excalibur
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Either white America wakes up or the nightmare will end as either Venezuela or an American Pol-Pot.
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We live in an era bizarrely obsessed with real estate transactions of increasingly remote generations. For example, Amazon’s new TV series Them is about the horrors at the hands of whiteness faced by blacks moving to Compton, Calif., in 1953. For example, the first episode “Covenant” is about the supernaturally sinister power of restrictive covenants, which were abolished in 1948, but their bad juju powers live on, or something.
In reality, of course, blacks turned Compton, which had been a nice enough suburb of Los Angeles that in 1949 it was home to two future presidents of the United States, into the crack murder capital of the world in the NWA era. The Los Angeles Times reported in 1992:
Like Yogi’s Berra’s former favorite restaurant, Compton got so popular with blacks that they don’t much live there anymore, with the majority of Compton’s residents now Latino. But, as we are taught, all that Compton history has to be the fault of white people because black people are above criticism and beneath agency.
In real life in fairly nearby Manhattan Beach, which is a fitness-oriented suburb of L.A. popular with National Hockey League players and other frequent fliers, Los Angeles County unilaterally decided to revisit a 1929 eminent domain judgment it had won and return county-owned beachfront property now worth tens of millions to the descendants of a black couple who had bought the property in 1912.
The theory behind the giveaway appears to be, first, that eminent domain was used on the black resort for racist reasons 92 years ago. Perhaps that’s true, but the events seem lost in the mists of time, with politicians moving precipitately.
Second, that the black owners would have held on to the property nonstop until the present. But huge numbers of people who owned property in 1929 lost it in the Great Depression.
Others sold their land later because they wanted the money now. For example, my wife’s Air Force colonel uncle sold his ranch house in Manhattan Beach’s neighbor Torrance in the 1960s when he was transferred to Edwards AFB even though his shrewd father advised him to do whatever it took to hang on to what would someday be a gold mine.
But he needed the money.
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Third, that a large black presence would not have driven down property values in Manhattan Beach like it did in Compton, that the reason black neighborhoods are relatively cheap is not because of crime and disruptive students but because whites stole all the magic dirt and forced blacks to live on the tragic dirt.
In the case of Manhattan Beach, land next to the Pacific really does have superior intrinsic value. (Although, judging by the crackerbox houses originally built on it, for a long time few seemed to recognize that, probably due to pre-penicillin fears that ocean fogs would induce tuberculosis.) But Compton, while lacking a beach, also has nice weather and is close to LAX.
Fourth, that with Bidenomics endorsing the “Money Printer Go Brrrrrr” theory of prosperity, we can easily afford to give away money willy-nilly to representatives of today’s favored races in response to their tales of ancestral grievance.
Of course, eminent domain has a long and often shady history. Besides corruption, a general problem has been that the government typically pays what willing sellers would take for their property, but not the premium over fair market price that would persuade property owners who are unwilling at present to leave to come to the table. (Some states now pay a premium over market price to compensate for this.)
But this new principle that ancient eminent domain decisions should be reopened if the dissatisfied owners were members of today’s privileged groups seems like a giant can of worms.
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