"The GOAT Black City" The Official: ATL Discussion Thread

[Originalman]

Saw porsha Williams at Philips plaza

I love that woman. Is her ass fat in real life....lol

 

[ManBearPig]

Chicago the goat black city..... Hell naw and I am from there.

There are not many places that are better for blacks than Hyde Park, Oak Park, Beverly, Andersonville, Forest Park.

Atlanta is just a bunch of trees outside their already boring downtown.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

I love that woman. Is her ass fat in real life....lol

Yeah man ..natural beauty

 

[daemonova]

a friend gave me Georgia Aquarium tickets, can somebody tell me why I should go besides look at fish in glass, and what would be good days

 

[Poitier]

a friend gave me Georgia Aquarium tickets, can somebody tell me why I should go besides look at fish in glass, and what would be good days

Do you have kids? Only real reason to hit it up in my opinion.

 

[Drake's Tan]

a friend gave me Georgia Aquarium tickets, can somebody tell me why I should go besides look at fish in glass, and what would be good days

Any day but the weekends. Too crowded.

 

[Dominique Wilkins]

a friend gave me Georgia Aquarium tickets, can somebody tell me why I should go besides look at fish in glass, and what would be good days

if you hate kids and crowds like I do, do not go on weekends.

 

[daemonova]

how is the georgia aquarium on serving alcohol

 

[JamilALAmin]

There are not many places that are better for blacks than Hyde Park, Oak Park, Beverly, Andersonville, Forest Park.

Atlanta is just a bunch of trees outside their already boring downtown.

Bruh I literally almost spit up my drink after reading this.

You really came in here and said this foolishness?

First off most of the hoods you named aren't even Black neighborhoods, Like I'd be shocked if a place like Beverly was even 35% Black, and the Blacks that do live there walk on egg shells 24/7 because those Irish dudes down there are racist as fukk and they not afraid to show it. I know first hand bruh.

Im from Atlanta, a city in the American south which is supposed to be the most racist region in the country, but yet I've never been called a '******' by a white person in my life in the A. But I damn sure got called one while walking down 96th St in the heart of Beverly back about 9 years ago. GTFOH with that bullshyt. My aunt is a bed wench and her husband is a typical Southside Irish dude. Dude is a cop and every male in his family is either a cop or a fireman, and they all grew up and still live in Beverly and they all racist as hell. These guys openly brag about racist shyt they do nikkas, shyt one of her in laws got locked up for throwing a brick at some little Black boy coming out of Morgan Park HS.

Look bruh, I love the Chi. My pops side of the family is from there, got family all over that bytch, I own property in NWI and I'm up there at least once a month. Hell my Moms people aint even from there and she stay up there now too. Thats my second home, and it is a dope ass city. But dont front like race relations is all good up there and dont list neighborhoods that are diverse as fukk and try to pass them off as "Black areas"

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[JamilALAmin]

I wonder if Benz gonna drop the naming rights for the Super dome now. Doesn't make sense for them to have 2 NFL stadiums with their name plate on them.

It's only right anyway. ATL the #1 market for Benz in North America, even ahead of LA and South Florida. Them dusty NO nikkas can't even afford a used Charger from DriveTime

 

[Apollo Creed]

I wonder if Benz gonna drop the naming rights for the Super dome now. Doesn't make sense for them to have 2 NFL stadiums with their name plate on them.

It's only right anyway. ATL the #1 market for Benz in North America, even ahead of LA and South Florida. Them dusty NO nikkas can't even afford a used Charger from DriveTime

yup, 1st they moved their NA corp HQ to the city and now this. I was reading the naming rights deal in NO benz signed in 2011 will be up in 2019

 

[Poitier]

Big picture of state’s demographic shifts: Not a pretty picture for schools

At a recent education forum, Mike Carnathan, a researcher with the Atlanta Regional Commission, showed a startling series of slides that confirmed the suburbanization of poverty in Georgia.

The increasing and concentrated poverty portends challenges for many Georgia schools.

The ARC data reiterates a fact teachers know well: Family income remains one of strongest predictors of educational success. Middle-class kids come to school healthier and with stronger educational foundations than lower income peers.

Yet, many of the children who will be flowing into Georgia schools over the next 25 years — the state will see a big rise in younger residents — will be poor. And an increasing percentage of them will come from homes where English is not the primary language, adding to the education hurdles.

