Me and @Race Jones had a debate about this early last year and I saw @King Du talk about how blacks should stay in the hood after they get enough money to move to the burbs. I disagree with both.
Are blacks who move out the hood sell outs?
Stay, buy up the property and help the ailing.
I don't blame a person for moving to the burbs. There's better schools, roads, facilities etc. However you become "The Blac Neighbor". White folk gonna put their shit up for sale soon as you move in. Your kids gonna deal with being the Niggers at school. Constantly dealing with ppl who are jealous that you are on their level, yet you're Blac.
We have a stigma of chasing the White man's leftovers versus creating our own oasis. We get money, move out to the burbs, the White man moves father away. Then the White man buys up what was once the hood for pennies, and turns it into a desirable, expensive place, and we get mad and think, Damn why didn't I do that.
Stay with your ppl, buy the bloc, invest, employ and teach your ppl.
Stay, buy up the property and help the ailing.
I don't blame a person for moving to the burbs. There's better schools, roads, facilities etc. However you become "The Blac Neighbor". White folk gonna put their shit up for sale soon as you move in. Your kids gonna deal with being the Niggers at school. Constantly dealing with ppl who are jealous that you are on their level, yet you're Blac.
We have a stigma of chasing the White man's leftovers versus creating our own oasis. We get money, move out to the burbs, the White man moves father away. Then the White man buys up what was once the hood for pennies, and turns it into a desirable, expensive place, and we get mad and think, Damn why didn't I do that.
Stay with your ppl, buy the bloc, invest, employ and teach your ppl.
Appreciate that Recap.I have no problems with moving out, but this post is what also needs to be done when you do leave. Provided you got the money.
Plenty, but I'm going on the context of Goldie's post.Yall don't got any black non hood areas where you stay?
I get the thought process behind staying and making a difference.
At the same time, I grew up on the eastside of Detroit. Soon as I started showing signs of success, niggaz started breaking into my cars and shit. I had to leave before I killed somebody.
The bottom line:
We need more Black community.
Not just areas where black folk live. We need sure enough black community settings.
We need communities where everybody knows everybody, and their families.
Where the school boards are full with local members. The neighborhoods have a council and committee. Community centers, safe play grounds. Own the business in the area. Participate in local politics on a much now visable level.
Make a functional black community the norm.
All this shit is very very very doable.
I say the hood because it's the easiest place to start. Many folk who already there recognize the need for change. Especially the property owners.
And that's how you start. Niggaz been flipping houses, but they renting them shits. We need more home owners and less renters.
We need them stores and them shopping centers.b we need them malls.
We need all that shit. Cuz when it's ours and it's visible, it sets the stage for the next generation.
The most attractive thing in the world is success. Kids who grow up wanting to be dboys often get that way cuz growing up the most successful people they saw reguarly was on the corners.
Virtually the exact same concept from movies like Goodfellas or bronx tale.
But I strongly feel that a community where the average person is a working professional who is successful in their career is a much nicer one than we see now.
For example.. Just take this forum. We're mostly black. Say we all lived in the same community.....
Like on the corner Goldie and BNE .Right next door Reese fam. Next door to them Cain. Then Judah right next door. House at the next corner mzkb fam
Right across from her Chitown
Then Meeks next door, chi city, iron Man, the du's , whispering
The street behind us germs, Kandy, AP, miss k
Right around the corner ghost, Josh, race, czar, Remy, blac
I mean we not perfect, but do you think that neighborhood is a bad neighborhood?
You think if all of us sending our kids to the same school, that school can get away with giving our kids sub par anything??
You think we not having cook outs inviting the neighbors? Watching out for each other kids? Asking each other to watch the house while one of us on vacation.
Like really... The shit ain't as hard as we tell ourselves....
People rather kill themselves with doubt than real with the frustration of effort.
It can be done