Why did Black Americans stop sending the kids down south for the summer?

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

probably cuz kids get shot and do drugs everyday down here.... have you seen atlanta news?
better send them to Utah or something

 

[Wild self]

Black families in 2020

Blame the fact that Baby Mamma culture took over and marriages almost non existent.

 

[Gritsngravy]

I never been down south

 

[TRBM]

Fewer Southern-born Northerners. Even the last wave of the Great Migration are 2+ generations North now.
The kids' grandmothers live in Queens, NY.

Breh it's not that problematic. Big mama and pop lived down south because their kids, our parents moved to Chicago, Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, Milwakee, Baltimore, DC, etc as part of the great migration to get manufacturing and other jobs. They still live there. Grandma and grandpa passed away. It's pretty simple.

Great read

 

[BuckFilly]

Kids stopped going outside when the internet passed the dial up era

 

[tuckgod]

Big mama passed away unfortunately.

These new grandmothers still trying to live their best lives. You see the effects of this rippling across many things. Not just this thread topic.

 

[invalid]

I'm so glad my grandfather took me down to visit his people down in Aiken and Augusta during the summers. Introducing us to our family down there. Learning about the vast acres of land we own down there. Learning about his great grandmother who was the only black teacher in Augusta whose son's built her a school house and the racist whites who burned it down with her inside. And her neighbors, years later, in guilt, confessing to the family that it was their nephew's who were the perpetrators. Learning about an uncle who was involved in the Hamburg Massacre in North Augusta which became one of the numerous massacres of black towns along with Wilmington and Tulsa across the US. It gave me a greater appreciation of the South, our people, our struggles, and our perseverance. You can only really learn that in the South. And when I have my son's, I will send them down to Aiken and Augusta like my grandfather did.