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‘Straight Outta Compton’ Not Playing In Home City Due To Lack Of Theater
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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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To: BinaryBoy

Watching the preview, I thought it rather bent that a protagonist objected to treatment from police for popularizing criminal culture, because he’s just tellin’ what life is there - how about NOT living that way? eh?


21 posted on 08/18/2015 10:16:32 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah, they do. Buch of people here were making plans to see it opening day, racing to get tickets before they sold out. Not exactly the kind of people depicted...


22 posted on 08/18/2015 10:17:59 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Black flight? What a bunch of racists.


23 posted on 08/18/2015 10:19:49 AM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: BenLurkin

Racist corporations don’t wanna put no infrastructure here for us to loot.


24 posted on 08/18/2015 10:27:01 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll go see this right after I vote for Hillary...


25 posted on 08/18/2015 10:28:02 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

dis-invested in????


26 posted on 08/18/2015 10:28:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Resolute Conservative

I’d like to see it. It is not kind to the rap industry.


27 posted on 08/18/2015 10:30:23 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: BenLurkin
Can tell you this though — those here who report it has gone Mexican are correct.

I grew up in Lynwood in the sixties, nice place, surrounded by Watts, Compton, South Gate, used to ride my bike all the way from civic center to where they built the 105 when I was six/seven years old. The White flight started after the Watts riots with Blacks moving up and in (and doing a nice job of keeping the neighborhood up), this was followed by the Black flight and the Hispanics moving in. I was back in Lynwood a couple of years ago looking for a job, I was so hard up, sorry to say it's not maintained by the new majority anywhere near as nice as the previous two. I honestly felt more uncomfortable than when I visited decades ago and the Blacks were the new majority.

28 posted on 08/18/2015 10:44:25 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: BenLurkin
“When you live in a community that doesn’t have that kind of retail’

Why is anyone astounded that an area of high crime and gang infestation has little retail?

It's not safe or profitable to open a business in a place where the inhabitants play previews of Hell all day and night.

29 posted on 08/18/2015 10:50:58 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: AppyPappy
I’d like to see it. It is not kind to the rap industry.

I'm sure I'll rent it from Redbox. I remember that time well. Definitely not in the theater though.

30 posted on 08/18/2015 10:53:16 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: BenLurkin

I watched this movie online last night knowing it was going to be disturbing.

It does a good job of portraying the origins of the Rap culture being founded in vile, disgusting, vulgar, despicable, criminal, drugged, violent, delinquent, revolting, profane, sickening, atrocious, nasty, offensive, crude, rude, filthy, obscene, perverted, disrespectful and miscreant behaviors.


31 posted on 08/18/2015 11:04:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: PATRIOT1876

Dougie Fresh:

Oh, golly wolly...

Slick Rick:

... She was raised in hell
She said, my name is Maggie,
but call me Michelle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDkqz5C62SM

From 1985. When it was old school at the South Central and Compton house parties. Great times.


32 posted on 08/18/2015 11:14:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tumblindice
It’s a cinema desert?

Yep. Just like Flint, Michigan. Michael Moore always manages to slip that into the credits in his films.


33 posted on 08/18/2015 11:37:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin

There is only one reason why businesses don’t locate in an area. Ain’t no money in it.


34 posted on 08/18/2015 11:47:34 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: BenLurkin

They never get introspective as to why an area they live in turns into a sh1thole.


35 posted on 08/18/2015 11:52:23 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

Just call the entertainment district the future crime zone district right now andget people used to it, b/c that is what its gonna be. Urban blacks just are a blight on an area, they dont upkeep anything, the ones who are great people and care, see this and get the hell out.


36 posted on 08/18/2015 11:56:02 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tumblindice

I like cinema desert with icing and all.
Those that support NWA and rap in general have themselves to thank for businesses leaving the area. Even the rappers leave the fools behind.


37 posted on 08/18/2015 12:15:11 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: MeshugeMikey

When you think about how easy it is to record rap music, since they don’t need such complicated things like melodies and harmonies. All you need is a sample of some old song to repeat over and over in the background. And some synthetic percussion. And a bunch of words that rhyme with uck ucker and itch.


38 posted on 08/18/2015 3:02:09 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

When you think about how easy it is to record rap music, since they don’t need such complicated things like melodies and harmonies. All you need is a sample of some old song to repeat over and over in the background. And some synthetic percussion. And a bunch of words that rhyme with uck ucker and itch.


39 posted on 08/18/2015 3:06:53 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: webheart

YO that it!

the secret to [c]rap “music” in one sentence or two..


40 posted on 08/18/2015 4:18:43 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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