From talking to people who do it regularly, I understand that riding the subway in Los Angeles is a depressing experience mainly shared with low-class Mexicans and a few blacks. As opposed to New Yorkers, Los Angelenos exhibit little concern with proper subway etiquette. It is not unheard of to find the results of somebody’s massive dump on the stairs. Most people don’t bother to pay for their fare. A lot of people stink. Many of the Mexicans and blacks on the subway show little concern for the welfare of their children.
My friends have not seen aggressive panhandling and display of knives.
Every day, the future of Los Angeles and of the United States looks increasingly grim.
Steve Sailer writes: In the optimistic days after WWII, big cities built giant urban housing projects to accommodate the poor. For example, Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis was designed by Yamasaki, architect of the World Trade Center, on the most advanced principles of modernism. Obviously, taking poor blacks out of their lead paint-encrusted tenements and raising them in advanced Bauhaus designs would prove the bigots wrong.
Pruitt-Igoe went on to be home to the future Heavyweight Champs Leon and Michael Spinks, before it was blown up in 1972.
These days, big cities don’t want to accommodate the black poor anymore; they want then to leave. The powers that be prefer for poor blacks to leave town with Section 8 rent subsidy vouchers that go further in declining suburbs like Ferguson. For example, Hanna Rosin’s 2008 Atlantic cover story American Murder Mystery documented how homicide rates were declining in central Memphis and rising in inner suburbs due to demolition of old housing projects and subsidized relocation of their tenants out of the city.
The same dynamic is at work in Ferguson in relation to St. Louis.