Carnathan shared some big picture data trends at a recent forum by the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education:

•Georgia is growing more diverse. But it is also growing poorer.

•The state’s job market is recovering; income is not. And it’s not clear why. Carnathan said it may be Georgia employers can get away with paying less. But, otherwise, he said, “Nobody has a good answer.”

•Metropolitan Atlanta has been outperforming the rest of nation in job growth for about two years now. However, Georgia’s per capita income is lower today than it was in 2000. “The nation went through the great recession and it’s recovered. Georgia just isn’t there yet…Yes, we are growing a lot, but we are also growing poor,” said Carnathan.

•Georgia is a fast growing state, growing twice as fast as the nation as a whole since 1990. In that time, Georgia has ranked 4th in new residents, behind Texas, California and Florida.

•Among metropolitan areas, metro Atlanta ranked 7th in growth since 2010; this is after a decade where Atlanta was one of three metropolitan areas adding a million more residents. Most of the growth is occurring in the second ring suburbs.

•As baby boomers age, there will be many more jobs in the healthcare sector.

•New economy jobs are hot, but these jobs overwhelmingly require at least a bachelor’s degree.

•However, some old economy jobs are hot, too. If we can align training tracks with these jobs, there are opportunities for Georgians who don’t have a college degree.

•Top jobs in Georgia based on postings by employers: Truck drivers is No. 1. The second is software developer followed by registered nurse, retail sales, sales rep, supervisor, and computer system analyst.

•When you look at the full list of posted jobs over the past year, 63 percent require at least a bachelor’s degree. By 2040, health care will be the dominant sector.

•Looking at the state’s adults now, only 28 percent now have a degree.

Where are kids being educated to higher standards so they are on track for a degree?

The ARC maps show achievement benchmarks — strong performance in third grade reading and top high school graduation rates – correlate with household wealth.

At a recent education forum, Mike Carnathan of the ARC said Georgia is growing both larger and poorer.
At a recent education forum, researcher Mike Carnathan of the ARC said Georgia is growing in population, diversity and poverty.
The population growth in Georgia will occur in the metro areas around Atlanta, Chattanooga Columbus, Augusta, and Savannah. “The metropolitan areas are going to capture the majority of the population and the majority of the jobs. That is the nature of the game; it is a metropolitan world now,” said Carnathan.

Georgia is younger than the rest of the nation, having a slightly higher percentage of school-age children and slightly fewer older adults. Metro Atlanta also has more younger residents than the rest of the southeast.

In 1990, metro Atlanta was full of baby boomers.Today, there are more millennials than baby boomers in metro Atlanta. (1.55 million millennials to 1.25 million boomers.)

Younger Georgians are more diverse. In metro Atlanta, 60 percent of the residents 14 and under are nonwhite, compared to 30 percent of the 70 and older group.

The metro is showing a rise in young children “who will be running this place in 2040,” said Carnathan.

A lot of those young children can be found in suburban Atlanta areas with great diversity, including Gwinnett and Hall counties.

Metro Atlanta is becoming a minority majority population. Hispanic growth is occurring in the metro suburbs. When you overlay race and age, you find high numbers of children in the burgeoning Hispanic pockets in such areas as Marietta, Canton, Norcross, Buford Highway and Gainesville.

Schools reflect these new demographic realities. In the year 2000, nine of 14 school systems in metro Atlanta had majority white populations.

“Fast forward to 2014, now only five do. This is just in 14 years. This isn’t even a generation. That is how fast things are happening in our school systems,” said Carnathan.

Consider Rockdale County, he said. In 2000, Rockdale public schools were 68 percent white. Today, they are 17 percent.

“This is the pace of change our school systems are having to deal with, and it’s dizzying,” he said.

“In 1990, we are a bi-ethnic place — majority white, black, not much else,” said Carnathan. “By 2040, we are going to have a plurality of races. It’s going to be a marble cake. It’s going to have equal numbers of all races.”

Big picture of state’s demographic shifts: Not a pretty picture for schools | Get Schooled

 

[Easy-E]

I gotta get out of here (re: Job situation)

 

[Motife43]

I need to get the whip thoroughly cleaned either today or tomorrow and don't feel like doing it myself. Where yall go to get yall cars cleaned?