Oh my GAWD the New York Times published something about L.A. again and it is so awful it made me cringe. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/style/los-angeles-and-its-booming-creative-class-lures-new-yorkers.html …
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@AlexwilliamsNYC, who wrote the piece, is white. Everyone he writes about in L.A. is white. In a city where 30% of the people are white. -
Like. You have to willingly make 70% of the City of Los Angeles invisible in order to publish this garbage in the New York Times.
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They actually write about Leimert Park as if it's there for the taking by whites. Without mentioning it's a black. EIGHTY PERCENT BLACK.
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And of is just HAS to mention
@thelittleidiot, whose entire take on the drought is Don't Eat Meat You Savages! while swimming in his pool. -
It's not just irresponsible: making 70% of the people in the city you're writing about in the newspaper of record invisible is violent.
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@aurabogado ugh. I couldn't get past the part about "all the good stuff about Brooklyn was already in place in LA!" u mean gentrification? - 1 more reply
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