Bruh I already said I'd give NY the edge over LA in terms of places for black people. I don't think it's demonstrable though, because living on the East Coast, I've met hundreds of transplanted New Yorkers and plenty of them, including my youngest daughter's mother, have said they'd never go back to NY...
There's plenty of accounts of Black NYers stating why they left NY and why they won't return. Do I really need to link these accounts? Your conversation always seems to be on some tongue-in-cheek shyt on LA shyt like Black NYers aren't also fighting against racist non-black neighbors and racist, entrenched policies and codes...
That shyt is not unique to LA, is my central point. And no the family that got firebombed were not in any of the neighborhoods I listed, they were in a neighborhood that was like 90% Hispanic. These people wouldn't dare try that shyt in any neighborhood where Black folk are even 20% (because at that point that means we have representation on a gangbanging level too), let alone any of the majority black hoods and hoods where it's close to an even split among us and them....
The majority of tension between us and them is passive and doesn't spill beyond street conflicts. This has been said many times...
Lastly, that councilwoman is the one who got caught voicing her true feelings, rest assured in NY and every other major city there are elected officials who feel the exact same way...
You asked why would black people want to choose to live in LA over NY, I have you my reasons, you just don't like my reasons.I know how to move in LA, and we as a people mostly coexist fine with them, and anything I can do in NY I can do in LA, but I get better weather and family ties in LA, I get neither of those in NY. You don't have to like my reasons for preferring LA, bit I've been to NY. There's nothing you can say to convince ME to prefer NY over LA, and I like NY, the one place I would consider living there would be Queens over anywhere else...
I know plenty of New Yorkers as well whom left the city and has no intention of returning …. shyt …. I even a good amount of my family members will fit under that category , with that said I don’t know how relevance does it have to do with the conversation because I’m pretty much sure there’s Black people from LA that have left and feel the same way.
my tone is not tongue-in-cheek relating to the Mexican anti-blackness presence in LA. no disrespect It’s just seems you and others on here tend to downplay it.
and as far as the mother with her children’s apartment, being fire bomb, I pretty much sure the story behind it was that neighborhood was predominantly black and they was being pushed out by Mexicans, and the fire bombing was the so-called nail in the coffin to make sure no Black people would ever move into those houses or apartments
and finally, I have absolutely no problem with your reasonings on why you prefer LA over NYC, that’s your choice & your opinion and you have the right to it. The only thing that I said is you’re being completely, and I will say completely again disingenuous by trying to paint this narrative that you can do anything in LA as if you was in NYC
that is completely nonsense.
