Snooty Santa Monica Neighborhood: Banal Email Sent To A Neighborhood Forum Through Listserv Stirs Up Heated Accusation Concerning Racist

The Santa Monica neighborhood has been the subject by the locals because of its Listserv that has been attached to racism issue. When you give discriminatory remarks (even unconsciously) against someone who is in some manner inferior to you, tendency is that you would be called a racist. That is somehow the case that happened in the liberal Los Angeles neighborhood.

Tamara Shayne Kagel of Pacific Standard has written an article concerning neighborhood that is racist. Her report is triggered by the incident that she happened to observe in her own locality. Kagel talks the incident that stirs up racism in the liberal Los Angeles neighborhood. She has recalled a racist comment of one of the denizens.

Kagel reports that it began in an innocent comment made by one neighbor. The person sent "banal email to the neighborhood forum" along with a snap of " some white children near an African-American homeless man" using its Listserv. The email reads "June 23, 2015 11:03 a.m.: These children had to pass by this homeless man camped out next to [identifying information deleted] tunnel today. He was rolling a joint in front of the kids and it is not right for the children to see this behavior. Bike patrol is needed since this area has become the new Venice Beach!!!"

But that message stirs up accusation, the thread has shown exchanges of opinions and defenses of their comments. On of the responses says "June 23, 2015 11:27 a.m.: "Homelessness doesn't equal dangerous. There has [sic] been a lot of racist comments on this group. If I can please recommend everyone double and triple check what they want to send out before they press send. Many Thanks."

As Kagel presents the exchanges, she also asks a rhetorical question if they were really racist? Then she goes on telling that all who responded in that forum were white, but she also says that she doesn't think there are any African Americans living in my neighborhood. She also mentions that the this particular area only has about a hundred households being serviced by Listserv. Thus, Kagel could safely assume that it is a white neighborhood and a bunch of white people have gone overboard in assuring themselves that they are definitely not doing anything racist. She also observes that not many in the neighborhood have supported the woman who reminded her neighbors to be conscious of what they send to the group.

Kagel says that racism would never be addressed unless "people stop looking for racists under white sheets and start looking in their own mirrors."

Adrian Glick Kudler of L.A Curbed has reported the same incident in this snooty Santa Monica neighborhood. Kudler has noted that last month's incident is not the first time that this kind of observation has been discussed in the forum. There has been a similar issue that has occurred earlier in the year, which is somehow explicitly expressed.

The remark states about those unwanted people who go around the neighborhood, telling home owners what they're doing in the area. The person has advised to scare them off. " I tell them that I am going to call the police and that it doesn't matter what they are selling or asking for donations for, they are not allowed to be in our neighborhood."

Kubler has summarized the whole comment and simply puts it this way: "They're not allowed. Scare them off. They know they shouldn't be here. This is a liberal Santa Monica neighborhood in 2015."

People somehow pretend that they are not racist but when they expressed comments, as seen in Listserv, they somehow speak their prejudices either directly or indirectly, and with that they circuitously classify themselves as such.

In the final words of Kagel's article "Is your neighborhood racist," she wishes that there were African-American individual in her "neighborhood's listserv" to enlighten this issue although she said that it is not the job of the African-American to teach her neighborhood about their own racism. "But there aren't any African-American people in my neighborhood to push back like that."