Very sad. But it’s not just limited to black areas. All the lefties turn out to protest any development anywhere. It happens all the time in my town, usually because elderly lefties really want their neighborhoods to continue to decline (until they can leave their mildewing property in a dead neighborhood to some less than thrilled heir) because they’ve got theirs and they don’t want to see the neighborhood improve.
In my town, it’s usually the 65+ white ladies out there screaming about the desecration of their neighborhood by some perfectly innocuous business that wants to move in there (and in fact, the ladies live in zones that are already zoned mixed use). So that means young people can’t have services that would actually be beneficial to families, and the neighborhood remains a frozen, old-lady paradise.
I guess the old ladies have never realized that this affects their own property values, but actually, they probably don’t care.
The liberal church ladies in our town wouldn’t allow a Walmart or a Sonic.
They felt Sonic would promote air pollution because people might sit in cars. Seriously.