Bunker Mentality
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I can't even have a conversation with you without you being condescending. I guess [MENTION=14036]DTP[/MENTION] and I both don't get it.
Property values are different in every place. Brooklyn is expensive. In Richmond, I recently paid an African American man 10 times what he paid for a rental he had which I am gutting and flipping as the neighborhood is "gentrifying" now. On percentages, that's a good score for the guy. In reality, I paid a low $100k number for it because I'm in Richmond not Miami Beach or Brooklyn.
Your premise about Miami excluding blacks from property wealth is flawed. Real Estate has economic driving forces determined by location which drives demand.
If a black man owns a well-located building in Wynwood or a house adjacent to the Design District and he's selling it, he's making money... because there's demand there. If he's selling his house in Opa Locka, he's not making money like they do in places like Brooklyn because there's no demand in Opa Locka. On top of it, Manhattan real estate has driven Brooklyn's rise. That's a different league price-wise.
I deal with development, redevelopment and real estate all the time and I've been around it my entire life. It's economic. No one cares about anything but the risk/reward factor.
Y'all don't, but that's not unique to you or him. It's not advantageous for y'all to understand oppression so you move through life very well without ever truly knowing anything about it.
Problem is you're always offering your limited vantage-point for social currency, but can't see around it to truly understand life from another person's perspective. Stop forcing your poor understanding of AA experience and migratory patterns on me if you want to understand the deeper issues I alluded to before. I'm talking about how black folk actually experience the world, not how white real estate developers think they do.
How many black men own bldgs in Wynwood versus how many own them in Harlem and Bedford Stuyvesant? Why is a black man selling his bungalow in the design district versus keeping a townhouse in Brooklyn?
As a ****** man, are you really trying to tell me what factors influence the life-decisions of black folk?
the old "you're not black you wouldn't understand post".
because muslims, jews, mexicans, and literally every other person can't possibly empathize with the struggles of the black man.
no, they can't..
They all get to leave their environments of oppression to come here, to America. Where they can 'pass' and get a fresh start free of their...persecution. Meanwhile, descendants of black folk who experienced chattel slavery or themselves experienced Jim Crowe 50+ years ago have no better place to migrate and leave their oppressive environment behind, because America is that place. It's the generational poverty and systemic barriers unique to the burden-bearing black Americans of this country, among other things, that distinguishes their experience from that politically correct but watered-down, socially-engineered understanding of 'minorities' you espouse.
You thinking it's better to be Muslim (or from the Middle East in general) than it is to be black in America today, tells me everything I need to know about you. You're clearly just as racist as the White people that you hate.
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This water is obviously way to deep for you, but it's my fault for bringing you out here and i'm sorry for that... You can just stay in the shallow end from now on.
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