Market Meltdown Stalls Whitening of Harlem: Gentrifiers Go Bust
A Black Agenda Radio interview with Nellie Hester-Bailey, executive director, Harlem Tenants Council by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford
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The financial crisis has at least temporarily stalled the ethnic cleansing of Harlem by predatory developers and the investment banksters that back them. However, the gentrifiers’ champion, billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, seeks to win another term in office in order to finish the racial and class makeover of Harlem and other non-white communities. He is abetted by a host of “supine” Black office-holders ever eager to displace their own people.
Knitting my brow, I’m wondering whether we have a word Problem— numerical, mathematical, logical, or political Problem?
“The whiter the neighborhood they entered, the less safe Black boys felt.”
“The responsibility of the left is to build on Trump’s anti-NATO remarks – whatever his motivations – by offering a real critique of NATO.”
“Sanctions are war by other means, invisible to most eyes.”
“Putin enraged the West by putting the brakes the looting and refusing to let the new Russian oligarchs run the country.”
