South L.A. Doesn’t Need Saving
Instead, the Area Could Be a Savior to a California That’s Pushing out Its Working Class
“How can we save South Los Angeles?” is a tired question. It’s an artifact of previous decades when the region formerly called South Central was known by its reputation for crime, gangs, poverty, racial conflict, and the 1992 riots, the deadliest American urban uprising since the Civil War.
So let’s retire the old query, and turn it upside down to pose a new and urgent question: How can South Los Angeles save us?
South L.A. is no longer a place apart. Today, it sits in the center of the California story, embodying …
