It's gon be hard....

...when I am all finished with school to decide where I wanna live. I love the spirit of California, but at the same time, I absolutely love living around huge masses of children of Afrika. No, Im not saying that I don't like people outside of my race, but I love love love places like Texas, Georgia, NC, and Florida where there are numerous cities where my people make up the majority, and we're not all under the poverty line, cuz thats just not inspiring..also bcuz southern Black culture is MY culture.

Still, there are a few neighborhoods in LA that have cultivated some interest within my ever evolving brain. One of those is (NEIGHBORHOOD SPOTLIGHT) View Park - Windsor Hills.

What attracts me to this neighborhood?

• superb collection of Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, and modernistic style houses
• manicured lawns
• part of the largest geographically contiguous middle and upper-class Black area in the U.S.
• 88% of the people look like me (Children of Mama Afrika)
  
• Ray Charles, James Cleveland, and Tina Turner have all been residents.
• Median family income $100,400 ~ we're doin ok..
  
• the sense of pride in the community many of the residents have shows in the care taken for the neighborhood

A few months ago, I was introduced to the neighborhood when I documented some of the area on my film camera for my photography class. My official introduction came when I went to a USC Black Alumni event, and felt that maybe by climbing the career ladder I wont be "selling out" after all.

Perhaps, 90043 will be my zip code one day???