The silence from L.A.’s Democratic community on the recent death of a 26-year-old Black gay male sex worker in the West Hollywood apartment of 63-year-old prominent Democratic political donor Ed Buck has been astounding.
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Immigration activists and Trump: ‘The pot calling the kettle black’
President Donald Trump’s proposal for a new merit-based immigration system that would screen visa applicants using a point system may be racist and exclusionary, but so is an immigrant rights movement that excludes, overlooks, and straight up ignores the voices of their darker-skinned counterparts.
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Is it true black people don’t want to work?
Black people don’t want to work.
That’s what I was told by a manager at a South Los Angeles IHOP restaurant after I inquired about the lack of African Americans working there during a recent visit.
It all started after I casually observed while waiting on friend to arrive that there were no Black employees on the floor or in the kitchen working. That prompted me to ask my server if this IHOP—located in the heart of South Los Angeles—had any African American employees. I was told yes—two.
