- Moderator
- #21
You dislike the truth don't you? How do you think nice little neighborhoods and cities became filth ridden slums. Compton, Lynwood, Inglewood, Lakewood were all beautiful little California cities and they all went the same way. Inglewood was particularly stunning. Compton was Beverly Hills South. They didn't destroy themselves overnight. They did it one house, one neighborhood at a time. And it's happening somewhere else right now.Link?
You need a link?
Why do you think even the cheesiest grocery stores wont open there?
The lack of them is proof in and of itself.
People used to be able to walk to the neighborhood grocery and buy everything they needed. When Neighborhoods were "neighborhoods" and not "The Hood"! The govt begins by buying a home and using it for section 8 family housing. The Residents have no ownership rights or incentive to maintain the property. Family after family moves in and out and the Property value plummets so do those around it. Homeowners who invested their lives have to sell out before the Prices drop even more. The lower housing prices in the area are now desirable to lower income homeowners many will be speculated on and used as Rentals and Section 8 locations. A percentage of the New home buyers will default on their Loans and those houses will also fall into disrepair while proceeding through the foreclosure process driving Housing prices even lower. In come the predators who use the abandoned houses for drugs and other illicit activities as the Neighbors look on and realize their "new neighborhood" has become the same as the "Hood' they left!
This is how it goes down. Pick a depressed neighborhood. It's the same everywhere. A very nice black or Hispanic family moves in. Everyone is happy for the diversity and these are really nice. The children are well behaved and always willing to lend a hand.
They have visitors from the old neighborhood. Gangs start leaving graffiti. Homes get broken into. Mom and dad have a good friend or brother or uncle that just got out of prison with no place to go. He comes to stay. The niece just got out of rehab. She comes too. By now drug deals are going down on the street corner. Property values have been destroyed. Homes are for sale up and down the street. They are bought by the very poor who won't make the payments. Small businesses have closed. Entire blocks of stores have closed. Tentative bridal shops servicing quincineras have opened. There would be a nail salon and a braiding service. A good sized store has been turned into an indoor swap meet with tables selling various stolen goods. The grocery store is gone. The neat front yards and flower gardens are gone. Rose bushes have given way to the rusting hulks of car carcasses on various stages of cannibalism. Garbage fills the streets, dogs that might or might not be strays start wandering about. Those nice kids now snarl and flash their knives. Then you notice the final line of demarcation between civilization and village. The roofs of homes have sprouted huge bags filled with recycleables. Empty cans and bottles are so valuable that they are protected.
By now you should have moved. If you are so foolish as to think that your love of diversity will protect your home you would be wrong. You will wake up to the small of smoke. The fire trucks will come under gunfire. The police will stuff you and your dog in a car to take to to someplace safe.
You of course will not believe what happened.
Do brown people scare you, Mr. Duke?
I want to see your evidence that on opening day the store was robbed within hours and customers were robbed in the parking lot, otherwise we'll assume this was your daily lie for July 6th