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

[keond]

shyt makes me sick. One of my boys is in the joint for trafikking cocaine and he grew up in 3 story house bigger way bigger than the one I grew up in and had a step father who loved him like he was his biological.

That reminds me of one my homeboys, had 2 good parents, dad worked two jobs mom was a RN, had a big 2 story house in Hidden Hills subdivision in Stome mountain (hidden hills was nice in the late 90s), and he was robbing folks. Got shot in the face robbing a Subway and sent to jail at 17. Got out at 30 and went right back in.

 

[AVXL]

Black excellence dawg! Two parent households, business owners, college educated (HBCU) people, safe and solid working middle class area

My parents bought a crib in Decatur in 88 right off Boring Rd from a white couple. To our relatives from around the country we were the aspiration. And my mama was a teacher, pops worked in IT. They weren’t rich at all

@Apollo Creed made a good point on how white South Dekalb County was up until the flight in the late 80s

I was born in 1990 and spent my whole childhood in Decatur and Lithonia. I remember the Publix opening like AV mentioned, I grew up going to Golden Glide, having parties at South Dekalb Mall, church league at Kelley Chapel and all that. I remember when Stonecrest opened and we thought it was the best mall ever lol

It was White flight + black suburban growth that led to these areas exploding economically…Stonecrest to the East, Arbor Place to the West and Mall of Georgia to the Northeast in Buford all opened from 99-early 2000s as examples of this.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Black excellence dawg! Two parent households, business owners, college educated (HBCU) people, safe and solid working middle class area

My parents bought a crib in Decatur in 88 right off Boring Rd from a white couple. To our relatives from around the country we were the aspiration. And my mama was a teacher, pops worked in IT. They weren’t rich at all

@Apollo Creed made a good point on how white South Dekalb County was up until the flight in the late 80s

I was born in 1990 and spent my whole childhood in Decatur and Lithonia. I remember the Publix opening like AV mentioned, I grew up going to Golden Glide, having parties at South Dekalb Mall, church league at Kelley Chapel and all that. I remember when Stonecrest opened and we thought it was the best mall ever lol

I remember when stonecrest opened they were interviewing black folks in the news lol and like folks would brag at school like "yeah I went to stone crest last weekend".

 

[Apollo Creed]

shyt makes me sick. One of my boys is in the joint for trafikking cocaine and he grew up in 3 story house bigger way bigger than the one I grew up in and had a step father who loved him like he was his biological.

Yeah as someone struggling it would make.me say "man if my.parents had bread I would not give a fukk about no thug shyt"

I was always more on the fly shyt than wanted to be hard

 

[daemonova]

Black excellence dawg! Two parent households, business owners, college educated (HBCU) people, safe and solid working middle class area

My parents bought a crib in Decatur in 88 right off Boring Rd from a white couple. To our relatives from around the country we were the aspiration. And my mama was a teacher, pops worked in IT. They weren’t rich at all

@Apollo Creed made a good point on how white South Dekalb County was up until the flight in the late 80s

I was born in 1990 and spent my whole childhood in Decatur and Lithonia. I remember the Publix opening like AV mentioned, I grew up going to Golden Glide, having parties at South Dekalb Mall, church league at Kelley Chapel and all that. I remember when Stonecrest opened and we thought it was the best mall ever lol

I did security for Stonecrest when it opened

 

[daemonova]

That reminds me of one my homeboys, had 2 good parents, dad worked two jobs mom was a RN, had a big 2 story house in Hidden Hills subdivision in Stome mountain (hidden hills was nice in the late 90s), and he was robbing folks. Got shot in the face robbing a Subway and sent to jail at 17. Got out at 30 and went right back in.

My sister's family stayed up in hidden hills, different moms

 

[Moose_Greyjoy]

That reminds me of one my homeboys, had 2 good parents, dad worked two jobs mom was a RN, had a big 2 story house in Hidden Hills subdivision in Stome mountain (hidden hills was nice in the late 90s), and he was robbing folks. Got shot in the face robbing a Subway and sent to jail at 17. Got out at 30 and went right back in.

Got two cousins that got hit with RICOS. One grew up with both parents in Snellville, and was spoiled as hell growing up. He had the best toys and damn near every video game console. My other cousin went to college and her mom was married to a pharmacist…….

 

[DJSmooth]

This city in SOUTH FULTON is 68% white.

Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

You ppl love to parachute in a thread and tell me I'm wrong, but you don't know what you don't know.

I used to drive up Cascade Palmetto to go to the strip club, for the most part, that's a white ass road.

