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Despite your obfuscation, the fact remains that a man who is relatively successful is behaving is ways that place him on the level of any other street thug. He chose live dangerously, and now he's dead.
Blame it on whitey if you will. In my opinion, the absence of white people doesn't cause crime. Your apparent disrespect of blacks is truely disturbing. I have lived in communities where the black to white ratio is very high, and never seen crime.
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I wasn't trying to obscure anything. First, my I only was pointing out that the article gave no reason for him to be in South Central. He could have had family there or was dropping off a friend. We don't know. In such a situation, I find it illogical to first blame the victim (I'm hoping you also put some blame on the perpetrator).
Second, I show no disrespect for the black community. Your comment that you lived in a community with a high black:white ratio is interesting. I grew up in Watts. That's in the heart of South Central Los Angeles. So, I also grew-up in a community with a high black:white ratio, and I also have the edge in knowledge of the actual locale. Believe me, it was a nice area to grow-up in. It had the best weather, was nicely located, and had lot sizes that were quite decent, for being so close to an urban area.
Third, I witnessed the "white flight" back in the 50s and 60s. This left South Central economically blighted, since many of these people were "middle class" and professionals. My feeling is that this left the area susceptible to criminals, especially the gangs (Crips and Bloods) which surfaced shortly thereafter. I have no data to back me up, but my point was only that South Central is a nice location geographically, but awful with respect to it's economy. If you tend to take offense to my observation of the white flight back in the 50s-60s, I'm sorry. It was just my observation, as anecdotal as it may be.