Black Bostonians Who Left The City Share Why They Moved

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  • Опубліковано 1 лис 2021
  • In search of equality and better opportunities, thousands of Black former residents of Boston have moved to Atlanta over the past few decades. In his latest piece, GBH News Senior Investigative Reporter Phillip Martin spoke to several such individuals to gain insight into why they decided to move. He joined Jim Braude along with George “Chip” Greenidge, Founder and Director of Greatest MINDS Boston, to discuss.

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  • @Ladybugseason
    @Ladybugseason Рік тому +7

    As a Black woman that once lived in Atlanta and looking at Boston this is good information to know.

  • @nuyorker9185
    @nuyorker9185 Рік тому +4

    Thanks to my son Miles for sharing this with me

  • @wakeupamericaandresist2413
    @wakeupamericaandresist2413 2 роки тому +9

    Nothing changes in the city I love and I left 32 years ago. Good luck to all Bostonians, I guess change is real slow back in my birth town 😥

  • @michaelwhyte1094
    @michaelwhyte1094 Рік тому +10

    I'm 53 and I promise you I'm gone when I get my pension and that's a guarantee. I could write a mini series about my experiences in Boston 10%great 90% unpleasant.

    • @philiposbrooks3337
      @philiposbrooks3337 10 місяців тому +1

      Boston and the people in it are awful. I’m so sorry you had to put up with this city

    • @jasonhill2348
      @jasonhill2348 2 дні тому

      @@philiposbrooks3337shut up you idiot. The town isn’t awful. It’s actually nicer than any black town in the country

  • @jefff2times230
    @jefff2times230 9 місяців тому +1

    Went to a concert at an Ampitheatre in ATL. No cops barking orders, no rushing out the venue, no show of force and no reminding you of your place.

    • @jasonhill2348
      @jasonhill2348 7 місяців тому

      Atlanta has a higher crime rate than boston.

  • @charlesfranklinhall
    @charlesfranklinhall Рік тому +3

    My former coworkers when I was looking at houses TOLD me that the City of Boston was segregated purposely! I was like WTF! I told them I don’t care where at in the city I buy a house! As long as I can afford it and I like my neighbors!!

  • @Myynyc
    @Myynyc 2 місяці тому +1

    Left Boston to NYC best thing I ever did

  • @ROOSEAZOR
    @ROOSEAZOR Рік тому +4

    income inequality sucks

  • @starelise1387
    @starelise1387 2 роки тому +8

    I left Boston back in 2008 and never looked back. I left b/c the cosr of living, the crap weather. I grew up around all races and nationalities of black and brown people but once you leave Boston it does get white and HOSTILE AF

    • @slickwilly6868
      @slickwilly6868 Рік тому

      I'm a black man from Arkansas and wamt to visit Boston this year. When does it start getting cold?

    • @DorianBarcusRealEstate
      @DorianBarcusRealEstate 9 місяців тому

      Define cold...as someone from here, I wear shorts until October usually. January-February is brutal.@@slickwilly6868

    • @jasonhill2348
      @jasonhill2348 7 місяців тому

      Nice lie buddy. All of the violence in Boston is committed by blacks and I mean like 95 percent of it.

  • @ravenssince962
    @ravenssince962 10 місяців тому

    ATL

  • @katrinagarrett9612
    @katrinagarrett9612 2 роки тому +5

    Atlanta is known as the "Mecca" for black gay males. They are able to thrive, succeed, and live their lives openly without fear there.

    • @katrinagarrett9612
      @katrinagarrett9612 2 роки тому +2

      @Gaelle Future Nurse Absolutely.

    • @straightblacksah5272
      @straightblacksah5272 2 роки тому +1

      Fear...of what?

    • @jalexander1532
      @jalexander1532 2 роки тому +2

      @@straightblacksah5272 Poverty, being ostracized, being the only “one” at your job, being met with a blight of black owned night life

    • @AK-hg1iq
      @AK-hg1iq Рік тому +2

      So much crime and violence.

    • @SlicesUSA
      @SlicesUSA Рік тому +5

      its also known as the mecca for the highiest rates of HIV & AIDS...

  • @ROOSEAZOR
    @ROOSEAZOR Рік тому

    reperation is what i need show me the money
    show me the money

    • @johnpaulkane6153
      @johnpaulkane6153 2 місяці тому

      Pipe Dream you were never a slave slaves back then would trade places in a heartbeat you should put a picture of General Grant who freed the slaves and the Irish immigrants who mostly made up union Army ....trying to leach off You're antsesters Ghost .

    • @rd8370
      @rd8370 27 днів тому

      no

  • @GenXican84
    @GenXican84 3 місяці тому

    I read old detective novels..Southie was poor whites back in the day..Has it changed?..Is Southie more melanated now?

  • @DorianBarcusRealEstate
    @DorianBarcusRealEstate 9 місяців тому +2

    Hey, not sure if you heard, but black people are allowed at the St. Patty's day parade now. 😆

  • @ashajeremiahqw8775
    @ashajeremiahqw8775 7 місяців тому

    I feel like black men in Boston likes white or non black women

  • @philiposbrooks3337
    @philiposbrooks3337 10 місяців тому +1

    Look at all these happy people. Im with you, if you value your sanity and happiness, you need to leave that soul sucking city

  • @jasonhill2348
    @jasonhill2348 7 місяців тому

    The grievance mongering never ends

    • @xcel007
      @xcel007 3 дні тому

      👎🏾

    • @jasonhill2348
      @jasonhill2348 2 дні тому

      @@xcel007I wish every black resident would leave.

    • @jasonhill2348
      @jasonhill2348 2 дні тому

      @@xcel007what this woman said is fine in theory but don’t get upset at whites for feeling the same way about themselves. If a white person says I want to live in a white neighborhood or keep my neighborhood white and successful, then that person is labeled a racist and shunned by society. It’s absurd. Humans naturally prefer their own kind and there isn’t anything wrong with that. But whites are demonized for thinking the same thing.