Can Somebody Please Explain to Me What Go Back to The Projects Mean?

[Road Runner]

I think it has something to do about black funded programs but even after I looked it up I still don't fully understand it. Is this actually racist or just being labeled as racist?

 

[MarathonMike]

In this context "The Projects" means large scale low income housing projects built decades ago that were/are predominantly for poor Black people living in cities. Cabrini Green in Chicago is an example.

 

[The Duke]

You don't know what projects are?

Government-built apartments for low-income/assistance people.

Like in "Good Times", those were projects in Chicago.

Here they were long 2-story pre-stressed concrete buildings. Even the divider walls between the units and 2nd-story floors

were 4" prestressed concrete. Very strong, I wouldn't hesitate to ride out a hurricane in them.

Pretty sure those started with LBJ.

 

[shockedcanadian]

It is racist as it attacks a persons presumed upbringing. For the record, this is through no fault of their own. I was raised in the "Projects" or Government Housing. It is not a place a child should be raised. It is a low blow insult as far as I am concerned.

 

[Road Runner]

In this context "The Projects" means large scale low income housing projects built decades ago that were/are predominantly for poor Black people living in cities. Cabrini Green in Chicago is an example.

Oh okay because another thought of mine was slavery projects or something.

You don't know what projects are?

No I didn't because I never heard that term being used before.

It is racist as it attacks a persons presumed upbringing. For tue record, this isnthrough no fwlt of their own. I was raised in the "Projects". Government Housing. It is not a place a child shouod be raised. It is a low blow insult as far as I am concerned.

You're black? I didn't know that, but yeah, it sounds racist to me.

 

[Road Runner]

Also I'm not black so it should be even more understandable that I didn't know what this meant.

 

[1srelluc]

The Projects?

 

[toobfreak]

Can Somebody Please Explain to Me What Go Back to The Projects Mean?​

Lowest income taxpayer-funded public housing for dirt poor blacks whose life ambitions include:

1. Knocking up 35 white women.
2. Being a career gangbanger.
3. Joining BLM.
4. Passing off phony $20 bills while doing crack until some white cop arrests you so you can sue him for millions.
5. Joining the NFL
6. Buying 20 pounds of gold chains.
7. Looting 3 Walmarts a week.
8. Getting a job working in DC as a human rights activist.

 

[martybegan]

You don't know what projects are?

Government-built apartments for low-income/assistance people.

Like in "Good Times", those were projects in Chicago.

Here they were long 2-story pre-stressed concrete buildings. Even the divider walls between the units and 2nd-story floors

were 4" prestressed concrete. Very strong, I wouldn't hesitate to ride out a hurricane in them.

Pretty sure those started with LBJ.

In NYC they are typically 5-10 story apartment complexes, with a name followed by "Houses"

Pomonok Houses, Ravenshead Houses, Colden Houses, etc.

Think Compton in LA, but concentrated and in high rises.

 

[The Duke]

In NYC they are typically 5-10 story apartment complexes, with a name followed by "Houses"

Pomonok Houses, Ravenshead Houses, Colden Houses, etc.

Think Compton in LA, but concentrated and in high rises.

It seems they were built different in different states. I wonder if the NYC ones have the same blueprints as Chicago?

They bulldozed a lot of them here and built shacks further out so they could build high-rise condos. (and get teh kickbacks)

 

[TheParser]

Very nice kind-hearted politicians built nice housing units for low-income people in places such as Chicago.

Who knows? Maybe they got the idea from Sweden.

But sadly our politicians failed to realize that a significant portion of the ladies and gentlemen who moved in had less than nice behavior.

So those units became very dangerous and vandalized places.

What worked in Sweden would not work here.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

You don't know what projects are?

Government-built apartments for low-income/assistance people.

Yeah. Veterans housing

 

[Dante Reawakened]

quotes:

The segregated projects were opened in 1945 with preference for veterans.

But as projects like Woodside filled up with middle-class whites, other federal policies lured these families out of projects into even whiter suburbs. These were the mortgage insurance programs of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Veterans Administration (VA), from which black families were mostly excluded.

Race and public housing: Revisiting the federal role

Residential racial segregation, accompanied by social and economic hardship, burdens the learning of many urban children. But school reformers often express hope that children in high-poverty, racially isolated neighborhoods could typically still be successful if only they had better teachers...

www.epi.org

 

[Road Runner]

Lowest income taxpayer-funded public housing for dirt poor blacks

So, I was pretty much correct.

The Projects?

That might explain why I haven't heard of it, it's because I'm from the younger crowd and it seems like you're saying that it's an older expression.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Very nice kind-hearted politicians built nice housing units for low-income people in places such as Chicago.

Who knows? Maybe they got the idea from Sweden.

But sadly our politicians failed to realize that a significant portion of the ladies and gentlemen who moved in had less than nice behavior.

So those units became very dangerous and vandalized places.

What worked in Sweden would not work here.

The segregated projects were opened in 1945 with preference for veterans.

 

[Dante Reawakened]

Very nice kind-hearted politicians built nice housing units for low-income people in places such as Chicago.

Who knows? Maybe they got the idea from Sweden.

But sadly our politicians failed to realize that a significant portion of the ladies and gentlemen who moved in had less than nice behavior.

So those units became very dangerous and vandalized places.

What worked in Sweden would not work here.

Lastly, why they were built escapes the narratives here.

True, Joel Klein grew up in public housing. But from the Depression into the early 1950s, faced with housing shortages compounded by a flood of returning war veterans, cities constructed public housing for white working-and middle-class families. These projects, for stable white families like Joel Klein’s, became highly-prized treasures, the most desirable housing available, their lucky residents the object of envy. The projects were located in mostly all-white neighborhoods, and admitted only a token few black residents, if any.

Race and public housing: Revisiting the federal role

Residential racial segregation, accompanied by social and economic hardship, burdens the learning of many urban children. But school reformers often express hope that children in high-poverty, racially isolated neighborhoods could typically still be successful if only they had better teachers...

www.epi.org

 

[shockedcanadian]

Oh okay because another thought of mine was slavery projects or something.




No I didn't because I never heard that term being used before.




You're black? I didn't know that, but yeah, it sounds racist to me.

I'm not black.

 

[Road Runner]

I'm not black.

Oh...

 

[Ralph Norton]

"Racist Alabama fans tell BLK Texas players "to go back to the projects"".
I'm curious as to why the Alabama fans think that the Texas black players are different from their black players?

 

[martybegan]

"Racist Alabama fans tell BLK Texas players "to go back to the projects"".
I'm curious as to why the Alabama fans think that the Texas black players are different from their black players?

Maybe they come off as more Ghetto?