Selfie of white joggers in African American neighborhood sets off debate, and quest for understandin

[AngryAmish]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-leimert-park-20170208-story.html


"It was the selfie that set Leimert Park talking.

There was DeMille Halliburton, his arm outstretched in the foreground, shooting a photo of the Saturday running group the African American entertainment industry insurer has long organized.


Behind him stood eight white neighbors, smiling under a sunny sky, a few holding on to their dogs’ leashes. Tucked in the very back were two black runners.

The photo Halliburton uploaded that day in October set off a storm of debate in Leimert Park, a middle-class, traditionally African American neighborhood."

[ExciteBike66]

1. Ugly talk about "losing the culture" in the neighborhood...

as if the new neighbors moving in somehow do not bring any culture with them?

Some of the folks interviewed for this article sound like bizarro versions of Steve King.

[MichMan]

2. Racism & bigotry has no boundaries nm