You must tell the story of getting kicked out of stats
I went once when it was blue notes, we waited to get seated, a couple waitresses walked past and ignored us
We just left
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You must tell the story of getting kicked out of stats
I went once when it was blue notes, we waited to get seated, a couple waitresses walked past and ignored us
We just left
I was drunk off my ass basically. I have no recollection of what really went on except that fact. Friends told me the next day, after I had to make apology calls to people for drunk calling and crazy texts—but when I’m as drunk as I was that night I tend to wild out and flirt too much. Thats what my friends said happened.
Mindfield333
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I might go to Stats this Friday... I lowkey wanna sell my ticket to the black party Saturday
Now @Responsible Allen Iverson
I know you don’t tend to get down with the fukkery in here. You leave there to me and you keep it moving.
But are you gonna handle this or leave this for me & @CarmelBarbie?
I strongly suggest you take this
You can have it. Outsiders have been saying that "Charlotte sucks" ever since I've been here. I usually don't engage anymore unless a constructive discussion can come out of it.
My homegirl wanted to go to Stats. I may take her up on her offer.
Edit: Is CMPD forcing the homeless from the covered benches in Uptown? Specifically the one in front of Eddie Vs? They used to always be there now not so much. Think I seen a cop take a pic of it one day.
Host the QC Coli Greet & Introduce the Coli Gang to your friends. We want the full story.I was drunk off my ass basically. I have no recollection of what really went on except that fact. Friends told me the next day, after I had to make apology calls to people for drunk calling and crazy texts—but when I’m as drunk as I was that night I tend to wild out and flirt too much. Thats what my friends said happened.
Edit: Is CMPD forcing the homeless from the covered benches in Uptown? Specifically the one in front of Eddie Vs? They used to always be there now not so much. Think I seen a cop take a pic of it one day.
Controversy
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I was drunk off my ass basically. I have no recollection of what really went on except that fact. Friends told me the next day, after I had to make apology calls to people for drunk calling and crazy texts—but when I’m as drunk as I was that night I tend to wild out and flirt too much. Thats what my friends said happened.
Pardon this interruption
How is a city ranked last in economic mobility a black paradise?
I'll wait.
I think because people are eating here. My neighborhood is middle class and is basically all black. The homes are worth 230k.
Although the houses aren't huge that's some good equity for middle class families.
There's a lot of black people doing well here. Yes there's poverty.
The article is talking bout the poorest becoming the richest.
In what city is that common?
I’m not hosting a QC Coli Greet and meet. But you can.
I have no idea about the CMPD. Last time I was in uptown, homeless were present, but I’m not familiar with Eddie v’s so I’m not sure.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Come on man, you are the best of us in here.
You know my skill set and know exactly what I will do to this thread in here. You always been the beacon of light that counteracts my fukkery and agent of chaos shyt.
Don’t give me this power
Why are you doing this? To yourself...
The Cities Where African-Americans Are Doing The Best Economically 2018
Forbes: These are the top cities where African-Americans are doing the best economically
I don’t see Philly on either list breh... but Charlotte’s on both. Everyone I know is eating well here...
Meanwhile
Philly in a nutshell:
https://www.urbanleaguephila.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ULP_SOBP.pdf
Philly Is The 4th Most Segregated Big City in the Country
Only 2.5 Percent of Philly Businesses Are Black-Owned. The City Must Act.
Black men have the lowest life expectancy of any Philly group, says a new report
One word: yikes
McCrorey Heights Homecoming to reunite with JCSU, encourage Black homeownership - Q City Metro
McCrorey Heights Homecoming to reunite with JCSU, encourage Black homeownership
Charlotte native Winston “Wilmo” Robinson to host homecoming celebration to recognize neighborhood developed by JCSU president.
By Emiene Wright
October 1, 2019
Winston and Quiana Robinson with their son in front of their home in McCrorey Heights. Photo: Terrance Murray
Growing up in the Wilmore section of Charlotte, Winston Robinson dreamed of someday living in McCrorey Heights, the west Charlotte neighborhood developed in the late 1940s by H.L. McCrory, Johnson C. Smith University’s first Black president.
