Friday, June 8, 2007
Should be no surprise
If you live in Los Angeles and have ever been to Tajunga Valley this article will serve as no surprise to you. I have heard a lot of stories about that part of Los Angeles from non-white friends when I lived in LA. They would tell me they would hear of house parties over there but would be turned away because the color of their skin, or called racial slurs. People started fights with them because of their skin color. People shouting out of cars telling them to get lost. It is not to say that all Tajungans are racist, but let us face the world where people self segregate and do everything possible to keep it that way. If you make the decision to move there in this day and age and you are white chances are you made that decision because you want to only live near white people. At least you are certainly not making the decision to move to a diverse community. I say this with no offense to all Tajungans, just the plethora of bigots who live there. I don't know maybe there is more to the reason that people in Tajunga don't want a Home Depot there, but it sounds like the charges of racism are pretty credible to me.
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It was amazing that while residing in Los Angeles, and living in many different areas of the city, so many remarks were made about fact that a white couple would dare to live in an area that was not all white. I was constantly suprised by folks who said we lived in a bad neighborhood because the community was mostly homeless (downtown), or Latino (Boyle Heights).
Now living in North Miami, a mostly Haitian-American community, similar remarks are made about my safety.
And as I was searching for apts for NYC, and expressing an excitement for living in areas such as Spanish Harlem or Harlem, I heard the same tired remark regarding its dangers...
I am so sick of people assuming that just because a neighborhood is diverse, or predominatly black, or Latino, that it must be crime and hate filled. If anything, according to the article you posted, it appears that the white neighborhoods are FAR more aggressive in their hate.
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