There Goes the Neighborhood
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View Park-Windsor Hills is the largest Black middle-class neighborhood in the country. Adele Cadres is a longtime resident and mother of three who gives us insight into the history of the neighborhood. Her eldest daughter Ayana Cadres raises her biracial children with the hopes that they foster the utmost respect and reverence for the Black community she grew up in. Adele’s youngest daughter, Aida, struggles to find an affordable home in the neighborhood due to increasing property value. As the family and other residents reflect on the history and culture of their neighborhood, they debate the issues of maintaining a changing community.
As the national conversation about the housing crisis continues and more and more people are being priced out of the market, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD provides intimate access to the families most affected by this growing issue.
"The film was masterfully directed, beautifully shot, and left me as an audience member filled with empathy, curiosity, and perhaps most importantly, humility."
AudreykEmerson.com
Citation
Main credits
Molina, Angelique (film director)
Granados, Liliana (film producer)
Wyman, Max (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Eseraele Alemu; editing, Laurie Gardiner & Yongle Wang; music, Jongnic Bontemps.
Distributor subjects
African American; RacismKeywords
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(calm piano music)
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(birds chirping)
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(inspirational music)
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- My name is Adele Cadres.
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I\'ve lived in the View
Park-Windsor Hills area
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for approximately 30 years.
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So this is Slauson avenue.
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This is a church that\'s been here a while
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that serves the community.
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Soon as we cross Slauson,
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go to Windsor Hills View Park area.
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The house where I lived
for 30 years is right here.
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It was an area that felt like community.
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It was an area that felt safe.
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I felt welcome.
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I felt I could be who I was.
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- [Woman] Like that person shoulda never
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put it out like that.
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- [Woman] Right.
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- [Woman] It\'s stupid.
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- Hell yeah.
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(laughing)
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- How you doin\'?
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- [Adele] All right.
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- Happy Mardi Gras.
- Happy Mardi Gras.
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- Thank you, darling.
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- I had a cold call today
that it was so blatant,
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I thought it was a prank call.
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She called, she said, \"Is this Adele?\"
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I said, \"Yeah.\"
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Hi, how you doin\'?
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My name is such and such.
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Well, I\'m calling to
see if you\'re interested
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in selling your property.
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How long have you been in the area?
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So I said, \"30 years but not in the same.\"
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Oh, really?
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Oh, I didn\'t know you
were there that long.
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Well, when you plan on moving?
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- [Man] Oh!
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- [Adele] William.
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- [Bianca] They\'re coming for you.
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- I said, \"Tell me something.
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\"What is the change?
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\"Why do you, what\'s going on?
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\"What is the change that
you see in the area?\"
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She said, \"Well, you
know, people like us,\"
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and she said us.
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First of all--
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- [Bianca] She trying
to pull the black card?
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- Wait, did you get a name on it?
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- I got a name, baby.
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I got a name, I got a phone number.
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She told me she\'s gonna
mail me her information
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because I really wanna have
a further conversation.
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So then she said, you know,
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people like us can\'t afford to live
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in this community anymore.
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And she said, wait a
minute, wait a minute.
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Then she was very specific and she says,
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\"And others are moving
into the neighborhood.\"
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If I didn\'t have to go to
gym to go to yoga class,
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I woulda kept her ass on
the phone for another hour.
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(birds chirping)
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- My name is Ayana Cadres.
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I\'ve been in this home
for almost four years.
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But live in View Park for
probably about 28 years.
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Definitely my heart and
soul is this neighborhood.
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Like we have this joke that
one night I was inebriated
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and I was yelling nine zero
zero for life all night.
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And people have giving me
key chains with that on it
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or like they\'ll give me presents
and that\'ll be on the back.
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This is where I wanted to be always.
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- [Interviewer] What were you yelling?
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- Nine zero zero four three for life.
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(laughs)
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- Fo\' life.
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I make the joke all the time
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that my wife brought a white
man into the neighborhood
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and started (laughs),
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started gentrification.
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There wasn\'t much when we first moved.
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- And I struggle with this all time
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because I do get upset watching
the neighborhood change.
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But I brought a white man in.
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How can I feel that way
if I brought Ian in?
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There\'s really no excuse.
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I don\'t know how to, there
is no justification for it.
