People really need to stop trying to create any kind of nuanced or complicated discourse on Twitter. I feel like Chuck might have some interesting things to say here but the limitations of Twitter make it indecipherable.

Except in 1960-1990, non-hispanic whites were well over 80% of the US population. Today, it’s between 60% and 65%. The demographics are against the “get out the white vote” electoral strategy. The GOP needs to get a non-trivial fraction (not necessarily the majority) of the hispanic and black vote if they want to win…

Graham thinks Trump is an asshole NOT because he cares about immigrants but because and only because he could cost them the election. graham is still a dick.

Ahhhh, the old “we’re going to take our country back” bullshit spouting from the mouth of an old rich white man. If old rich white men aren’t still running the country, who is? Who has taken the reigns of the country from you? It isn’t women. It isn’t black people. It certainly isn’t Latinos that you’re trying to send…

“That’s the reason this buff Negroid Amazon keeps dominating this classic sport, white people. Don’t worry. Normal cute white athletes would be killing it out there if they decided to become the double-muscled clydesdale that this black chick is, but we have smart trainers who made sure they stay small and fuckable.…

The red line is THE BEST. Good luck with your move!

Valid point. I just looked up where all his properties are and...yeah most of them are in areas I think you would expect that. I just like to forget that places like Beverly Hills and Santa Monica even exist.

I don’t think you will have a problem in Los Feliz, though I kind of would say that it very nearly a “White neighborhood” at this point. The past 5-ish years have been INSANE on the East Side. Even just the changes in Echo Park, where I live, have been crazy. I 100% see massive rent increases due to gentrification as…

Agreed. I was listening to an NPR story this morning about a black civil rights activist who says that the best way to honor these people, especially Senator Pinckney, is for the state senate to pass the minimum wage bill he so eloquently defended.

This is awesome, but I’m concerned that people will be like “We’re done now!” It’s a symbolic victory, but we haven’t really even scratched the surface on addressing the racism inherent in our society. I really hope we’re not going to need another dead black man or shot-up church to keep the conversation going.

It pisses me off that there’s a ceremony to take that shit down. Just take it down, put it in the museum, move on. The Confederacy was traitorous and they lost the war, you goddamned morons.

you will not have a problem at all. Enjoy your new city. Los Feliz is a wonderful area.

I’m moving to Los Feliz in a few months from NYC and have been wondering if this will be a problem for me as I look for an apartment. I’m “Latino” and while I wouldn’t call Los Feliz a “White neighborhood”, from what I’ve seen personally, it doesn’t have as many PoC as say Echo Park, Highland Park or even Atwater…

I see a lot of people talking about experiencing discrimination they have experienced in the comments. My question is, is this mostly happening in small cities or is this still a major issue in major metropolitan cities? I live in LA and every area I have lived in is incredibly diverse so I am trying to convince…

Everyone needs to read Nikole Hannah-Jones work for ProPublica’s series “Segregation Now”, particularly relevant to this convo is her piece “Living Apart”. See also, her interview about the piece on This American Life.

Dylann Roof is 21 years old.

As a black female who lived in an upper middle class neighborhood for a good portion of her childhood, this doesn’t surprise me. Not one bit. I distinctly my family and I shopping around for a bigger home and my dad and my mom were visibly upset by the process. I asked them why. I asked about the homes we viewed and I…

People (of all races) talk so much shit about “Mexican neighborhoods” in SoCal, because people assume they all have 4 generations in one house (with a dozen cars between them that will take up all available parking), throw weekend long bbqs (at which everyone will get obnoxiously drunk and play mariachi music into the…

“Look, guys, I’m not a racist, for reals, I’m just worried that if we let one of them in then more will come in, and they’ll keep coming and we’ll be surrounded by them, and when will it end, and oh my god, so of course we can’t have that happen, cause who wants to be inundated by them, am I right, but this is purely…

I think more than 28% would be in favor of quietly reinstating racially restrictive covenants if they could. Enough with the soft real-estate-agents-just-not-showing-certain-people-certain-neighborhoods and redlining. Why not something in writing and that can even prevent black people from spending the night in…