Views on View Park

Re “Place of their own,” July 19

My (white) family has lived in View Park for 51 years, and it brings back familiar memories that some of the residents fear that white “joggers and dog walkers” will ruin the neighborhood.

This is the way some white residents were talking in the early 1960s when black folks started moving in. Black people moving into this neighborhood then did not ruin anything — white people running away did.

Lack of diversity is always a negative thing. Everyone wins when we’re all together. Whether you believe that or not, if you don’t want history to repeat itself in reverse in View Park, then all you have to do is not leave.

Ken Scott

Agoura Hills

Luis Sinco Los Angeles Times MOVIE NIGHT in View Park; a move to have the area made a historic district has spurred debate.