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But what I can say is there\'s
a reason I married Ian.
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- [Ian] I know it meant a lot
to her to raise our family
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in the neighborhood she grew up in.
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And I believe it\'s
important to raise our kids
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in a neighborhood that
is not representative
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of sort of the segregation of white folks
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on the west side so.
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- For that reason I kind of
try to tell myself it\'s okay.
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Like he\'s okay, he gets a pass (laughs)
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if that makes any sense,
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which is absolutely ridiculous.
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But I think that at least helps me deal
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with it a little bit,
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but I do struggle with it.
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I do feel like I\'m the pot
calling the kettle black.
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- What made View Park desirable to me
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was that it was a black community.
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That it was the largest upper
middle class black community
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contiguous with Baldwin Hills,
Windsor Hills, of course,
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and Ladera Heights in the nation.
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And you know, you\'re out
here in white America.
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I\'ve come through white
colleges, white graduate schools,
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white workplaces all my life,
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and a lot of times that
constant interaction
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with white folks as an
outsider in their world,
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that takes a toll.
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And sometimes you want
to get away from that.
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You want a homeland that you can go to.
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You know a place where you can
relax and just be yourself.
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Not worry about anybody judging you
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or confirming anybody\'s stereotypes
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or having to combat anybody\'s stereotypes.
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You can just be yourself.
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(Women exclaiming)
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- Give us a twirl!
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- [Women] Whoo!
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- Ciaran likes it.
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- [Woman] You like it, Ciaran ?
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Does she look like a princess?
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- [Interviewer] So how long
have you guys been together?
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- 2000--
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- He\'s gonna give out an incorrect answer.
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- 10?
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- Yeah, so we\'ve been together since 2010,
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but we met freshman year of college,
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which was 2005.
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- Yeah.
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- And it\'s, what, it\'s 2016 now,
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so I guess that in September,
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we\'ll have been together
for six years, dating.
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- Engaged.
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- Yeah (laughs).
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That\'s pretty terrifying.
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- Yeah.
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- It\'s rough (laughs).
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We live in 200 square feet.
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So it\'s 20 feet by 20 feet,
I mean, 10 feet by 20 feet.
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(door closing)
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And we\'ve been living with my Mom
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so we\'re underneath her house since April?
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- [Man] Yeah.
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- I don\'t think it\'s later than that.
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I mean it\'s hard two people
living together in a small area
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but we also are getting older
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and would like to have a family one day,
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so we can\'t have anybody else down here.
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So to have a family
we\'re gonna need to move.
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So we need to start looking.
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What\'s our dream?
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- Find a spot in the hood.
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Find a spot in the hood.
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- My dream neighborhood
would still be View Park.
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This is where my family is.
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You have the most amazing views.
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I\'m comfortable because I feel safe.
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There\'s other neighborhoods in Los Angeles
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that are amazing and I love to visit them,
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but I know it\'s not my community.
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But this is my community,
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this is where I feel most at home.
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(jazz music)
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♪ Oh come on ♪
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♪ Yeah come on ♪
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(clapping)
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- Come on!
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Ah!
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- [Interviewer] When you were growing up,
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what did it mean
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when someone said there
goes the neighborhood?
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- Oh, ha!
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That means black folks moved in.
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- In 1956, this house was
built that were in now,
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and everyone on this street
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had signed in their property paperwork
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covenants not to sell to blacks or Jews.
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Now those covenants not to
sell weren\'t even enforceable
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in 1956 \'cause Shelly Kramer
was decided much earlier,
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but they were still putting
them in the paperwork
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just so there\'d be a
sense of moral obligation
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among neighbors to look
out for one another,
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and not sell to them
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who are gonna bring
down our property value
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and otherwise impede our community.
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- At the time,
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there was a coincidence with
a type of real estate agent,
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a realtor that was
known as a block-buster.
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Those people were real estate agents
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who look specifically to
place African Americans
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in white communities and bust up the block
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by having them move in and
scare all the neighbors
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to move out.
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And so we were basically a part of that.
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We were a large family
of nine, seven kids.
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And she encouraged us to stay out in front
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and play in the neighborhood.
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Run up and down the street
and enjoy ourselves,
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and that\'s what we did.
