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I just read an article n variety n is there any truth to the rumor amp goin sports

It is an unfortunate life spent viewing the entire world through the prism of race and victimization.

Reality is often harsher than clouded vision. Many non-Hispanic whites believe they are fair, both individually and through their elected, mostly white, officials.

The fact that this is not true is the source of many of our issues, right up to today's violent demonstrations in LA and Minneapolis.

I refer you back to my original statement - no one was killed (as the commenter alluded to), several if not many were compensated.

The first few were compensated well. After that, every day others delayed in selling the price went down until the prices were tantamount to theft.

Eminent domain is for the public good, and people of all colors have had their lives disrupted to make way for progress at one time or another.

In a way-too-often scenario eminent domain favors construction companies, politicians, land developers and the like.

And of course you fail to mention all of the good that has come out of it, especially the multiple generations of hispanics who love their "Doyers", take their families to the games for quality family time, and whose communities have benefited in many ways from the Dodgers being in town. The Dodgers may have been given a gift when they came, but they have given back much more, especially to the hispanic community.

And they could have located the stadium in undeveloped zones where there was plenty of land in the 50's. But no, it had to be close to downtown.

By the way, public housing is socialist. Socialism is not racist, it destroys lives of people of all colors everywhere it goes. I know you are familiar with the Venezuela story.

Public housing should be, and in most cities, is a way to get people of low incomes or with disabilities or hardships out of slumloard exploitation-based housing. It is no more socialist than a public hospital or a city park. It is the work of many to help a deserving few.

Sure, in socialist countries the government wants to own all property. The intent is to control society. In free societies, such social welfare should be, and often is, intended to benefit those who need a helping hand. Charity, whether private or publicly administered, is a basic tenet of Western society.
 
And this sums it up perfectly. I've been to Dodger games in recent years, last being in 2018 and Dodger Stadium is always filled with Hispanics in attendance. It greatly adds to the atmosphere and vibe of the stadium and they love the home team!.

In persons under 50, LA is over 50% Hispanic. It does not take much out of 6 or 7 million to half-fill a stadium.

You'll note that, for the last 50 years when Dodgers games are on Spanish language radio stations in LA, the audience drops when the games are on.
 
And they could have located the stadium in undeveloped zones where there was plenty of land in the 50's. But no, it had to be close to downtown.

Stadiums are usually built near downtowns to maximize attendance and experience. Look at the Staples Center, Coliseum and the new SoFi Stadium.
 
You'll note that, for the last 50 years when Dodgers games are on Spanish language radio stations in LA, the audience drops when the games are on.

Every (or just about every) Dodger game has been broadcast by Jaime Jarrin since 1959. Hispanics continue to flock to the games, aiding to their near-daily sellouts, well through 2019....
 
Stadiums are usually built near downtowns to maximize attendance and experience. Look at the Staples Center, Coliseum and the new SoFi Stadium.

LA has a half dozen "downtowns" which is why the new NFL team stadium is being built far to the west of downtown near the airport

Let's see... there is the banking downtown, the entertainment downtown (actually, several of those), the electronics industry downtown, the tourist downtown and then a bunch of satellite downtowns like Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, Van Nuys, Santa Monica, Long Beach, etc., etc.

Most traditional major league stadium locations were picked before urban expansion had changed the face of most cities.

In effect, stadium placement in most cases, is not proper for today's fans. This is a bit like why AM died... most think it was due to fidelity. In fact, that was just part of it: most big city FMs cover their market much better than the AMs that were licensed before WW II and in many markets there are zero AMs that cover the whole thing day and night.
 
Every (or just about every) Dodger game has been broadcast by Jaime Jarrin since 1959. Hispanics continue to flock to the games, aiding to their near-daily sellouts, well through 2019....

It's funny that one of Jaime's relatives worked for me in Ecuador in the 60's and spoke of how hard it was for his cousin to get by in those early days.
 
Really? Ever been to AT&T Stadium? Ever been to FedEx Field? Ever been to MetLife Stadium? Hard Rock Stadium? How about Gillette?

AT&T, now called Oracle (SF Giants), is in downtown San Francisco. Last there in 2002 to watch the Dodgers play......and unfortunately lose!
 
Reality is often harsher than clouded vision. Many non-Hispanic whites believe they are fair, both individually and through their elected, mostly white, officials. The fact that this is not true is the source of many of our issues, right up to today's violent demonstrations in LA and Minneapolis.

You can prove this "fact"?

What you are engaging in now is straight up racism and has no place on this board from any poster, much less a moderator. Consider this post a referral to one.
 
Wrong stadium. The AT&T stadium I was talking about is located near Arlington Texas, where this football team called the Cowboys plays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Stadium

It's 45 minutes from Dallas.

As someone who HAS been to AT&T Stadium (as well as the nearby Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers) and spends much quality time in the Dallas Metroplex, I can tell you that the stadium is much closer than 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. 20-25 is more like it - less than 20 miles west. The stadiums (as well as the nearby Six Flags amusement park) are in an entertainment complex essentially half-way between Dallas and Fort Worth to make it centrally located to most folks in the Metroplex.
 
You can prove this "fact"?

What you are engaging in now is straight up racism and has no place on this board from any poster, much less a moderator. Consider this post a referral to one.

It is life experience.

It is the result of being with a friend in the line of a store and being told, "if you don't learn English you should go back home".

