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any real Echo Park Locos or Locas read this??


if so please email me....[email protected]

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What exact characteristics define a loca? :-)




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I leave a few blocks from Echo Park !

and life is nowhere near like
"MI VIDA LOCA"

Hollywood is such a S**t-hole ! !

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first of all it's live not leave because you are not going away. and second of all how are you? where you even alive when this movie takes places. they are talking about the really 90's when being in a gang meant a lot, because people thought that, that was the only way to have real friends and to protcect you and your family.


also a loca is some one who would do any thing that is crazy for a friend, and family member or your nighborhood.

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You want to start S**T putoo.

You don't know who ya missin with fooo.

(LOL)

Nah, i was born in the eighties, and
live all around LA, watching movies like

Blood in Blood Out.

I know everything about Echo Park, I live
there right Now !

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Yeah, but Echo Park is nothing now like it was back then. Aint really a ghetto like that no more.

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Yeah, I know, it's alot more . . . Cleaner !

I use to visit alot during the early 90's.
We would always go to the park, almost everyday.
It was creepy during those days.

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Gentrification. All of the buildings, owned by landlords, are being bought out by developers. The buildings are then ripped apart and turned into mini malls and townhomes, priced to attract upper, middle class yuppies. If that doesn't sound sinister enough, many of these developers have bribed city council members to push for gang injunctions, to basically keep the poor minorities left over in the area, who own their own homes, from so much as showing their faces in public. When that doesn't satisfy them, they push for Eminent Domain, which means the city forces the residents out of the homes for the simple reason that what would be built in place of the homes would be more beneficial to the city's economy than the homes were. America, home of the free...sometimes.

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gentrification is pretty badass
starts with one poor neighborhood, the poor get pushed out cause they can't afford the new rent because of rising land value so they move to some other, let's say average neighborhood but since they are poor (and POSSIBLY minorities) they bring the land value down making the new neighborhood ripe for more gentrification

I was gonna write something inflammatory at first but this is actually interesting

it's impossible to not have poor people, it's like a private bittorrent tracker, it's impossible for everyone to have a 1:1 ratio

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The only reason you have "normal, middle class" people is because there are jobs which make them normal, and middle class. Take away those jobs, and they're poor, too. Why not train the "spiks" and "nigras" in these areas to do the jobs that the yuppie "crackers" and "homos" are making the money at to pay the high rent?

If you're just a racist and want blacks and Mexican-Americans relocated to the desert, hey, that's your view. It's your life. Want to spend it riddled with hate, be my guest. Maybe they'll give you an AM radio show, or an hour on FoxNews. But don't be so foolish as to think that white people respond to poverty any differently than minorities do. Seen the trailers parks of the midwest? Look of the DOJ's meth statistics. For further study on whites getting their "thug on", read about how the mob exploited poor whites during the great depression, when many whites who were gainfully employed a decade earlier, found themselves bootlegging and running numbers for the mob. Why? There was no other way to make money. Ahh, excuses, excuses....

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you don't mean "normal middle 'classpeople'"...you mean WHITE middle class people. this is an injust displacement of people of color who were first shoved off into separate communities where they established their own culture and life and then were FORCED into abandoning it decades later. it's a racist injustice - pure colonialism.

you know, it's very easy to spread racist views online when you're hidden. and it's sooooo lazy to just come up with slurs and bigot opinions... gimme a break, columbus.

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If you want to watch movie that gets into the gentrification of Echo Park, you should see Quinceanera http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451176/. Interesting film.

When the world slips you a jeffrey, stroke the furry wall.

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i hear that RobSac, the same agenda is going on here in NY thanks to Bloomberg. hes trying to make NYC and the surrounding boroughs a playground for the wealthy elite

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well it was around Boyle hights exactly this way but like AMerican me took away the east LA area they had to replace it witha diferent section LA

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