But, like the rest of the California and the US, the beaches here were the sites of segregation and racial violence.
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People joke about how black folks in LA who live so close to the beach can't swim. Umm. Maybe because you might get killed for trying?
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Black folks in LA and other parts of California attempted, with different degrees of success, to establish their own beaches.
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You've probably heard of Santa Monica's Inkwell. There's a lot of misinformation about it, but it really was a Jim Crow-style beach.
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There was Pacific Beach Club, an extravagant black beach club that was supposed to open in 1926. It was burned down, probably by the KKK.
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White people were so mad black people might have access to a fancy beach club that they burned the entire thing down right before it opened.
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No one was ever arrested or charged for the crime. Because who was going to defend black beach-goers -- even rich ones? Not the state.
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For poc, going to the beach is a rich and complicated part of California's history. But we rarely see old images of ourselves at the beach.
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And even today, media largely makes people of color invisible at the beach. And yes, a lot of us have our own reasons for not going as much.
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If you want to read/see more about Cali's black beaches, I *highly* recommend
@blackvoicenews's amazing work here: http://www.blackvoicenews.com/2017/02/21/segregation-by-the-sea/ … -
There's also this link, which is the
@blackvoicenews segregated beach interactive map on its own:https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=6a0da4e58e7f4c97a2bd3c22b8ef1477 …
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The attacks on deeded coastal access in the last few years have really been troubling me. Beaches should be for everyone!
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