Caucasians in Compton/watts/south central

[civil_thor]

Not that anybody cares, but I'll tell a little story... When I was in the Marines I got hung up at LAX before going overseas (1993).. My 2 friends and I (white dude/black dude) got a motel room at Century/Hawthorne to wait out the time until our plane left. We walked up the street at night to get something to eat and made it about 2 blocks before Inglewood PD stopped us and told us we white dudes were out of our mind. Before the cops could finish their lecture a car crashed through the front window of a store across the street and they were off chasing.. We managed back to the motel..

A year later I was back at LAX on my way home and had another layover.. Same black dude and different friend (Mexican) were in the same jam. Mexican dude's family came down to pick him up and we decided to go for food.. Somehow ended up near Century/Hawthorne again and the van broke down... Didn't take long for me (the one white dude in that zip code) to attract attention of locals but I managed to catch a cab back to LAX before gettng F'd up.. Cabbie asked me what the hell was wrong with me being there..lol Never forgot that little experience. I'm a far from a puss, and not at all worried up front when it's one on one or close to it ... But that wasn't about to be the case there and then. I wouldn't recommend SC, Compton, Inglewood, or anyplace close to somebody who isn't from there, regardless of their race.

[wcrockets]

That's called reverse racism.

[civil_thor]

I totally agree. You're far more likely to hear people make excuses for it though than you are to find people who recognize it for what it is. That wasn't necessarily my point in relating the story, but it's a valid and relevent one.

[THALOCPASADENA]

THERE ARE WHITE PEOPLE ALL THROUGH COMPTON AND THERE ARE SOME NICE HOUSE OUT THERE AND THERE LOW BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY... BUT IN WATTS A WHITE PERSON IS LIKE TRYING TO FIND A TIGER IN YOUR BACK YARD IN WATTS..... AND LIKE O BOY SAID IN WATTS THEY HAVE STOP CAR'S AND ASK PEOPLE WHERE YOU FROM AND WHO YOU CUM TO SEE IN P.J. -JORDEN DOWNS-the GARDENS NIGGA THATS REAL

[Invincible]

So if I go to Watts what will they do to me? This makes me want to go more and more as you say how they hate white people. will the brothas there treat a gangsta white with attitude and gangsta look different?

[wattscrackin]

invincible, in them watts projects they dont give a damn wut color u is, u 70% of the time is gonna get checked bout where u from, now if u white then it probly gon be more worse for u, but they dont care how "gangsta" u lookin, this is the real deal not no dummys that r impressed by how "gangsta" somebody look, u will most likely get shot at for tryin to look or act "gangsta" over there, i aint makin it up, just watch the movie training day and look at wut the Pj Watts Crips do, even tho that wuz a movie, that can very well happen there...

[Invincible]

no, I'm asking if a white guy who actually is and looks and acts gangsta goes. Like that guy Hoyt from the hbo series oz for instance (assuming he looks and acts the way the show portrays him).

[wattscrackin]

like i said, same thing as i stated in the previous post......dont matter WHO goes, its gon be the same situation

[Invincible]

Lol I was just messin around. But seriously what can you do to not get checked, or what if u go just mind ur own business and they check you wha should you say?

[Invincible]

I just saw a show called bowling for columbine on hbo and these two white guys were walking right down there in SOuth Central and on Normandie and were talking about how the media portrays these places as danger zone or some other shit but to me it looked just like anywhere else in L.A and they didn't get checked or any of that bullshet.

[civil_thor]

So go check it out for yourself.. I'm white, and I've been to Inglewood and SC. Didn't find anything cool about it, one bit. It's got it's thing going on, and if you're not from there you don't belong there. No, not everybody who walks down the street is gonna get checked or jacked. But I guarantee the chances are a lot better of it happening there than it is whereever you're sitting at typing the questions.. .

[wcrockets]

^^ Yeah true but it's when you move in and the sun goes down that the drama starts.

[mr. chill]

invincible please stop asking stupid questions. I am black and when my uncle took me by the gardens and and the jordan downs, well i didnt actually go in these pjs just drove by em on imperial but anyway i could see inside of em and I would not feel safe goin in their. Funny thing was my uncle took mme to the watts towers and we got out and there were some white people sightseeing there. I wonder how they managed makin it into the center of watts lol

[Invincible]

It's not a fucking war zone for crying out loud. Black people have alot lower chance of commiting hate crime (assualt/murder because of racial prejudice) than white people.

[Guest]

fromsantabarbaramovedtomich that wuz Imperial Courts u saw from Imperial Hwy, u cant see Jordan Downs from there, u gotta go inside Watts to see jordan downs, its on 103rd and Grape Streets, right next to Jordan High School....

[xplicit753]

say a white boy wanna be down in like the rollin 30 or rollin 60z, wut wud the members in the set say to you? Considerin u real hard n tru n down

[xplicit753]

?????LOLOL

[Invincible]

and they wont to a hispanicboy?

[Anonymous20]

shut the fuck up invincible... go check for yourself

[wcrockets]

Chill on the off topic slamming and get back to the topic at hand. Thanks. Peace.

