tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post5183486159120597240..comments2023-11-05T05:17:45.320-05:00Comments on Model Minority "Thugs, Feminists and Boom Bap": Pathological Nigg*s Part IIIM.Dot.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-61142161827383184812007-12-14T01:41:00.000-05:002007-12-14T01:41:00.000-05:00everybody and they momma got laid off RIGHT before...everybody and they momma got laid off RIGHT before the riots......<BR/>=======<BR/><BR/>What a great beginning of a novel!Model Minorityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364810029145290617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-49207141298738144722007-12-12T23:03:00.000-05:002007-12-12T23:03:00.000-05:00well...because i am a So Cal representer i will sp...well...because i am a So Cal representer i will speak on that.<BR/><BR/>Central Ave in LA used to be the harlem of the West. if you read "The Darker the Berry"by Wallace Thurman, he writes about the nightlife on Central Ave. Apparently it used to have a lot of major department stores, shopping, nightclubs, etc. if you see it today, you wouldn't even believe half of those things were even there. <BR/><BR/>not sure what happened in the 30s, but my grandparents came to Cali in the 60s from Cleveland. two of my grandmother's brothers soon followed. my grandfather & uncles worked at a car wash until they were able to get jobs in the areospace industry (Lockheed, Northrup, and Douglass). the aerospace industry was BIG down here. lots of fairly uneducated people (black, white, other) were able to get well-paying industrial gigs and work their way up. my grandfather, born in '29, never got farther than the 3rd grade, and was (as i learned later) functionally illiterate. he was able to work his way up to a job that needed federal security clearance (painting the Stealth Bombers) that paid WELL. my mom started working for Lockheed in the 70s, and we were doing pretty well financially until she, and thousands of others, were laid off when all the defense contract money ran out in the early 90s. everybody and they momma got laid off RIGHT before the riots (my mom got the ax in 1990), coincidence? a lot of the big plants closed down & moved, only a few skeletal plants remain.the prisoner's wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160398635149797677noreply@blogger.com