Historic South-Central

I grew up on 42nd and Broadway, spent a lot of time on 41st PL and Main at Snappy's. It was not a picture perfect neighborhood back in my teens in the mid 80's. I have much love for the people and places around South Central. As I got older and traveled the country I noticed no matter were I went there was always some place that reminded me of home. You have good and bad in all people. You have crooks in Beverly Hills robbing folks everyday, There just doing it in a $1500.00 suit. If you take notice everybody wants to be from the Westside. I seen young kids in Indiana throwing up the W. I claim L.A. to the fullest, I have never denied my city.

I love the city of Angels
this city where your can come true the city of the show business and the place where bunnies live

I grew up in this neighborhood, and I can attest, it is the most disrespectful, uncaring neighborhood ever. No one respects their neighbors, noise levels are out of control, police are slow to respond, if they ever respond. Too many uneducated, beer guzzling fools in the streets. Trash in every corner. Crime has gone down over the years, but it is still there, where gang wars are not in the open, drugs are everywhere.
I can barely come up with something positive for the place. All I can say, is the Latino community here is rich in culture and history, we cant take that away from them, but VERY disrespectful of the American culture. People in this neighborhood are slobs. I am glad to be out of it and, can barely acknowledge it as my childhood home.

I love that most stereotypes about my community aren't true. Misconceptions about south central are over exaggerated, there is solidarity among the various shades of black and brown. It's beautiful. We are making real significant progress in race relations by talking to our neighbors. In south central you will find the new wave of Latin@ immigrants and a rich language filled with slang from its various ethnic groups. We have diversity that goes beyond statistics.