“...food deserts, no jobs, and rotten schools. It’s by design. Blacks end up with no choice but to leave or stay and get shot to death.”
No offense intended here but I feel compelled to correct you here since I hear this falsehood from bleeding heart liberals on a regular basis.
First, Food Deserts is a red herring. I live in downtown LA and am surrounded by the ghettos/barrios on the outskirts. Lynnwood, South Central, Compton, East LA, etc. do not suffer from a lack of grocery stores. Rather there are plenty of large grocery stores such as Food 4 Less, Superior, Food Basket and even Smart & Final among others and they are all within walking distance or a bus ride (within 1 mile) of any of these neighborhoods. Granted stores like Albertsons and Ralphs are far and few between in those areas, THERE IS NOT a single neighborhood in Southern California that could be considered a FOOD DESERT. Stores like Ralphs and Albertsons do offer better quality but are also more expensive and thus would be less profitable if at all in these neighborhoods.
As far as schools are concerned, I suggest you come here and see them for yourself. The City and County have spent $100s of millions of dollars renovating old schools and building new schools in these areas. They are beautiful and state of the art. I know because I am an engineer and have helped design and build them. If there is a problem with the education minorities are receiving, it rests with themselves, the administrators, teachers and the unions that represent them. Without knowing for sure, I suspect that there is no other school district in the nation or on the planet that spends more money per year per student. So we need to stow that complaint where it belongs - in the trash.
Finally, if there are no jobs in these neighborhoods, don’t blame businesses. Blame government regulations and the residents of these neighborhoods because a business person will set-up shop anywhere they can be profitable. However, if your neighborhood is crime ridden, unsafe and a pig sty, stop complaining and do something about it. If you complain about cops enforcing the law in your neighborhood, or arresting gang-bangers and drug dealers, then don’t complain when the cops pull back and let your ‘hood become a war zone void of jobs and opportunities.
That’s how I see it and I live here.
Oops. Correction. LA City and County have spent $BILLIONS, not $Millions, on school construction.
Kennedy’s remarks were Chicago specific. Your experiences in Los Angeles are apt to be different.
You speak the truth.
In education spending per city, Boston is the top, at $20,502 per pupil, NYC is next at $20,331 per pupil, and then a big jump down to Anchorage ($15,419), Montgomery County, MD ($15,080), and #5 Baltimore City ($15,050). LA Unified is actually in the middle, at $10,670... and the national average is $10,700.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/11/30/school-districts-with-the-highest-spending/4/ lists the top 9 districts (not cities) for 2016.... 6 are in NY, and the other 3 are in Alaska. The top is Pocantico Hills Central School District (enrollment 287), at $63,760, more than $20,000 higher than second place, in a district with an average salary of $100,000. I can't even comprehend that kind of spending insanity.
Bullseye, in the V-ring.
I lived in the City of Downey and worked for the school district for almost 40 years.
As far as you engineers are concerned, you all did a pretty good job and delivered some pretty good plans and specs.
You just forgot that when you design and specify for a school district it needs to be tougher than a state penitentiary.
If you gave 70% of the students an anvil for a present Christmas morning, they will have it torn up by lunch time.
You completely took my remarks out of context. Being on a cell phone, I could only provide a brief summary to the poster.