resident said she remembers the first time her mother explained why she was allowed to drink from the “White’s Only” water fountain in downtown Asheville when she was a young girl.
But urban renewal projects, aimed at revitalizing low-income communities, transformed her Black neighborhood. Thousands were displaced when the city moved to acquire land to build highways and other developments. “The urban renewal implementation was devastating,” Robinson said, recalling the times she witnessed residents in the neighborhood, including her own family members, clearing out their homes and business and leaving furniture on the sidewalks.
The Asheville, N.C., city council voted to shroud and remove a granite obelisk monument to former governor, Confederate leader and slave owner Zebulon Vance. The site has become a gathering point for racial justice protests. “What happened in Asheville was one of the largest dislocations of African Americans, caused by urban renewal, in the southeast,” Mullen said. “Wherever urban renewal took place, we saw the decline of living standards for African Americans, including higher unemployment, poorer health, and academic achievement.”
Got to vote for someone like TRUMP who will bring the jobs and make the economy great again.
BreakingBrown Biden has had 30+ years to do this.
I’m sure shutting down the economy was a big step in the right direction.
That's 200 wealth gaps.
Look at Los Angeles and all of the recent gentrification there that is largely responsible for the huge increase in homelessness downtown. Affordable places to live were scooped up by luxury developers and poor folks were forced out into the street without any options.
BreakingBrown Urban renewal. The last act of the New Deal. It was signed into law by Harry Truman in 1947 and its effects are still being felt in Oakland, California where the impact is real and tangible.
ABC news racebaiting again.
How about getting with THIS CURRENT ADMINISTRATION FOR AN OPPORTUNITY ZONE? 🤦🏻♀️ A lot are taking advantage of it!
How? By giving them more money? There’s a saying, “Give a man a fish and you’ll feeding once. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a life time” the thing these people don’t want to learn.
Making the rich flee is one way to do it. The wrong way. But still a way.
People need to be responsible for themselves. Shocker I know.
wealth gap We already pay entire communities just to exist, we up the gift, they'll say it's still not enough. Literally fuck off and do something with the buckets of cash you already got.
Let's Vote for it! Retweet Retweet Don't forget. For the next 38 days, 10 minutes a day Think this:
How about lower income people take aggressive actions to legally increase their wealth.
Wanna know how to close 'the racial wealth gap?' Leave an inheritance for your children no matter how small and teach them how to create wealth.
Unfortunately,the black population does not matter,to local & federal governments in America,it is all about being white.Just terrible.Equal rights? Yeah right.🦘🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Drain the DC Swamp 🐊🐍👿🐍🐊
BREAKING: Democrat Ilhan Omar busted in huge voter fraud ring!
Black people should start their own political party....niethr side deserves the black vote.
Only those who us are or were slaves should reparations. Only those who own or have owned slaves should be required to pay reparations. Republicans defeated the Democrats on the battlefield to end slavery, the country lost nearly four hundred thousand lives in battle. PD in full
And to think that from 2008-2016 this was an issue the news media never cared to highlight.. Yet they want you to have faith and the belief that Biden/Harris can fix it all (if) you vote for them!!
GET ur GANG INFESTED PIMP INFESTED & BLACK ON BLACK CRIME under control !!!!! ( SEE SOME THING SAY SOME THING ) !!!!!!
Stop whining & breeding criminals.
They can’t thrive. We have to give them free stuff
👏👏😎A beginning , may it grow and flourish . May it be an example to others , a light shining on a path forwards from a very dark past. 😎🙏🙏🙏🙏👍😷😷❣
This will not happen, Psychologists call Trump a 'vicious narcissist' he don't cares anymore about you problems and fears. It's so hard to read every single day that someone are hurting or killing. he is corrupt and a lier. Only without Trump has this people a chance...
Ummm... Not really a city problem.
Lol, shouldn’t the residents take “aggressive action” to close the wealth gap?!
Money doesn't make everything better. You're still the same person with the same history.
The 'peaceful protesters' who have been tearing up minority communities have to get paid first.😏
Hope in one hand, shit in the other.....sorry but why would it be the governments job to close a wealth gap? I'd like the wealth gap between myself and Bill Gates closed, but thats not govt responsibility, its mine
drink a glass of water on an empty stomach every day but avoid eating or drinking anything for around 45 minutes.
Then the residents should give away their money
It’s always about race 🙄 IdentityPolitics
'When do I getz paid and sheet'
GIBS US MO'
Always blame, no accountability. Weak human beings.
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