What the future of ‘Chocolate City’ will look like after demographic changes

[@MrsJMcCarty]

The problem with gentrification is that African Americans get priced out and there is no place to go. African Americans who have been in these communities for years. It is truly unfortunate African American Businesses and Residents cannot stay where they have built.

[@dugebuwembo]

Black folks need to get smarter about group economics. Similar processes occur over here in London UK 🇬🇧, black areas get gentrified yet the South Asian & Jewish areas don't & that's because South Asians & Jews are excellent at group economics and thus make it impossible for places that they have settled in to be gentrified.

[@ryanyoung9202]

@@dugebuwembo ☝️- 🎯💯 EXACTLY 🎯💯

[@theseventhgeneration6910]

Gentrification at it's best.

[@TinnieTa21]

I clicked on this thinking it would actually be about a chocolate factory...

[@officialalonzo263]

DC now has two bedroom houses going for over one million dollars. People want to move into your community and then push you out of it. I’m 19 and don’t even recognize the city I am from. Luxury condos are popping up all across the city.

[@kreativeforce532]

Then it wasn't your's to begin with. You just reside there because your forefathers were kidnapped and placed there. No more than cell block D belongs to Black people.

[@aw1078]

What's wrong with the city diversifying? Why are they complaining about other people and cultures moving in? This is incredibly racist. SMH

[@nycblixky8530]

Because it’s only diversifying in black neighborhoods not white neighborhoods

[@pp3k3jamail]

The problem with diversifying is a lot of the people that come over here don't respect the people that built the city. Also the whole gentrification it out prices people who lived in the neighborhoods and then they can't move back in the neighborhoods that they grew up and it separates neighborhood bondness. You don't see Neighbors looking out for their neighbors kids like back in the 50s 60s 80s play 90s you don't see block parties you don't see cookouts. You don't see kids together playing anymore. I can go on and on. if you like nothing but joggers and dog walkers in your neighborhood that's fine good for you.

[@MrRhomas913]

Gentrification is not necessarily bad for homeowners who sell their home for a lucrative price.

[@TNTN1977]

Harlem is being gentrified. All bets are off

[@whitemailprivilege2830]

More racism and division

[@findingtruth7640]

Why are Wyoming, Iowa, Maine, the Dakotas, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Idaho some of the most peaceful states in this country? Look at the racial demographics. Case closed.

[@karlosthejackel69]

The government wants cheap workers, not safety for its people.

[@gardeniabrune2125]

Correlation vs causation is clearly a foreign concept to u

[@milesdavis3380]

@@gardeniabrune2125 Not even just that, this dipshit is just insanely wrong as Wyoming has some of the highest per capita firearm mortality rates in the country with Idaho not far behind. Meanwhile, NH, ME, and VT are only low because of population density.

[@alexm566]

WTH, how is that nickname not racist?

[@muddywater4505]

When it comes to racism liberals think they are the judge and jury.

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

Because being called chocolate is not an insult to black people

[@toughtittypdiddy4634]

@@muddywater4505 it was black people who first started using the nickname. Nothing racist about it.

[@profoundja9598]

unlike all the other racial slurs this country has giving people of color this one was chosen by the people ...FYI chocolate is addictive and everybody wants it, whats racist about that

[@ConvictedFelon2024]

@@profoundja9598 Well what does chocolate become after it's digested...

[@christopherlaw2460]

Dr. Maurice Jackson,that is my is my dad name, and I still have his Marion 2008, re-election T-shirt. I’m going to go play his numbers

[@thames308]

Nope, nope and nope. This story is not about the influx of more affluent citizens, but how the African American community failed to build strong academic programs and sustained them. There was an increasing surge of drug abuse and demoralization of its citizenry. A sustained upsurge in violence undermined the quality of life in many neighborhoods. And African migration to the suburbs in favor of homeownership elsewhere cemented these changes. And there is little discussion of the waning religious leadership in the city on the civic well-being of the city. African Americans let roots die and could not anchor in.

[@kmarch6630]

Why is this a story?

[@ConvictedFelon2024]

Why does the name "Chocolate City" sound like the most racist thing I've heard in a while... 🤣

[@algoreHasNoRythm]

No you didn’t😮👍

[@startinajackson606]

Does a chocolate bar sound racist you sound ignorant

[@dugebuwembo]

Sounds like white fragility to me... 🤷🏿‍♂️ 😪. Why don't yall say nothing about China Town or neighbourhoods populated by other groups like Jews?

