last time i was in spanish harlem i saw a sign that said SpaHa and i was ouuut
Omfg
Harlem native here👋👋👋👋.Harlem is gone.They call it “Soha” or “The Upper Upper West side”. Ever since Columbia university was granted there expansion black and brown people have been uprooted from their community. This has been going on for like 15 years.Brooklyn is white too.I hope the residents of East NY fight like hell against that rezoning plan.
This is disgusting .
SpaHa? Gross. I bet they’re coming for the Bronx next 😪
Gentrification is so real…
Its not something I thought I would ever see up close…. They have a habit of going after not only historically black towns but towns and neighborhoods important to our growth as a people si they can change it and make it something different acting like we were never there…
Terrible
Yep now white people feel comfortable enough to go jogging up and down the block while apartments are getting boarded up and torn down.
Cultural & historical erasure is part of white culture.
what i see them doing to harlem… what i see them ALLOWED to do to harlem fucking break my heart. it only proves that black people will never truly know peace as long as white people have access to us and our shit. theft and erasure is a part of white culture.
Yeah, thats my hometown. Harlem is so white now and gentrified. I went on a rant about it a couple weeks ago. They have Harlem festivals that are suppose celebrate the Harlem people and culture, but the festivals are full of white people and white families. People always talk great about Harlem and its historic culture, but all that is gone and dead; Harlem is gentrified and whitewashed. The culture is gone, the native people can barely afford to still live there. Its no longer Black.
This is so fucking depressing. Spent my childhood summers there. Harlem is such a significant part of our history and culture. This is just…ugh. Why???
Colonisers, they just can’t stop themselves.
It’s parasitic behavior. Literally.
Literally watching this happen right now on the Southside of Chicago and it hurts my soul
It’s so fucked up. They relegate the poor among us to these areas, and then wait til we make something of it before they push us out and take it for themselves. Harlem ISN’T Harlem without black people so they need to find a name.
Jeebus I knew Brooklyn but Harlem too?
This is happening in Detroit right now…
Flint especially that’s why they are poisoning the water a and not collecting the trash .
Miami as well
wynwood used to be called Over town . It was a black neighborhood before it got gentrified .
Wow
I was watching the show called the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt oh whatever it’s called and it’s either too they were talking about gratification and it did not really have an effect on me or I didn’t care that much about it because I live in Maryland so I didn’t care for one of the characters storyline about gratification and now that I actually see that it’s happening it shocks me. I apologize for whatever is going down in New York and the gratification transformation thing and I hope you guys are safe and please be safe.
I live in MD too and the same thing is happening in DC. They’re evicting black families, improving the housing, and moving white people in.
Loot black cities on a government level then kick them out when you want to fix it up . Drop prices and sell to other companies that work with the city .
My neighborhood is being gentrified too . Some white dude in a Prius ……….
A fucking Prius stopped to talk to me about my dog lol. I have a house though so I’m not fucking moving . Can’t say much about the families in apartments near by .
Just the other day some apartments were set on fire.
Wow
There was an article about the “new face of the Bronx”…. White family
All POC could literally leave Earth and go to Pluto or some shit And colonists would STILL try to come up there and gentrify It’s like you have the WHOLE earth, allow us our sliver of space
I didn’t realize they were doing it in Detroit.😷😷💔
Yeah, I read an article a few months back about how some old ass white mega millionaire has turned to Detroit for the “next big thing”. I lived there when I was little n I’ve always wanted to go back, but not now if Ima be surrounded by white people, like that doesn’t even make sense. My elementary school doesn’t even exist anymore.
But talking abt Pluto made me think of this video one of my favorite professors showed us in class. It’s afrofuturism from like the 80s abt a bunch of aliens coming to Earth to solve our problems if the white people sell them black people. Black people end up tryna start a campaign where they pretend to know it’s gonna be a paradise for them so they can trick white people into not going thru w/ the sale out of jealousy of letting black people have anything nice n good.
This is why us moving our money is so important we are literally investing in our own destruction
This is slowly starting to happen in South Central LA. Thankfully, whenever these new apartment building go up, no one but black and Latino families have moved in.
