yandy is touching on real tea in this roundtable too
i def saw GODlanta as a "black mecca"...
i remember when i first came here years ago (way before i moved here) i never saw a city that had so much Blackness celebrated everywhere
i knew this was home for me.
all the figures, statues, downtown is decorated with so much black historical art
but i will say that when u actually MOVE here and settle tf in. you realize that this is still an american city in the deep south.... at the end of the day.
gentrification is widespread, black people are being pushed/priced out of places...
i've stopped pushing GODlanta as some utopia for black people cuz honestly its not
a lot of black people are suffering here and honestly i kinda had to check myself and get some perspective.
when im in group chats for my building and have these fragile ass, weird white women talking about how some simple shit they saw outside scared them to death
i honestly wonder how tf our HOA president (who is also black and originally from NY as well) deals with that shit.
i fucking cant.
GODlanta is still GODlanta aesthetically . it is a very black city in the fact that blackness is everywhere in art, statues, etc. which i fuckin love and thats why i will still call it GODlanta.
but when u really PULL back the layers and get into the gentrification, the income disparities between whites and blacks in general , etc.
this is why i live for yandy. she's keeping it tf real at this table