Reading a book on black Los Angeles, seeing how segregation built up and created this city in detail. In East Hollywood, Latinos are a majority, followed by white people through gentrification. If in four years I\u2019ve seen a dozen black people in Silver Lake, that would be the max.<\/p>\n
In Paris, that would happen in four minutes. It\u2019s heavy on my mind. It\u2019s disturbing to me.<\/p>\n
Even more so with the fact that I don\u2019t experience segregation like history shows me how it exists and founded interracial relationship in the USA.<\/p>\n
But when I get a flat tire on my bike, a pretty old white dude riding his bike on the other side of the street stops and asks me \u201cneed some tubes or anything?\u201d<\/em> That would never fucking happen in Paris.<\/p>\n It is so destabilizing. I feel like being in a dream, living things no black people live.<\/p>\n It\u2019s 26\u00b0C today and in a week I go back to 0\u00b0C winter, my white family and its ethnocentrism.<\/p>\n Sometimes I\u2019m proud of how I handle what I have to put up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reading a book on black Los Angeles, seeing how segregation built up and created this city in detail. In East Hollywood, Latinos are a majority, followed by white people through gentrification. If in four years I\u2019ve seen a dozen black people in Silver Lake, that would be the max. In Paris, that would happen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}