Why We Stay: Gentrification’s Damage

[@Chavagnatze]

No gainful employment, no money, and no ownership, means that they are fighting for nothing. To keep a the community must be OWNED by the people that live there. Every restaurant, dry cleaner, hardware store, beauty salon, barber shop, arcade, grocery store, house, building, and other commercial property must be owned and in the black. A garden won't do a damn thing if they don't own the dirt its on.

[@moodmusicofficially]

Chavagnatze absolutely!

[@johnerikson828]

Chavagnatze But black people in these cities are denied loans to own stores and to start there own business.

[@AverageOnes88]

black powernomics

[@michaeladams667]

had black and Latino neighborhoods not been fucking redlined(which was denying communities of economic investments like loans for housing , businesses and educational resources) more blacks and Latinos would have own more property.......the fucking banks redline these communities ........that was the cause of the social problems.....

[@johnmorgan4828]

Michael Adams so how did all the different ethnic groups such as the Chinese, jewish, Korean, Indian, Arab succeed if minorities weren't being lent money too by the big mean scary white man

[@septiawoman1303]

I recall, some years back, returning to the "old neighborhood" out west discovering that two of my former neighbors were still living in the same apartment units that I partially grew up in as a child. And this was over 30 years ago. At some point I was thinking that all the years that they have lived there paying a monthly rent that no one thought of purchasing the property? This type of scenario, unfortunately, plays out in too many families across our nation. And lest we forget, nothing good lasts forever. Be it a family or otherwise, pool your resources and if it is possible? Buy that property! This makes for a stronger, more secure neighborhood where you moreorless "run" it. This is where one MUST apply delayed-gratification as well as sacrifice. There are other benefits that follow as well purchasing real estate such as creating GENERATIONAL WEALTH. Subsidized housing MIGHT be discontinued at some point. The question is, do YOU have a back-up Plan B?

[@lozoft9]

"If it's possible" is the operate phrase here. The reasons they weren't able to afford those properties are structural and systemic. You can't blame somebody for not buying up their neighborhood if they never got the opportunity to do so.

[@jarvisaddison8560]

SeptiaWoman your post was great. Especially about the delayed gratification. Ownership is not taught to poor people only survival. Also theses neighborhoods had to be dirt cheap @one point as well making ownership possible. One has to change their mind set then other things follow

[@222222e]

Why don't the people chip in together and buy their building? They could put the money down and apply for a loan and rent the building to themselves why paying down the loan. Just a thought .

[@pistolpete667]

222222e black people live a sort of Hunter gatherer lifestyle but in the modern setting. They don't build or plan for long term, they're more for instant gratification.

[@okok-bp9dj]

liquid courage you're a racist idiot. Data shows blacks save a higher percentage of income than all other groups, but they are paid dramatically less and historically, everytime they gather together to build wealth and institutions, white people/corporations take it away and with no consequence. Read a book idiot.

[@okok-bp9dj]

222222e go read the Color of Law, you will never ask a dumb question or suggests things that have already been tried 1000000x by these people.

[@sbn415xoxo]

222222e bc they would rather buy jordans.

[@TheYoli182]

eyeball chambers damn *facepalms*😫

[@jackanthony976]

The rich corporations have destroyed New York City lol!

[@funkymunky]

Fight or flight, my brothers and sisters!

[@user-wg3or1tu5y]

Came here after watching the get down on Netflix smh so sad

[@hereisayana8207]

Brooklyn isn't the only culture of NYC that is now so different, also in the Bronx, there used to be mostly blacks, Puerto Ricans, 2nd generation West Indians, Italians etc, ,,,, but now there are middle eastern muslims, africans, south americans etc.... that seem to be the dominant culture there now... It is not the same city AT ALL !!!

[@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198]

more on such matters here in London's music street

[@MemoGrafix]

3:23 - I totally agree with what has happened, gentrification it is a *Sleeping Giant.*

[@michaelmoraga2926]

more like a cancer

[@juanalonso4607]

What's the name of the song 2:10?

[@siremet1009]

Juan Alonso "EataDick" by The Puzzy Bois

[@lennon1482]

if more people owned those properties in those area they would not of put up with people shitting the area up and bringing the prices down, more social capital means more pride in the area and above all they would of wanted to protect their investment instead of not being bothered because it was rented

[@JacquelynJoan]

What was that song playing called/ who is it by? Can anyone recommend a great book on gentrification?

