An Honest Look at DeKalb County: America's Second Best County for Black People...
st LEquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
Watching the steady implosion of the Black Mecca offers a glimpse of what will soon transpire across the entire nation. Property value is plummeting in metro Atlanta after years of Black migration from other parts of the nation to the promised land of public jobs and preferential contract work with the city of Atlanta, Fulton County, and Fortune 100 companies with offices (and aggressive affirmative action hiring programs) there.
As the metro Atlanta counties become "Blacker" (i.e., greater percentage of Blacks than other racial groups), the tax-base shrinks. Clayton County offers the best glimpse of what happens to a once thriving county when the Blacks take over.
DeKalb County is the Prince Georges County of metro Atlanta for Blacks (54 percent Black and 33 percent white), considered by many to be the best place in the Black Mecca to call home (if you are Black -- just ask former CEO of DeKalb County Vernon Jones, who tried to remake the city government in a Black image). Look at this quote from USA Today in 2001, where The Blacks talk about the glory of segregated communities:
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| A visualization of the Black Hole in the Black Mecca |
As the metro Atlanta counties become "Blacker" (i.e., greater percentage of Blacks than other racial groups), the tax-base shrinks. Clayton County offers the best glimpse of what happens to a once thriving county when the Blacks take over.
DeKalb County is the Prince Georges County of metro Atlanta for Blacks (54 percent Black and 33 percent white), considered by many to be the best place in the Black Mecca to call home (if you are Black -- just ask former CEO of DeKalb County Vernon Jones, who tried to remake the city government in a Black image). Look at this quote from USA Today in 2001, where The Blacks talk about the glory of segregated communities:
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