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

[Ol’Otis]

By the end of the 1980s, South Los Angeles had an increasing number of Hispanics and Latinos, mostly in the northeastern section of the region.

According to scholars, "Between 1970 and 1990 the South LA area went from 80% black and 9% Latino to 50.3% black and 44% Latino."This massive and rapid residential demographic change occurred as resources in the area were shrinking due to global economic restructuring described above and due to the federal government's decrease in funding of urban anti-poverty and jobs programs, and other vital social services like healthcare. The socio-economic context described here increased the perception and the reality of competition amongst Asians, blacks, and Latinos in South LA. The results from the 2000 census which show continuing demographic change coupled with recent economic trends indicating a deterioration of conditions in South LA suggest that such competition will not soon ease.

In the 2010 census, the area of South Los Angeles had a population of about 768,456. 64.0% of the residents were Hispanic or Latino, nearly 31.4% were African American.

 

[DaNatural]

Black folks dont move like immigrants, even though we are treated as such. We want to move like white folks in Amerikkka, Im not talking about wanting to be like white folks.
The only way LA couldve stayed black is if we moved like immigrants, made those cities a haven for black folk, including owning businesses.
Y'all heard the cries in the 80s/90s, Arabs owning this, Koreans owning that.
We just lived there, more like rented the space.
We only came out West for opportunity, the East side of Compton didnt start turning black until the 70s. West side started to turn Black and it slowly crept past Alameda to the East side.
My peeps is from the South, came out West via McDonnell Douglas and the Navy, we only got like 3 generations in Kali.
I know older cats who graduated from Centennial/Dominguez (I think Compton High was the first black high school and that started out white-mascot is literally a Tarbabe) in the late 60s/70s, yearbook is all white.
We know what it was before the white cats, mexicans.
Seems like all the original owners are getting their stuff back.
Maybe it aint bad at all, especially if a lot of black folk move south and begin to develop communities again where we OWN and live, that never happened in LA.

 

[Ol’Otis]

According to the 2010 Census, the racial composition of Las Vegas was as follows:

• White: 62.1% (Non-Hispanic Whites: 47.9%; Hispanic Whites: 14.2%)
• Black or African American: 11.1%
• Asian: 6.1% (3.3% Filipino, 0.7% Chinese, 0.5% Korean, 0.4% Japanese, 0.4% Indian, 0.2% Vietnamese, 0.2% Thai)
• Two or more races: 4.9%
• Native American: 0.7%
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.6%

 

[jwonder]

I'm guessing they won't be doing that retarded dance, throwing up dumb gang signs and shooting at the developers who come to their "hood". It's their block right?

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

fukk that. I'll learn another language professionally, just not on the PhD level they demand people to. Thats outrageous and unrealistic for most people, period. The least They can do is learn basic English.

DO INDIANS SPEAK ENGLISH ON A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL OR THE PHD LEVEL? DO THEY NOT DOMINATE THE CALL CENTER CUSTOMER SERVICE ARENA? DO WE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR ACCENTS? YEP. DO THEY LET THEIR ACCENTS AND OUR COMPLAINTS STOP THEM FROM ANSWERING THE PHONES? NOPE. GOTTA DROP THAT DEFEATED ATTITUDE.

 

[murksiderock]

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.

The older I get and the more I travel, the more I realize the diversity in Sacramento is an American rarity...

I just mapped all of the historically black neighborhoods in San Francisco:

Bayview/Hunter's Point: 25.8% black
Fillmore: 19.8% black
Lakeview: 15% black
South Portero Hill: 11.3% black
Hayes Valley/Lower Haight: 6.8% black

*all based on 2017 Census estimates

Black SF still appears to be segregated to these neighborhoods. It's crazy that a neighborhood that is only 7% black is considered high rate of black people in SF...

SF is a great city with a ton of history, every time I hear of what happening to Black SF its saddening!

