Gentrification - Urban Blight? The Planet Abiola Show

Revolutionary Sistah damali (artist and activist) speaks about her changing neighborhood while host Abiola plays devils advocate on this episode of blackplanet.com's Planet Abiola Show. People who live in rapidly changing areas like anywhere in Harlem or Brooklyn should definitely check it out.

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[Skinnyjoeymerlino]

OKAY. It's racist for white people to move OUT when Black people move into a neighborhood, AND it's racist when white people move IN to a Black neighborhood. EVERYBODY GOT THAT?

[noskcajnivek]

@fnlmjl1 - I lived in Harlem in the early 60s to the mid 80s. I also remember the gutted out buildings and had a chance to rebuild some of them. Many of those buildings were burned up for two reasons; 1) so that the landlords could collect the insurance, and 2) to deliberately get rid of the tenants who may have lived there for 20-30 years and raised their families in them. In our age of progress and technology, is there a happy medium? Find the cause of the problem and you'll have your answer!

[fnlmjl1]

i lived in harlem in the late 70s early 80s and there were blocks and blocks of gutted out buildings...so I look at harlem now and see a good thing it looks a lot better I dont understand why people are upset...whose fault is it you can not afford nice housing or a condo...who thinks it is bad to have a starbucks or target with in walking distance...I like that?!? but I understand of feel it should be fair housing prices also? is there a happy median?

[Luckilius]

@johnbourbon Why is it that there's nothing nasal-voiced hipster-yuppie inbreds like you love more than to lecture people online about punctuation and grammar. You hayseeds really are all exactly the same, aren't you? Was that something they all taught you all back in Pennsyltucky?

[Luckilius]

@johnbourbon Plenty of normal working class whites were pushed out of their neighborhoods by parentally-funded hipster-yuppie inbred lemmings flocking to Brooklyn for no reason, like you. Now-yuppified neighborhoods like Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, etc., used to be full of normal hardworking Irish and Italians. Now they're full of inbred hillbillies from Pennsyltucky who came here to be "production assistants" because they were tired of being bullied back in the sticks.

[2dasimmons]

Why do whites flock to historically black neighborhoods and colleges? It makes sense 4 blacks w/money 2 "move-up" to white neighborhoods like Beverly Hills in Los Angeles or Park Avenue in New York as these are "status-symbol" neighborhoods 4 the affluent. But it's very suspicious for whites, especially "well-to-do" whites 2 move to historically black neighborhoods, particularly when residents are pushed out. It is just amazing how whites go 2 blacks: black culture/neighborhoods/colleges­, etc.

[LondonBoy2006]

GENTRIFICATION = niggas Out, you getting rehoused.

[m015094]

I think that your sister is a racist.

[rayswag]

then dont