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[00:14.15]Compton was the American dream.
[00:17.91]Sunny California with a palm tree in the front yard, the camper, the boat.
[00:23.36]Temptingly close to the Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s, it became "
[00:27.60]The Black American Dream".
[00:29.99]Open housing paved a way as middle class black flooded into the city.
[00:34.47]Whites don't buy houses in Compton anymore.
[00:37.88]Now with 74% of the population black power is the fact of life
[00:42.37]From banks to bowling alleys, Once a dream many black thought they've been buying has turned sour.
[00:49.02]Though the mayor and 4 out of 5 consul men are black, they have been unable to solve the problems of crime and growing welfare, which is slowing suburban turning Compton into an extension of the black innercity.
[01:01.22]Crime is now as high as the ghetto.
[01:03.27]47 homicides last year gave Compton one of the highest per capital rates in the country.
[01:08.36]Juvenal activity, muggings, and small robberies make some blacks off to leave
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