Census Data Finds Atlanta Has Largest Income Inequality in Country

[#1 pick]

I used to live in Atlanta and I used to be heavily in politics in GA. I 100% believe it and it's probably worse now than before.

 

[Laidbackman]

How not? I stay on the eastside now and you can see the difference between Decatur Square and the rest of the Dec. Nevermind the notoriously broke southside. This is a city of haves and have-nots, and just because nikkas with money are more visible than cacs doesn't mean there's actually more of them.

What is considered the southside today?

 

[Who Not How]

I grew up in ClayCo and used to go to my parents' friends' house off Wesley Chapel as a kid so that's all the Decatur I knew. Fast forward to being 19 and meeting this chick who takes me to Java Monkey(RIP) and I'm like "bih where are we? This ain't no fukkin Decatur "

That must be 2 sides shyt ain't only for the westside

Lol I’m from Candler Rd. I can count on my hands how many times I went to downtown Decatur

Memorial Dr was as far north I’d go. Downtown Dec was like a different city to me.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Coli aristocracy dont care

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Gotta be the CITY of Atlanta cause ain't no way that's Metro or the surrounding counties.

Ughh yea most of these stats are for city

 

[UberEatsDriver]

People keep saying the metro as if the metro area has more rich black folks than white

 

[Wild self]

Too many TLRepublicans mocking and belittling poor black people, saying arrogant shyt like "I got mines, fukk everyone else" and " that's capitalism, I cannot change it"

The Civil Rights generation didn't die for that European mindset. Too many of yall drank the kool aid of vulture capitalism. No wonder crime is so bad in ATL.

 

[Chrishaune]

Not enough black folks expanding their mind if we're being honest. A black person learning multiple languages can find a way. A black person getting certifications in anything can find a way. A black person reading books will find a way.

 

[ISO]

Seems like the success is out in the metro

shyt even in hip hop a lot of their rappers aren’t from the city proper

 

[Rekkapryde]

How not? I stay on the eastside now and you can see the difference between Decatur Square and the rest of the Dec. Nevermind the notoriously broke southside. This is a city of haves and have-nots, and just because nikkas with money are more visible than cacs doesn't mean there's actually more of them.

That’s why I said Atlanta CITY limits not the Decaturs, East Points, or Suburb Counties and Cities. That would make sense being the city proper.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Kemp’s Georgia…

Why do you say this in every thread that’s concerning the city of Atlanta and not the state?

 

[Atlrocafella]

I grew up in ClayCo and used to go to my parents' friends' house off Wesley Chapel as a kid so that's all the Decatur I knew. Fast forward to being 19 and meeting this chick who takes me to Java Monkey(RIP) and I'm like "bih where are we? This ain't no fukkin Decatur "

That must be 2 sides shyt ain't only for the westside

Once you go under that bridge, it’s a completely different Decatur. My dentist office and first job was in downtown Decatur.

 

[Pure Water]

People not from Atlanta don’t even understand there are 2 Decaturs. They visit downtown Dec, see how nice it is and wonder why 21 Savage act like it’s hood

That's the actual CITY of Decatur. Places where nikkas like 21 from just have a Decatur mailing address. They really ain't from no city, just unincorporated Dekalb County.

 

[Prodyson]

People keep saying the metro as if the metro area has more rich black folks than white

The thread isn’t about that though. It’s about the wealth GAP. The idea is that the gap would be smaller, not that it wouldn’t exist or that there would be more well off black people than white people. Atlanta is not majority black, nor is the metro Atlanta area.

As someone who lives in the metro area, I know zero black people who I worked with who actually live in the city. Half of my white coworkers live in the city.

 

[North of Death]

Too many TLRepublicans mocking and belittling poor black people, saying arrogant shyt like "I got mines, fukk everyone else" and " that's capitalism, I cannot change it"

The Civil Rights generation didn't die for that European mindset. Too many of yall drank the kool aid of vulture capitalism. No wonder crime is so bad in ATL.

Yes they did actually. Read Bayard Rustins views on school integration