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October 25, 2009
Damn, it feels good to be a victim … [Darleen Click]
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Comment by Joe on 10/25 @ 11:30 am #
Although as a conservative tax payer, I am starting to feel like a victim.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 10/25 @ 11:41 am #
You sure it’s not racist to link this?
Comment by SBP on 10/25 @ 11:56 am #
Is that guy in the purple pimp suit supposed to be Reagan?
Comment by RTO Trainer on 10/25 @ 12:01 pm #
SBP, that’s James O’Keefe.
Comment by JeffS on 10/25 @ 12:06 pm #
Although as a conservative tax payer, I am starting to feel like a victim.
Maybe we should claim victim status, Joe. Then we can finagle us some tax credits.
Comment by JeffS on 10/25 @ 12:06 pm #
Oh, and just in case…..
/sarc
Comment by Seth on 10/25 @ 12:16 pm #
Brilliant.
Comment by Sgt. Mom on 10/25 @ 12:27 pm #
And do you know what the mildly creepy thing is? It actually looks like a very nice neighborhood – green grass, blue sky, palm trees and rather nicely-maintained small bungalows with lawns in front. The cars on the street and parked in the drives are recent-model and in good repair … ah, SoCal – they do ‘blighted neighborhoods” so differently there, don’t they?
Comment by SBP on 10/25 @ 12:32 pm #
SBP, that’s James O’Keefe.
Ah! He looks a little bit like a young Reagan in that.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 10/25 @ 12:45 pm #
So true, that street actually looks remarkably like the street where I lived for 10 years in Long Beach.
Comment by Darleen on 10/25 @ 12:56 pm #
Sgt Mom
“South Central” has gained notoriety, especially in the 1980’s, due to the huge increase of gang violence. But the area, historically, encompasses working class AND rich areas. Up until the 1950’s it was pretty much the only area that blacks were allowed to own property in Los Angeles. Owners still keep the homes nice, even if it is a neighborhood where if one ventures outside after dark one risks their very life.
Comment by SBP on 10/25 @ 1:19 pm #
Ah! He looks a little bit like a young Reagan in that.
Which I suspect would flatter him immensely. :-)
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/25 @ 2:40 pm #
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta’
Office Space blue ray is comin’ out ta’day.
Ya know…once the football is over.
Comment by serr8d on 10/25 @ 3:15 pm #
Damn, that was good.
I promptly stole it. )
Comment by JHo on 10/25 @ 4:42 pm #
It actually looks like a very nice neighborhood – green grass, blue sky, palm trees and rather nicely-maintained small bungalows with lawns in front.
Fodder for Hollywood ridicule, that. Think Edward Suburbs Hands.
They’re gonna run out of negative stereotypes.
Comment by Sgt. Mom on 10/25 @ 5:00 pm #
Oh, I knew about all that, Darleen – I grew up in LA. Once, as a college student, in a car with three other college students, on the way out to the summer camp in Yucaipa where we all had summer jobs as camp counselors, the driver of the car missed an exit on the interchange, and took the next exit to try and get back to where we were going … and we realized with horror that we (all four of us fairly devout Lutherans of decided pallor) were in Watts! OMG – the freakout was massive! We were in the ghetto! The major bad ‘hood! Violence and gangs and lawlessness, oh my! Which was actually very tidy, scrubbed, and well-kept, with lawns and palm trees and bungalows. I had personally seen slums on the outskirts of Barcelona, and really awful, grungy row-house enclaves in Belfast, by then … so having the fabled Watts ghetto look so very … well, normal was a bit of a surprise.
Comment by Will on 10/25 @ 6:55 pm #
Awesome! Life is not fair, deal with it. You have one right that no one can take from you, and that is the right to try. Don’t let it go to waste and dont’ waste it being a victicrat.
Comment by Carin on 10/26 @ 6:28 am #
California doesn’t even know how to do ghettos correctly. Come to Detroit. I’ll give everyone a tour.
BYOG.
Comment by ccs on 10/26 @ 7:10 am #
Zo rocks! Love the Ronnie Raygun tee.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 10/26 @ 11:16 am #
Used to vist family about twice a month in Watts. I’ve walked through Lynwood at 2:00 AM with a bike that had a flat tire to get home to my place in Southgate. rode my bike through Compton dozens of times, once to return someones wallet I found in the street. The usual interaction with the locals is a “hi” or a “have a nice day” or “God bless”. Southern California definitely doesn’t know how to do scary neighborhoods.
Comment by baldilocks on 10/26 @ 2:13 pm #
I grew up in South Central LA and live there now. The scene looks almost as though it was filmed on my block.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 2:28 pm #
Baldilocks
My mom grew up in Leimert Park, right on 4th Avenue, went to Dorsey High. My grandparents eventually moved to Glendale but I went with them often during the 60’s to visit their best friends who still lived there. The area has never lost its charm.
Comment by JD on 10/26 @ 2:42 pm #
Baldilocks !!!! How goes the book?