Author: essays790

This blog is a collection of articles I have written on modern Jim Crow and Black urban relocation with a concentration on the major Black destination cities of the Great Northern Migration, including California.  As a resident of California who lives in Inglewood, CA, most of the essays will focus on California.  I hope to inform the Black community on both the economic and police brutality aspects, and on the interplay between the economic stimuli and police brutality in a white supremacy society.  In a media context full of groups exploiting black oppression for their own agendas, it is important that the Black community as a whole understand the definitions and policies affecting our prosperity and happiness.   This blog was inspired by all of the stories of relocation by fellow Blacks and my personal experience with relocation and economic Jim Crow.

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).