In our 43rd episode, we catch up with none other than Bethanee Epifani. We talk inauguration, Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” vaccination in Los Angeles, and even $100,000 dollars. That’s right. If you’d like to support more of the work at jimbotimes.com, you can join us for a new adventure on Patreon at patreon.com/jimbotimes.
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L.A. Post World War II was defined by Anti-Blackness. After the fight against Nazis, it was time to fight against housing for ‘Negroes.’
“When, however, a survey was finally made it was found that those who lived in the slum districts were not only Negroes, Mexicans, and Japanese…’Sixty five percent of the slum homes were occupied by white families,’ [according to the L.A. housing official]…And we found that many of those houses were owned by the people who objected to slum clearance. If it had not been for these obstructions, he declared, Central avenue could have had ten more housing projects than it has.
During the emergency housing program for war workers, the same objections against minority groups prevailed. And last year when ‘private enterprise’ began building, only 1 percent was made available for Negroes.”
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This talk is free of charge for attendees. Redlining was an official government policy of marking areas as “undesirable” for investment based on the racial makeup of their residents, which continues affecting Black and immigrant areas in Los Angeles today.
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