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In 1963, the government of California decided to allow blacks to prey on Americans and move into our cities and neighborhoods with full state support by passing the infamous Rumford Fair Housing Act.
California was a prosperous and 95% white state in 1940, a legacy of wise migration and labor policies. The federal government undid many of these policies during WWII, valuing abundant labor for the war effort over national solidarity. CA's black population grew 600%.
Compton was the first city to be afflicted, with its black population rising from 0% to 40% in 20 years. Americans reacted in horror as crime skyrocketed, social services declined, and home values plunged.
A number of groups organized to oppose the wave of black terror. In 1964, the Republican Party, the John Birch Society, real estate agents, and church ministers rallied their supporters to support an amendment to the California state constitution.
Proposition 14 amended the state constitution to nullify the Rumford Fair Housing Act. The proposition allowed Americans to enjoy our freedom of association. We fancied ourselves a free people, and desired to live in our own communities, much as we always had.
The traitor Governor Brown wasn't enraged by the crime or Americans fleeing their homes by black terror, but by Americans standing up for themselves.
Proposition 14 passed with overwhelming support, with 2/3rds of the overall vote and 75% of the American vote.
Naturally, the federal government decided to crush the Americans. All housing funds were denied to CA, and the Supreme Courts of California and the United States decided Americans don't have the right to associate together.
A particularly vile class of real estate agent made huge fortunes from these decisions through a technique called "blockbusting"
As black terror spread into American neighborhoods, blockbusters would buy American homes at a greatly decreased prices, then resell the homes to blacks at a higher value before the value had fallen too much. The financial losses for Americans were staggering.
Correctly sensing the American leadership was weak, the blacks rose up. 30,000 blacks poured into the streets during the Watts Riots attacking Americans, looting business, and torching buildings.
While American support for the police efforts to crush the riots was strong, the politicians & media lacked the will to reverse the failures of black integration. In his successful campaign to become CA governor, Ronald Reagan argued against Proposition 14 and segregation.
Reagan and the rightist elites failures to use their vast organizational abilities to promote American interests in California led directly to the situation that this state is in today.
My part of Los Angeles, Inglewood, was 0.00046% black in 1960. We Americans kept the town ours through street patrols and preventing blockbusters from purchasing homes.
Americans were partly successful in keeping Inglewood American for the 1960s. By 1970, Inglewood was still only 11% black, and that 11% was mostly restricted to the eastern end of the city. Then the courts intervened.
On July 22, 1970, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Deutz ordered Inglewood to allow blacks to prey on Americans. Americans fled in huge numbers. 10 years later, only 21% of Inglewood was American. By 1990, we were only 8.6% of Inglewood.
Inspiration was @DukeWillNuke 's thread on Hazelton, PA. America's loss of its greatest city, Los Angeles, was a national disaster only matched by the similar loss of New York and Chicago.

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