Now Robinson calls the neighborhood home and is throwing the first McCrorey Heights Homecoming on Oct. 5. He hopes the event reestablishes a living connection between the community and the university that birthed it, attracts Charlotteans who have memories of either institution, and increases interest in Black homeownership in the area.
To Robinson, both JCSU and McCrorey Heights are an integral part of his personal experience, and the character of Charlotte as a whole.
“I’m a native here, and my mother attended Smith a little while. Our home church was First Mayfield on Oaklawn, across from Fairview Homes,” Robinson said. “Our Sunday routine was church, then a stop by the store for a bushel of collard greens and smoked turkey necks for dinner, and then we’d drive around McCrorey Heights, with my mother telling me all the stories of prominent Black leaders in Charlotte and pointing out their homes. I’ve wanted to live here since I was a child.”
A face in the community
Robinson met his wife, Quiana, while both attended Winston-Salem State University, and they married in 2013. The couple bought a duplex in Lockwood, less than 10 minute’s drive from McCrorey Heights, and Robinson became president of the neighborhood association. In this capacity, he gained experience as a community organizer and learned about community improvement grants, and held events to educate renters about becoming homeowners in Lockwood. Still, his heart was forever toward McCrorey Heights. When a 3-bedroom brick home went on the market just under a year ago, they jumped at the opportunity.
“I’m raising a Black son and my priority is for him to grow up knowing he’s capable. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are legendary men and rightfully so, but Atlanta and New York are a world away. It’s important for him to know Dr. Reginald Hawkins and other important civil rights figures were right in his backyard. I want him to know what his roots are in this city,” Robinson said.
Attention on homeownership
With the Homecoming celebration, Robinson hopes to do something similar for attendees. McCrorey Heights was the first planned middle-class community for Black people in Charlotte, and thrived for generations. But as desegregation took hold, the children and grandchildren of the first families opted for more integrated pastures.
“I want Homecoming to bring those people and their children back, rekindle fond memories and showcase the neighborhood in a positive light,” Robinson said. “You can live your entire life in Charlotte and not come to the Beatties Ford corridor. Come back, see some old faces and meet some new ones, and spend some time here. Come back home.”
Robinson is a bit of a homeownership fanatic. He’s fresh off producing the second A Vibe Called Fresh event, a community day party to strengthen community bonds and demystify the process of homeownership for Black folk in Charlotte. He reported that over two dozen citizens became first-time homebuyers as a result of the programs and guidance provided in the last two years of A Vibe Called Fresh.
Winston Robinson (left) hosts “Black in the Day” at A Vibe Called Fresh event with the cast of reality TV show, “To Have and To Hold.” Photo: Terrance Murray
Robinson is concerned Black Charlotteans are dropping in levels of homeownership amid the city’s housing boom, though McCrorey Heights appears to have held onto its historical identity more than neighboring Biddleville and Seversville. The culture of the neighborhood hasn’t changed even as newcomers have been welcomed in. People still sit on their porches and call across yards to greet their neighbors. Robinson credits families like the Morlands and others who own several houses in the neighborhood with controlling the effects of gentrification.
“That’s to protect it. This is why I think this day is important,” he said. “I’m a new jack. I just moved here a year ago, but I’d like to show respect to those forefathers and foremothers of the community, to let them know I appreciate the sacrifice and I’m here to continue your mission and learn from you. How can I keep this legacy going?”
Connecting to JCSU’s history
The Homecoming will also be part of a historical documentation project, with JCSU faculty and staff on-hand to share archival information about the neighborhood as well as record stories from elder denizens who have been there since the neighborhood’s inception. Everyone is encouraged to share stories of their lived experiences in McCrorey Heights.
JCSU professor Dr. Jasmine Corbett-Warren hopes to see her students recording stories from residents and guests for extra credit. Corbett-Warren has assigned the freshmen the task of identifying and interviewing alumni who graduated in landmark years for their perspectives on events of the time. Students have collected histories on the marches of 1966; reactions to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till; and the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Corbett-Warren said that a narrower lens on history reveals unique stories often lost in the greater narrative. She is thrilled to share the edited results of their interviews later this academic year. She’ll be at the Homecoming for more personal reasons as well: Her parents attended JCSU.
