ossobuco wrote:This thread is creepy, dirty, to me, really off the wall.
I've no knowledge of why Senator Obama's mother in law chooses to live where she lives, but that is her business. Perhaps, as with many of us who have lived in non high end neighborhoods, there is some context for her decision, re connection to some people, or perhaps a church, in her community, perhaps connection to immediate neighbors, perhaps memories re her life, perhaps fondness for the precise place she lives.
Maybe for her it would be like leaving Dogtown, Venice Beach
Do you really think you could explain what the reasons could be why somebody would live in a neighborhood built on blood sweat and tears instead of development deals??? NO F@#KEN WAY
You got to live it to be part of the village. Check on old lady Henderson, Sharing some homecooked food at the fence, Helping the neibor fix some rain guttering.
East LA is like Mexican Jerusalem. If we took our mothers out of there they would probably die. But they wouldn't let us and they wouldn't go.
HELL NO people don't know why she stays. She's a Homegirl, They don't get it.
