The Great Return. Decades after the Great Migration. Blacks going home.

[truth spitter]

I aint feeling your choice of words. From what I have read in my studies, those great black cities weren't so great compared to the "old racist south". Racism was everywhere my brotha and it didn't really matter if u were packed in high rise projects up north or living in a shack down south.

But anyways, this is interesting to me and I think losing our presence in northern cities is a step back. I'll check the story out right quick.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

I aint feeling your choice of words. From what I have read in my studies, those great black cities weren't so great compared to the "old racist south". Racism was everywhere my brotha and it didn't really matter if u were packed in high rise projects up north or living in a shack down south.

But anyways, this is interesting to me and I think losing our presence in northern cities is a step back. I'll check the story out right quick.

I never said the North wasn't racist. Don't catch feelings. I did mention gentrification and degradation did i not? Whites are moving us out the hood in North. It's bad enough we weren't getting the wackest jobs or were the first ones to get cut from descent jobs. I know the racism is more undercover in the North.

 

[kingblaze84]

The cost of living is getting too high in the north, plain and simple. I'm surprised more Blacks haven't moved from the north and east. I love NYC but the cost of living is ridiculous.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

The cost of living is getting too high in the north, plain and simple. I'm surprised more Blacks haven't moved from the north and east. I love NYC but the cost of living is ridiculous.

A lot of that has to do with gentrification. The cost are artificial or at least the requirements necessary for housing. Much of the cost is a holdover from the shady housing bubble that some many of my black brothers and sisters fed into when they were fiending out for Real Estate jobs. It has always been cheaper to live in the South. There is plenty of low income housing in NYC but you have to maintain a good job to acquire or keep it or live in the most fucked up and remote areas.