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Sometimes we write things without thinking we have to explain everything to the world. At first when I read your post, I was like.. um he doesn't believe that there are areas of hard working black folk? THEN... I reread the article. I had to laugh when the author wrote that. South Central LA is an area of hard working black folk? Esp. with the big boom of gangsta rap... He seems bitter to me. There is a lot of envy against immigrants in general by black Americans. He tries to blame the downturn of the neighborhood on hispanics when it's really 'his own proud race's fault'. I didn't care for how he continually separated himself from the rest of society. Being so-called "proud of one's race" means also being able to admit problems of one's own "race".

So I think I agree with you...

I had to laugh when the author wrote that. South Central LA is an area of hard working black folk?

I apologize for not being clear enough in my first reply to the author's comments about South Central.

I thought that quoting a snippet about South Central LA was enough to make it clear that I don't buy the author's assertion that South Central LA is being "run down" by Hispanics.

The black neighborhoods being taken over by Hispanics were not great to begin with.

I was in LA about 7 or 8 years ago and went to the Inglewood Area and to a Western Union in of all places ...Compton. I was suprised that Boys in da Hood turf looked more like lower middle class blue collar suburbia than the Cabrini Green/South Bronx/East St Louis setting I had imagined. It doesn't exactly look like ghetto (except Watts).

Here in Nashville, there are still a few black "hoods" that are relatively dangerous usually around housing projects. The working black class operating slightly above the poverty line is more and more melding with the like oriented white class. The hardest core black hoods are still almost universally black here.

The Mexican and Central American barrios are displacing working class older white hoods much like this article describes. We also have a decidedly Moose-Limb contingent which is displacing middle-middle white neighborhoods and borders the barrios area.

Indians, Asians, Russians(quite a few), and affluent blacks live anywhere they can afford the rent or home cost and nobody notices and there is no white flight except those who go to the metro counties for better public schools. Many of the Indians do use a peculiar blue shade they seem to prefer for their shutters..lol...periwinkle or something. Nashville has an extremely large white trash element....they are not so much rednecks anymore unless over 30-35 but rather seemed to have embraced the same culture as black "gangstas"....a troubling trend. I know...my office is in the thick of it and they compose a plurality of my tenants.

I did not know that any townships on Long Island outside of the Boroughs were suffering from this stuff.

When I was a boy, the Feds built projects within a half mile of our house....ah the wisdom of it all...lol...we were gone in a year at a loss for our home....it's full blown Dodge City there now....burned out cars, abandoned homes, thugs on every stoop all day long not working...a damned war zone. "Stroke of a pen...kinda cool"..NOT!