5/22/2023 0 Comments Black Minded by Michael Sawyer![]() ![]() ![]() Through it all, however, the community has persevered. “Who wants to always go somewhere and have to convince somebody they’re not up to no good?” “When I come into a place, if I’m wearing a certain type of attire, I have to work extra hard to make someone think I’m not going to do something to them,” said Mark “Jacket” Junius, a barber in Leimert Park. More often, though, it’s an undercurrent of “discontentment” masquerading as everyday life - the growing food desert in South L.A., the skyrocketing rents displacing the people left behind in the great “bandemic” - the art of making money creatively during lockdown - or the uncomfortable feeling many experience in L.A.’s ritzier areas at best described as invisibility, and at worst, unwarranted suspicion. At times, festering issues of police brutality, racism and inequality have bubbled over through fiery uprisings, such as the 1992 L.A. That history wouldn’t be complete, however, without mentioning the external oppression which has plagued the community since its inception. “We bring a culinary aspect, we bring the arts, we bring dancing, we’re gonna bring the energy, poetry.” Fisher, senior pastor of Greater Zion Church Family in Compton. ![]() “We bring such history to every place we go,” said Michael J. ![]()
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