We don't want THOSE people moving in our neighborhood

Monello

Smarter than the average bear
PREMO Member
The LA Times is like the WaPo of the west. Always looking to insert race into a story.

4 families had to go and ruin it for everyone.

Leimert Park continues to have one of the highest concentrations of black people in the city — 70%, down from the height of the 83% in the 1980s. White families currently make up about 2% of the neighborhood,

“It’s almost like Leimert Park is the last battleground,” said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. “It’s the last piece of turf that African Americans can really call and really feel is their home. At this point in time, it’s being encroached upon.”

Halliburton has lived in Leimert Park for 12 years and says he has seen his all-black block gradually shift as four white new families moved in. Halliburton said he was jogging with a neighbor last year at Leimert Park Village when a black man said loud enough for them to hear, “Get out of my neighborhood.” The missive was directed at Halliburton’s neighbor, who is white.
Carl Pfirman, a recent arrival to Leimert Park who is white, said he has experienced similar hostile confrontations at Leimert Park Village and now skips that loop during the weekly run.

“It’s like a slap in the face for the people that live there,” Carlton Manuel, 51, said. He said he called Leimert Park home for half his life but has recently been priced out of living there. The “services are getting better — the roads are getting taken care of, you are seeing more development, the Metro — but you’re losing the culture.”

there goes the neighborhood
 

DEEKAYPEE8569

Well-Known Member
The LA Times is like the WaPo of the west. Always looking to insert race into a story.

4 families had to go and ruin it for everyone.



there goes the neighborhood

If this was reversed; an all-white neighborhood being "encroached" upon by a smattering of black families, there would be a d*mn uprising. First of all, the civil rights groups would be ALL OVER it. *GASP* 'An all white neighborhood?!! BLASPHEMY!
From Article: "Halliburton said he was jogging with a neighbor last year at Leimert Park Village when a black man said loud enough for them to hear, “Get out of my neighborhood.” "The missive was directed at Halliburton’s neighbor, who is white." But there will be little to nothing said about this, I bet.
 
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