The Black Communities Are Being Used As a Source of Cheap Reserve Housing

California needs to reform.  The relocation of blacks from the urban cores by populations who may vote democratic along with those who would call themselves more conservative is a major civil rights issue and land use policy issue.  Property prices are out of control in this state.  California has up to 9 out of 10 of the most expensive cities in the country.  Los Angeles is not listed as one of the top 10 but it should be (e.g. Coldwell Banker’s report; Forbes, etc.).  It’s out of control.  Black communities are neither here for reserve cheap housing nor here as the new “hot area” for people to try to  make money in the real estate market. I live in Inglewood, CA.   I grew up there.   WE have persevered through intentional economic depreciation of our communities and live in a post-civil rights era Jim Crow society.  These economic disparities and policies create the backdrop for the social and criminal issues affecting black communities, including the death penalty. 

(I wrote and submitted this comment to  the California governor’s office regarding a death penalty issue in a public comment.  I was urging the Governor’s Office to abolish the death penalty in California. I originally posted this comment on my google plus page in July 2016).