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- 1960 you really started to see View Park
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starting to turn around.
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By 1969, View Park is predominately black.
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And that\'s because of
mass flight by whites.
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- There were incidents that happened
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where neighbors would come out
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and they would sell their
homes literally like dominoes.
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Homes would be abandoned and
we\'d call them haunted houses
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and there were homes in this neighborhood
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that we used to just
go in and play around.
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So people literally just moved.
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(birds chirping)
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- Hmm.
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- But here is the post.
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Another addendum to the saga
of my Seacrest Drive block
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in Windsor Hills.
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The second house sold
was put on the market.
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One open house for two hours was held.
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The marketing was done almost exclusively
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to the west side.
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Nearly all the prospects
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that showed up at the
open house were white.
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So it\'s not just price,
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it\'s also where and how,
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but especially where a house
is aggressively marketed.
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- Give me the handshake.
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Two and salute, ready?
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- [Both] One, two, salute.
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- My son is the youngest,
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so when he got his driver\'s license,
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being a black male, I knew
I had to have the talk.
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And the talk I\'m speaking
about is driving while black.
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By living in View Park,
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I know that I don\'t necessarily
have to worry about him
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being pulled over because he
looks like the other residents
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in the neighborhood.
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And I don\'t have to worry about a resident
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saying they see a suspicious activity.
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(yelling)
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- There\'s been some folks next door
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that may say things that
are probably unwelcome
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in terms of feeling that there are people
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who are suspicious who are at the park
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that maybe I would see
them as kids having fun.
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And some newcomer may think,
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well, these are kids up to no good.
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I should call the sheriff.
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So there\'s been tension there too.
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- Those are the kind of calls
that weren\'t made in the past.
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But now they\'re being made.
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The calls about suspicious activity.
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- You know, I see an outcry of
families who have lived here
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for a while sharing their disappointments
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of the direction the
neighborhood is going.
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You\'ll see comments from newer members
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of the neighborhood writing
about the neighborhood
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is improving.
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Progressive families are moving in
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and people should stop
crying and whining about it.
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- I could pull up listings
that said hidden community,
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transitioning community.
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We haven\'t been hidden.
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We\'ve always been here.
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(laughing)
(baby crying)
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- Hey!
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Three, one, zero, huh?
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Two, one, zero.
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- Raspberry and naval orange.
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- Oh my goodness!
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Ah!
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- [Woman] Have a good one.
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- [Adele] We\'ll see you.
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Glad we caught you too.
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- [Woman] Have a good weekend.
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Thank you so much.
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- Coming from New York and
coming from a bigger city,
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where you see gentrification
and things change.
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You know, when I was a kid,
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Hells Kitchen in New
York, you didn\'t go there.
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- Right.
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- Now it\'s one of the
hottest spots in Manhattan.
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- Well--
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- You know, so I look at this area,
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I look at the subway coming through.
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A lot of people don\'t like it.
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I think it\'s gonna be a huge plus--
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- Well, you know why they don\'t like it?
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- To have that come through.
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- Because a lot of
people in this community
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feel they\'re being pushed out
because of gentrification.
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- Well, I get that.
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- Yeah (laughs).
- You know, you get that.
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I mean you look at.
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- It occurred to me at one point,
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it was like I\'m moving
to this neighborhood,
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and because of my skin color,
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the property value could go up.
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I think that\'s sad.
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It was like, wow, that\'s wrong.
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- Right now?
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- [Woman] Has good bones.
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See if prices (mumbles).
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- Yeah.
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I\'m sure this tradition,
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there\'s gonna always be
beautiful hardwood floors
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underneath these carpets.
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This is just traditional
in this community.
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Look like a very old original kitchen.
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I mean it\'s not like it\'s not livable.
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It\'s livable but $800,000?
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- [Interviewer] Is that
normal for this neighborhood?
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- It is now.
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It definitely is now.
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- Because the market is only gonna go up
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because the price of the
houses are just increasing
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at a staggering rate.
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So we\'re looking now even
though we\'re planning
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on having a wedding.
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And we aren\'t independently wealthy as my
Mom says, so one thing might have to go.
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If it has to be the
wedding, then so be it.
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- Knowing her dreams, our dreams,
00:14:36.469 --> 00:14:38.482
that we want to achieve,
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I can sacrifice one day.
