James Baldwin famously stated that “urban renewal … means moving the Negroes out. It means Negro removal, that is what it means.”
At one point Brookings Institute who Kathy Warren quotes a few times and Yale HUD corporate types were batting around the idea of a conglomerate regional authority for poor blacks which alarmingly sounds FEMA katrina camp ish. So no more local PRHA and every city would be dominated by ONE (1) National RHA. There has been a conversation about the future of urban america that we have not been invited to.
If you want to be a scholar- read scholars.100% of what I write about has been covered by other scholars I study and research. Everything I write about HUD, PRHA LOCAL government has origins in a long line of scholars. I just apply my own urban life experience to the text I write making it my own and widening the scope with contemporary context.
At one point the idea was based on flawed research proven to be beneficial to real estate driven private marketplace investment companies seeking “PROMISSORY NOTE LIKE” displacement of communities before they invest. IE: Walmart Corporation says: destroy Jeffrey Wilson and we will build a Walmart. It was done and Walmart still has the top 5 theft rate in the country. What did that achieve?
From a scholarly perspective things change from 1990-2000-2010 ….Each decade a group of new scholars must emerge and African Americans issue is that we do not produce or create scholars who care to explore urban dynamics if it goes against the democratic party and being funded. College scholars and unfunded scholars usually have to much o risk to tackle the subjects where Wendell Pritchett and others are already paid published and powerful.
“As prominent legal scholar Wendell Pritchett points out, “[t]he irony is that, at the same time it was deciding Berman, the Court was deciding Brown [v. Board of Education], which reflects a distrust of government (particularly local government) to protect the interests of minority groups and to treat all citizens equally.”38 Unfortunately, the Supreme Court and most other legal elites failed to grasp the contradiction between aggressive judicial oversight of school segregation on the one hand and giving local governments a blank check to use eminent domain to forcibly displace African-Americans on the other. For many years, Berman’s permissive approach to blight takings set the pattern for both state and federal judicial decisions.”
You living in J-Dub London Oaks and Ida Barbour was a widely discussed scholarly conversation that you as African Americans were not invited to or possessed the educational knowledge to even understand. White scholars discuss African American poverty and “tangle of pathology” ( search that phrase) with each other and with the PHDs from YALE who run and have run HUD for the last five decades from the White House to PICKING OUT the colors of the stones in the Housing Projects.
For a Forty year span Yale is just pumping out PDF after paper on Urban Blight in this ERA becoming powerhouses of thought on the matter and producing the next wave of government officials that believe in displacement of minorities they end up on HUD and the highest thones in government.
Yale is the London Oaks and architect of the architects who created your entire ecosystem and ghetto life.
What school is Malia Obama going in 2020…. Yale.
Alex
Pritchett, The “Public Menace” of Blight, at 47; FULLILOVE, ROOT SHOCK ch. 4 Citizen King: Three Perspectives, PBS Transcript, available http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/sfeature/sf_video_pop_04_tr_qry.html.
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