My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification

[Azul]

Yesterday I had a conversation with some friends about gentrification (they're all from Brooklyn). Basically they said while its sad that good people are collateral damage, if it means getting the riff raff out then so be it. The people living there at the end of the day have themselves to blame for not investing and taking care of their communities.

Basically what some of you guys have been saying. @Francis White I wish we could quarantine the good for nothings. Let em' kill each other off.

 

[AB Ziggy]

Let's face it. 10-20 years from now, everyone that's currenty living in NYC is just going to get priced the fukk out.

The only people that will be able to enjoy this city are the rich and wealthy. It will just be impossible for working to middle class people to live here.

And dont forget them college kids/early graduates rooming together cause they broke asses cant live solo for them high price rents.

 

[King Crimson]

Yesterday I had a conversation with some friends about gentrification (they're all from Brooklyn). Basically they said while its sad that good people are collateral damage, if it means getting the riff raff out then so be it. The people living there at the end of the day have themselves to blame for not investing and taking care of their communities.

Basically what some of you guys have been saying. @Francis White I wish we could quarantine the good for nothings. Let em' kill each other off.

Gotta be careful with that line of thinking. It's a very slippery slope.

 

[the next guy]

long island is looking pretty haggard as well

Hempstead, West Hempstead, Freeport, Deer Park. LI is awful these days!

 

[Azul]

Gotta be careful with that line of thinking. It's a very slippery slope.

Can you expound please?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

So it's only white people too blame I guess? What about the Spanish people who got their act together. Same with the West Indian and Indian people from India and the Koreans and Chinese . Shouldn't everyone be outraged at them for establishing areas for themselves. Why not target them for the same hate and envy most have for whites. All I see on this site is guys crying about how whites took over but nothing about the Asian and Spanish areas. Caribbean people have their shyt together, they buy and invest into their communities same with Asian and Indian areas. They don't get on websites are cry about hipsters moving in . They instill a work effort into the other kids to have pride in your area and to own it . Not talk about the good old when drugs and poverty made it unlivable like that's something to be proud of. I'm sorry but until people look into the mirror and stop blaming everyone but themselves we going to lose more by not being prepared. Some guys say invest in black business I agree 100% but not joes ribs or lil robs silk shop. I mean we need to but money into pharmacies and car dealerships and real estate offices . Restaurants we own but cater to every race to bring in more for more jobs. A trade school would help also and more IT schools , a nursing school anything that could improve the current youths chances of getting jobs that will allow them to adapt and make more money to afford increases in rent, lastly there should a travel agencies where you can help stuck in the past never getting anywhere in life people move so they don't ruin another generation with their non work ethic complaining asses. We should set a quarantined area for theses relics to pout and talk about how gully the places that they use to live changed for the better and they mad about. We should use these people for body parts to see since they are useless being alive .

Lots of good points here.

 

[2manyFCKNrappers]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I already seen em.

Real talk though, this thread is bumming me out. I'm not usually a sentimental person, but seeing my neighborhood being overrun and taken from it's people is almost too much. shyt hurts too when I see the young misguided brehs hanging in the streets with a care or clue in the world about what's coming.
One homie in this thread made some sound proposals on how to fight back, but I can't help but think we already lost.

you never lied. i think it's been right in front of my eyes and i talk about it sometimes with people i'm close with, but to come online where complete strangers are witnessing the same thing is like .

 

[Enchanted]

Before I left for college, I noticed more and more cacs walkin through my block in Harlem. This block near my place where most of the crackheads be at in the morning, one time late at night I saw some hipster nikkas goin into one of the apartments there.

I had the face.

 

[King Crimson]

Can you expound please?

Not accusing you at all, but we've got to be careful not to cast too many aspersions on those who aren't as aware as us. I say that not to make excuses for them, but to avoid looking upon them with the same gaze that I believe many of the gentrifiers look upon us. I agree that we can't save everyone, but to cast them out too harshly or to turn too disgusted an eye on them would make us no better.




