I tell folks all the time, especially us black folks. Invest in real estate, own properties. At least would have got a pretty decent compensation during the gentrification process

I grew up in North Charlotte between the years of the mid 80's to the mid 90's and I knew this day was coming even when I was little... the house I grew up on Pamlico is torn down & renewed. But thankfully our family house is still owned by the family and still in tact.

Black removal is still happening in Charlotte, it’s just called “developing” just look at noda area, freedom drive and even beatties ford, sad this is still happening today, and now those same places that blacks had to relocate to are being developed causing the people that can’t afford to move yet again. Charlotte is a beautiful city but behind the breweries and the condos there’s a evil history that people have no idea about. I feel for these people imagine your childhood home is replaced with condos. Your whole childhood is erased due to money, everything is a business I understand but when are people going to actually be human and have hearts and actually work together. I hate watching things like this because it makes me feel anger but again I never knew about this community.

Being born and raised in Charlotte, NC, and still here today. This video saddens me. 🥹🥹🥹 sad part is it's gotten worse here in Charlotte, NC. They are still doing this today in 2022, taking all the black neighborhoods. Why can't we ever have anything?

a black community that was erased from Charlotte's uptown area due to Urban Renewal. BROOKLYN, i remember my grandfather {who lived in brooklyn} saying to me. the move is a good thing for blacks. they rented housing in brooklyn,but in the move to beatties ford rd black's owned their housing. it was a real upgrade for some. even the public housing was a upgrade from shot gun house's to double oak's and fairview house's.

They just built condos on Stonewall street called " THE SAVOY". Wow! Talk about taking something from us. In yo face SLAP.

Just found out a couple of weeks ago there were a black owned airport surrounding what is today The plaza, shamrock and Garinger and probably more areas back in the day

Born and raised in Charlotte. My parents would know this History. We started out in Tryon Hills. I love Charlotte. 🙏🙏🙏

Same thing that happened in Columbia, SC large part of downtown was a black community and they land was practically stolen and forced out for Urban Renewal its just sad

So nice that some people choose to recognize the damage done but now that we have established that damage was done, reparations for the families. If this was any body, they would have given tangibles to them

Born at Good Samaritan Hospital and lived on N. Davidson until we moved to Southside Homes and then to Gilbert St. off of Beatties Ford Rd. My family was original. Sharecropping grandfather from Dixie Steele Creek area. I mourn old Charlotte. Torrence Lytle school, Rockwell in Derita. Time marches on, but there is a loss of history and perspective.

My name is Rezareq my dad "Kenny boy" used to live and play here. Him and my mom had me in NY. I didn't believe him for along time that Brooklyn was in Charlotte.

Their doing the same thing in Columbus Circle. Gentrification is most definitely real. New subbie here, I loveee my city but it’s soooo different now.

They are still moving people out in Charlotte up to this day!

dang im black and i didnt even know that there are still 4 houses still standing by a ame zion curch

for some reason I never understood why charlotte had a small city street layout back in 1990 now I know why!

Great video! One correction is needed, though. The 2nd Ward HS gymnasium is the original structure and was recently restored to use. It, along with the three Brooklyn Collective buildings, is also a remnant of the Brooklyn community's structures still standing. Pearl Street Park is also one of the few remaining landmarks of the community.

Wow all these years l saw myself and my two older brothers in the backyard my brother Roy Jones standing at the back screen door and Willie Jones in the yard with something in his hands and me Pearl Sandra Jones in the yard playing with a hood jacket on, l heard about this picture when The Charlotte Observer reporter took this photograph of us in our backyard this was taken around 1964 l was 4yrs old wow how l stumble across this picture l m so excited

Will those stores and offices in brooklyn village be black owned? If not then there’s no point In building it.

Thank you for bringing light to Charlotte's sordid rise. Long live the Brooklyn spirit!

I can barely remember some of those areas. This video hurts my heart and I totally understand what the lady means “the spirit’s gone”. I started school in 1970 and we were integrated. The children of the traditional Charlotte black communities, were the first to be bussed to school too, my classmates, their parents’ generation were my school teachers and principals and bus drivers and childcare providers, they raised us white kids too. We shared a common understanding of right and wrong and real and fake and were taught to value those things unseen not “symbols” of wealth, power and prestige. Later as a teen, I rode the bus to Shoney’s at Charlottetown and I worked with a for black adults who had been working there and at the Shoney’s on Morehead before it, for decades. We shared and respected the same kind of work ethic and pride. I was the back up kitchen, prep, dishwasher for the people who had mastered those jobs for a long time. I’m sure there must of been a racial component but I was certainly oblivious to it then. I worked hard to live up to each of their standards. It took a few years to be accepted as a young white girl in their kitchen but even the older ladies that wanted to not like me, ended up being okay with me. They taught be to be an adult. All those kind of people have been lost to Charlotte. I feel the loss to my core. Nothing makes me smile more than to run into an old timer somewhere, I can instantly pick up on their unique speech patterns and accents and expressions and feel genuine kinship with them. It’s a wrong that can never be righted. A loss that can never be found. I’m gonna hold my tongue about the “renewal” project but they know what families, businesses and churches they destroyed. They each and every one have a name and there needs to be direct restitutions to their families. God Bless All.

