Black Family in Los Angeles in the 1920s

People say as a newspaper publisher, I’m supposed to be objective.

I disagree. I publish a community newspaper.

Owing to the fact that this is my newspaper, I will state that I do have an agenda. I dare anyone to name a newspaper that does not have an agenda. My agenda is to protect and preserve the middle class in Inglewood and our property values.

Inglewood is a diverse place, but I cover what I know and more importantly what I care about. I don’t have to be fair. I don’t think it’s very fair to give a corporation from somewhere else the same benefit of a doubt as I would a neighbor. I don’t want to be objective about free giveaways to billion-dollar corporations.

I care about Inglewood. I care about the future of it.

It bothers me when it is characterized in a disparaging way by local newspapers.

The people on my block are professionals. I have graduates of Penn State, Hunter College, Vassar, UCLA and USC as neighbors.

Those big box stores along Century Boulevard are filled with people who are not from our community.

Those big box stores are not for us.

I am not impressed with the understaffing at all of the oft-touted “number one in sales” of the big chain stores that litter Century.
The reason we have “number one” big box stores with limited staff and unimpressive service is because the people who run this city have sold the idea to outsiders that Inglewood residents are trash and that any piece of corporate retail “justice” will do.

I’m not impressed with the disgusting 99¢ Only store and its disgusting unwashed parking lot. I’m not impressed with the Food-4-Less.

I’m not impressed with the most disgusting Target in L.A. County.

All of these are examples of how corporations treat a people when the politicians tout their residents as trash as a selling point.

Our Target is disgusting because Target cuts corners in our community, because One Manchester made it clear that they don’t care and that they’ll accept anything.

One Manchester and their supporters have a hand in the perception of Inglewood as being a place of blight and desperation.

I will continue to write and publish about my disgust for people who aren’t from here and who don’t understand that Inglewood isn’t like the community they grew up in.

Our community is a one that didn’t burn during the 1990s riots. It is a community that being black and a college graduate isn’t unusual. It is a community that has had a strong albeit inclusive middle class since the 1960s. My agenda is to keep it that way