“We always had a lot of pride in this school because without it we wouldn’t be here,” she said, “but I find a lot of younger students don’t know much about the school, the history. They don’t know MLK was scheduled to speak there but canceled to go to Memphis, where he was assassinated.”
She wants students to fall in love with JCSU the way she has, the way alumni and residents of McCrorey Heights have.
“No one can tell your story better than you can,” she said. “We’re taking back the name and telling the love story of the JCSU. We’re a part of this community, a part of this city, and no one can do this better than we can. Allow us to reintroduce ourselves.”
Event details
McCrorey Heights Homecoming
Date: Saturday, Oct. 5
Location: Moreland Gardens, intersection of Fairfield St. and Patton Ave.
Time: 2-6 p.m.
Cost: Free
McCrorey Heights Homecoming to reunite with JCSU, encourage Black homeownership
Charlotte native Winston “Wilmo” Robinson to host homecoming celebration to recognize neighborhood developed by JCSU president.
By Emiene Wright
October 1, 2019
Winston and Quiana Robinson with their son in front of their home in McCrorey Heights. Photo: Terrance Murray
Growing up in the Wilmore section of Charlotte, Winston Robinson dreamed of someday living in McCrorey Heights, the west Charlotte neighborhood developed in the late 1940s by H.L. McCrory, Johnson C. Smith University’s first Black president.
Now Robinson calls the neighborhood home and is throwing the first McCrorey Heights Homecoming on Oct. 5. He hopes the event reestablishes a living connection between the community and the university that birthed it, attracts Charlotteans who have memories of either institution, and increases interest in Black homeownership in the area.
To Robinson, both JCSU and McCrorey Heights are an integral part of his personal experience, and the character of Charlotte as a whole.
“I’m a native here, and my mother attended Smith a little while. Our home church was First Mayfield on Oaklawn, across from Fairview Homes,” Robinson said. “Our Sunday routine was church, then a stop by the store for a bushel of collard greens and smoked turkey necks for dinner, and then we’d drive around McCrorey Heights, with my mother telling me all the stories of prominent Black leaders in Charlotte and pointing out their homes. I’ve wanted to live here since I was a child.”
A face in the community
Robinson met his wife, Quiana, while both attended Winston-Salem State University, and they married in 2013. The couple bought a duplex in Lockwood, less than 10 minute’s drive from McCrorey Heights, and Robinson became president of the neighborhood association. In this capacity, he gained experience as a community organizer and learned about community improvement grants, and held events to educate renters about becoming homeowners in Lockwood. Still, his heart was forever toward McCrorey Heights. When a 3-bedroom brick home went on the market just under a year ago, they jumped at the opportunity.
“I’m raising a Black son and my priority is for him to grow up knowing he’s capable. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are legendary men and rightfully so, but Atlanta and New York are a world away. It’s important for him to know Dr. Reginald Hawkins and other important civil rights figures were right in his backyard. I want him to know what his roots are in this city,” Robinson said.
Attention on homeownership
With the Homecoming celebration, Robinson hopes to do something similar for attendees. McCrorey Heights was the first planned middle-class community for Black people in Charlotte, and thrived for generations. But as desegregation took hold, the children and grandchildren of the first families opted for more integrated pastures.
“I want Homecoming to bring those people and their children back, rekindle fond memories and showcase the neighborhood in a positive light,” Robinson said. “You can live your entire life in Charlotte and not come to the Beatties Ford corridor. Come back, see some old faces and meet some new ones, and spend some time here. Come back home.”
Robinson is a bit of a homeownership fanatic. He’s fresh off producing the second A Vibe Called Fresh event, a community day party to strengthen community bonds and demystify the process of homeownership for Black folk in Charlotte. He reported that over two dozen citizens became first-time homebuyers as a result of the programs and guidance provided in the last two years of A Vibe Called Fresh.
