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| [00:15.86] | Compton was the American dream. |
| [00:17.82] | Sunny California with a palm tree in the front yard, the camper, the boat. |
| [00:23.81] | Temptingly close to the Los Angeles ghetto in the 50's and 60's, |
| [00:27.34] | it became "The Black American Dream". |
| [00:30.20] | Open housing paved the way as middle-class blacks flooded into the city. |
| [00:34.43] | Whites don't buy houses in Compton anymore. |
| [00:38.21] | Now with 74% of the population, |
| [00:40.22] | black power is the fact of life. |
| [00:42.69] | From banks to bowling alleys. |
| [00:44.35] | But the dream that many blacks thought they were buying has turned sour. |
| [00:49.13] | Though the mayor and four out of five city councilmen are black, |
| [00:52.05] | they have been unable to solve the problems of crime |
| [00:55.02] | and growing welfare which is slowing turning suburban Compton |
| [00:58.27] | into an extension of the black innercity. |
| [01:01.43] | Crime is now as high as the ghetto. |
| [01:03.59] | 47 homicides last year gave Compton |
| [01:05.86] | one of the highest per capital rates in the country. |
| [01:08.78] | Juvenile gang activity, muggings, |
| [01:10.53] | small robberies make some blacks want to leave. |
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