Scott Larock
Its hard leaving thecoli but I gotta find a way...
Same with South Florida, which is why they always crap on the school system. Most people don't come from here and the schools here produce lots of struggle.
Atlanta Attracts Wealthy Black Transplants, But ATL locals are struggling.
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Same with South Florida, which is why they always crap on the school system. Most people don't come from here and the schools here produce lots of struggle.
you understand people coming in and displacing natives on a city level but dont understand ADOS. interesting
Counter Racist Male
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Welcome to the the real south. The people who always been down here been struggling since forever.
Counter Racist Male
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you understand people coming in and displacing natives on a city level but dont understand ADOS. interesting
If you don't come from situations like this that you won't understand these situations. I'm literally one generation from the cotton fields so I get it 100%.
Counter Racist Male
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Not only that but New York money really brunch South Florida and even a lot of Central Florida now too. That dictates a lot of what happens economically in the state of Florida.
Wink Beaufield
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The same thing is happening here in DC.
So many here getting gentrified out the paint. A lot of people still wrongly think that Southeast not gonna get gentrified. A quick check of them housing prices says otherwise. Them inner beltway PG suburbs like Capitol Heights and Suitland gonna catch that gentrification wave as well.
"wealthy black transplants" don't exist.
Stop being fooled by people bragging about being upper middle class
Stop being fooled by people bragging about being upper middle class
And it sucks. But hell, upper class blacks sound like a potential market opportunity. Besides that, much as we dislike whites coming in and changing the complexion of an area so to speak, a black city is a black city, is it not?
staticshock
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why dont they exist?
im sorry, but this is kind of a dumb statement breh..
are you saying black people cant become wealthy and move to different areas?
Im sure its some wealthy blacks in Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Alpharetta, Milton, Roswell, Sandy Springs, etc who were not born here.
facts..Atlanta is no different. We just have a lot of skyscrapers and produce a lot of rappers. folks here still struggle
TheAnointedOne
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Jewel Burks married to a white man
No she's not
That’s one of the things I liked about the show ‘Atlanta’. They highlighted that and brought a real perspective to life in Atlanta. Everyone is not living like Future or the Atlanta Housewives. However, I will say that Atlanta has is opportunity for any brother with skill and drive.
Growing pains of becoming a major metropolis
You want it till you don't.
You want it till you don't.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
As a native ATLien I can co-sign this. Even more, a lot of the ATL born middle and upper class are the children of transplants from the 70s-90s. My parents came to ATL in the 70s and growing up in South DeKalb, the hub of middle class Black folk at the time, I would say 70% of the kids I grew up with were children of transplants, 30% were from the old-school/local ATL middle class or upwardly mobile long time ATL residents. Even Mayor Bill Campbell was a transplant from NC.
Long-time ATL residents were often in Fulton, the most wealthy ones in Cascade, while whole neighborhoods built in DeKalb County in the 80s absorbed the first middle class Black transplants. A lot of the locals got into the middle class via jobs at the big companies when they were growing: BellSouth (defunct), GM (defunct), Delta, Eastern Airlines (defunct), Coke, UPS, and some others. But a lot of those jobs cut back, especially the former BellSouth, Eastern, and GM, so they had a harder time. Remember the only local HBCUs were the AUC which were also often majority out-of-staters too and GSU was just starting to get a Black population then so that helped attract people but also meant locals had limited options for higher education until GSU got much bigger.
The Black poor in ATL were often left behind in the white collar boom sadly since Black folks moving in probably accounted for a lot of that growth. I have family in both sides of the divide so I get it though I believe the opportunities that opened up in the last 30 years and the large Black community have helped locals get some mobility too.
