let me guess, the statues are all of the people that founded california, so just exactly how many of them were black?
Posted on 04/06/2021 9:06:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Getty and the city of Los Angeles are expected to announce Tuesday the launch of the African American Historic Places Project, a three-year initiative to identify and preserve landmarks that represent Black heritage across L.A.
The project will address a disparity in local landmark designations: Only about 3% are connected to African American heritage. The goal is to more accurately reflect the history of the city.
The Office of Historic Resources knows that its landmark designation programs do not yet reflect "the diversity and richness of the African American experience in Los Angeles,” said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner . “There's much work to be done to rectify that disparity and ensure that the heritage of African Americans in Los Angeles is fully woven into our historic designation, and recognition of historic places .”
The project is a continuation of a nearly 20-year partnership between the Getty Conservation Institute and the city on local heritage projects.
Building on previous research, the African American Historic Places Project was also driven by the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the global uprisings last summer and a reckoning within the conservation sector, said Susan Macdonald, head of the Buildings and Sites Department at the Getty Conservation Institute.
Many of the city’s landmarks received their designation based on architecture, but preservation is not only about buildings, Bernstein said. Landmark designation can “extend beyond the physical to take in what might be considered more intangible heritage.”
Cultural heritage and landmarks represent history, Macdonald said.
“If they don't accurately reflect that history and past, then you're getting an impoverished or a misreading of history ,” Macdonald said. “It can be used as a vehicle to rectify erasures of history.”
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They want to accurately reflect history and tell the story of our history? But what about all these people tearing down statues and protesting about history?
Easy to cure.
Just make each jail cell in CA an African American Historic Places Project.
Just build some statues of Africans selling other Africans to slavers for colored beads and cloth.
let me guess, the statues are all of the people that founded california, so just exactly how many of them were black?
Get the proper ratio of black vs. white monuments established and they’ll start complaining that the accomplishments recognized by the white memorials are more significant that the black ones.
“Just 3% of L.A. landmarks are linked to Black history. One project aims to change that...”
Let me guess: By burning down all the other landmarks?
Blacks have definitely made their mark on LA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
James Joyce
Watts, Calif. never recovered from the Watts Riot. Before the riot, 103rd Street was the main drag, but now it’s mostly residential.
Will the program include the location where karenga tortured his women?
There’s only a couple Rodney king and Wattts
California was settled by the Spanish. As far as I recall cal was not a slavery state. So what heritage sites we looking for? Does the SLARMY hideout burned to the ground in a gun battle in LA qualify?
The sad truth is that the Democrats destroyed Los Angeles decades ago. In the 1950’s there was massive Black employment and Black migration especially from the south by people looking for good paying, steady work factory jobs. Slowly, step by step, city and state policy ran those businesses out of town and leaving the residents who moved to areas like Watts to slowly become impoverished.
Watts is a Mexican neighborhood now. Lemeirt Park, the so called Black cultural center of Los Angeles was an upper middle class white neighborhood in the 1950’s with beautiful one story stucco houses, churches, and shopping centers. The only thing that has changed is the demography of the area.
That's at 54th and Compton Ave. in the Central-Alameda district. At the time, the neighborhood was black but today it's mostly Mexican-American.
Many of the professors at USC used to live in Leimert Park. I still sometimes go there to eat at Kim's Restaurant on Crenshaw Blvd., which is one of the few eateries that still serve the old-fashioned Cantonese cuisine that predominated in the 1950's and 1960's--before recent Chinese immigrants demanded more "authentic" dishes.
No talk of Brown Memorials? Spanish-Chicanos settled the state, built the first cities and towns. Asians had more to do with the state than blacks in its early history. Most blacks came out in WW II— a few did well and are represented in California’s History. Martin Luther King Hospital was built in Watts to help the African American community—Now its surrounded by Latinos, whole sections were black and now brown. Race is all about change.
I could care less if Black History is represented anywhere or not. They’ve pretty much destroyed any respect or consideration from me over the past five years and then some. I just don’t care anymore....
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