Ishi Crew
Ishi Crew
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

Neighborhood where I live up until 10–15 years ago was 15% white, and 85% african american. Now its about 40% immigrant (latino, ethiopian, other africans) and 20% white.

Latinos do all the hard jobs to a large extent — -some whites and african americans also do but at most 15% of the workers. Americans (black or white wont do that hard work especially since the contractors can get latinos and pay them under the table below minimum wage — say 5–10$ hour — americans wont do hard work for that).

Latinos and other immigrants (but mostly latinos) to a large extent work building luxury condos for upscale — mostly but not all white — educated people. Thats called gentrification. Young white educated people with high paying jobs are buying all the houses in this area which were black owned and were renovated by latinos — some of the latinos now have their own houses too. (Some bought the houses they renovated — — they often sleep 10 to a room — eg in the aptartment building next to mine — -and save their money, and buy a car and house, and start work at like 5am.)

The neighborhood i grew up in a few miles from here used to be like 40% black, 40% white, and 20% a mix of asians and latinos. (Alot of the asians and latinos were refugees from korea, vietnam and cuba — -because they were viewed as collaborators with the USA in 1950s and 1960. The local african american population had issues with them too — got tired of all these chinese carryouts selling junk food and buying all the property and not living in the area — -at night they close up and go to the suburbs — get out of the ghetto) .

Since it was mostly renters , in my old neighborhod most blacks were replaced by latinos, and then they were replaced by upscale whites once the latinos had renovated all the houses and buildings.

I hear some asian-americans are now filing a lawsuit supported by Trump against Harvard U due to ‘discrimination’ or ‘affirmative action’ — -they feel asian americans as 6% of US population deserve 30% of the spots at places like Harvard, and african americans, caucasians, maybe jews, latinos are taking the places that belong to them.

I dought they give much thought to the asian americans that run the ‘chinese carryout’ up the street (or the nearby store run by korean americans that was a local hangout until the owner was killed in a robbery a couple years ago — now ethiopians own that).

Has immigration benefited me? I know MS-13 members (or former members) from both my old neighborhood and this one — i dont mess with them and they don’t mess with me. (Many do work, but come home and get into gun battles up the street. Half of one six of another.)