That's just mg opinion though, I've already stated that I'm too much of an idealist.

 

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

And dont forget them college kids/early graduates rooming together cause they broke asses cant live solo for them high price rents.

Live in a $4,000 a month loft with 8 people brehs!

 

[Atlrocafella]

It's messed up how they are pushing out most of the black folks out..Like Spike Lee Said, NYC is going to be for the rich, wealthy, and tourist.

 

[Marvel]

Black people are getting kicked out of liberal cites nationwide. White libs played a sick game on yall from the Seattle to the Bay to LA to NYC. They coddled black people supported social welfare, low income housing/projects, low rent apartments, gave you government assistance instead of jobs. As a black man you can't get a job so you had to hustle the system through a woman or get on the streets. They gave you just enough to get by without having the economic power to get out there and OWN property. That is the reason why they are kicking black people out of all these communities, because we do not own sh!t. Now white libs are building up these areas to make money and make the place suitable for their lifestyles. Black people are funny, 10-15 years ago you thought that whites moving to Brooklyn and Harlem showed that they cared about you We thought that it was a sign of how much things have changed in America...now they are showing you the real reason why they moved there. They saw value in the land, because the NYC is an international city with rising property and the world wants it. If blacks owned property, they could have made millions upon millions of dollars off of companies making high rise apartments and condos.But they don't, so instead the government sold land to real estate companies who are pocketing the money.

I'm about tired, like many of you of talking to black people about whats going on out here. Nobody is out here spitting the truth. All the black people on TV are government agents. From Don Lemon to Al Sharpton. Obama can't do shyt because these cacs in congress have set there head stop anything which will help the poor and the majority of our people fall into the poor category. I told people that Obama being in office was going make cacs really get as us and they have made major moves to put us in our place. Wake up people!

 

[Francis White]

It's messed up how they are pushing out most of the black folks out..Like Spike Lee Said, NYC is going to be for the rich, wealthy, and tourist.

What about the Spanish and Asian people . How come they doing okay and when Chinatown got threatened with zoning changes , they developed a plan , put a guy in office got what they wanted . How about the Spanish is Jackson heights doing the same instead crying about it and reminisce over the old days on websites? Are you saying they have more community spirt and brains than blacks? Are you saying the only thing we can do is bytch about-it online instead getting careers where we can afford to pay the rents or better buying your place? What about electing someone who cares about the community and hiring great lawyers to defend legit people who are getting pushed? Is every race capable of doing that except black?

 

[Atlrocafella]

What about the Spanish and Asian people . How come they doing okay and when Chinatown got threatened with zoning changes , they developed a plan , put a guy in office got what they wanted . How about the Spanish is Jackson heights doing the same instead crying about it and reminisce over the old days on websites? Are you saying they have more community spirt and brains than blacks? Are you saying the only thing we can do is bytch about-it online instead getting careers where we can afford to pay the rents or better buying your place? What about electing someone who cares about the community and hiring great lawyers to defend legit people who are getting pushed? Is every race capable of doing that except black?

calm down there buddy.

 

[Marvel]

What about the Spanish and Asian people . How come they doing okay and when Chinatown got threatened with zoning changes , they developed a plan , put a guy in office got what they wanted . How about the Spanish is Jackson heights doing the same instead crying about it and reminisce over the old days on websites? Are you saying they have more community spirt and brains than blacks? Are you saying the only thing we can do is bytch about-it online instead getting careers where we can afford to pay the rents or better buying your place? What about electing someone who cares about the community and hiring great lawyers to defend legit people who are getting pushed? Is every race capable of doing that except black?

What happened to Spanish people in the Lower Eastside? They are being pushed out as well. Asians have an economic base and actually own sh!t, that is why get you can't get rid of a Chinatown, but its very easy to get rid of a Blacktown.