And I’m honestly not surprised it’s happening in this general area. My great great grandmother has owned a house there for the last 26 years and she’s a two minute drive away from USC, so I knew it’s bound to happen eventually. It’s really the saddest things to see 😔
Colonialism never ended. It just EVOLVED and Manhattan? Is DONE. That City has been a center of the Eclectic Wealthy (Read: White) since Central Park was designated a Green area (Late 1850’s). Then their more ‘bohemian’ children needed a place to Be so they started out slow with SOHO. And that was good enough until the late ‘70’s. When the Kids started getting tired of riding the Long Island Rail Road, Conn Rail, and NJ Transit into the ‘Cultural Center’ of NY or Graduated from NYU & didn’t wanna leave. Started pushing out the gay community and taking over The West Village. Then moved on the Squatters & Semi-homeless living in the practically abandoned ruins of Alphabet City on the (Avenue’s A – D on the Lower East Side). Hells Kitchen? The Bowery? HA! You funny!! Half of that’s ALREADY gone. The other half is under Development.
Little Italy? hasn’t been a center for the Money Generating Mafia since after WWII, (They moved to Staten Island & Queens, before settling in NJ) and was abandoned to the Chinese. China Town expanded for a bit, but then started moving everything that MATTERS into Flushing. The Tongs (ALWAYS having had one foot on either side of the legal/illegal line) could see the writing on the wall. They’ve been able to hold onto the Tourist Trap aspects of China Town; Manhattan but, trust, all the REAL business is going down in Flushing.
The Business/Wall St. Area? Used to work there. Remember working swing-shift, DRIVING into work, and being able to practically park in the sidewalk for HOURS because the Financial District was absolutely deserted after 7pm on week days. Eerily deserted. No people, EVERYTHING closed&shuttered for the night, not even cops writing parking tickets. Just Mutant Rats & Evolution Accelerated Cockroaches fighting over the garbage piles waiting to be picked-up on the curbs. Flipped me, THE FUCK, out seeing Baby Carriage/Stroller Moms competing for space on the over capacity sidewalks during lunch hour when I eventually went back to working days (Before and AFTER 9/11). Couldn’t figure out what they where DOING down there. Then I realized; They, fucking, LIVE HERE. Of course. Daddy/Mommy wants a 10 minute WALKING commute to their corner office @ Shearson-Lehman or Goldman-Sachs rather than a 1-2 hour daily commute on a sardine packed LIRR train from Sands Point. Of COURSE.
Brooklyn? Was inevitable. But I thought, at least, Harlem could hold out just a little longer. Guess not. And, from what I understand, even the handful of Low Income Tenement Projects built & filled during the ‘50’s are now under assault from Developers who can see nothing but Manhattan Real Estate prices in-route to an orbit around Mars. They want they’re cut. And will get it by any means necessary.
I mean, if anybody has questions about Institutional Racism? Confused about how the definition of racism is ACTUALLY Discrimination+POWER and why that can’t be found in any dictionary? Wondering how Trump’s blatantly racist, redlining, Deny-any-black family-that-even-THINKS-about-moving-into-one-of-MY-New-Developments, Daddy made the pile of money his son is currently mismanaging?
Take a minute to wade through the History of Real Estate in NY’s 5 Boroughs. SHOULD clear up a LOT of shit.
This shit is happening in LA too. Especially now that the Rams are moving to Inglewood, black people can no longer afford to live over here. They are raising some people’s rent from like $1300 to $1800
What’s good, post Katrina New Orleans? People riding bikes to the cafe in the 4th ward and inviting themselves to the second lines they never knew existed outside of Mardi Gras.
Its happend in Savannah, San Francisco, Oakland, Cary, & Durham from what Ive seen with my own two (and in Hilton Head/Charleston). The question is where are all the Black people going???!!! It aint safe out in the stix spread out all over this country so far from each other. We best pick a spot and ALL REGROUP there. Being spread apart was never a solid idea.
Oh btw they doing the same shit in Zimbabwe right now.
Throw in Memphis. Closed down all the housing projects and then started closing schools.. black people HAD TO MOVE OUT.. to make way for new “mixed-income” property developments. All of the white people that moved to the surburbs are moving back into the inner city after they have ensured that black folks were gone and couldn’t afford to move back.
what can we do? where are we going?
Start investing religiously to black owned businesses .
Shift your money to black owned banks.
My mom works in a high position in her city hall *.
Matter of fact first black person in history .
Any ways she tells me that the banks literally pay people to go out and find areas / houses to resale to push gentrification .
