For more than 100 years, South Los Angeles has been home to a largely Black and brown population, rooted in a history of redlining and segregation that kept nonwhite residents below Washington Boulevard. Los Angeles is “terribly bifurcated by race,” says entrepreneur Prophet Walker, a native of South L.A. “And that’s all a remnant of redlining.”says, “It’s gotten very white.”
With a 2017 city report finding a 25.4 percent white population, compared to 27.9 percent Black , she’s right. The area is also changing in other, complicated ways. While housing sales and development boom, led by the construction of SoFi Stadium in nearby Inglewood, a number of grocery stores have closed during the pandemic, creating food deserts for the growing population. A $2.
if you want to understand how truly ridiculous this article is just substitute any other two races everywhere it says 'bIack' or 'white'. thanks for the chuckle 😅
These days though, the area looks a little different. As native Tiffany Haddish says, “It’s gotten very white.”
lol
Those people always bring artificially high price indexes as soon as they show up in the neighborhood. 😖 Disgusting!
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Soon as black people get money they move to white neighborhoods. do you think the likes of Lebron & Kaepernick are surrounded by the black folk they pretend to care about so much? Hell no. If they did they wouldnt be encouraging them to riot & loot during BLM!
It's really annoying.
Am I missing the 'news' part?
RT : For more than 100 years, South Los Angeles has been home to a largely Black and brown population, rooted in a history of redlining and segregation that kept nonwhite residents below Washington Boulevard.