Whitemanrising
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- Banned
- #21
It's funny how this word ignorance keeps getting tossed around as if whites don't understand blacks. And maybe to some degree that's true. There are plenty of whites who view blacks like an anthropological study. They don't live around them, vacation with them, spend their weekends with them. Some don't even work with them in any meaningful capacity. Their views of blacks are what they are fed from TV and movies and passing, superficial interactions.
Other whites know what's truly going on because they're around us all the time. We don't see the PG version. We see the real version in all its ugliness. Here's something to chomp on. Atlanta saw an opportunity in the late '90s to cash in on the rising real estate market. They torn down all the housing projects in order to sell the land for lucrative private contracts. But of course they couldn't simply toss all the residents out into the street. Instead, they dispersed them throughout the city, moving them into what once were quiet, clean, safe apartment complexes. The new term they used were "mixed income communities." In other words, a person in apartment 1 would be paying full market rent on his place while his next door neighbor, receiving Section 8, would pay some ridiculously low price like $45 a month. The purpose, they claimed, was that the new residents would take example from the others and elevate themselves. They would learn how to behave, maybe even go out and take pride in working. You think that happened? Hell no. They just preyed on their neighbors, drove them away and turned the complexes into replicas of the projects they grew up in.
Some white people have lived this nightmare, and so you can't call us ignorant. We know. We have seen.
Other whites know what's truly going on because they're around us all the time. We don't see the PG version. We see the real version in all its ugliness. Here's something to chomp on. Atlanta saw an opportunity in the late '90s to cash in on the rising real estate market. They torn down all the housing projects in order to sell the land for lucrative private contracts. But of course they couldn't simply toss all the residents out into the street. Instead, they dispersed them throughout the city, moving them into what once were quiet, clean, safe apartment complexes. The new term they used were "mixed income communities." In other words, a person in apartment 1 would be paying full market rent on his place while his next door neighbor, receiving Section 8, would pay some ridiculously low price like $45 a month. The purpose, they claimed, was that the new residents would take example from the others and elevate themselves. They would learn how to behave, maybe even go out and take pride in working. You think that happened? Hell no. They just preyed on their neighbors, drove them away and turned the complexes into replicas of the projects they grew up in.
Some white people have lived this nightmare, and so you can't call us ignorant. We know. We have seen.