It is being asked why I have "those friends" when I worked at an all Black radio station when I was 13 and had most of my friends among the workers and their families.

It is working with Spanish language radio in the US going back, off and on, to 1972 and hearing major advertisers say things like "your listeners don't buy our cars, they steal them".

It is having my daughter punished in a school on the mainland for speaking Spanish with a friend during recess.

It is trying to prove to the admissions office at a school in LA that another daughter did not "need a green card because she is from Puerto Rico and foreigners need papers to register..."

It is doing Spanish language talk radio in LA for nearly a decade, including my own show, where we heard stories of illegal abuses not just by "the man" but by government officials in both elected and career positions.

It's countless occasions where I've been asked "how do you deal with those people" referring to my friends, family and co-workers.

It is a reminder that prejudice exists at every level today, despite improvements in some areas.

I read that book called "Black for a Day" years ago. It reminded me of my experience every day I was in the US since I was about 15. And it makes me totally un-surprised but worried about the demonstrations today in Minneapolis and LA.
 
The post to which I was responding said that stadiums are located downtown. That's not the case here.

And the team is not called the "Fort Worth Cowboys" or the "Arlington Cowboys".
 
It is life experience.

It is the result of being with a friend in the line of a store and being told, "if you don't learn English you should go back home".

It is being asked why I have "those friends" when I worked at an all Black radio station when I was 13 and had most of my friends among the workers and their families.

It is working with Spanish language radio in the US going back, off and on, to 1972 and hearing major advertisers say things like "your listeners don't buy our cars, they steal them".

It is having my daughter punished in a school on the mainland for speaking Spanish with a friend during recess.

It is trying to prove to the admissions office at a school in LA that another daughter did not "need a green card because she is from Puerto Rico and foreigners need papers to register..."

It is doing Spanish language talk radio in LA for nearly a decade, including my own show, where we heard stories of illegal abuses not just by "the man" but by government officials in both elected and career positions.

It's countless occasions where I've been asked "how do you deal with those people" referring to my friends, family and co-workers.

It is a reminder that prejudice exists at every level today, despite improvements in some areas.

I read that book called "Black for a Day" years ago. It reminded me of my experience every day I was in the US since I was about 15. And it makes me totally un-surprised but worried about the demonstrations today in Minneapolis and LA.

Justifying racism with other purported acts of it doesn't make it anything less than what it is.

I have told you before that I was raised for part of my childhood in very Hispanic (even then) Highland Park, where I was the victim of racism perpetrated against me by the local hispanic kids (much older, and much more prone to violence) because I was one of the very few white kids in the neighborhood. I never carried that with me to my adulthood because I know that racism is wrong, regardless of the colors and it is not appropriate to imply impure motives to an entire race or class of people based on the bad actions of a very few, especially a long time ago.

It is unfortunate that you have not learned the same lessons, given your ability to use your position for positivity instead of negativity. Time and again, you choose victimhood and grievances as you have done here. Very sad.
 
It is unfortunate that you have not learned the same lessons, given your ability to use your position for positivity instead of negativity. Time and again, you choose victimhood and grievances as you have done here. Very sad.

Not victimhood... reality.

Everyone should view the Charlemagne Tha God and Biden interview. It's an example of how each of two people have different realities and how trying to enter someone else's reality generally goes wrong and is seen as pandering.

This is, in no small part, why rhythmic and hip hop stations cross color lines. Yet Urban AC generally has about 95% Black listeners: some things cross over, others do not. Parallel but different cultures, values and perspectives.

There are some cultural aspects to many formats in radio... Alt listeners are not well understood by those who like more rhythmic music. Country and rock don't always meet. Regional Mexican listeners are degraded by reggaeton fans. Classical listeners sometimes don't like any contemporary music in any decade since the 40's!
 
While BigA and David are right in the points they were making, there has been a movement in the past 20-25 years to build more sports stadiums in the hearts of cities, though they are usually smaller stadiums for baseball and basketball rather than football (here in Sacramento, the NBA Kings---our only pro franchise---have moved from suburban Sleep Train Arena to downtown's Golden 1 Center).

It's been a mixed bag for NFL stadiums built in the last 20 years. Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium is downtown, as is Minneapolis' US Bank Stadium.

Levi's Stadium is in the suburbs of San Jose. MetLife Stadium is is in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Big A mentioned AT&T Stadium in suburban DFW (whether that's 25 minutes or 45 probably depends on whether you're in traffic going to the game).

Indianapolis' Lucas Oil Stadium is downtown.

But Phoenix, despite having built NBA and MLB stadiums in its downtown, chose what was then the western fringe of the metro to build University of Phoenix stadium. Similarly, while Dodger Stadium is less than two miles from Downtown L.A. and Staples Center is right in the heart of downtown, the new NFL stadium is being built in Inglewood (replacing downtown's Memorial Coliseum for the Rams).

Houston's NRG stadium is suburban, and the Patriots' Gillette Field is 27 miles from Boston.

But Detroit built Ford Field downtown, as Seattle did with CenturyLink Field and Denver with Empower Field. Pittsburgh's Heinz Field is just across the Allegheny River from downtown. And Cincinatti's Paul Brown Stadium is downtown, as well....which works out to eight downtown NFL stadiums and seven suburban built since 2000.
 
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