The mental picture a lot of people have of fire threatened "interface zones" is of mansions on hills, but the map of the Eaton Fire is a terrifying proxy for the map of northeast Los Angeles' Black enclaves
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Maybe it’s ok to try to talk about the historical/sociological obstacles to mass transit here. Maybe I need to read my reddits on a verified YouTube first. 🤷♂️
Just b4 I moved to LA, I got to spend 3 nights with Butch Morris thanks to @siddharthamitter.bsky.social. He told us how, growing up in Watts, visiting family in Altadena was like traveling to another world. He didn't think it made him an artist but shaped the kind he became https://youtu.be/GhXnA7gj6j4?si=a-_DgFs47eeDlp4x
It may be weeks or months before you can retake the walk through Black Pasadena @lynellgeorge.bsky.social takes in the introduction to her beautiful meditation on Octavia E. Butler. Much of it is under mandatory evacuation, and if you keep going north it is burned https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/handful-earth-handful-sky-reveals-153006639.html
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