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Good luck, Mayor Sanders...
MrSelfDestruct 44 Reviews 2330 reads
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you're gonna need it.  All eyes on you.

(I posted this here and not on the Politics board because it is relative only to us San Diegans)

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times252423 reads

Better on him than on us!

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Jai2978 reads

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Suzanne2353 reads

MSD, you already know what I think about calling this barren cultureless wasteland of a city, 'America's Finest', don't you!!  :-)

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MrSelfDestruct1823 reads

you know you can't have both culture and great weather, don't you?

Thankfully, we have European Delight instead. :)

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Your Editor1371 reads

I like the place, but I gotta wonder about us supporting guys like Roger Hedgecock as a radio moralist.   If a convicted perjurer can get ratings as a moralizing wildman, there is something wrong with a whole lot of us.

In another lifetime, I worked for a lawyer when a black DI from MCRD came in with waterproof documentation that he & his wife had been turned down to rent a private apt because of race.  I mean, we're talking an active duty Marine who had passed thru some of their most stringent schools, and would lose his job if his CO heard he wasn't paying his bills, and the landlord just said, "i won't rent to blacks" - and then we investigated it and found that San Diego juries are so freaking happy that they WILL NOT grant much of anything for punies, and so the case went nowhere.

Yeah, it's a strange place in lotsa ways.   All Pollyanna Perverse.

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2sense3046 reads

It wasn't that long ago (~1950's) that there were covenants in  La Jolla, preventing Jews and other minorities from buying homes. This was matched by the hiring restrictions at places such as Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, when it was the Scripps Metabolic Clinic in the '30's and '40's.

Interestingly, there was a piece in the local rag (Union-Tribune, I think) a few years back about blacks and hispanics whose families had owned modest homes in La Jolla for generations. Seems that their ancestors were servants to the La Jolla gentry, and these employers insisted on local housing for their staff. Other than these few exceptions, the housing covenants remained in force until the Civil Rights movement of the late '50's and early '60's.

A few little known facts, about San Diego.

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umiami2263 reads

No culture? Wasteland? Racist? Why dont you move to the Southeast where your complaints would be real!

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