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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.