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You know, when we got it like that
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we can go and throw another one,
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or when we have the house fixed up,
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or we move in,
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we can throw the wedding right there.
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You know, this is forever.
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So you know, it\'s long
game, it\'s long ball.
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You know?
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Not short game, so yeah, of course.
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- I think you\'re supposed to
say I\'m willing to forego.
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- I am willing to forgo
a wedding for a home.
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Yes.
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Especially with you.
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- Don\'t do it.
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- Ah.
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(kissing)
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I\'m doing it (laughs).
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(cheering)
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- Ready, set, go!
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♪ Happy birthday to ya ♪
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♪ Happy birthday to ya ♪
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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♪ Happy birthday to ya ♪
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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♪ Happy birthday ♪
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(everyone cheering)
(everyone clapping)
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(upbeat hip hop music)
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(screaming)
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(upbeat hip hop music)
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- Lots of communities or cultures
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choose to live around
people that look like them
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or have the same religion as them,
00:16:07.983 --> 00:16:10.620
but people only get in an uproar
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when black and brown people do it.
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When black and brown people
say, for instance, Silverlake,
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you know, we want to keep this area,
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it\'s like, oh, you\'re racist people.
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But nobody else trips
the Jewish community,
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the Korean community,
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the Asian, I mean the Japanese community.
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- And that was kind of their,
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what some of them were saying.
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You know, why can\'t we want to remain here
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as a community?
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And that\'s what they\'re saying
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and then somebody\'ll push back
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and say well, because
that\'s not how it works.
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And you should want diversity.
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- [Ayana] But don\'t white
people do the same thing?
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- Yes, and to your point, they do.
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- There\'s nothing wrong with diversity.
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- [Adele] No, there\'s
nothing wrong with it.
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- There\'s nothing wrong with diversity.
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Diversity\'s awesome.
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And I mean I think it\'s important
to separate the individual
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from the institutional and systemic.
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Because obviously when a white family
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moves into this neighborhood,
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they\'re not trying to do a bad thing.
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Their motives are simply
that they want to find a home
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to live in.
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I understand and obviously
I love white people.
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Who doesn\'t love white people?
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I think that the point
is the systemic nature
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of this change.
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- It never entered my mind,
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maybe we shouldn\'t live there
because we\'re not black.
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Can there be a world where color stops
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and we all are just neighbors
and friends and children
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and lovers and husbands and
wives and stuff like that?
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The only way that world
is ever going to happen
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is if we integrate with each other.
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If I don\'t move here because
I don\'t want to change,
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then it\'s never going to change.
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- [Interviewer] So what do
you say to people who say,
00:17:44.370 --> 00:17:46.380
but we\'re all human, we\'re all the same.
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Why can\'t we all just get
along and live together
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in integration?
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- Because we don\'t live
00:17:52.544 --> 00:17:54.450
in a post-racial society
like everybody thinks.
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We live in a racist America.
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A very racist America.
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I don\'t know of any community
where gentrification
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or a change in neighborhood
has taken place
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and the community is no
longer a black community
00:18:13.500 --> 00:18:15.313
that anybody complains.
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Look at Venice Beach, California.
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Look at Abbott Kinney.
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That community was a
predominantly black community.
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It\'s no longer a diverse community.
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It\'s pretty much a white community.
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Is that a problem anymore?
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Does anybody say well,
we really need diversity?
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We really need the black community
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to come back to those areas.
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Now what we\'re coming upon here,
00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:50.440
this used to be called
Santa Barbara Square,
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when the street wasn\'t
Martin Luther King Blvd.
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This was a mall.
00:18:54.510 --> 00:18:58.260
Recently this place, Jerry\'s Flying Fox,
00:18:58.260 --> 00:19:00.563
last call, January 25th,
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I was at the last call.
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This was a historic night club.
00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:09.150
He held out the owner, he held
that place for over 40 years.
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50 years.
00:19:10.450 --> 00:19:12.100
Finally couldn\'t no longer
00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:15.240
because this is going
to be a Kaiser Hospital.
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This was all African American businesses.
00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:24.390
And they finally were
able to buy it all up
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and will have a hospital.
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- It is unfortunate.
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Most people don\'t want to move.
