If New York , LA , ATL, Oakland and DC are all getting gentrified....

[JetFueledThoughts]

Gentrification in the A is different tho. Yeah the shyt been going on in our city but it's more about class than it is race here. Case in point, the dude who started gentrification in the city was a Black man- Herman J Russell. Folks hear the word gentrification and they automatically think of some greedy Jew landlord kicking out his poor Black tenants. In Atlanta it's different. A lot of the gentrification efforts have been spear headed by Black folks. It's more or less just richer Blacks moving poor ones out. And all they doing is replacing them with more Black people. Look at Eastlake. They razed the whole area and now the new complex is damn near all Black again. Just not as bad as it was before.

And most of the areas where the Cacs are moving in wasn't never really Black strongholds to begin with. Like I never met one single Black person who was from Cabbagetown. That hood was just a white ghetto back in the day. They didn't move shyt out but some rednecks. On My side look at Riverside/Bolton. I used to play rec league at the Bolton Rec as a shorty and that area was mostly poor white trash. Again, nikkas was never really over there. Yeah they was right around the corner in Hollywood but that area is still Black now. And O4W will always have nikkas on Boukevard. Like one dude owns the whole street in between North Ave and AMC and he not selling. The city been trying to get him up off that. But on the other hand the Ponce side has always had a lot of white folks. Granted they were junkies and hookers back then and now their hipsters.

And you mentioned the area around Turner Field. You do know that south of where Turner is was mostly a Jewish hood back in the day right? That's where all the Jew shop owners who owned the shops downtown used to live. Peoplestown was the Black part of that area and they destroyed it when they built the connector. And Mexhanicsville was one of the only hoods in the A where whites and Blacks lived side by side. Folks just see it now and think it's been Black always. See where I'm going with this breh? Outside of the Bluff, Edgewood, Hollywood and a few other areas there ain't no all Black hoods in the A that white people will take over completely.

I appreciate soaking game up from a vet but you and me were already in agreement. You can't explain it to somebody who doesn't live here, but even the way it gets gentrified is just .... different.. It could never turn into like what Brooklyn is now

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

pink sheets and small caps.

 

[Neuromancer]

Where do they plan on trying to stashing black people?

Tornado Alley?

I doubt it would be called that if black folks moved there enough mass. Natural disasters seem to follow cacs. Or at least I hope they do.

 

[DontDoIt]

I doubt it would be called that if black folks moved there enough mass. Natural disasters seem to follow cacs. Or at least I hope they do.

Weather modification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

[Neuromancer]

Weather modification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Garvey said he would come back as a storm. And he's not the only one.

 

[DontDoIt]

Garvey said he would come back as a storm. And he's not the only one.

countless of million black slaves

 

[Neuromancer]

countless of million black slaves

Native Americans too Look at Tecumseh.

 

[JamilALAmin]

I appreciate soaking game up from a vet but you and me were already in agreement. You can't explain it to somebody who doesn't live here, but even the way it gets gentrified is just .... different.. It could never turn into like what Brooklyn is now

Oh nah. I agreed with all your posts. That wasn't even meant to come at you like that. nikka just started ranting at you like a crazy person. My fault breh. Just got turned up after reading pages of bullshyt. I don't even fault the cats who not from here. Wouldn't expect them to understand. This shyt is confusing as fukk, a lot of us from this bytch don't even understand it all the way. I just got amped up after reading posts from dudes who stay here acting like they know what they talking bout but yet calling shyt like SE Atlanta the lower east side. You wanna give it a nickname it already got one. It's called Zone 3 or Zone 6 depending where you at. Then you got other nikkas calling shyt in NW Atlanta the West End. Some of these nikkas really on here making up shyt as they go and folks dapping them like they spitting gospel

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Blacks that got kicked out of Oakland are going to Tracy--so far out as possible usually.

Nah, most black people gettin booted out of Oakland are goin to Antioch, Pittsburgh, Sac, Modesto, Stockton

 

[Voice of Reason]

Because these cacs actually broke off and made Buckhead, Sandy Springs,Dunwoody etc. there own separate entities apart from Atlanta.


That along with pushing all the people from the projects into "affordable housing" in the suburbs has had it's intended effect.

 

[Londilon]

11 Signs Your Hood Is Being Gentrified


1. Neighborhood boundary lines will be strategically reconfigured, and your new redistricted area will be outfitted with catchy, cutesy names.

