Keisha Lance Bottoms throws the mayor job in the bushes

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Its on Felicia Moore, Atlanta City Council President She’s one of the top candidates now. I think Kasim might slide back in but I’m now sure how I feel about him running again

I think Kwanzaa Hall might be interested too.

It’s gonna be wide open

which is not good cuz all them nikkas tear each other down which leads to a runoff cuz nobody gets the required % of votes

 

[dj-method-x]

I like Keisha a lot. Salute to her

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

I would really hate to see the next see the next mayor be a cac. Please run Stacey

You don’t run for governor, pretty much win if not for corruption, then track high as a VP candidate, to go be a mayor breh.

 

[Atlrocafella]

What middle school you go to? What HS? You ever stood in line at the 559? What mall you used hang out at, Shannon, Green Briar, South Dekalb? (Every transplant knows Lennox). What Marta bus numbers did you take as a kid? What squad were you on at Gresham Park? What’s the last spot Hosea Williams did Thanksgiving Dinner? You ever hoop at Run and Shoot? What was the booty club next to it called? How much were lap dances? Remember The Gate? What spot in Buckhead had the freakiest white hoes. Chilli Pepper, Oxygen, World Bar, Makos or Bell Bottoms?


Anything?

gave that nikka a pop quiz.

 

[Max.]

She holding something for sure

 

[OG Talk]

gave that nikka a pop quiz.

The nikka comes through every topic claiming to be “Mr. Atlanta” but never knows nothing outside of what’s posted on AJC.Com or Huffington Post.

Cant even name the Principal of the school he went to, because he knows there are probably nikkas on this forum that really went there that will pull his card.

 

[AVXL]

BTW, anyone thinking Keisha wouldn’t had Bankhead Bounced to a second term is fooling themselves. Every incumbent Mayor since Maynard Jackson in the 70s has won re-election. Plus Keisha has a 68% approval rating. She is very popular and loved throughout the city, she would’ve won easily

I really think Kasim gets back in there now

 

[Originalman]

The real issue in losing ATL is a lot of the Black wealth in the city was built off of Blacks getting a fair shake at government contracts, especially Hartsfield-Jackson airport. Besides that, on balance though, unlike big cities up north Black people are a power in the burbs especially in places like DeKalb, Fulton (though most of this is ATL), parts of Rockdale and Clayton, and increasingly former white counties like Fulton or Cobb. When I grew up, people didn't live in ATL midtown etc. like that except in Southwest, West End, etc. The current gentrified areas were really poor and the Black Wall Street of Auburn Ave. in downtown ATL had already been in decline. All the 80s and 90s Black migrants moved in to the burbs mostly. If Black people build wealth and leverage there it could compensate in ways the Blacks in the north could not.

Totally agree. Folks outside atlanta don't give mayor maynard jackson revolutionized the city enough credit when he actually made sure black folks got their fair share in government contracts. Which opened up so much wealth to black folks in atlanta. Also Atlanta had been a black mecca in the south even before the rappers started talking about it in the 90s. From all over the south your best and brightest black folks would leave Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and the Carolinas to move to Atlanta and settle there. Many of them still do. Thats one of the biggest reasons there is still black wealth and power in atlanta.

You just don't have that up north. There aren't neighboring states next to detroit or chicago and etc that has a plethora of black folks and HBCUs pumping out skilled folks locally and the state next door. But Atlanta has that.

I am old enough to have seen atlanta as a kid during the 90s visiting my older cousins. Been there in the 2000s and even today. So I have seen the gentrification. The concern I have is while outsiders running their to live the atlanta aka south los angelas glamorous life. Are they gonna take up the mantle and contribute locally like the black natives who been there living for generations? That just don't mean economically, but that mean politically so black folks can keep their power? Or are jokers just gonna bytch and moan then bytch and moan some more while white folks taking all the power that black locals done fought for generations to have?

 

[AVXL]

Like I been saying for years, Atlanta is next on the chopping block when it comes to cities been destroyed

I used to love Atlanta of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.... because it was native Georgia blacks building small businesses or had good jobs and then the influx of rappers from elsewhere started creeping in and then the broke nikkas from all over started running down there with no plan having kids everywhere and now u have people getting robbed and killed and now u got bloods and even crips in the city

also didn’t help with BMF bringing in the glamorous shyt

I hope you native Georgia heads make it through the bullshyt

I hear what you’re saying and I’m not mad at you because your intentions seem good but I legit hate hearing this line of thinking. I hate the “oh back in the 80s/90s was the Atlanta I used to love” nah breh. Crime was much worse around the city then it was now, you still had public housing throughout the city and despite the income inequality and gentrification we have now, you didn’t have as much wealth creation for black people in the city. I grew up in that era here and y’all makin the 80s/90s shyt sound sweet. It wasn’t. For all its imperfections Atlanta is in a better overall place than it was 20 or 30 years ago

 

[the bossman]

You just don't have that up north. There aren't neighboring states next to detroit or chicago and etc that has a plethora of black folks and HBCUs pumping out skilled folks locally and the state next door. But Atlanta has that.

Love ATL but DMV has all that

 

[Originalman]

I think that poster is Roland Martin

naw can't be he use to post a ton of tariq shyt.

Maybe its Roland and Tariq....they could be sharing the same coli account...

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Not surprised. Good luck to whoever is next.

 

[AVXL]

Honestly, apart from the whole snow storm thing a few years back, I didn’t feel anything wrong with him. Why not bring him back?

Far reaching ethics & corruption probe. Kasim is cool personally but he’s arrogant, brash and a bully to people in the community. There’s a reason he’s not doing shyt right now, he alienated a lot of people

 

[Originalman]

Love ATL but DMV has all that

I agree but not on that level of Atlanta. Geogia is in the blackest region of america and with no cities on its level to compete with in that area.

Going to college in the south and traveling to schools in that area from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama. Plus having family and visiting them in those states. Damn near every young black person had a dream to move to atlanta.

Damn near all the black folks I graduated with in undergrad or grad school in my field. Attemped to move to atlanta after graduation, moved to Atlanta or wanted as to go there as their umber 1 choice, but found a job paying more in texas or Tennessee or Louisiana or in there home state (Mississippi). But 99% of the time Atlanta was their first choice it they were black. Heck half the folks here in Dallas I reconnected with that I
went to college with are folks who moved to Atlanta after graduation and now moved out here to texas due to the cheaper cost of living and more opportunities.

Also the region of the DMV do not have a brain and talent drain on the levels of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Due to high amounts of poverty and lack of opportunities kids especially black kids grow up knowing that they will most likely have to leave their town or city and state for employment if they get a degree...especially in a competitive field. So Atlanta basically has a feeder system do that and the HBCUs when it comes to black talent.

 

[Atlrocafella]

Far reaching ethics & corruption probe. Kasim is cool personally but he’s arrogant, brash and a bully to people in the community. There’s a reason he’s not doing shyt right now, he alienated a lot of people

almost sounds like a black version of Trump. I think he’s part of JetDoc that Rick Ross been promoting.

I still think we need a forceful person like Kasim to get this city back on track as far as crime goes, Keisha was a bit too soft, especially when it came to the teens committing crimes