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Even this property being sold
now, they don\'t want to move.
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It was reverse mortgage.
00:19:42.469 --> 00:19:43.467
- [Adele] Right.
00:19:43.467 --> 00:19:44.475
- And they are priced out.
00:19:44.475 --> 00:19:45.308
They can not buy the property back
00:19:45.308 --> 00:19:46.190
from the loan that was taken.
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This is a childhood lady.
00:19:47.410 --> 00:19:49.280
It was a childhood--
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- [Adele] Resident.
- Resident.
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- [Adele] Okay, just like us.
00:19:52.394 --> 00:19:53.227
- And she\'s trying to refinance
00:19:53.227 --> 00:19:54.440
and it doesn\'t work for her.
00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:55.500
So she\'s forced to sell.
00:19:55.500 --> 00:19:58.440
She can\'t even really be
here during the open house
00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:00.646
because it\'s too hard for her.
00:20:00.646 --> 00:20:01.694
- [Adele] It\'s too hard on her.
00:20:01.694 --> 00:20:02.527
I can imagine.
00:20:02.527 --> 00:20:03.890
- It took me one month to get
her to move her stuff out.
00:20:03.890 --> 00:20:07.320
Literally four weeks of
this, trying to get her out.
00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:08.317
- [Adele] Just to try to get her out.
00:20:08.317 --> 00:20:09.322
- Popping by.
00:20:09.322 --> 00:20:11.240
Even had to hire the movers for her.
00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.047
- [Adele] Wow, well I
mean you think about that.
00:20:13.047 --> 00:20:14.250
How would you feel?
00:20:14.250 --> 00:20:16.238
- I would feel, I thought about it.
00:20:16.238 --> 00:20:17.330
I\'ve thought about it.
00:20:17.330 --> 00:20:18.220
I thought about every time.
00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:19.730
We cried and prayed.
00:20:19.730 --> 00:20:21.530
We called and tried to see
what we could do with the bank
00:20:21.530 --> 00:20:22.850
and they just want their money of course.
00:20:22.850 --> 00:20:24.460
- [Adele] They want their money.
00:20:24.460 --> 00:20:25.471
- Yeah, it\'s business.
00:20:25.471 --> 00:20:26.464
- [Adele] It\'s business, right.
00:20:26.464 --> 00:20:27.297
- So yeah, we tried our
best to keep her here.
00:20:27.297 --> 00:20:28.130
It just didn\'t work on paper
00:20:28.130 --> 00:20:29.710
and we\'re forced to sell.
00:20:29.710 --> 00:20:31.450
- [Adele] Right, right.
00:20:31.450 --> 00:20:32.867
- My parents were actually
going to lose their home.
00:20:34.306 --> 00:20:39.270
And I decided even though I
was not living in California,
00:20:39.270 --> 00:20:41.380
I had to make a decision whether View Park
00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:43.930
was important to me or not.
00:20:43.930 --> 00:20:47.190
I kinda still had a wench
tied to this neighborhood
00:20:47.190 --> 00:20:49.380
and I knew that no matter what,
00:20:49.380 --> 00:20:53.430
I didn\'t want to lose that
grounding in View Park.
00:20:53.430 --> 00:20:55.570
And so within 48 hours,
00:20:55.570 --> 00:20:58.025
I had to come up with a
substantial amount of money
00:20:58.025 --> 00:21:00.530
to purchase the home out of foreclosure
00:21:00.530 --> 00:21:01.880
on behalf of my parents.
00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:04.000
And I chose to make that decision,
00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.780
even though I was living a
completely different life
00:21:06.780 --> 00:21:08.240
in another state.
00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:10.600
- So what we gonna do to
keep our neighborhood?
00:21:10.600 --> 00:21:12.470
- I\'m gonna have to work a third job
00:21:12.470 --> 00:21:15.400
so that I can help my son buy a house
00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:16.320
in this neighborhood (laughs).
00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:18.467
- [Woman] Uncle William said it\'s done.
00:21:18.467 --> 00:21:19.300
- [Woman] He said it\'s
done, it\'s too late.
00:21:19.300 --> 00:21:20.180
- I don\'t think it\'s too late.
