The height of anti-Compton hysteria was, of course, before my time, when I was a small child in the '80s But even into the early 2000s the word "Compton" was enough to send supposedly tough teenage guys into terror of gang wars and drive-by shootings if they were white enough
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I once met a white guy who grew up in Compton and he said the looks he gets when he mentions that are wild. Telling people that Compton is 30% white just blows their mind.
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Billy Joel You May Be Right "I walked through Bed-Stuy alone"
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One of my favorite rebuttals to that racist myth is that Compton is the birthplace of Kevin Costner.
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