This is something what caught my attention. Sightseeing in LA was always popular, all those tours where you watch houses of rich and famous people in Beverly Hills, where you hope to get to see your favorite celeb, are now so passe. It is time to see the other side of the medal. Now you get to see gang hot spots, historic and current, and crime scene locations in South Central, Los Angeles and vicinity. Also on the agenda are the birthplace of Raymond Washington’s East Side Crips, the county jail, Los Angeles Black Panther Party hangout, Watts Arts Gallery, and the Firestone Sheriff Station where the National Guard set up their HQ during the Watts Riots in 1965. For $65 organizers promise a chance to “experience areas that were forbidden until now.” This sounds scary and fascinating all at the same time. I am hope that all of the people who made this program should make sure not to glamorize a culture that has cost countless young people their lives. I mean, there has to be something more productive to do when you visit LA. What is America coming to when they have a tour of gang turf as a form of entertainment? This shouldn’t be an historical experience, it is profiteering by thugs who have murdered, stolen and otherwise terrorized their neighborhoods and are now proclaiming they have reformed and are trying to better their community. Who is auditing the expenditures of this enterprise to assure that the revenues derived from the tours is truly going back into the betterment of the community? Most likely the fees collected from tour goers are funneled right back into the hands of the thugs with the biggest guns and the most drugs. I am sure that this theme is discussable. Here I must say that there are even bigger heroes from that environment, the ones who decided and had courage and will to keep out from gangs. It takes more power and to be a braver man to stay out.