Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Race is still tied to money...So I don't know if its more about economics or race. Because the demographics that get swapped out are always the same color....Every time over the last 40 years or so...
Spike Lee goes in about Gentrification in Brooklyn
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Race is still tied to money...So I don't know if its more about economics or race. Because the demographics that get swapped out are always the same color....Every time over the last 40 years or so...
But you could say that based on my earning potential...that i'm pro-gentrification...cause I DO want to live in these areas.
filial_piety
Banned
meh....this wouldn't be a problem if black folks had their ducks in order...
they had how many years to acquire the property and invest in their communities?
Now that white folks are forced to do it for us, now we're hootin' and hollerin' about it?
they had how many years to acquire the property and invest in their communities?
Now that white folks are forced to do it for us, now we're hootin' and hollerin' about it?
Very good point. NY is eventually going to turn into a rich person Mecca like the rich gated community I the UNited States
I got no other answer but that blacks gotta get that money up.
This starts with life choices.
my circle is composed of doctors, lawyers, and business leaders who got bread...how can I POSSIBLY relate?
what's harlem new name?
Harlem Hills
Harlem Hills
Ehhh while gentrification is happening those places are still full of culture but when the process completes, those places become stale middle America White havens.
Music, food, clothing, social events, social phenomena, language, etc
filial_piety
Banned
alot of people are complaining but aren't seein it for what it really is. Back in the 70s, 80s and 90s, our neighborhoods went to shyt and you couldn't give away the property, it would have been a great opportunity for some black capitalistic minds to come in a sweep up everything and bank. But we didn't, we were in total disarray and the train flew right by us.
I remember in 06' I spoke with a white dude at a community meeting in Harlem, and he told me about how you couldn't give away a lot o the brownstones in the area back in the 80s. So what did he do? He claimed a few for next to nothing, paid the back taxes in a government program, held on to them and now (at that time) he was telling me that they were worth 1.2 mill or something like that. Same shyt is about to happen in Detroit.
Captain Crunch
Veteran
It's still Harlem breh
There needs to be an audience for those movies
People always say this, but don't support the few ones that come out. No one saw the Mandela film; Red Tails(Tuskegee Airmen movie); Rosewood, Great Debaters. You want to see a Garvey film, then purchase a LEGAL copy(digital or DVD) of the films I listed above or a Hidden Colors, then you'll start to see the films that you want to see made.
c/s
The way movies are being made at $100 million nobody going to invest that money for marcus harvey or others and only see a revenue of $15 million.
We do more talking than supporting.
well most young/progressive people with money tend to seek those environments in the first place.
They love trying to embrace areas with " an edge" and it gives them something to talk about.
Everything is cyclical.
The point is to stay ahead of the curve.
No longer can you just sit in an area and just live on til you die.
If you want that feel, you have to be willing to move.