Sign for NoMa, a quirky name for North of Massachusetts Avenue, a newly renovated neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
JANELLE HARRIS

2. Lighting will crop up. Y’all lived for years in near-apocalyptic darkness as existing street lights went long malfunctioning. Now the block is lit up like a night game at FedExField. Magical.

Lighted street sign in Washington, D.C.
KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

3. “Liquor stores” will be euphemistically renamed “wine and spirits shops.”

Wine and spirits shop in a gentrified area of D.C.
JANELLE HARRIS

4. Cops will dutifully patrol your neighborhood in nonemergency situations. On foot, bike and vehicle patrols, sometimes even horses. No one has to call them. They’re already there.

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Officer Tyrone Gross (left) writes a warning ticket for a motorist who was talking on her cellphone.
MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES

5. You find out that the way you’ve been living is no longer “current.”

Real estate ad banner for a mixed-use development
JANELLE HARRIS

6. You get a store that stays open 24 hours. Up until now, you had to scream your pump number and request for soda and sunflower seeds through three layers of Plexiglas at the neighborhood gas station. Now doors are allowed to stay open 24-7.

A 7-Eleven store
JANELLE HARRIS

7. These show up, along with allocated lanes to ride them in the streets. It’s always a sign when people trust the community to borrow stuff and bring it back. (See also: Zipcar.)

Bike-sharing kiosk
JANELLE HARRIS

8. Your block is equipped with speed bumps. Amazingly, they are much more effective than your disapproving scowl in slowing drivers down.

Speed bump
JANELLE HARRIS

9. Parking starts getting real exclusive, and you’ll be needing an advanced degree in urban planning to understand when and where you can do it. Also, violations will become more expensive and more frequent.

Parking signage
JANELLE HARRIS

10. Wal-Mart will come calling.

Rendering of a Wal-Mart
COURTESY OF WAL-MART

11. White people will show up. At first a pioneering few will forage the land, and once the signal goes up, that trickle will become a full-on influx. I have seen folks who would have taken terror steps through my neighborhood just a few months ago now frolicking in it. At night.

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THINKSTOCK

 

[JamilALAmin]

Because these cacs actually broke off and made Buckhead, Sandy Springs,Dunwoody etc. there own separate entities apart from Atlanta.


That along with pushing all the people from the projects into "affordable housing" in the suburbs has had it's intended effect.

Cmon breh.
Dunwoody and Sandy Springs was never apart of city of Atlanta. Those was always unicorporated areas. And Buckhead never left the city breh. That still Atlanta. Even tho I'm sure some folks up there would like to be they own city.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

The best answer is to pool resources and do exact what they are doing. Buy properties and open businesses. You bring money into a community and then you have voting power.

Read powernomics by the great brother Claud Anderson. All the answers are in that book.

 

[Rarebird77]

Gentrification in the A is different tho. Yeah the shyt been going on in our city but it's more about class than it is race here. Case in point, the dude who started gentrification in the city was a Black man- Herman J Russell. Folks hear the word gentrification and they automatically think of some greedy Jew landlord kicking out his poor Black tenants. In Atlanta it's different. A lot of the gentrification efforts have been spear headed by Black folks. It's more or less just richer Blacks moving poor ones out. And all they doing is replacing them with more Black people. Look at Eastlake. They razed the whole area and now the new complex is damn near all Black again. Just not as bad as it was before.

And most of the areas where the Cacs are moving in wasn't never really Black strongholds to begin with. Like I never met one single Black person who was from Cabbagetown. That hood was just a white ghetto back in the day. They didn't move shyt out but some rednecks. On My side look at Riverside/Bolton. I used to play rec league at the Bolton Rec as a shorty and that area was mostly poor white trash. Again, nikkas was never really over there. Yeah they was right around the corner in Hollywood but that area is still Black now. And O4W will always have nikkas on Boukevard. Like one dude owns the whole street in between North Ave and AMC and he not selling. The city been trying to get him up off that. But on the other hand the Ponce side has always had a lot of white folks. Granted they were junkies and hookers back then and now their hipsters.

And you mentioned the area around Turner Field. You do know that south of where Turner is was mostly a Jewish hood back in the day right? That's where all the
shop owners who owned the shops downtown used to live. Peoplestown was the Black part of that area and they destroyed it when they built the connector. And Mexhanicsville was one of the only hoods in the A where whites and Blacks lived side by side. Folks just see it now and think it's been Black always. See where I'm going with this breh? Outside of the Bluff, Edgewood, Hollywood and a few other areas there ain't no all Black hoods in the A that white people will take over completely.

Super informative post.

Thanks for the history lesson