A single of the largest problems that we produced in the course of the Excellent Migration dealt with our factors for migrating to the North and the Midwest in the first location.  We by no means learned from these blunders.  We left the South, went to the North, the Midwest and in some cases out West but we existed in a capacity that was not not like that of the South from where we fled.  We worked jobs, accomplished some financial achievement but the majority of us just worked with the hand that we had been dealt up North, as a substitute of work to place ourselves in a position where we could deal a hand to an individual else.

So when we cannot find work and we are sick of getting shot at and sick of having our electrical energy stolen what do we do?  We leave the North to go back to the South, just to find out that the Blacks that stayed in the South, very own land and have their personal corporations and find ourselves in a position where we have we have to work for an individual else.  This is the same position that we could have been in up North.  You could argue that a lot of Blacks created a go of it up North and are performing fine for themselves, and that is correct. 

At the exact same time, a big percentage of us, too significant in my truthful opinion, nonetheless have the mindset of getting a occupation and earning their hold.  We are fundamentally killing ourselves for the proper to reside in the city and give all of our funds over to somebody else.  When we are employed up and passed above for inexpensive labor we discover that the North and the Midwest are no longer the fantastic place that we believed they were.  We uncover out that the city is no longer the wonderful spot that we believed that it could be.  We leave for greener pastures in the suburbs, exactly where we have to reside that middle class American dream and drive all over the place and devote funds that we do not have on an automobile, deal with a property owners association or deal with individuals that say that we are destroying the neighborhood and bringing down house values.  We have to commute an hour to go to perform or to go to school.  We have to shop at bourgeois upscale grocery shops, we have the very good life, but we have to discover a way to bring that “flavor” that the inner city as soon as had, with out the crime and grime of the drug game.

At the end of the day that in no way gets done.  Survival is much more essential than cultural considerations.  Keeping gas in the car and putting food on the table is a lot more essential than the block party.  So we uncover ourselves creating a sense of that neighborhood we left, in some suburb where you cannot do this or you can not do that, and we are miserable all above once more.  At the identical time, African-Americans live in a good neighborhood across the street, while we are in some row residence, town house or mid rise apartment complicated that is just as ghetto as the neighborhoods we left.

How several times are African-Americans going to leave and relocate somewhere else?  When are we ever going to settle down and call this place residence?  Suburbia responds to the task and increases density and provides us shanty towns to reside in but we are never ever really welcome there.  There are two African-American cultures in America 1 that in fact owns a thing and is employing folks from all backgrounds and walks of life regardless of color, race or creed and another that does not own anything that has to rely on the goodwill of somebody else so that they can lay there head someplace.  The tragedy is that they never get to lay their head down for that extended, or they do not know where they will be laying their head from one day to the following. 

If we tore up the ghetto in the urban core and left it for the suburbs and individuals of a different financial class come in and rebuild that neighborhood all we are going to do is tear down another neighborhood in the suburbs.  Where can we go when that neighborhood is torn up?  If we leave the North and the Midwest and these of a different socioeconomic level come in (the moment there are actually jobs in the North and the Midwest) and rebuild it what kind of neighborhood do you believe you are moving back into when you lastly choose that you want to move back to the North and the Midwest once more?  Chances are your neighborhood is full of immigrants and you are not welcome there anymore.  Immigrants are not afraid of a little gunfire or some of the atrocities that us bourgeoisie African-American cry foul over due to the fact of the situations in their very own nations, which are often 100 instances worse than anything we can visualize in America.  The infrastructure is there, everything they want is there, so they will make it work.  Blacks, on the other hand, never ever build anything so we are hunting to partake of something that an individual else constructed in order to get that peace of mind.

We can’t keep moving.  We have to remain place and deal with the troubles that plague us.  There comes a point in your life where no race, neighborhood, task, college, career or life style option is going to insulate you from what plagues us as a people.  We want to stand up and reclaim what we have permitted to be taken from us, or what we have taken from ourselves …