00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:22.530
- No, because it\'s gonna
take people like you
00:21:22.530 --> 00:21:24.060
to not answer those calls
00:21:24.060 --> 00:21:26.340
or to make these people be honest
00:21:26.340 --> 00:21:30.770
because there\'s somebody
else that isn\'t as aware
00:21:30.770 --> 00:21:33.280
that will definitely bite on that call.
00:21:33.280 --> 00:21:34.390
- [Adele] That\'s why
she\'s making those calls.
00:21:34.390 --> 00:21:35.979
- Absolutely and that\'s scary.
00:21:35.979 --> 00:21:36.812
- [Adele] She\'s targeting the seniors.
00:21:36.812 --> 00:21:37.820
- [Woman] The old people.
00:21:37.820 --> 00:21:41.230
- [Adele] Old people who feel
like this is our only way out,
00:21:41.230 --> 00:21:43.307
and they kind of tell them you know,
00:21:43.307 --> 00:21:45.600
you want to move on, there\'s other places.
00:21:45.600 --> 00:21:47.756
Oh wait a minute, oh no, wait, wait, wait.
00:21:47.756 --> 00:21:48.827
- [Woman] But she\'s telling you
00:21:48.827 --> 00:21:49.825
you can\'t even afford your rent.
00:21:49.825 --> 00:21:50.834
- You know what she told me (laughs)?
00:21:50.834 --> 00:21:51.839
Wait a minute.
00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:52.672
I really needed this call recorded
00:21:52.672 --> 00:21:55.580
\'cause she says you know, so
we are moving to Riverside
00:21:55.580 --> 00:21:56.413
and (mumbles).
00:21:57.270 --> 00:21:58.276
- [Woman] We are.
00:21:58.276 --> 00:21:59.840
- [Woman] So she tried to, mmm-mmm.
00:21:59.840 --> 00:22:01.380
- Riverside and I said, guess what?
00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:03.220
I\'m never moving to Riverside.
00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:04.320
(laughing)
00:22:04.320 --> 00:22:05.231
Never!
00:22:05.231 --> 00:22:06.550
- Nine, zero, zero, four, three for life.
00:22:06.550 --> 00:22:08.468
- [Woman] Uncle William\'s
taking you to Riverside.
00:22:08.468 --> 00:22:09.301
- He\'s not taking me to Riverside.
00:22:09.301 --> 00:22:11.462
His family\'s in Riverside
and they\'re miserable.
00:22:11.462 --> 00:22:12.519
- [Adele] I heard that.
00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:13.614
- [Woman] I would be miserable too.
00:22:13.614 --> 00:22:15.900
- I\'m in L.A. and I\'m
eating this lovely shrimp,
00:22:15.900 --> 00:22:16.973
and when I leave here,
00:22:16.973 --> 00:22:19.380
they don\'t have shrimp, this
lovely shrimp in Riverside.
00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:20.550
- [Man] The shrimp is lovely.
00:22:20.550 --> 00:22:22.470
- Okay, and I\'m gonna leave here
00:22:22.470 --> 00:22:24.473
and I\'ll go to my sisteren.
00:22:24.473 --> 00:22:27.100
My sister live right up
on the corner on Mullen
00:22:27.100 --> 00:22:29.560
and I\'m gonna go party
with her in the hood.
00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:31.600
So no, I\'m not going to Riverside.
00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:35.100
- I\'ve only seen two people
on these Nextdoor websites
00:22:35.100 --> 00:22:37.470
or these Facebook websites,
00:22:37.470 --> 00:22:40.810
who are white people that
have moved in a new residence
00:22:40.810 --> 00:22:42.340
who just say wow,
00:22:42.340 --> 00:22:45.160
I understand how hard
this must be for you guys.
00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:46.890
Like that\'s all you need to say.
00:22:46.890 --> 00:22:49.820
Don\'t say anything, don\'t
argue about diversity.
00:22:49.820 --> 00:22:51.850
Yes, everybody, I know, we know.
00:22:51.850 --> 00:22:53.130
Diversity is a wonderful thing
00:22:53.130 --> 00:22:54.890
but that\'s not like what the issue is.
00:22:54.890 --> 00:22:57.450
The issue is we have
held onto this community.
00:22:57.450 --> 00:23:00.860
This community has been
where everyone wants to be.
