And not for nothing but the law ALWAYS was that you could not be a public charge as an immigrant and that you can be deported for it!!!

We have a homelessness problem in NYC because Black people are being pushed out in order to gentrify the city. There is collusion between the govt officials and the developers and its creating a holocaust in the school system and its causing young Blacks to lose ALL the gains the last generation made.

So now we fight for the right to clean the houses of people with racist dogs...That’s the hill we’re dying on in August of 2019, y’all? 

Exactly. If any of those were the case, then nobody would be complaining about keeping “ghettoes” intact. The fact is that life was good for the VAST MAJORITY of Black people. We didn’t have money but there was a strong sense of community, love and family. I have two sons. I have never in my life worried about them…

Wow. I would like an answer to this too.

What a load of fiction. I went to Brooklyn Tech (class of ‘91) and we swore we would come back and fix Fort Greene up after we got out of college and had the money to, we’d rebuild all of the abandoned houses and make it what it could be. What we didn’t know was that those boarded up houses had owners. Those people…

Brooklyn absolutely was NOT gentrified before Manhattan. Harlem and the L.E.S were gentrified first, under Guiliani in the lates 1990s. Brooklyn started being gentrified when the gentrifiers ran out of places to take over in Manhattan. I live in Crown Heights and the gentrification of that is just becoming complete.…

Gentrification landed me in a homeless shelter. The stratospheric new rents that landlords know they can charge them kept me there. The gentrifiers have taken the block that I grew up on door by door. Meaning that, every single family on my block has been forced out. People have to get evicted, foreclosed on and…