I saw hope. In the eighties and nineties a lot of well-educated and motivated black NYers (and others from the NE) saw Atlanta as a way to get back to southern roots and create a successful ‘black capital’. For a while it looked like it might work. I didn’t follow it though so I don’t know exactly what went wrong.
“I didn’t follow it though so I don’t know exactly what went wrong.”
Systemic corruption.
The attitude from the top down to the bottom seemes to be, “This is our turn and we’re going to milk it for all it’s worth!”