for real. reading the history of the laws (the many laws) written to keep blacks away from anything empowering is quite dizzying and housing discrimination was a big one. laws keeping and taking land from blacks go way back (for example) and as society progressed, it morphed to fit the times. nowadays it’s housing discrimination and it’s rampant. 

Shonda Rhimes needs to make a show for Black kids and let him star.

How ironic. I was just talking about this.

This shit is serious. Gentrification is an issue. Housing discrimination is real. 

This is why I get wild angry about gentrification. This. White folk spent so much time forcing us out of the suburbs, keeping us out of the middle class, and into these neighboorhoods, and when we start carving out a space to flourish, they come in and push us out again.