[@sakepasem.d1868]

There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up by Lance Freeman

[@tomasandrew9354]

Jacquelyn Fusco "The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination" by Sarah Schulman.

[@Omelletr]

name of the rap song minute 2:10

[@darkturle]

Santangelo-#tears

[@jasonyoung4529]

I'm black I grew up here, went to school, own a business and I can still live in downtown brooklyn. Anyone that lived here in the 80s knows that those times were hell. GTFO with this bull crap

[@duronbryant9463]

Jason Young you sound dum asl

[@scj3188]

you're stupid.

[@MrSamcow80]

I would love to have a face to face conversation with someone to educate me on why gentrification is a bad thing.

[@williamryan7403]

It's bad because it comes with real estate speculation that ends up pricing working families out of markets and neighborhoods and it produces segregation.

[@williamryan7403]

Sam Cow. In San Francisco they have priced all working families out of even living in the city.Blacks are gone as well as Latinos. Only Wealthy White Tech workers live there.All workers commute to the City and leave at the end of the day.

[@kaydeentv1696]

Gentrification is a human rights crisis. Once society finally gets outraged by it, apologies will be issued. It's a global problem that's happening in the USA, Canada, the UK, etc. When you force people out of their homes by making it financially unbearable for them that breaks down communities. There's a film on my channel that explores the effects gentrification/ inflation have in urban neighborhoods you should check it out.

[@oochiewally2783]

It destroys middle.class...and raises cost of living...the ones that are doing it are liberal capitalist hypocrites

[@michaelmoraga2926]

..and it's happening world wide. Whole neighborhoods and peoples get displaced and the culture homogenized. I have been abroad as a teacher for many years in numerous countries and have witnessed it. Not surprisingly, as a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, I am planning to move back home soon... but it's looking almost impossible. Gentrification kicks people out of their communities for the sake of the wealthy. It's a "side effect" of extreme capitalism... neo-liberal capitalism... Fact.

[@TheMusicvideoVEVO]

Jesus loves you!

[@ericjohnson3001]

What the fuck does that mean? Gtfo

[@stuckinDetroit65]

"You stay, and fight, or you flight"... Thank you for butchering my language! Why do so many of you have to make everything you say sound like its right out of a Dr Suess book?

[@evolvedape2161]

It is not your language.

[@f4wna_411]

its their language too...

[@tonihoneycutt4832]

It's sad how this our land but these Europeans came over here pushing us back to Africa which is NOT our native land ! Do your homework!

[@4memotivation]

Toni Honeycutt lmfaooooooo. We wuz Indians, we wuz Aztecs, we wuz fighting Cortez, we wuz Montezuma. No culture is safe from the black history thieves...

[@tonihoneycutt4832]

👍

[@sbn415xoxo]

Toni Honeycutt that's bc blacks would rather buy jordans & the women spend their money on WEAVE!! LOOK AT THE GHETTOS.. EVERYONE IS WEARING JORDAN'S & EXPENSIVE CLOTHES. THEY LIVE IN HOUSING PAYING NO RENT FOR 60 YEARS & OWN NOTHING.

[@f4wna_411]

@@sbn415xoxo ok first off that was ignorant as fuck and black women wear weaves to feel beautiful as white women wear designer purses to feel beautiful. Yall hating on blacks but then all of us sudden the white boys want to cop jordans also?

[@sbn415xoxo]

@@f4wna_411 weaves stink. They look hideous asf. In the summer, you can smell them from miles away. The only ones addicted to weave is bw! All wear WEAVE, but not like bw. Buying purses & weaves is two different things smfh. Hint.... Weave does not make you look pretty! It's the opposite to men!

[@brisvegas859]

money talks

[@sashisasj3850]

People who dont own property should not complain. If you own it then gentrification is only good as it raises the value of that piece of land. But if you rent it then you are just allowed to use it as long as you pay for the time. Nobody is stealing from these people because they dont truly own there homes.

[@MrTommytwotone]

Gentrifications is a word to make a black man a victim......I know plenty of blacks that have capitalized on new growth......People need teachers that teach how to make money instead of teaching people they are a victim....