Winston Robinson (left) hosts “Black in the Day” at A Vibe Called Fresh event with the cast of reality TV show, “To Have and To Hold.” Photo: Terrance Murray
Robinson is concerned Black Charlotteans are dropping in levels of homeownership amid the city’s housing boom, though McCrorey Heights appears to have held onto its historical identity more than neighboring Biddleville and Seversville. The culture of the neighborhood hasn’t changed even as newcomers have been welcomed in. People still sit on their porches and call across yards to greet their neighbors. Robinson credits families like the Morlands and others who own several houses in the neighborhood with controlling the effects of gentrification.
“That’s to protect it. This is why I think this day is important,” he said. “I’m a new jack. I just moved here a year ago, but I’d like to show respect to those forefathers and foremothers of the community, to let them know I appreciate the sacrifice and I’m here to continue your mission and learn from you. How can I keep this legacy going?”
Connecting to JCSU’s history
The Homecoming will also be part of a historical documentation project, with JCSU faculty and staff on-hand to share archival information about the neighborhood as well as record stories from elder denizens who have been there since the neighborhood’s inception. Everyone is encouraged to share stories of their lived experiences in McCrorey Heights.
JCSU professor Dr. Jasmine Corbett-Warren hopes to see her students recording stories from residents and guests for extra credit. Corbett-Warren has assigned the freshmen the task of identifying and interviewing alumni who graduated in landmark years for their perspectives on events of the time. Students have collected histories on the marches of 1966; reactions to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till; and the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Corbett-Warren said that a narrower lens on history reveals unique stories often lost in the greater narrative. She is thrilled to share the edited results of their interviews later this academic year. She’ll be at the Homecoming for more personal reasons as well: Her parents attended JCSU.
“We always had a lot of pride in this school because without it we wouldn’t be here,” she said, “but I find a lot of younger students don’t know much about the school, the history. They don’t know MLK was scheduled to speak there but canceled to go to Memphis, where he was assassinated.”
She wants students to fall in love with JCSU the way she has, the way alumni and residents of McCrorey Heights have.
“No one can tell your story better than you can,” she said. “We’re taking back the name and telling the love story of the JCSU. We’re a part of this community, a part of this city, and no one can do this better than we can. Allow us to reintroduce ourselves.”
Event details
McCrorey Heights Homecoming
Date: Saturday, Oct. 5
Location: Moreland Gardens, intersection of Fairfield St. and Patton Ave.
Time: 2-6 p.m.
Cost: Free
Controversy
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Upward mobility is more about advancement
In DC, you can go from a junior position to a senior position in 5 yrs...you will double your salary, you will be able to afford $500k homes, you will drive a foreign, it's more likely you can be successful. That's not the norm in Charlotte, sorry.
Controversy
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I got love for NC but c'mon....we've got better food, better colleges, reasonable housing, better sports teams, close proximity to other major cities
Charlotte is ok but most of what I read in this thread is homegrown pride...the culture doesn't speak for itself in the city
S/o to the state of NC tho
Philly housing is not as “reasonable” as Charlotte. Philly does have better colleges, than Charlotte. Philly is close to DC, Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, and Ny so that is true. Philly does have more of a culture. But it’s a gritty rough city imo.
Better food is subjective. I personally wasn’t impressed with food in Philly. I’m not super impressed with Charlotte food either. Both are good imo. Not nyc or Chicago or San Fran though. Chicago is still one of my favorite cities for that reason(yes I lived there too)
Charlotte also has close proximity to Raleigh/Durham(decent university’s) , Asheville(beautiful nature hiking) Myrtle Beach in SC, and Atlanta. The weather is better in Charlotte. Though it lacks culture as a whole the city is good for families, and there are plenty of opportunities for blacks to do well. As I proved in my post before, it continues to make the list of great cities for blacks. Philly does not.
When you come you visit your grandma, but do you ever explore the city and drive around to see the different neighborhoods notably the many areas where blacks are living very well and much more integrated compared to Philly? Next time you visit, do that. And come back and post in this thread.
