My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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I was deadass likewhen I read that...like he DEADASS gonna ignore that big ass prison that's on the opposite side
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It cuts the bronx in half, basically containing all the bad stuff to one area. Fordham and Belmont are very nice areas and 5 mins away you're in new hope.
ogc163
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sobroi just seen some youngins attacking a car, smashing the windows & running some niccas out of morrison earlier today
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Its a damm shame. I cant even afford to go back and live in my hometown after college
Isn't the point of college to be able to afford it?
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You talking Spanish Harlem?...if so, I was out there on Saturday. Everyone out there look like they have a disease. Its like 6 or 7 blocks of straight projects. Area straight up seems like they stopped advancing after 1996.
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88m3
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damn bruh
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When the Gentrifier is Black | Dominion of New York
"When the Gentrifier Is Black"
I asked three colleagues familiar with my situation their opinion. The first, a lawyer and non-profit executive, said it simply wasn’t possible. The inner city is a kind spiritual dwelling of “the black struggle.” As long as the struggle continues, and for better and worse, the inner city belongs to “the people.” Borrowing from the ‘black people can’t be racist’ rhetoric, my colleague said my racial identity alone entitled me to an informal right of return. Moreover, I was exactly what the neighborhood needed–a young, black professional. No, he said, I couldn’t possibly be a gentrifier.
These middle/upper middle class Black folks kill me sometimes @NYC Rebel @88m3
"When the Gentrifier Is Black"
I asked three colleagues familiar with my situation their opinion. The first, a lawyer and non-profit executive, said it simply wasn’t possible. The inner city is a kind spiritual dwelling of “the black struggle.” As long as the struggle continues, and for better and worse, the inner city belongs to “the people.” Borrowing from the ‘black people can’t be racist’ rhetoric, my colleague said my racial identity alone entitled me to an informal right of return. Moreover, I was exactly what the neighborhood needed–a young, black professional. No, he said, I couldn’t possibly be a gentrifier.
These middle/upper middle class Black folks kill me sometimes @NYC Rebel @88m3
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LOL you can find a CD player and walkmans in that bytch. With the old school game boys and 45 year old nikkas with razors in they mouth
88m3
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When the Gentrifier is Black | Dominion of New York
"When the Gentrifier Is Black"
I asked three colleagues familiar with my situation their opinion. The first, a lawyer and non-profit executive, said it simply wasn’t possible. The inner city is a kind spiritual dwelling of “the black struggle.” As long as the struggle continues, and for better and worse, the inner city belongs to “the people.” Borrowing from the ‘black people can’t be racist’ rhetoric, my colleague said my racial identity alone entitled me to an informal right of return. Moreover, I was exactly what the neighborhood needed–a young, black professional. No, he said, I couldn’t possibly be a gentrifier.
I'm not sure..
I mean it's not like we are the force behind gentrification. Don't we have a right to our neighborhoods? Just because we have a little extra money or can afford to buy does that make us a gentrifier? Part of the reason we buy in "our neighborhoods" is because we want to be around our people not push them away. Most of my neighbors are lawyers and doctors but there's also people selling packs and shooting guns every night. Can't we have it both ways?
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@Mike Ock its more like 6 or 7 acres. Too lazy to post the screen shot but if you look at Google Maps all the crosses in Spanish Harlem are projects
Its not too bad out there though... doesnt have the glamour and swag of regular Harlem but who cares.
@88m3 @ogc163 def depends who you ask. If you cant get your hood pass validated you will be deemed an enemy by a gatekeeper. My landlord in CH was a young black lawyer and the other two apts in my building had all white tenants
Its not too bad out there though... doesnt have the glamour and swag of regular Harlem but who cares.
@88m3 @ogc163 def depends who you ask. If you cant get your hood pass validated you will be deemed an enemy by a gatekeeper. My landlord in CH was a young black lawyer and the other two apts in my building had all white tenants
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