Forty Acres of Urban Ground and the War Against Gentrification
Instead of reconstructing and reinvesting in the hoods and urban enclaves as home, and fighting against the outbreak of Gentrification, the Black elite choose to claim success in the suburbs, and in Hollywood, along with their white constituents.
The future of the Black economic and political condition, rest in the hands of Black American leaders and achievers. Though there lingers a deliberate plot to hinder or discourage opportunity in this country for the Black population; we remain free to accomplish whatever goals we choose. What suppresses Black American prosperity is grouping among the race and the division is widening each day.
There are the elite, educated and celebrity Blacks and there are the masses of the working-class. The elite live in well-to-do areas and the Black working class are spread throughout the country but mostly live in the large, metro cities. The division alone is a substantial part of the underdevelopment of the Black American.
Black American leaders and the elite proclaim injustice in political representation and economic opportunities for the black race yet steadily depend on the white politicians to pass laws that will somehow equalize the opportunities. Black leaders as the mouthpiece of the black race demand equality among the rich and successful of this society, from the board rooms to the Hollywood screen, yet they know not what they ask for.
They want man for man, and woman for woman. If there is a white anchorwoman, the leaders want a black anchorwoman too. If there is a white state representative, the leaders want a black state representative. If there is a new housing development going up in the suburbs, the leaders want equal access to it. In all the things they want, they want exactly what they feel has been kept out of reach for years.
What ever happen to personal preference, unity, and individuality? Many black speakers and leaders constantly rally the United States government for reparations to the black race, a long-heard cry of the once promised forty acres and a mule. They challenge one another for answers to the economic problems of Black Americans, yet they have never stop to count the blessing of God.
All who cry these loud, outrageous protest for repayment to the black community are the same ones who raised up off the forty acres at the first dollar of success and go lounge in their newly erected subdivisions in the suburbs among the oppressor.
The metro areas and inner cities are a blessing in disguise; they are the forty acres and the leaders are the mules. However, instead of reconstructing and reinvesting in the hoods and urban enclaves as home, and fighting against the outbreak of Gentrification, they choose to claim success in the suburbs, along with their white constituents. If Blacks ever got reparations in the future, who knows if the elite would not use it to monopolize the masses instead of distributing the wealth and opportunities to it?
