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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 26 10:03:54 2015, in response to Re: Myrtle Avenue El, posted by ntrainride on Thu Mar 26 08:18:28 2015. You are correct. Also, the housing stock was aging and aged, and major rehabilitation was necessary at that time which wasn't done, so "more well off" people moved on, and poorer people moved in.And your last sentence sums everything up beautiful. It's wasn't the "white's" neighborhood that Blacks were moving into in the 50's and 60's any more than it's the "Black's" neighborhood that whites are now moving into. Yes, people worked hard to have some semblense of civility in the "bad" neighborhoods in the 70's 80's, etc and worked hard to maintain what they could. And for that they deserve a lot of credit, but then the hostility of "white" people moving into "their" neighborhood that "they worked hard to maintain", is JUST AS BAD as the "whites" that complained in the 50's and 60's of "the Blacks" moving into "their" neighborhood "that they worked so hard to maintain". It's JUST as racist to assume a neighborhood is "Black" and "should remain Black" as it is to say the opposite about white. "Nobody 'owns' the streets, the neighborhoods in Brooklyn, nobody". |
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