The Niggerazation of Atlanta part-3

As Negroes poured into Atlanta, the change from White to Black began, with white flight in Dekalb county. On the East side of Dekalb County was the City of Atlanta also. Old neighborhoods that formally housed blue collar working whites, was suddenly deluged with Blacks moving farther out. Dekalb County at the time, was noted for having one of the top ten schools in the US, but that with the infusion of Blacks, that soon changed! As Blacks moved in, crime soared, and neighborhoods started to decline. Before then Dekalb county police was known for low tolerance for crime, especially crime committed by blacks. Before long, businesses that whites had formerly patronized. were going out of business. The cultural differences between the two races were vastly different which caused quite a bit of a problem in the integrated schools.

Meanwhile in SW Atlanta, the same thing was happening, blacks moving in, whites fleeing. A main Rd, Campbelleton Rd at one time had eateries all along it, along with car dealerships. Within ten years most of those steakhouses, and seafood restaurants had moved. Once again the Negro culture prevailed. The shopping center Greenbriar at one time had many business such as winemaking , electronic,and mainstream book stores, but with the huge influx of blacks arriving, they too left for greener pastures! Eventually one the anchor stores there, left due to shoplifting and pilferage.

The migration continued South to East Point and College Park, and as expected, whites fled in droves. Old National Highway which was at that time, offered many places of businesses from Major stores, and eateries, but they too, fled the ever growing hordes of blacks. Within six years stores became vacant, becoming eyesores.

It seemed everywhere that blacks moved to, the area quickly became ran down. To be honest, there were blacks that were very well educated, and successful in life, but others out numbered them. The problem is that no one wants to talk about is the culture. As I've previously mentioned, there's Black culture, and then there's Nigger culture. Get around a bunch of niggers, and all you'll hear is a bunch of loud talking interspersed with cursing, and a complete disregard of the elderly, children and women. Whites were not used to the nigger culture, and blacks refused to talk about it! The crime rate soared, because many niggers had the attitude the world owes them something, and if they can't get it, then I'll TAKE it!

Everywhere blacks moved, niggers were not far behind, thus helping to insure that the neighborhood became ran down. Cars not running in the driveway, lawn not mowed, and loud parties, plus home burglery, became a "normal" thing. Like mushrooms that spring up overnight, all of a sudden ,package stores,pawn shops, and secondhand places of businesses appeared out of nowhere. The neighborhoods was on the way down.

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The Niggerazation of Atlanta part-2

During the late fifties, the civil rights movements came along, and things started to change. Protests became the thing to do, and many Black college students were involved in making a change for the future. As usual the "city fathers" rebelled against the change. but Atlanta being the city it was, managed to get the Black and White business people together, and integrating the city schools and other facilities was the focal point. There was no harsh treatment of Black students by the local police as had been done in Birmingham. No fire hoses, nor dogs were used.

At the same time, Atlanta Black neighborhoods were expanding, first Mozely Park, then Bankhead Highway during the fifties and sixties. After that, SW Atlanta began to change. first Peyton Rd, and then the rest of SW Atlanta. The mayor was so alarmed at the time, he had the city to erect a barrier across Peyton Rd, in hopes of stopping further expansion, but it didn't work. The city demographics were changing rapidly, and white flight was at the maximum.

As jobs became more available to Blacks, more homes became available to buy. During this period, many people moved from the "projects" to purchase homes also. Most people don't realize that during this era, living in the "projects" ,were akin to living "middle class". There were no SINGLE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLDS! One of the main requirements back then was, you had to be MARRIED! You mowed your own lawn, and kept your apt clean, because the inspector never told you what day they were coming! There were no "gangs" in the projects because ALL children had a father at home. Most people that lived there, were God fearing, hard working, people that took care of their children.

I can remember when I spent time with my Uncle and Aunt during the summer, the White ice cream man came around every day selling ice cream all by himself, and was never worried about getting robbed. At the time, there were very few killing, and very few serious fights, because Blacks were more friendly to each other.

During the middle sixties, the problems began with Blacks. The government had been forced into allowing single women with children into the "projects", and this resulted into gangs being formed, because no father was in the home.

Meanwhile, many poor blacks who had been sharecroppers was in mass migration to Atlantam since the northern cities were now overflowing with Southern Blacks. They migrated here because of farm mechanization which replaced many of the sharecroppers. The farmers no longer needed blacks with large families to do manual labor such as picking cotton, thus we had a large percentage of basically illiterate people arriving in Atlanta with no marketable skills.

The same situation happened in Atlanta as with other Northern cities. Old houses were split up into three rooms to rent to these "newcomers", and overcrowding ensued. The people renting out those apts, moved to the surrounding suburbs in other counties, resulting in more "White Flight"! First Dekalb, then Cobb, and finally Clayton county. which resulted into having a large influx of Negroes in those counties.

Next, crime increases in those counties