As someone who also lived in the projects in NYC, in the 80s and 90s, I have to pushback against this. https://twitter.com/Trillharmonic/status/1266021538819645440

Especially this part here.

Did we own property? No.

But, we damn sure went outside.

And, not only did I know my neighbors (from multiple floors), I had play-cousins with the kids my age. I had fictive aunties and uncles.

We had a block party, every summer. https://twitter.com/Trillharmonic/status/1266021540736512007

I hadn't lived there for a smooth decade, when my grandmother died. And, new people moved in who were strangers to me.

And, those strangers put a memorial at the entrance to the building and showed up for MY grandmother's funeral.

Don't tell me the hood don't have a community.

Honestly, the communities of black NYC hoods only STOPPED being communities once gentrification started taking everyone out.

I went away to college, came home for the summer, and everybody was fucking gone.

It was like the bleaching that happens to the coral reefs.

Cops and white people moved in and the life of the community was fucking gone.

NYC hoods have no community NOW, because whiteness killed it.