Amy Sterling Casil
1 min readJan 21, 2024

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I'm very tired of seeing white supremacy comments on every article that even mentions Black Americans. This is absolutely true of BLACK communities and neighborhoods in the specific cities the author profiles, including the focus city where Prof. An is located, Atlanta. To pretend there are no Black neighborhoods in Atlanta is absurd, as well as Jacksonville, or Charlotte. While it is also true that any poor neighborhood of any racial or ethnic composition can be bought by institutional investors, Black neighborhoods were redlined from the beginning and remain redlined in every large city. I say this as the development officer for the first, last, and only Green special needs affordable housing complex in Los Angeles County. South Los Angeles, which is now no longer a majority Black neighborhood, having changed to minority Spanish-speaking immigrant residents, remains owned by the same 6 slumlords who've owned most of those properties since the 1960s and 70s. I bet you can't guess what race those six slumlords are, but I will share it's neither Spanish-speaking nor Black. But it might also be your same ethnicity, Mr. Klein. Maybe.

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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