Is it me or is there a De-African-Americanization going on in the following cities?

Question

Atlanta, New Orleans, and Chicago. Why do I say this? Because, here in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, housing projects have been AND STILL ARE being torn down (as well as other low-income housing areas where the majority of the residents were and still are Black) and condos and expensive apartments are being built. The same thing is going on in Chicago. How do I know this? Do you remember the Chicago-based rap duo Boo & Gotti that were with No Limit Records? In one of their hit singles from several years ago ("Man"), one of them said "They're tearing down the projects, man" , and I saw a middle-aged Caucasian guy shaking hands with the mayor with a construction site background where a housing project used to be on the music video that went along with the song. In Atlanta, the newly built condos and expensive apartments are being lived in by White people who are from out of state and accustomed to paying high rent and leasing prices. They're being ripped off here!!!!!!

Uh, Michael,...OBVIOUSLY, you don't know s.h.i.t!!! I know what I'm talking about!!!! I live here in Atlanta, so I would know that!!!! Also, I have a friend who is from New Orleans and he told me what's going on there!!!! I know EXACTLY what the hell I'm talking about!!!!

To Charlie: ONLY if they're rich Blacks OR higher, upper middle-class Blacks AND Republican!!!!! I'm Black my DAMN self and I'm SICK of the other Blacks who live in the city limits of big cities as ours who screw it up for us decent, law-abiding, and hard-working Black folk by trapping (Atlanta slang for "Illegal drug trafficking"), using drugs, and being violent towards other Black people! AGAIN, I LIVE here in Atlanta AND I know what the hell I'm talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

it's called gentrification. and it isn't a hallucination, it is a very deliberate process, and yes people are being ripped off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

Answer 2

that is wonderful news to read . i love the idea of tearing down the huge poor housing places. the crime there was awful it was unsafe to just drive though the area's
i do like the idea of having small area's within a normal community be built say in a residental housing area with middle class homes the goverment could build one 4 apartment building
in other places the developer could be required to build some very small homes that are within middle class or upper middle class places.
doing things this way gangs would not be so likely to form it would be much harder to have a black gang if the community had only 4 black kids living there.
i think that the civilized adavanced people in the area would be able to keep an eye on the poorer people and see that they are well behaved and that if additonal training such as parenting classes were needed the intellegent people would pick up on that and be able to run such programs for the poor .
when it comes to drugs well other then some pot very little of the crack is in a upper middle class home area so if the poor people attempted to stand on the street corners selling there drugs the more intelegent well behaved hard working people would be inclined to contact the police and have the trouble makers put in prison or better still in forced labour camps for 10 or 15 years.
you see we need to watch out for one another and area's where gangs are and drugs and shooting and people dont communicate with the nice police officers correctly seeing them as people doing there work to help make sure odd persons dont bring fear and hate into area's we overwhelm the police.
a police force covering an area of stay 20000 should be out to a gun call no more then once in 5 years and a home robbery good heavens where i live i dont think we have had a home robbery no we have neibourhood watch and we report things thatdont look right or people that dont behave in a civilized manner.

Answer 3

I am also live in Atlanta, if you mean knocking down crime ridden housing projects to give people that are willing to pay to live intown a place to live that is going to happen. Look at the gentrification of Little Five Points, and the old Atlanta Gas light building and parking lot where that huge shopping center on Moreland is now. It isn't forcing out African Americans at all, if they choose they can get jobs and contribute to the communty, the portion that doesn't want to do that and wishes to continue their ghetto ways is all moving to Clayton or DeKalb counties. The entire city government of Atlanta is black for phucks sake. Besides there is always Bankehead highway and the north side of Grant park that will always be ghetto's.

i didn't realize that bettering a community was de-african amercanizing it, I thought everyone wanted a nicer, safer city. i live in midtown and we don't care about color, or the gay straight thing we all get along great. When travelling north on Boulevard, cross over Ponce then it becomes Monroe Dr. and tell me which side of Ponce you want to live on.

Go cry to Mayor Shirley Franklin...she's black, go cry to the city council they are black, go cry to police chief Pennington, he's black....let's face it the white flight that many cities saw in the 70's is over we are back and want to live intown and we want a nicer area than it is now. The blacks are more than welcome if they know how to act and can pay their own way.

Answer 4

I know where you're coming from on this one. Here in Providence I call it the attempt to "ethnically cleanse" the neighborhoods. The 3 deckers in the neighborhood I grew up in (that weren't that nice) are now being done over. Each floor is being sold as a condo starting at 200,000usd. Since people from the tougher cities like Hartford,Boston,and some of the NY Burroughs think Providence is a "quaint" safer town,they move here. All this un-affordable housing is being built to cater to them.

Answer 5

In New Orleans, they will not be able to put people in newly built housing cheaply, because it's going to cost an arm and leg to rebuild New Orleans. So rents will be higher for new housing. It's hard to build a new "slum" with cheap rents. I guess it's called progress. Look at who is rebuilding New Orleans... the illegal Hispanics.. because the blacks wouldn't go back to help rebuild. Not their kinda work I guess.. The new working class of New Orleans is now Hispanic, as in Texas.

Answer 6

De-African-Americanizing??I doubt it... First of all you got his idea from something you saw in a rap video???

If you look at most cities, alot of people are looking for upscale, downtown urban development. Every city wants its own times square ya know? The projects are usually built in downtown areas where the land could be very usefull if you attract residents with alot more money, because they attract businesses that cater to these types. It's not a matter of wanting to get rid of blacks its about wanting to attract wealthy sophisticated ppl. Which includes wealthy sophisticated Black people.


ADDED - I never said you dont know what your talking about. you asked the F-ing question remember... I Just said its not about race but about $$$MONEY$$$

Answer 7

Yes and they should...Blacks aren't doing anything and trashing things then take it away..Blacks don't maintain anything so why they have anything..Keep buinging up and making it look better then the blacks might wake up

Answer 8

Wow. You think it's true because you saw it in a music video.

Just... wow.