Same thing happening in downtown Charleston sc ..

“It won’t look anything like Brooklyn but it will have the same vibrancy and ...” = “I’m not racist, but...”

Q1. Do people of color own most of the businesses 🤔? Why? Q2. Is ownership important 🤔? Answer: Oppression...

Local Government does this everywhere, it's not racially based. In any city, a larger tax revenue will always win out over less profitable tenants. Watch, in the future Charlotte will consume all kinds of property once deemed country, preserved, historical etc... Charlotte turned from wonderful big town (till 1986), then exploded, becoming the beast we see now. It hurts so bad to even visit, I don't recognize the place. Strange thing is very few southern accents left in the city, Nothing like when I was a child. Last time I was there no one sounded southern but me, and I had been living up in Pennsylvania!!

Fear of a Black Planet.

Thank you.

Charlotte is mostly black - blacks from New York, Chicago, DC and they are now coming from California.

when?

Black neighborhood: exists. Local power structure: "Good place to build fancy new buildings!" State highway department: "Good place to ram an interstate through!"

Sounds like Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta

The spirit!

Build On The Spirit 🎯💯

Progress has always been the demise of human society . A lot of people see progress as positive they don't understand that progress means changing the ecosystem in traditions of that geographical location. Usually progress never benefits the core of that community it only helps the people who already have money to grow their companies and build their finances for their descendants as the poor people become phased out of the equation of a created Monopoly. We now live in a technological age where people practice mad science and it is accepted as normal in the name of progress we now have all this additional electronics that people believe enhance people's daily lives even though the majority of the people live in the metaverse more than they live in the real world. Because of all the progress they don't like what they see in the real world

Know place like home Charlotte

Damn YT devils..they talk competition but they really don't want it.

Give the black the entire city !! That should fix it all!

Northern Jim Crow!

What percent the african american population make of charlotte now

It happens in every community where their is a progressive black community.

I'm Sure Everybody Knew This

When I watch this it bothers me. Because I'm white I have a hard time grasping what my forefathers done. First the Indians then the Chinese and black folks. And I'm stuck with my color just like you reading this is stuck with yours. I've watched white people strong 💪 arm others time & time again. Yet get mad if you tell them about the White privileges. That certainly do exist as I watched growing up. ( I'm 60 now).... My father was very racist and a business owner. He always treated others badly and he didn't care how he spoke to them. My Grandfather on the other hand ( his dad) was completely different. Most say I got my grandfather's spirit. Although he had Money and was a West Point Graduate 🎓, he treated everyone polite and respectful in his conversation. He even went out of his way to make the less fortunate uneducated feel Equally worthy. He was a great man and well respected in our town and many towns and counties around. And then there was his sons ( 1 being my dad)... And they was very arrogant and self centered. Very rude and disrespectful to Anyone who was Not on their level of monetary status . As a kid growing up I'll never forget watching ROOTS on TV. that week. The intire country watched it. It hurt me so badly to see how those people were treated. From then on I made it a point to lookout for black folks anytime I could. As i still do today. 💯.. Heaven will not be segregated, but I doubt we'll be seeing those kinda folks there. NOT JUDGING, just calling the fruit the fruit the tree Bares 😂😂... take time to help those you can. It'll make you feel good in the end. Love is the thing will get us to heaven. Much love and respect to all who reads this. Remember BE HUMBLE 😉

but is was still lost which is what they wanted come on they new.

Imagine Charlotte without blacks.....

Most of those properties were horrible. Upgrades were necessary.

And if you tell me that a place like Charlotte which has lots of predominantly black areas today, was at one point Full of black folks all over and it was called BROOKLYN... named after The blackest borough in New York today with little pockets of white affluence all through it I'd never would have imagined that. So if this little piece of history PURPOSELY was hidden so well and for so long, why is it so hard to imagine that if black people once lived. Built, and thrived in EVERY SINGLE PLACE ON EARTH and had amazing economic value and resources, and everything else you'd expect from a large thriving community. And eventually like everything else that was invented by black people would be stolen and re written in history and have claims of other false origins

Yeah looked great !🙄. Look at all the black Communities around there now and the country! Doesn’t cost anything to keep your house and yard nice

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