Posted on 05/02/2023 5:32:41 PM PDT by grundle
Dallas historian Donald Payton says gentrification like that in Gilbert-Emory is common nationwide. It’s a story, he said, about the fight to endure and protect in the face of development in traditionally Black communities.
A historically Black neighborhood in Dallas is watching itself vanish as gentrification continues to sweep in.
Gloria Johnson’s residence is in West Dallas’ Gilbert-Emory neighborhood, one of the city’s most sought-after areas. According to The Dallas Morning News, the community received its name for Cecil and Helen Emory and Nathan and Margaret Gilbert, two Black families who ran grocery stores that provided food for the locals during a time when segregation prevented them from doing their shopping in white districts.
Many old homes in the formerly redlined area have already been destroyed by the swift gentrification sweeping through Dallas. Johnson believes developers have taken the historically Black neighborhood’s identity.
“We actually feel like the place that time has forgotten,” said Johnson, who believes developers are trying to force her out of the neighborhood, the Morning News reported. “Not important. Not significant. They don’t care.”
While many of Johnson’s childhood friends no longer reside in the area, she wishes to remain on the land her father worked two jobs to acquire.
According to census block data, roughly half of the neighborhood’s population was Black in 1990. Black people now make up only one-fifth of its populace.
Dallas historian Donald Payton noted that the issue Gilbert-Emory residents face is common nationwide. The story, he said, is about the fight to endure and protect in the face of costly development that puts housing in traditionally Black communities in danger.
According to research, Black homeownership rates in Dallas are significantly lower than white ones. Payton says the effect is a loss of Black culture, generational wealth and community.
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So....Black folk have seen their property values go way up, and they sold. And this bad....why? Of course, nothing prevents Black professionals who have money moving in.
... I was gonna go with the fpr er property owners didn’t have to sell. Maybe the money was good?
” Payton says the effect is a loss of Black culture, generational wealth and community.”
Wow, that’s the same thing they don’t want Whites to have. Imagine that.
“Many old homes in the formerly redlined area have already been destroyed by the swift gentrification...”
Well, do you hate the redlining that kept the neighborhood segregated? Or do you hate the gentrification that is desegregating it? The author should pick one and stick with it.
So as soon as the Confederate Memorials and Statues were removed the neighborhoods got all cleaned up? No more urban blight?
I think Babylon Bee could create further satire along these lines. 🤣
Dwarfed by the number of “historically white neighborhoods” that were taken over and destroyed by blacks, crime and poverty.
Every single comment on this article is ridiculing the author of it, and the whiners therein. Big change from just a few years ago on Yahoo “news” articles.
Segregation was the best thing to happen to this country post-Reconstruction and it would have ended organically without the Feds forcefully integrating everything.
I think I get what they are saying ... our neighborhood is gentrifying.
Everyone wants a McMansion on acreage out in the country. They don’t want to smell cow manure, find mud on the roads, have to share the road with big machinery and hear gunfire all weekend long. (Target shooting)
We are the last farm on the mile. Everything else has been sold for McMansions. No more neighbors to help if your cows get out, no neighbor kids to help milk the cows and bale hay ...
Whites are evil if they move in to black neighborhoods.
Whites are evil if they move out of black neighborhoods.
This is what anti-white racism looks like.
WTF is new about this? Seriously. In every generation throughout history, neighborhoods become poor and then go through a revitalization. The only difference is that when poor whites get pushed out of a neighborhood when it gentrified, no one made federal case out of it. The poor whites just packed up and moved.
There is a historically black neighborhood in Albuquerque, which at the time of its building (50’s-60’s) was out of the way of the direction the city was growing. Anchored by a large Baptist church. Even today it is clean, quiet, and well kept up. It still isn’t in an area that will develop further, and I hope it stays nice.
Hey, those folks taking over your neighborhood are your friends...left wing democrats. What’s the problem?
That is how every single community has been treated for about 100 years now.
But if you fretted publicly about how the values and traditions of your community which made you unique were being pushed aside, usually deliberately, you were called every name in the book.
Welcome to the "Global Homo" movement. People think it has to do with homosexuality. It doesn't. It has to do with homogeneity. You will be blended and sifted and slammed together until all individuality is gone.
Community loyalty, pride and culture are being eased.
That is to say, if we don't kill each other first.
Gentrification occurs when the gentry and those who sell real estate to them take advantage of lower property prices in depressed neighborhoods.
Black culture in this example means poverty. Gentrification means that some black property owners make a bunch of money or, I guess, their landlords do.
Black culture in this example means poverty. Gentrification means that some black property owners make a bunch of money or, I guess, their landlords do.
Whites live in a white neighborhood. THAT’S RACIST!
Black move in to a white neighborhood. That’s good.
Whites move away from black neighborhood. THAT’S RACIST
All black neighborhood. That’s good and RACIST
Whites move in to black neighborhood. THAT ‘S RACIST
Rinse and repeat to infinity.
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