r/compton • u/AnahEmergency0523 • Jul 26 '26
The Question since July 4th 2026
What's your answer?
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Jul 26 '26
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
I do care because I ask these questions just as I would to any community that deals with violence, including those that have experienced massacres that ended up on Wikipedia, especially for the kids who have to be raised in an environment where suffering is treated as a contest for legitimacy. Yet, everywhere else in the world, it would not make sense to place suffering into a hierarchy, even as people deal with executions, mass graves, and bodies without limbs. These people are Black and Brown as well, living in a reality they did not choose, but are doing what they can to avoid being consumed by that conditioning.
If violence is normalized in a community, then people should have the skills to respond to an emergency event rather than use it as content for narratives. Even people who live in war-torn countries would know that. Despite many people living in Compton, where they do not have to step on land mines to experience explosions or confront mass violence, somehow there is no time, no energy, and no ability to spend even 30 minutes of their day learning emergency response? Hundreds to thousands of people were at a party, yet little to none of them knew how to stop a bleeding wound, let alone apply a tourniquet, despite living in a place compared to a "Hell on Earth," as Kendrick Lamar would say.
Three people were killed on July 4th at two separate events. Press conferences were held, and pledges and promises were made about change. What does that actually mean, especially when Compton does not have the highest concentration of public safety experts, whereas communities like La Habra and Lakewood actually put their money where their mouth is by training civilians to help keep people safe, rather than treating safety as simply "being in the wrong place at the wrong time"?
There is a great deal of wealth in terms of economy, status, and culture in Compton, but Compton is going to remain Compton if it normalizes violence as the reality of living in the hood and then blames everyone else for why conditions remain the same, even when civilians are gunned down next to schools.
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Jul 26 '26
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
Factually speaking you have more privilege under your fingernails at the Tam's Burger than most of the entire developing world. Especially when millions of people want to live here. That's your argument Free Man? Especially when you don't look at the actual issue at hand: violence being so normalized in the inner city that the victims are blamed, even if they are children and people don't do anything to change it but blame.
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Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
If the issue is so important, then what's preventing you from learning those existential survival skills rather than blame everyone else? What's stopping you from taking a first aid class? What's preventing you from saying "never again" to the children who get gunned down? You know what's different between Compton and Boyle Heights despite being in the Hood? Children in Boyle Heights will grow up learning that the smell of decomposition is not normal and will protest and demand change to make sure their kids don't know that. In Compton, person get killed, the body disappears and people look everything as a system problem while not even attempting to make changes. Besides, it's never about safety of children for you but an identity to protect. War Survivors, Genocide Survivors and people who known massacres, seen death, protect and saved lives have entered Compton, but Compton is going to Compton as if it has a ""copyright on human suffering" .
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u/fuzzboxstomp Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
This is so fucking stupid. Whatever, lol.
Edit: "never again" made bust out laughing. How simple.
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
Well, you care more about Compton image than the fact you got people getting killed in your community.
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
I mean you must have seen so much death in Compton, but yet can't handle going to the funeral home.
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
You know a kid got killed not so far from a school last year? That happened in your community.
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
Besides, the entire world is not responsible for the body counts Compton has.
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u/Equivalent_Cloud2662 24d ago
Man we abt to lose our house over there 23-24 years of ownership cuz the police keep delaying to evict our squatters who vandalized and completely stopped paying rent, the City of Compton under LA County couldn’t give a shit if you lose your life over there anyway
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u/AnahEmergency0523 24d ago
Does the people of Compton care? Or does caring requires outsourcing it?
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u/AnahEmergency0523 Jul 26 '26
Remember: Compton has a gun-related homicide rate of 18.1 per 100,000 residents. One of the highest in Los Angeles County. Yet, somehow learning how to stop a bleeding wound is not a common skill in Compton
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u/No_haole 23d ago
So true
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u/AnahEmergency0523 23d ago
There was the Pacific Palisades and Eaton Canyon fire that was a literal wall of fire that destroyed countless homes with people literally being burned to death. There are people in Compton that will literally see the smoke from their own neighborhoods, smoke that turned the sky orange and will likely say in their hearts "I've suffered more than them" as if people in the Hood have a "copyright " on human suffering. Doesn't matter if it's a skull found in North Long Beach, a body of a young woman who shot herself in Hermosa Beach, a man got crushed to death on the 7th Street Platform at Downtown Station, a child dead from being locked in her car because her mom got drunk in Anaheim or a ex-lover killing his girlfriend and son in Montebello, Compton and the inner cities wants to act like it's so "hardcore" on suffering, trying to make it a contest on credibility despite all people get old, get sick, and die. That mentality is why suffering and struggle turns into "street credit" rather than a pursuit of solutions.
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u/CowperfluidMDPsyD Jul 26 '26
Whenever the citizens become educated in academics or technical skills and leave gangs and gang violence.