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To: tejek who wrote (410439)	8/25/2008 9:02:18 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575698

However, in the ghetto and barrio of LA, there was no close by alternative until the last few years. Consequently, poor people were paying exorbitant prices for lousy food. Thats because of the crime. Many Koreans were fortunate to have money coming from Korea to help them with opening their shops. Blacks and Latinos didn't have that foreign financial support. If they had a lot of financial support, they wouldn't locate in slums. The reason they go there is the real estate is cheap ... because of the crime. I saw how the Koreans treated me as well as the blacks. I saw the prices they charged for their foodstuffs. Unlike many blacks and Latinos, I had the mobility to shop at the larger supermarkets........I saw the price gouging first hand. All a function of crime. When a lot of customers steal, shop owners watch the customers closely. When theft loss is high, people make it up with higher prices.

To: tejek who wrote (410439)	8/25/2008 9:29:15 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575698

Ted, > Many Koreans were fortunate to have money coming from Korea to help them with opening their shops. That may be true in recent years, but it was definitely not true back in the 70's and 80's when 1st-generation Korean-Americans were flocking here. Most Koreans who immigrated here relied upon each other for financial support. Common is the system called kye, where participants pool their money together and take turns borrowing money from the pool. For the most part, they weren't getting much financial support from the home country because Korea wasn't exactly a first-world country back then. In any case, the complaints over "price-gouging" are often made by those who are expecting handouts and entitlements. Why don't they open up their own stores in their own neighborhoods? Too afraid they're going to be robbed by members of their own race? I guess it's a lot easier to just preach hatred via rap music (Ice Cube's "Black Korea" comes to mind) and make tons of money that way than to do it the old-fashioned way. By the way, if blacks are resentful of Korean-Americans bypassing them on the road to the American dream, they're going to be even more bitter once Latinos do likewise. It still amazes me that African-Americans have a higher dropout rate than Latino students, despite English often being a second language for many Latinos. Tenchusatsu