What's with this "Latinos have no power in Watts so let's blame black people!" narrative in the LA Times and LA Weekly?
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So, can we start there? Can we consider the specific nature of black displacement by latinos in South Central?
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I know it's a difficult conversation. I know our own latino families and our own selves are difficult to critique. I get that.
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I also get that this isn't gentrification: that what's happened and is happening in South Central is displacement, not gentrification.
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But this is South Central. It was black because housing covenants bound it that way. And black people made it what it is.
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If you talk to black folks who've been forced to migrate out of South Central, they don't much care if it's displacement or gentrification.
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So if we're gonna talk about disempowerment in South Central, let's talk about how latinos have disempowered black people, ok?
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@PalmTreesnGz CC last few tweets for everything we always talk about....
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@aurabogado the IE isn't as terrible as some people think it is, despite the crappy traffic from commuting and the occ. 100 degree summers -
Trust: black people made South Central theirs. And anywhere that is not South Central is not South Central.
@XdaveXcoreX
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