[@algoreHasNoRythm]

Where is Vanilla City?

[@aaronpitts6491]

Prolly somewhere in alaska Lol

[@profoundja9598]

Whole Midwest

[@monie2514]

In Europe, from Finland to Norway, all of your European countries are full of vanilla cities 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤬😵👀💯❤️💚💛🖤

[@findingtruth7640]

@@monie2514 Yes, and everyone wants to go there, unlike African cesspools.

[@algoreHasNoRythm]

@@monie2514 in America ??and can we advertise it as such,checking the rules......😱if I call 911 and say this Chocolate looking fella needs help there would be fire 🔥

[@tonypitsacota2513]

Chocolate City is good? But Atlanta Braves, Eskimio Pie, and Aunt Jemima must go? This is racism double standards at it's best...

[@algoreHasNoRythm]

Yep

[@powailai9886]

chocolate milk is more tasty. but more different toppings snd favors will be nicer

[@blackinton2526]

You're Asian, Asians are racist and tribalistic

[@cden900]

*I clicked expecting sum about a city made made of chocolate* 🤦‍♂️

[@wcovey25]

I've lived in the DC Metro Area my whole life and never heard anyone call DC the "Chocolate City"

[@TeddyStrongBear]

That’s because you lived in segregated suburbs, probably Fredneck County…and that’s not the DC Metro area.

[@tamcanct9284]

Where is taco city🤔

[@youngneo2956]

San Antonio Tx.

[@shaunashauna385]

I thought Chocolate City was Atlanta?

[@officialalonzo263]

No

[@nycblixky8530]

It was dc first

[@karlosroberts8864]

Chocolate City has always been DC... when you're in Atlanta and step one foot outside of ATL, you will no that you are in Georgia right away...But when you're in DC and step across the DC line, You feel like you are still in DC

[@washingtondc9290]

The District of Columbia became the first majority Black major city in the United States in 1957. Over time, as the Black population grew, it subsequently became known as the nation's "Chocolate City," a name conferred by a popular funk song shortly after the passage of the District of Columbia's Home Rule Act in 1973 and proudly embraced by Washingtonians.

[@cooblur]

White chocolate city

[@Kevinspringall155]

Hi 1th

[@aaronpitts6491]

#WillyWonka

[@disiamtheillusion]

Actually no it hasn't.media- ignore race.also media- focus on race especially negatively on the white race

[@gabethedizzle]

So about the murder rate....

[@chakishajohnson6921]

Mayor Marion Barry gave me my first job. Rest peacefully

[@fgkk9294]

🇺🇸 STOP WATCHING THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ! 🙊🙉🙈

[@profoundja9598]

Because It's just to much for America to live its truth.

[@algoreHasNoRythm]

@@profoundja9598 show me on this doll where America hurt you 🦅🇺🇸🗽

[@fgkk9294]

@@profoundja9598 It's too not to . 🖕

[@profoundja9598]

@@fgkk9294 your mother say thanks

[@profoundja9598]

@@algoreHasNoRythm 🧠👁️👃👂and knowing the piece of 💩 that is you

[@emmpeterson5028]

Why chocolate city why not say black Americans

[@officialalonzo263]

I am not a black American, this country is horrible to us

[@pp3k3jamail]

💥💥Washington Dc is foreign city now.

[@djpomare]

In New Zealand we have a chocolate bar called the Pinky. Chocolate on the outside and pink marshmallow on the inside. Pinky City or even Caucasian City still doesn't sound as good as Chocolate City. We have a furniture and appliance store called Smith City which could be an option.

[@lukepoe1140]

Well, it's no wonder there's so much crime in that city. I'll stick with the vanilla cities.

[@AHD2105]

That's quite crass...I suppose if you are African heritage, but a city being nicknamed after the colour of a person's skin is super tacky and self disrespecting. Nice they're proud of their people, but as a foreigner, is weird. Considering if their were 10 people in the world, 6 would be Asian, 3 would be African decent and 1 would be European decent. It's an European culture Africans reside in. If they want to have a fairer society, it could be beneficial to look to how Venuatians have adapted their culture to accommodate western trade but not loose there cultural values.