Nothing more privileged than white people going into a Black neighborhood, burning down their one grocery store, bank, or market, and then going back to their comfortable suburban home and tweeting how "it's just a property."
The fuck it is "just a property".
The fuck it is "just a property".
To you, it might be a "property".
But to that community, it's fresh food.
It's jobs for the neighborhood.
it's a deterrent to gangs and drugs.
It's a chance at college.
The fact you consider their hard-earned, hard-built community as "just property" is appalling.
But to that community, it's fresh food.
It's jobs for the neighborhood.
it's a deterrent to gangs and drugs.
It's a chance at college.
The fact you consider their hard-earned, hard-built community as "just property" is appalling.
It was harder for that community to get permits.
It was harder to get loans, they needed more capital than white communities. It's harder to get supplies. It's harder in every aspect because of people who think that one property in Brooklyn Heights is the same as one in Harlem.
It was harder to get loans, they needed more capital than white communities. It's harder to get supplies. It's harder in every aspect because of people who think that one property in Brooklyn Heights is the same as one in Harlem.
Notice how the Black community doesn't burn their own buildings? They don't loot their neighborhood stores?
Because those properties are the lifeblood of their community, and if they're destroyed , they don't get to rebuild, because no lender or insurer will take the risk.
Because those properties are the lifeblood of their community, and if they're destroyed , they don't get to rebuild, because no lender or insurer will take the risk.
So when you think that a Black community is "just property" , realize that everyone in that community knows who owns the market. For many of them it was their first job. That business helped grow the community. And they can't just drive "down the street" and go to the next one.
