GodlessCommieCapitalism only helps those with capital
AeaoBlack people tried! A couple times to build a black community it they were very successful. Then white people people would get envious and blow it up.
Or bulldoze the middle of it for a freeway, which is what happened to MLK’s neighborhood (a.k.a. “the richest Negro street in the world”) here in Atlanta.
Auburn Avenue - New Georgia Encyclopedia
Extending less than two miles eastward from Peachtree Street, Auburn Avenue was the commercial, cultural, and spiritual center of African American life in Atlanta prior to the civil rights movement. “Sweet Auburn” boasted a concentration of Black-owned businesses, entertainment venues, and churches that was unrivaled elsewhere in the South. Its bustling retail trade and wealthy […]
They did the same in Tulsa’s Greenwood district
I figured that’s what Aeao was referencing to begin with, considering that he wrote “blow it up” and I don’t think he was being figurative.
Frankly, even though we’re citing both of them as examples of black wealth being suppressed for the purpose of this discussion, I would struggle to call them “the same” because the tactics were so much more brutal in Tulsa (firebombing and mass-murder vs. eminent domain).