[Invincible]

Inglewood has 4,628 whites (4%):
http://www.ersys.com/usa/06/0636546/ethnic.htm

Compton on the other hand has only 954 (1%) whites and 189 Asians living in it so it's probably only safe if your black.

[Shaka Khan Orlando Jordan]

That's called reverse racism.

Hey what the hell is reverse racism. There is no such thing and anyone who uses that phrase is an idiot. Racism is showing favour or hate towards a person based on race. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM.

[MEXICAN_RAZA_PRIDE831]

say poloko, years ago the whole area, lynwood, compton, watts, paramont...etc, was PREDOMINTELY white, but with time the area changed, after the white left the brothers were the majority. now the raza are becoming the majority and in time that will change. i remember back in the early 60's i use to go to my aunts pad by St Francis hospital in lynwood and there were alot of white peeps there. just like WAY BACK east l.a. was predominately jewish. but that was before most of these readers time.

SIMON, BOYLE HEIGHTS WAS PURO JUDIO...

[Scrappy]

LOL

[wcrockets]

That's called reverse racism.

Hey what the hell is reverse racism. There is no such thing and anyone who uses that phrase is an idiot. Racism is showing favour or hate towards a person based on race. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE RACISM.

You are playing symantecs. The phrase "reverse racism" is an accepted phrase in today's vocabulary. I didn't coin the phrase. In my opinion you can call it racism instead if you like.

[Rollin_inmy_SixFo]

say poloko, years ago the whole area, lynwood, compton, watts, paramont...etc, was PREDOMINTELY white, but with time the area changed, after the white left the brothers were the majority. now the raza are becoming the majority and in time that will change. i remember back in the early 60's i use to go to my aunts pad by St Francis hospital in lynwood and there were alot of white peeps there. just like WAY BACK east l.a. was predominately jewish. but that was before most of these readers time.

SIMON, BOYLE HEIGHTS WAS PURO JUDIO...

Boyle Heights does not cover all of East LA. The jews were just visiting that particular section. Here's an article.

Generally encompassing the land east of the Los Angeles River, "East Los Angeles" is a populous area which for many years has been anchored by communities such as Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights. Home to the Gabrielino Indians for more than two thousand years, the area fell into the hands of the Spanish in the late eighteenth century, with Mexican and American ranchers taking control of the land for much of the nineteenth century. Farmers eventually used portions to grow vegetables and fruit and raise dairy cattle, but agriculture took up only temporary residence, ultimately pushed aside as urban society rapidly expanded.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, East Los Angeles became a popular immigrant destination. In the early 1900s, Russians, Jews, Japanese, and Mexicans all had a significant presence in the area. Living east of the river and working in nearby factories, or traveling by electric rail into downtown Los Angeles, immigrants and their children helped fuel the prosperity of the growing metropolis. By the onset of World War II, East Los Angeles was a nearly exclusively Latino community, soon reinforced by Mexican workers who arrived to man the machines in the area¹s burgeoning war industries. Although the face of the city of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities has changed considerably, East Los Angeles has maintained this basic character throughout the last sixty years. As a result of its history as a long-standing Mexican American community, the area of East Los Angeles continues to be studied and documented by scholars from around the world.

[creep alien]

"I have seen 107 Grape Street Watts gangsters shut down traffic on a street and go car to car and put a gun in peoples faces and take whatever they had. If any single one would have been white, they would have been toast" - AcmeWhiteBretad



when and where wuz this at??

i remember in 1994 when i went in watts 2 see the watts towers i asked some info 2 some black guys near the 107st and they very kind answer me ..they help me to find the simon rodia art center that is near closer the watts towers
very strange about that ..but you know im living in italy i don't know bout the real life in s central maybe i was just lucky

[wcrockets]

wattscrackin: I remember years ago in the news hearing about a gang in that area roadblock off a street and start charging tolls. Had not realized it went to that level if it did. That's pretty intense. Peace.

[creep alien]

invincible, in them watts projects they dont give a damn wut color u is, u 70% of the time is gonna get checked bout where u from, now if u white then it probly gon be more worse for u, but they dont care how "gangsta" u lookin, this is the real deal not no dummys that r impressed by how "gangsta" somebody look, u will most likely get shot at for tryin to look or act "gangsta" over there, i aint makin it up, just watch the movie training day and look at wut the Pj Watts Crips do, even tho that wuz a movie, that can very well happen there...

so in the training day movie the guys where d.washington live are the pj watts crips?
good information thanx

[Oxnard]

My dad's homie is a mechanic for a trucking co. in Compton.

[S_Mellon]

so what he is a mechanic...???
and secondly, most of yall dont even live in that area...
how you gonna jugde. most white people there are usually thought to be mexican. not too much is said, when there is a white person. i doubt it would be a giant problem. in compton, there are alot of white lookin mexicans, no one really says anything. its not that big a deal. its just like walkin down a not so good street... its not that dangerous, but maybe just a lil more.

[Invincible]

but you can teell a mexican from a white person by their accent.