Our journey took us from Wilshire and Westwood to Historic Filipinotown.  We ventured by bus and foot.  Travel time was approximately 1 hour.  Our eyes saw Asian, Black, Brown and White people. We smelled the aroma of coffee, hamburgers, kimchi and enchiladas. We heard Spanish, English and Cantonese. We saw one of the richest shopping streets in the world and a family coming from the food bank.  On our journey we did not find the home of the free and the brave as much as the home of the economically enslaved. We found ourselves on the turf of  the economically very poor and extremely wealthy, the kingdom of the serfs and noble persons, and the land of the masters and the slaves.