The point of this thread is about gentrification which most likely happens in low income black areas, which is why I'm focused on the hood. Posters keep saying how blacks move out to live with whites, that's not the case. The areas they move to just happen to have whites, that's just the way it is. And I don't think EVERY neighborhood filled with blacks is low income, I never said anything like that, a silly assumption. I know there are areas in ATL which have rich blacks, along with areas in the DMV. The problem is, there aren't many particular areas for educated blacks to live amongst each other because it's either very competitive and expensive or (whites)people don't want to move or both. That would require gentrification in itself.
There are way more Pro blacks than c00ns. You want to keep the hood from getting gentrified, make it safe to live. We can buy and build there.
There's not a group of people on earth where people with money live next door to people without. None. And that's not a bad thing, people who are generationally poor usually have an incompatible mindset to people who make moves to be upwardly mobile.
But black people get mobile and define success by moving as far away from their people as possible. Like I said, you can be near the hood but not live in it, but we get as far away as possible.
That extra premium we pay to live in exclusive white neighborhoods could be used to invest in the community. To set up stores instead of letting foreigners do it and take the money away. To buy the buildings in the hood to prevent the gentrification engine from starting.
Poor Mexicans might live in trailer parks, but they shop at tiendas owned by their own people, they set up restaurants to serve their people, and even though the ones that made it don't live in the trailer park anymore they're never more than 20 or 30 min away. In the next 20 or so years I expect them to be the ones buying those trailer parks and low income housing and they've shown they won't sell their own people out.
And to your point about the neighborhoods being safe, the best way to accomplish that is to give the young men positive strong men as role models and actually be around to guide them. Not necessarily living next door, but still being around. If you leave it up to the white folks to clean it up you get shyt like stop and frisk and exploding incarceration rates.