The State of Downtown Los Angeles
My Life:Downtown Los Angeles is a place that has been left desolate and abandoned. It is a place where the nature of human beings are put fully to the the test, both from those who permit certain people to remain in pain, and for those who are left on the wayside of poverty. This is Los Angeles at it’s worst, and in some strange way, at its best.
This is what distresses me so much:
California has more billionaires than any other place on earth besides the rest of the United States. L.A. is also a place with a higher rate of working poor (7.5 percent) than the rest of the nation, a graduation rate (60 percent) that’s also beat about by the national average (70 percent) and 1.4 million poor people. Oh, and 250,000 millionaires live here. How benighted is our government, and even more importantly, how backwards are our societies values & priorities?
what else is new. this has been a problem for longer than you have been alive… and it will be the same after you leave this planet. so why the video to talk about something that everyone already knows. kind of cheesy and retarded. Unless you do something about it, move on to something that is more your style like all that fashion shit, obscure music and more skinny jeans. Don’t pretend like you grew up in LA and have seen the evolution… the internet doesn’t count.
Jay
Your observation is priceless.
Stay Good.
I’ve walked those streets and they speak volumes. Downtown LA is an urban dust bowl and in a way, downtown is really two cities – there is bustling Downtown, that we all see as we drive through, and then there is phantom downTown, a city of drifters and the “less fortunate”. The thing about downTown is that the people that congregate in downTown come from all around. It’s a place where people are lost. It isn’t a source of suffering, it is a beacon of suffering. Only that those that see it read it as trouble or pain, instead of heeding the warning.
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Downtown. Newbies. Oldies. One place. It’s not often that a slice of the upwardly mobile and those cirlcling the drain have chances to interact with, or to ignore each other. The thing people must realize, especially in these times is that the hustle is universal. You make it happen or you don’t. But not everyone is suffering. Looking up feels good. Even if you are looking up from the bottom. Never look down.
I’ve seen the tent cities. I’ve walked through downtown at 2am amidst the drug addicts and homeless. Traveling home from NY I took a bus to Union Station but the bus dropped me off right in the middle of skid row. The casualness people exhibited while shooting heroin… it was unreal. The situation is more than out of control and, in my opinion, completely unnecessary. The city, the state has money to help these people. I applaud you for shedding some light on a situation that needs attention. So… where do we go from here?