When People Say "There's No Black People In LA"...

[CashmereThoughts]

Those '22 estimates actually say LA's black population has grown since '20 to 8.6%, an increase of over 5000 black people from '20. So if this is to be believed Black LA is growing again...

I sincerely hope so.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Sometimes, the way people lament what Black LA has become... is like y'all want redlining and block busting to come back.

Outside of something sparking a third great Migration to bring blacks out west, i don't see any type of drastic upticks happening.

 

[PHamm]

Black people from LBC, The Valley >>>

Leimert Park is what I envision a ideal black neighborhood to be.

Shout out to Dom Kennedy #LeimertParkLegend

 

[How Sway?]

Only nikkas that ain't from here sit here and say dumb shyt like "Long Beach and Santa Monica aren't Los Angeles"

Tell Snoop he ain't from LA, and then watch what he say


Nikka, if you from Anaheim, you from LA. That's why their baseball team is called the LOS ANGELES Angels:

If you not from here, you don't understand that we all consider the Greater Los Angeles Area to be LA. Yeah, we all got our hoods and what not, and we definitely set trip, but ain't no nikka from Inglewood (that would be ME) saying nikkas from Downey or Signal Hill ain't from LA.


That's out of towner talk, and you out yourself as such when you say this.

This is definitely more of an East coast/midwest thing. Where people act like once you cross the city boundaries into the burbs you're automatically in a different country.

 

[ill]

Only nikkas that ain't from here sit here and say dumb shyt like "Long Beach and Santa Monica aren't Los Angeles"

Tell Snoop he ain't from LA, and then watch what he say


Nikka, if you from Anaheim, you from LA. That's why their baseball team is called the LOS ANGELES Angels:

If you not from here, you don't understand that we all consider the Greater Los Angeles Area to be LA. Yeah, we all got our hoods and what not, and we definitely set trip, but ain't no nikka from Inglewood (that would be ME) saying nikkas from Downey or Signal Hill ain't from LA.


That's out of towner talk, and you out yourself as such when you say this.

This shyt blew my mind when I first visited LA. You guys count anything in LA county as LA. As an east coaster I thought LA was just downtown and the immediate surrounding areas.

 

[Premeditated]

My brother, The Bay has fewer black people than LA by both percentage and raw population, less black cultural impact and significance, and yet you're in here saying it's the last West Coast holdout for black people...

Even if i didnt know you werent from California, that comment told it, because Northern Californians know Sacramento has eaten away at the attractiveness of The Bay and black culture is THRIVING in Sacramento relative to the history of the city; anyone choosing The Bay over Sac today are doing so for nostalgia's sake...

And Southern Californians have seen us flock to the IE and the High Desert...

And LA has always been more popping for us than The Bay, and still is to this day...

Yet you think The Bay is the last holdout for Black Californians...

It's clear the majority of posters here are simply ignorant (not as in dumb, but as uninformed) to what's happening to black people and our communities in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, St Louis, Cleveland, Oakland, Memphis, Detroit, Miami, New Orleans, and a number of other cities, because you nikkas stay talking as if what happened to LA's black decline is specific to LA...

All of these cities I just named have some serious, serious issues with attracting new black transplants, and retaining their native-born black citizens, for a variety of social and political and economic reasons...

But you nikkas think this is a Los Angeles problem. Black Angelenos who are still there are in better shape than the black citizenry today in most of those cities, who are experiencing black folk being fatigued of those cities today the way we were of LA in the previous generation...

It definitely isn't true that there's no opportunity for us in LA, but I want to be clear. I don't think LA in its current state is one of the best cities for us, nor do I think California is as a state...

This thread is about people saying there's no black community in LA, which is false. It's not about the best cities for black folk...

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Bruh cats on here know my story, I had a tumultuous upbringing. I didn't grow up in LA the way the LA posters on here did, so I'm not "from" LA the same way they are...

But I do have roots there, did go to school there, and had I never left or at least went to junior high or high school there it would be different. I have family in several different parts of LA but as far as my own roots in LA are concerned, I'm "from" Expo and Normandie, myself and @ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested are from the same general neighborhood (he's a born and bred Angeleno though, there is a difference from me only living there a few years)...

black bay area people are moving to Sac because it cheaper, nothing more to it really. I can't wait to go back. it's too slow pace out here for me.
Sac does not come close to the the Bay Area in entertainment, vibrancy, urbanism, black cultural impact. Black people come out here because they can't handle the high cost of living in the Bay. imma be back in Emeryville in December after I get my license

I'll give you LA area, but you are assanine with this Sacramento>Bay Area agenda. the only flaw with the Bay Area is the hoods are too far apart and all affluent people love to move to white/mix neighborhoods so we've never had a Baldwin Hills.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Who the hell says this?

I was just about to say @BrothaZay

But he beat me to the punch

 

[Insensitive]

Brehs tryna shyt talk The LAnd
I'm sorry y'all not from here.

 

[King Sun]

Brehs tryna shyt talk The LAnd
I'm sorry y'all not from here.

If dudes can afford and even myself I would move back in the spit second. Not trying to move back only to move to the Valley.

 

[murksiderock]

Gotta bump, just to debunk this bullshyt again I wish I knew how to pin shyt on here...

I'm currently in Chesterfield Square (near Slauson/Western), been a couple places today. Mf's who say they don't see black people in Los Angeles, don't be in Black Los Angeles, period...

GOAT city in America period is Los Angeles, only way it could get better is by cleaning up COL and black folk keeping our homes and businesses here. Easily take a mf to Black LA and you see so many of us you think you in a black city...

 

[murksiderock]

@ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested went thru the old hood today, old house I lived in on Rolland Curtis got Hispanics there and they've fukked it up they got MS and 20s hit ups in the old neighborhood, I don't remember either being that far south of Jefferson...

I'm gonna stay keeping it hot on all these nikkas who swear ain't no black people in LA. And the nikkas who say ain't no bad sisters here, shhheeeeeiiittttt. shyt just let's me know the speaker doesn't know what he talking about...

 

[Ol’Otis]

@murksiderock theres black people in LA
There’s just no more blocks and communities

We’re not a unit anymore and haven’t been since the early 90s
No block parties
No getting to know your neighbors
Just sign o’ the times I suppose

 

[ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested]

@ImmaGetJoeClarkArrested went thru the old hood today, old house I lived in on Rolland Curtis got Hispanics there and they've fukked it up they got MS and 20s hit ups in the old neighborhood, I don't remember either being that far south of Jefferson...

I'm gonna stay keeping it hot on all these nikkas who swear ain't no black people in LA. And the nikkas who say ain't no bad sisters here, shhheeeeeiiittttt. shyt just let's me know the speaker doesn't know what he talking about...

I grew up in the Harlems right by Denker Park went to Foshay from 6th-12th

 

[3rdWorld]

LA is less than 9% black according to the latest census.

Why arent they concentrating themselves into an are they can control and manage..keeping bangers, messicans and cacs out.

 

[murksiderock]

I grew up in the Harlems right by Denker Park went to Foshay from 6th-12th

I went to Weemes, I left in '99 right before Jr High. Rolland Curtis and Normandie...