Thread by @_BarringtonII

This isn’t about the political leadership in #Atlanta, this isn’t about @mooreforatlanta or @andreforatlanta but this is about the “culture” of Atlanta, but more notably who or what influences and shapes the political scene in the city. It’s a sad state of affairs when rappers

and “influencers” can make rumors of closing strip clubs a hot button issue days before a run-off election and people begin to base the choice of their elected official off of this “issue.” It’s about time we reassess this “culture” or whatever it is we would like to call this

blatant promotion of degeneracy that continues the cycle of negativity with Black people in Black communities. Four years ago with the election of our current mayor, the phrase you could hear being said from Bankhead to Buckhead was, “we have a mayor named Keisha.” Now four years

later, my city is in shambles, in a far worse shape than it has ever been before, and you see this same sentiment being echoed by the likes of rappers and other “influencers” and I can’t help but to ask when we will when learn? In the midst of increasing crime, failing schools

seniors being displaced from their home, the city having the highest inflation rate of all major cities in the US, rising housing costs, poverty increasing amongst vulnerable communities, and so many other problems, the issue that was promoted by along these Atlanta

personalities was strip clubs. STRIP CLUBS! We are a lost people. A lost cause, even. Atlanta has so much potential. The city is capable of being a southern epicenter of art, tech, industry, and agriculture, yet we are concerned with “the culture” that being salvaging of strip

clubs. I am embarrassed but more importantly I am disappointed to see the city that I love, the city that birthed me is being taken for granted by many of its inhabitants. If Atlanta is to be the “Black Mecca” that it has a reputation for being, when you take a step back and see

all of it’s failures, and the degradation of the culture established by great men and women of the past, what does it say about the people who inherited the city today? @wrong_speak @DelanoSquires @WhitlockJason @fortforatlanta @ShemekaMichelle @AntonioforATL