Atlanta, the city built in a forest, groves and thickets. We are somewhere between Nisky Lake and Loch Loman, on a trail that leads from Guildford Forest to Kings Forest, and then down into Heritage Valley. We are ensconced in a Hidden Dale near Regency Park and nourished by the waters of The Cascades and Camp Creeks.

Do you see what we see as so many things that made Atlanta the Black Mecca are disappearing. Homes are out of reach to hard working families as corporate and other investors purchase homes as investment properties, not to become honest members of the community. For them the value will go up whether the schools and bureaucracy are any good or not. One way or the other they will make money. In this way the character of long-established communities was changed for the worse, as a culture of squatters and vagrants has taken advantage of absentee landlords and fearful communities where it is perceived as just better to mind your business. In any case, these persons will get slaps on the wrist and be back to continue their nefarious ways in a few days, and now angry that you wasted their time. 

We have watched as gentrification and short-sighted local politicians robbed the heart of long established working-class and middle-class Black communities, forcing these Black families out through rising property taxes and other costs associated with homeownership, in favor of actively recruiting more affluent people from other ethnic backgrounds. What is altogether worse is that the whole time municipal Black elected officials were making these decisions, they patted themselves on the back for cleaning up the communities. But instead of ‘cleaning up the community’ by increasing the economic viability of the ‘current’ Negro residents, they shipped them out all over Atlanta-Fulton County further destabilizing communities and brought in others to purchase the recently built ‘Mc Mansions’ for people that have no loyalty to the community and look at it as simply an investment.   

We have watched horrified, as the Black APS and Fulton County schools we were proud to go to, Schools of Excellence, started showing up on every ‘Governors Failing List’ for academic quality and outcomes. Optically worse, it seemed every time one turned on the 6oclock news one of our schools be on there for some ridiculous fight or some other disturbance or dysfunction rather than good news about test scores, and other positive achievements.

We, the Metro Atlanta Black Bourgeois Association got tired of simply watching these changes and decided surely there must be others of our opinion that in witnessing these distressing trends, we could be witnessing demographic and other shifts that may lead to enough White mainstream and other cohesions that enable us to begin losing seats on the varying Atlanta Fulton County, Cobb County, Gwinnett and other administrative bodies, mayorships and other prominent positions as well. In such a dilemma, we cannot afford incompetence, whether it is the elections, Hartsfield-Jackson or the DAs office. Join us as we work to increase the quality of life in Atlanta by the promoting policies that engender familial, academic, economic, political, and cultural stability and development.