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Mssrs. Hicks and Hutchinson need only look at the alleged grassroots movement in re Expo light rail that claims to be all about protecting children for an example of the dysfunctional politics of South L.A., exploiting race in the service of ambition (and evidently carrying the water for a bunch of westside NIMBYs): http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/08/expo-line-cross.html
Dana Gabbard @ 10:23 AM PDT, Aug 13, 2008
Black voters must open to other perspectives. Black politicians are too liberal, politically dependent, and Democratic. George Borjas, a leading Harvard economic scholar indicated through 40 years of census data, "a strong correlation between immigration and black wages, employment, and incarceration rates", with 30 to 40 percent job losses among low-skilled blacks. Democrats support illegal, so blacks sacrifice jobs. We need politicians with divergent views because liberal black politicians are voting against our interests. The liberals are wrong because supporting alien job takers over American citizens is wrong for all Americans.
Ransome @ 2:07 PM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
You are both talking around the issue here. The challenge is whether South Central can get a leader who can make things happen for it. Regardless of your opinion about her fast food explottation fight , Jan Perry is probably the most effective council person we have right now. The old style public grand standing and private self-indulgent leadership we have witnessed in the past is what needs to go. I'm impressed that Parks at least listens and does his homework. Ridley-Thomas can come across as a serial 'bloviater'' which is not needed. Obama has ushered in a new era .
tfg @ 11:27 AM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
Right, Joe, a "new type of leadership;" someone like you, who becomes a right wing talk show host; someone who rants and rages against gay marriage and in favor of an "intrusive and insulting ban" against it..
Tom Coleman @ 10:07 AM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
Did Democrat Representative Maxine Waters do her constituents a favor when she alleged that the CIA introduced crack cocaine into the Watts area? If the CIA did that in fact and, there is no proof that happened, who forced people in the area to take the drugs?
mhr @ 10:04 AM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
There are larger forces at work in and outside South Central Los Angeles that shape its reality. But our our elected representatives are largely responsible for our predicament here in the Ninth City Council District. Gilbert Lindsay, Rita Walters and now Jan Perry have been disasters. It takes talent, intelligence and creativity to balance wealthy downtown and USC interests with business and working poor interests here in South Central LA. What we get from Perry instead is cynical, vicious, vindictive duplicity. Blacks elect her in a jurisdiction where blacks are a small minority, and then she fails us all.
Mark Williams @ 8:02 AM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
Hicks is a typical right-winger who puts words in the opponents mouth just to inflate his stance. Pathetic. Can't even keep a sincere discussion. The right-wing should keep their hands off urban social problems. They're driven by selfish desires and elitism, not empathy or solidarity. They will in the end only help themselves, because it's all they really care about. One of those desires is to get past a sense of personal embarrassment that they have about the black community. They're therefore willing to neglect actual needs and problems of thousands of residents to get to that point.
546ert @ 12:15 AM PDT, Aug 12, 2008
I understand South Central is now majority Latino. Where are the civically engaged latino leaders? Absent, as usual.
Tara Murphy @ 4:56 PM PDT, Aug 11, 2008
The civil rights movement broke the environmental chains imposed by a racist society. Although there maybe some work left, I feel the civil right war is over and so is that type of black leadership. Now we have to solve the cultural problems created by the need to adapt to slavery and discrimination. For example, during slavery it was illegal for slaves to read and that perpetuated the disdain for book knowledge by many in the black underclass. Eliminating the high rate of single unwed mothers, attitudes of victimization, and acceptance of criminal behavior is essential to black progress and that requires a new leadership paradigm.
Ransome @ 2:17 PM PDT, Aug 11, 2008