Posted on 08/18/2015 9:57:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“It’s a low income area, it’s been heavily dis-invested in,” USC professor of sociology Manuel Pastor said. “When you live in a community that doesn’t have that kind of retail, it’s a sign that the community is devalued and people within the community feel devalued.”
Negotiations are currently happening to bring an entertainment district to the city, including a 16-screen cinema.
“Seventy percent of that would be the movie theater, and then there would be an additional thirty percent retail space,” Compton City Manager Johnny Ford said. “As they’re coming in, retailers are making in Compton, and that’s what it’s all about.”
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Just my opinion.
It’s a cinema desert?
It’s a sign that the thugs who live these robbed and looted the places so much they had to close.
The constant exteralization of blame never ends with these morons.
LOL
Apparently, though it’s been many years since I spent a lot of time there.
Can tell you this though — those here who report it has gone Mexican are correct.
If you can’t make money on your product in a community, you don’t set up business there. This may be because the locals can’t afford it, or because the locals shoplift you to death raising your costs, etc.
Marxism: Art of the Euphemism.
What is called Palmdale on the map is often referred to as 'Palmton'.
Black families that *used* to live in Compton have largely been moved off to the Inland Empire (San Bernardino, Moreno Valley, etc.) as part of a concerted effort through HUD-Section 8 "housing choice" vouchers.
That’s Pompton, sir.
And smile when you say that.
> it’s been heavily dis-invested in
Sooo... how’s that thug/gang culture working for ya?
people within the community feel devalued.”
...they “feel” devalued. Meaning that business should open up in Compton to make the community “feel” better? Looting the stores and burning them to the ground makes them “feel” good too apparently.
Anyone notice that nobody in media or the film critics, are critical of a movie which glamorizes violence, including violence against women???
Anyone notice that nobody in the media will say what NWA stands for????
There’s a real war on women in the black community fueled by attitudes pushed by rap. But nobody will talk about that as they praise this movie.
I wonder how its doing at the box office. Does middle America really want to see a movie about ghetto rap “artists” and their coming up out of the ghetto????
Sadly, yes. Suburban teens are the biggest consumers of rap.
This is true, my nephew’s nanny is Puerto Rican and she lives in Palmdale, she says her apartment building is “All black” her daughter knows never to go outside when she is not home
$56 million in the first weekend. #1 in the country.
And watch it gentrify within 15 years. East Los Angeles and Santa Fe Springs are rapidly changing within the last decade, and it could soon become like what Westminster and Garden Grove are to the expatriate Vietnamese population.
It's a massive hit. $60 million opening weekend, doubling the $29 million production costs. The fifth biggest August opening in history and the biggest August opening for an R-rated film.
last time I heard “rap” is the number one recorded “product” in this Nation...and that is NOT a good thing
I hope this is crappy reporting - and not Johnny's statement.
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