglewood sometimes it's the leftover old white people who are the biggest participants in city hall meetings. There was this old white dude who used to volunteer at the food bank I helped out in, he was a city hall legend the way he was always taking them to task.

Bro I went to a community board in Far Rockaway Queens one time and we all ended up shooting hoops at the gym since only like 2 people showed up

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

I cant wait until the insta-translator comes out in the marketplace. That would eliminate so much trauma and years of pointless headache. Fluent Spanish would be the death of me.

YOU FAIL TO SEE THE POINT. A TRANSLATOR ISN'T GOING TO TRANSLATE CURRENT SLANG. IT WON'T TRANSLATE CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS.