The destruction of the South Central Farmers

Democracy for the rich.
After the Rodney King uprising in 1992 the city of Los Angeles donated 14 acres of desolate urban landscape to the people in the neighborhood.
The people reclaimed the land and made 350 garden plots. This farm kept kids off the streets and off drugs. It feed the poor and gave the area a sense of community.
Now the city has taken it back. They destroyed the crops, the infrastructure, and the lives of many people.
They plan to build a warehouse in it's place.

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[greaserig]

with the new cigarette tax. @ $.80 and another coming up soon... it seems the government is trying to get smokers to bail them out.

I wonder where these people got the tobacco seeds?

[universallovechild]

uh, white ruling class? what color is our president? i don't think color has anything to do with it. class perhaps. the upper rich class taking away the freedoms of the lower classes.

[WeCanAllGetAllong]

Disgusting what thier doing to peoples lives and thier dreams of eating good clean food!  This kind of thing will lead to some very harsh times in our future.

Lets rip up those yards and make way for a new kind of living,tear those yards up and put in victory gardens!

[DieWharheit]

@universallovechild When you analyze peoples' histories race is definitely an issues. The history of these people explains why they are the lower class and why they do not have territory and land to grow their own foods.

[katatinkacaroon]

The majority of people in Los Angeles are Latino. I am really bored now with their complaints. I've never met so many racists as I have in LA. I've never seen such Open Corruption as I have in LA. Grab Grab Grab. I am a gardener. I know what it means to till the soil and reap its fruits. Won't be shedding any tears for the whining cry-babies who have so much more than I have, thanks to the fact they've got all the jobs. Listen to the Whine in her voice.

[TonyBambino]

@universallovechild WTF? So because the president is black that somehow changes the fact that the majority of rich in this country are white? No.

[briskattivo]

Los Angeles is probably the most polluted city in the country. This temple of nature was creating less pollution, improving a severely broken community, and was destroyed in the interest of corruption and greed.  She's wrong, poor people DO have a right to clean air, that right is just not honored as it should be. The city should never have sold the land back to Mr. Horowitz without consideration for it's benefits and let him destroy it how they did. What's left now is the hope for change.

[OfficialFrizzo]

The odds of me slitting their throat before they slit mine are pretty good. Wolves and sheep, homie. I don't understand your reference to obesity and white people and it's connection to anything I've said or this topic of discussion. I think I've probably widened your concept of reality and you don't like it. I don't either but it's reality.

[raptorkiller2k5]

Nothing. The land was gifted to the people and thus it was being used. The farm was take down, because of economic and political forces. That isn't too surprising.

[raptorkiller2k5]

So? Does that make the West right? I don't think so and thus I don't even bother defending the state. Saying that, keep on thinking like that, because eventually someone's going to slit your throat with that kind of morality.

I don't believe in non-violence, but social Darwinism (a flawed concept) doesn't always come with full return. The reverse can occur, considering obesity is at high, and the white population is aging.

Good luck with the economic crisis.

[OfficialFrizzo]

Wolves and sheep, homie. War wasn't a foreign concept to the indigenous people before they got conquered. To the victor goes the spoils. It's been like that since the beginning of time and you haven't seemed to catch on. It's adverse to humanity but it's the reality of human nature to have war. We've done great things with this land so I'm unapologetic about supporting private ownership and entrepreneurialism and defending our nation from chaos. What has your country done?

[raptorkiller2k5]

This "title" you speak of, was made possible through theft. The so called "illegals" you speak of, are the children of the natives of this land. I don't think anyone should be respecting the concerns or wishes of criminals.

[raptorkiller2k5]

Are the rulers of the world the top 1 or 5% in US? The first group's minimal household income is ~$320,000 (2 or more sources), and the latter is $130,000 (ditto).

If yes, I totally agree, and these individuals that I see in person should see their "earnings" confiscated. In the end, their surplus was generated through theft.