South Fulton is a city.

Chattahooche Hills is a completely different city. If you ride through South Fulton and see that many white people in a day you are in the wrong dimension.

 

[bzb]

SW Dekalb (Wesley Chapel, Candler Rd, Browns Mill, Snapfinger Rd, etc) when we moved out there in the late 80s/early 90s was this emergence of the black middle class in the suburbs. Black people with good paying jobs in good neighborhoods (we stayed off Flat Shoals & Kelley Chapel near the OG New Birth). I remember when they opened up that Publix on Flakes Mill and Flat Shoals and the Kroger across the street. It was just rapid growth for black people specifically during that era up until the time we left in the early 2000s

those were my stomping grounds back in the day when i first became a transplant. decatur where its greater. back when swd mall was popping. the movie theater. retail stores weren't bankrupt yet. picadilly. jr crickets.

just on the other side of flat shoals past 20 turned into candler rd. eventually that became a rough area and it spread further south. especially after the olympics in 96 when they shut down the projects in atl, moved everyone to south dekalb and further south. limited bus service smh.

that whole area from flat shoals to river rd to flakes mill, wesley chapel back to s.hairston, covington, redan, memorial dr. huge black middle class.

what yall said about the swats and east side was spot on though.

 

[The ADD]

Black excellence dawg! Two parent households, business owners, college educated (HBCU) people, safe and solid working middle class area

My parents bought a crib in Decatur in 88 right off Boring Rd from a white couple. To our relatives from around the country we were the aspiration. And my mama was a teacher, pops worked in IT. They weren’t rich at all

@Apollo Creed made a good point on how white South Dekalb County was up until the flight in the late 80s

I was born in 1990 and spent my whole childhood in Decatur and Lithonia. I remember the Publix opening like AV mentioned, I grew up going to Golden Glide, having parties at South Dekalb Mall, church league at Kelley Chapel and all that. I remember when Stonecrest opened and we thought it was the best mall ever lol

 

[DJSmooth]

He said the area of Cascade road which turns or dead ends into Fulton industrial and turns into Cascade Palmetto. At no point did he specify city or South Fulton county. By his own statements, there are a lot of whites in South Fulton County. I never said South fulton was majority white, I said it wasn't all black.


I brought up Chattahoochee hills because yo friend said South Fulton is the blackest thing out there, it's 12:15. But the dudes Original statement said it wasn't.

What is a South Fulton county

If someone BLACK says South Fulton they talking about Cascade, Campbellton rd, Camp Creek. Could even be referring to East Point, College Park and Fairburn.

 

[DrBanneker]

SW Dekalb (Wesley Chapel, Candler Rd, Browns Mill, Snapfinger Rd, etc) when we moved out there in the late 80s/early 90s was this emergence of the black middle class in the suburbs. Black people with good paying jobs in good neighborhoods (we stayed off Flat Shoals & Kelley Chapel near the OG New Birth). I remember when they opened up that Publix on Flakes Mill and Flat Shoals and the Kroger across the street. It was just rapid growth for black people specifically during that era up until the time we left in the early 2000s

Damn dude we grew up next to each other? We probably passed each other in the Publix or Wesley Chapel Kroger's LOL. I remember OG New Birth too.

 

[MajesticLion]

city in South Fulton
City of South Fulton



Carry on

 

[DrBanneker]

Black excellence dawg! Two parent households, business owners, college educated (HBCU) people, safe and solid working middle class area

My parents bought a crib in Decatur in 88 right off Boring Rd from a white couple. To our relatives from around the country we were the aspiration. And my mama was a teacher, pops worked in IT. They weren’t rich at all

@Apollo Creed made a good point on how white South Dekalb County was up until the flight in the late 80s

I was born in 1990 and spent my whole childhood in Decatur and Lithonia. I remember the Publix opening like AV mentioned, I grew up going to Golden Glide, having parties at South Dekalb Mall, church league at Kelley Chapel and all that. I remember when Stonecrest opened and we thought it was the best mall ever lol

People forget that briefly in the 90s DeKalb was second to PG County, MD as the highest income majority Black county in the US. It barely makes top 10 now.

 

[DrBanneker]

shyt makes me sick. One of my boys is in the joint for trafikking cocaine and he grew up in a 3 story house bigger way bigger than the one I grew up in and had a step father who loved him like he was his biological.

Yeah my brother has a friend that was adopted by a rich Black couple. This dumbass never finished college, got shot, and just ain't shyt. It's crazy.