 

[Wild self]

Keep voting instead of building Black Economic Power, and watch ya'll get pushed out of ya'll own communities


But ya'll nikkas don't listen

Its not "either or"

Both economic power and voting at the same time works only. And nothing less than the both of them.

Whats good is economic power only if they don't control the politicians in the black community? If anything, Cali's problem is OVERPOPULATON. Let the illegal immigrants live 10 people in a 2 bedroom apartment and lower the standard of living. They should have had population limits in these places instead of people thinking that land is infinite and living in conditions. The problem always been OVERPOPULATION and rampant gentrification making these white hipsters as well living 3 people per room.

 

[Wild self]

DO INDIANS SPEAK ENGLISH ON A PROFESSIONAL LEVEL OR THE PHD LEVEL? DO THEY NOT DOMINATE THE CALL CENTER CUSTOMER SERVICE ARENA? DO WE COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR ACCENTS? YEP. DO THEY LET THEIR ACCENTS AND OUR COMPLAINTS STOP THEM FROM ANSWERING THE PHONES? NOPE. GOTTA DROP THAT DEFEATED ATTITUDE.

Nah, all I'm saying is that whatever level of Spanish people can learn, at least learn the basics. Expecting people to be PhD level experts for a minimum wage jobs is a bad tradeoff and a disrespect of skill.

People speak broken English all the time, and I'm because they actually made an effort learning the basics. I'm not even mad at that. I'm just pissed off at the people that want the most outta non native speakers and get the least amount of respect/return out of it.

 

[Black Hans]

Great video. Brotha was speaking the real. Not trying to starting any left-wing/right-wing rhetoric but is it a coincidence that these "liberal cities" are the main ones pricing impoverished black people out of their cities? I mean, NYC, the Bay, LA, Chicago, etc.

 

[Wild self]

Great video. Brotha was speaking the real. Not trying to starting any left-wing/right-wing rhetoric but is it a coincidence that these "liberal cities" are the main ones pricing impoverished black people out of their cities? I mean, NYC, the Bay, LA, Chicago, etc.

Is overpopulation and the greedy billionaires hyperinflating the cost of living in the age of globalization. America's population tripled in the last 50 years and basic resources are harder to come by. Its now spreading to cities in red states like Charolette, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami and so on.

 

[Red Shield]

All those hoods these gangs killed for and repped over only for it to be gentrified by Cacs and Mexicans years later.

 

[Red Shield]

It's getting like that here in the south too..

I seen a McDonald's that was in a rural area populated mostly by working class black people and redneck whites several years back

Is now all mexican......

With a Mexican grocery store that opened next door

I also noticed I don't hardly see black housekeepers anymore..

It's Hispanic in that field as well

Whole demographics changing

30-40 million illegals is probably a wild conservative estimate at this point

 

[Professor Emeritus]

30-40 million illegals is probably a wild conservative estimate at this point

There are barely even 40 million Latinos in the whole country.

All the serious estimates are around 11-12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The groups that want to wildly inflate the number try to say 20 million. NO ONE outside of internet trolls is saying 40 million, much less "40 million is wild conservative."

You wanna be claiming that 1 out of every 8 people on the streets is an undocumented immigrant.

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

All those hoods these gangs killed for and repped over only for it to be gentrified by Cacs and Mexicans years later.

The brown man was here long before the white man so I have no issue with them going wherever they please as it is their land

I do have an issue with cacs though, they spent years avoiding black and brown people only to try to move to our neighborhoods and send black and latinx people to the desert

 

[Red Shield]

There are barely even 40 million Latinos in the whole country.

All the serious estimates are around 11-12 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The groups that want to wildly inflate the number try to say 20 million. NO ONE outside of internet trolls is saying 40 million, much less "40 million is wild conservative."

You wanna be claiming that 1 out of every 8 people on the streets is an undocumented immigrant.

Lookin at how things have changed in just pittsburgh over the last 10 yrs...


I just don't know anymore man....but there has to be more than 12 mill.