We Need a Second Great Migration: Black Folks Need to Head Back Downsouth (NYT)

[CrimsonTider]

WOAT

In the South, African Americans are disproportionately represented. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, 58 percent of the African-American population lived in the South as of 2017.18They are also more likely to be uninsured, with Texas, Florida, and Georgia being home to the largest shares of uninsured African Americans.https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/african-american-uninsured-rate-dropped-by-more-than-a-third-under-affordable-care. " title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0, 0.2, 1); outline: 0px; border: none; word-break: break-word;">19 Some states have also proposed draconian work requirementshttps://nashp.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Medicaid-Work-Requirements-Chart_10_31_19_Final.pdf." title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0, 0.2, 1); outline: 0px; border: none; word-break: break-word;">20 as a condition for the participation in the Medicaid program. These requirements can only serve to stigmatize enrollees, deny coverage, and discourage low-income people from the support they desperately need. In Arkansas—one of nine states to date with 1115 waivers approved by the Trump administration allowing fully implemented work requirements—18,000 low-income people lost health care coverage as a result.Kaiser Health News, June 19, 2019, Study: Arkansas Medicaid Work Requirement Hits Those Already Employed. " title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0, 0.2, 1); outline: 0px; border: none; word-break: break-word;">21 This coverage loss comes as no surprise, because the use of work requirements for other safety-net programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), has proven them to be ineffective in their stated goal—promoting employment—yet highly effective in reducing program eligibility.https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/medicaid-work-requirements-cant-be-fixed. " title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.33, 0, 0.2, 1); outline: 0px; border: none; word-break: break-word;">22

but it’s easier to for black people to get a gun in the south

 

[Michael's Black Son]

No sounds like an awful idea

exactly.

I’m good up here.

Gun laws here are fu-fu but it is what it is

 

[OG Talk]

but it’s easier to for black people to get a gun in the south

You’re on record on this forum describing Birmingham, AL as the G.O.A.T. city. Yet it’s not even a top 10 city in the South.

But the South ain’t shyt? You just be typing shyt. Go play with someone else.

 

[EndDomination]

I published an article in my undergraduate newspaper about the Second Great Migration that I saw with a lot of people moving to Charlotte, Austin, Atlanta, Houston, and Charleston - I'll see if I can find the draft and repost it here.

 

[King Sun]

Love y'all but nah

 

[richaveli83]

Stay your asses up north!

 

[HarlemHottie]

Exactly!! It's like how the coli assumes everyone from NY hates the south.

Every NYer literally brags about visiting the south and constantly talks about wanting to move there.

Exactly. But the north got a lot of disproportionately loud foreigners, confused half ados, and full ados who dont even know their own history.

Start making ppl id themselves in these threads and all becomes clear. I forget who it was, but a breh on here was shytting on the very concept of ados, but when i asked him where his ppl from, he really wasn't even sure of the details. An example of a loud know- nothing ados. Ofc, the immigrants are obvious.

 

[Ski Mask]

I'll move back to the south as soon as the weed laws there change.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Stay your asses up north!

I already intended to, no disrespect.

But we vacation in the south pretty regular (pre covid), so if we could get them ados resorts popping again, that would be dope.

 

[360dagod]

Nah not my type of lifestyle...but it's nice to visit tho...

Some of them laws still stuck in the 1800s

 

[Art Barr]

use the field i made a profitability to search for gifs breh.

Lack urban intellectualism breh.



art barr

 

[calixprynce]

No

mf u aint blacc , "el moreno" .... you a whole mudblood out here , no disrespect

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

I’m sorry but no. NYS offers free college at CUNY & SUNY (which has multiple top 200 colleges and universities) for regular folks, NYS Higher Education Services Corporation - The Excelsior Scholarship

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[O.Red]

this is a major issue with black people. We seem to focus more on politics than money.


Which makes no sense cause who do politicians bend over to? Wealthy and rich people

It really this simple

 

[Contrefaire]

Nah, if anything what we need to do is continue to spread out and migrate. Our families fled the south for a reason and those reasons largely still exist. Also, whatever opportunities currently exist for southern brehs would quickly dissipate if large swaths of Black America started trying to resettle in much smaller southern regions.

On top of that, how is anyone claiming to be in support of this NOT understanding how big of a regression this would be? So you want folks to not only uproot their entire lives by "moving back" to the South, but also 'fight' for rights and freedoms (or even 'luxuries' like a $15 min wage or updated, better and more accurate text books in schools, free college, better public health care, etc) that they've already grown accustomed to up north or out west?