Spike Lee goes in about Gentrification in Brooklyn

[Mikael Blowpiff]

http://observer.com/2014/02/its-not...ntrification-has-changed-and-so-has-new-york/

They're right though. You can't even call it gentrification anymore tbh.

 

[Scientific Playa]

Yeah, but if ownership was happeneing back in the 80s when shyt was dirt cheap, then gentrification wouldn't be so big in the first place

Black folk gotta start practice ownership where ever we go to. Can't be renting for generations on end and still feel like you have the same rights as a person that busted their ass to own a place.

Besides, no one ever came up with the solution to OWN anything in these public hearings. Only talking about why is rent so high.

If people cared about the next generation and their lives to be easier, they would try to find a place where they can pass down to their kids,rent-free.

hard to practice wealth building and ownership when we are still economic slaves to materialism. we like to ball and show off with the latest gadget/s, whips(car notes), enjoy cruises and exotic vacations, simp our disposable income in casinos, 50'inch tv's in every room, $200 a month cable bills etc. etc. instead of saving and investing like new immigrants do.

 

[Wild self]

hard to practice wealth building and ownership when we are still economic slaves to materialism. we like to ball and show off with the latest gadget/s, whips(car notes), enjoy cruises and exotic vacations, simp our disposable income in casinos, 50'inch tv's in every room, $200 a month cable bills etc. etc. instead of saving and investing like new immigrants do.

That is true. For NYC, it is too late for black folk to save it. We fukked that up and we have to build our own places down south. That's the bottom line. We could have bought the abandoned buildings in the 80s and 90s, but people were too concerned about running in the streets, "living life" with the craziness of the crack epidemic, and all them excuses. Now in the mid 2010s, Places like Brooklyn is Manhattan 2.0 with the remaining native minority population hanging on to a thread.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

This thread might be Coli's most cliche generic thread of all time. Psuedo militancy & NY hate. YAWN.

Nobody told your parents generation to buy crack instead of property how isit my moms came to this country in the late 80s and owns an apartment in Manhattan and home in Queens but your whole damn family been here for GENERATIONS and don't own a thing Yes, i love NY culture and I hate to see it disappearing BUT If Becky and Bradley wanna come through from Bubblefukk, USA and drop $500 more a month than Laquisha currently does who are we(property owners) to say no?
Welcome to Brooklyn

 

[jaydolf spitler]

I'm torn on this topic

 

[Wild self]

This thread might be Coli's most cliche generic thread of all time. Psuedo militancy & NY hate. YAWN.

Nobody told your parents generation to buy crack instead of property how isit my moms came to this country in the late 80s and owns an apartment in Manhattan and home in Queens but your whole damn family been here for GENERATIONS and don't own a thing Yes, i love NY culture and I hate to see it turned into a generic BUT If Becky and Bradley wanna come through from Bubblefukk, USA and drop $500 more a month than Laquisha currently does who are we(property owners) to say no? Culture be damned Welcome to Brooklyn

I have to agree. I still don't understand how can a family live in one area for 4-5 generations and not ONCE did they think of ownership,

Do some black folk love seeing their kids "pull the straps from the boots" philosophy so much, that they forgo generational wealth JUST to teach a lesson?

 

[50CentStan]

This thread might be Coli's most cliche generic thread of all time. Psuedo militancy & NY hate. YAWN.

Nobody told your parents generation to buy crack instead of property how isit my moms came to this country in the late 80s and owns an apartment in Manhattan and home in Queens but your whole damn family been here for GENERATIONS and don't own a thing Yes, i love NY culture and I hate to see it disappearing BUT If Becky and Bradley wanna come through from Bubblefukk, USA and drop $500 more a month than Laquisha currently does who are we(property owners) to say no?
Welcome to Brooklyn

Where did your mother come from?

Cultural reasons and a lack of education is why people living in NY for generations didnt plan on owning anything, it never even crossed their minds, their priorities were all wrong.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Where did your mother come from?

Cultural reasons and a lack of education is why people living in NY for generations didnt plan on owning anything, it never even crossed their minds, their priorities were all wrong.

D.R.

I agree it's cultural, there are Puerto Ricans & African Americans who have been socially mobile of course but in general these two groups are about that government dependency life way more than all others. You will find West Indians over represented in the middle class black neighborhoods in Brooklyn (yes they do exist) and i don't think that's a coincidence.

 

[Wild self]

D.R.

I agree it's cultural, there are Puerto Ricans & African Americans who have been socially mobile of course but in general these two groups are about that government dependency life way more than all others. You will find West Indians over represented in the middle class black neighborhoods in Brooklyn (yes they do exist) and i don't think that's a coincidence.

I blame the fact that people got too caught up in that fast life and not think about their legacy. Problem is, AAs solution is to move down south and continue with the same mindset. Don't get me wrong, there are black American folk down south that are on that ownership mindset, but they never have that collective mentality up north.

 

[606onit]

http://madamenoire.com/470961/blacks-are-not-the-majority-population-in-harlem/
ICYMI: Blacks Are Not The Majority Population In Harlem

 

[Poitier]

http://madamenoire.com/470961/blacks-are-not-the-majority-population-in-harlem/
ICYMI: Blacks Are Not The Majority Population In Harlem

When you consider Black Hispanics, Carribeans and Africans not Black then yeah

 

[606onit]

When you consider Black Hispanics, Carribeans and Africans not Black then yeah

They are only the buffer for what is to come. I know you may not see it as such, but these people can have those "hispanics" Caribbeans, and Africans out in 60 days. I read the article and did the face too but I'm able to realize that, that is NOT THEIR end-goal.

 

[Poitier]

They are only the buffer for what is to come. I know you may not see it as such, but these people can have those "hispanics" Caribbeans, and Africans out in 60 days. I read the article and did the face too but I'm able to realize that, that is NOT THEIR end-goal.

High ownership will make it much harder in places like Crown Heights and Harlem.

 

[Cave Savage]

that looks incredible what is the problem with this?

Downtown Brooklyn was always like that

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Spike went in, he spoke 100% truth. I'll be damned if some new hipster is going to move into my hood and try to tell me I can't do something i've been doing since 1968. What pisses me off is that North Jersey is feeling the effects of it too. The hipsters who can't squeeze into nyc are trying to take over here in certain parts. It shouldn't cost 1,000,000 dollars to live in Hoboken.

NYC gentrification is messing up New Jersey rents too...

But gentrification is not geographically exclusive. It's happening to major cities all over the world.

I blame Millenials. They need a plac to "figure themselves out" after wasting 4-6 years and thousnands of dollars in college since there aren't any jobs anymore.