00:23:00.860 --> 00:23:04.010
It is like pop champagne
when you get here.
00:23:04.010 --> 00:23:05.000
I made it.
00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.370
You feel comfortable.
00:23:07.370 --> 00:23:09.850
You feel like you can raise your children
00:23:09.850 --> 00:23:12.100
in a safe environment with
people that look like them
00:23:12.100 --> 00:23:15.010
and have the same, you
just feel comfortable.
00:23:15.010 --> 00:23:16.160
I don\'t know how else to describe it
00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:17.790
but it\'s just a level of comfort.
00:23:17.790 --> 00:23:19.610
And then to feel like
you\'re grasping on that
00:23:19.610 --> 00:23:21.990
and you\'re losing it is very difficult.
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It\'s like losing, it\'s a grieving thing.
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- Ah!
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Whoo!
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- Hi, happy 40th (mumbles).
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- Happy 40th!
00:23:33.930 --> 00:23:36.680
(child laughing)
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(cheering)
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- I have this fear that
because my kids look white,
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they\'ll just kind of feel like,
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okay, maybe I\'m just white.
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And they won\'t be, how do I say this?
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I want them to think
that black is beautiful.
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Like that is my biggest fear
that they won\'t think that.
00:23:58.083 --> 00:24:02.000
(peaceful inspirational music)
00:24:07.844 --> 00:24:10.094
(laughing)
00:24:27.915 --> 00:24:30.248
(screaming)
00:24:31.451 --> 00:24:34.451
(upbeat folk music)
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- How I said, how you guys doin\'?
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- Hey, how\'s it goin\'?
- Hey.
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- Oh (laughs).
00:25:27.690 --> 00:25:30.010
Wait, could you get,
was that filmed, please?
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- This is not okay.
00:25:31.260 --> 00:25:33.330
No, we\'re not going to prom.
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This is not right.
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(laughing)
00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:38.129
- Yeah, that\'s right, do the prom picture.
00:25:38.129 --> 00:25:39.128
(laughing)
00:25:39.128 --> 00:25:41.545
- [Everyone] Cadres Kale squad.
00:25:41.545 --> 00:25:42.378
- Squad.
00:25:44.367 --> 00:25:45.406
- Ow!
00:25:45.406 --> 00:25:46.323
Uh.
- Okay, stop.
00:25:46.323 --> 00:25:47.570
Come on, let\'s go.
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Okay, pay attention.
00:25:49.248 --> 00:25:53.684
- [Everyone] We are the
Cadres Guidera family.
00:25:53.684 --> 00:25:56.550
(laughing)
00:25:56.550 --> 00:26:00.161
(car alarm beeping)
00:26:00.161 --> 00:26:02.450
- [Everyone] We\'re the Myles family.
00:26:02.450 --> 00:26:04.985
(laughing)
00:26:04.985 --> 00:26:06.170
- Everybody\'s bombing.
00:26:06.170 --> 00:26:08.044
- You can\'t just bail.
00:26:08.044 --> 00:26:09.199
(laughing)
It will be noticed.
00:26:09.199 --> 00:26:11.673
- [Everybody] Hi, we\'re the Myles family.
00:26:14.090 --> 00:26:15.576
- You\'re on.
00:26:15.576 --> 00:26:17.830
(laughing)
00:26:17.830 --> 00:26:18.860
- I\'m Chris.
00:26:18.860 --> 00:26:20.430
- I\'m Gia.
00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:22.692
- I\'m Bob and we\'re the O--
00:26:22.692 --> 00:26:23.640
(laughing)
00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:24.510
- I\'m Chris.
00:26:24.510 --> 00:26:26.121
- I\'m Gia.
00:26:26.121 --> 00:26:27.116
- And I\'m Bob.
00:26:27.116 --> 00:26:28.400
- [All] And we\'re the Obroctos.
00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:29.960
- I\'m Doctor Florian Thompson.
00:26:29.960 --> 00:26:33.660
I lived in View Park for 57 years.
00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:36.410
- My name is Jody Armour,
I\'m reppin\' the Armour family
00:26:37.730 --> 00:26:39.013
and we\'ve been here in
View Park for 20 years.
00:26:44.364 --> 00:26:46.531
(beeping)
