My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California

I believe my problem falls under either Racial Discrimination or the landlord/management is not enforcing the rules in the rental agreement.

I live in an old building, built in 1925 and the rooms are rented out as apartments but have no bathrooms or kitchens. At the time when they were built, they were designated as guest rooms. These guest rooms only have sinks and closets, the bathroom/showers are shared. There is not supposed to be any cooking done in these rooms but mostly everybody living here is on government assistance programs and they all cook in their rooms. The problem I'm having is with another tenant, our 2 rooms share an electrical circuit and every day since I've been in this unit, the power shuts off whenever my neighbor wants to cook something in their room. They have to many appliances plugged in and whenever they want to use a certain appliance, the circuit breaker trips and the power to both rooms shuts off. I have called the police, housing authority, state mediators and last April, the building inspector came out and gave me the biography of the building. But the building inspector was talking to me as if I was the one causing the problem, telling me about my appliances and I had to cut him off and tell him, I'm the one complaining, I'm the one who called you to come here. I have not even had my chest freezer and big boss oven for a year yet, this has been going on for 2 years. Every day the power shuts off by means of what the other tenant does in their room, I can run everything in my room and never trip the circuit breaker. Whenever the circuit breaker trips, it's because of the other tenant.

What I think happened is when the building inspector notified the management company of the pending inspection, they decided to turn the tables on me because when the day of the inspection came, they had sent out one of their workers to make sure my smoke detector worked and the lamp shades were covering the light bulbs. They wanted to make sure they were covered against getting a violation. Now my nationality is black/African American, the tenant causing the problem is Hispanic and speaks no English, the landlord management company is also Hispanic, they are bilingual. Whenever I speak to the management company representative, she tells me I've done everything I can do but I think somebody needs to get sued because the problem is ongoing and nothing is being done to resolve this issue so my question is who do I sue? The management company or the tenant?