My concerns center on criminalization (did gang injunctions made Expo Line possible?) and gentrification (whites moving black/latinos out).
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What I hadn't considered (but should have) is that racist white people are scared black/latino people can now take the train to the beach.
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Straight up when
@alexandracheney says she fears "crime" coming to Santa Monica, I read "Why are black people allowed at the beach now?" -
Keep in mind that, like everything else in LA, Santa Monica beaches were segregated. Black people were KILLED for going to the wrong beach.
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To this day, the very presence of a black person in Santa Monica can equal horrific, shameful consequences: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/18/my-white-neighbor-thought-i-was-breaking-into-my-own-apartment-nineteen-cops-showed-up/ …
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But
@ThrillistLA also needs to be held accountable for pubbing@alexandracheney's racist garbage. They pulled the article but stayed silent. -
LA is a people of color af city. Yet
@ThrillistLA stays only publishing articles from whites. It's shameful. -
I love LA. I know its history. I know its present reality. When I don't know, I ask. And I'm sick and tired of the way it's represented.
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"Double check that door lock" is what she published. Nah. Double check YOURSELF before you write about my city again,
@alexandracheney.
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i outright overheard SM locals say loudly "all these city people make a mess" on Sat. scary; turns to hateful 911s so quickly.
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