Notice 'up to 9 people' because she knows they're not going to be popular and black people aren't interested, only racists and black history majors, aka, low-key racists.
retired business consultant who first moved to the area in the 1990s
Green lived in multiple condos throughout her time in St. Petersburg, but ended up building her own home in Campbell Park
Sounds like your typical uppity yankee, coming in and telling YOU what your local history is. But no worries, if she keeps sticking her nose in other people's areas and making a spectacle of herself in Campbell Park, she'll pay the toll soon enough.
It is one of those historic black neighborhoods that got decimated to make way for the interstates, hospitals, ball field, and apartment buildings that transport, house and entertain all the wealthy white liberals who moved in. It was nice once, but became industrial and crime-ridden when eminent domain bulldozed all those people's 100 year old houses. The people who live there did not forget their history, and typically hate white liberal do-gooders like the tour guide in question. People like her have been coming in for years with promises of help and revitalization only for things to get worse.
Was it a historic Black neighbourhood though? Cause those are usually just neighbourhoods Whites built and got driven from by said Blacks and their violence. Then when the Whites try and reclaim them (gentrify), you hear this crap about it being a Black neighbourhood.
Normally ai would agree with you but in this case, those areas in St Pete, and other places in Florida and around the South were established as black communities. Pinellas county was very agricultural at one point, lots of orange groves and cattle ranchers (who were the real Crackers, a name that is now a slur). A lot of shipping and rail came through. Big hotels like The Vinoy and The Detroit were built, and all these industries needed workers. Black people were historically in agriculture, labor, and service before the elites told them those jobs were beneath them...which displaced them and led to our current state with increased crime, violence, etc.
Oh sweet! I've heard a bit about how St. Pete the city just takes what they want from the older black neighborhoods, and on the other hand how the younger residents act like their grandparents weren't compensated by businesses that bought their land. It's quite the tale.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the city did take over properties for the interstates, Tropicana, and the hospitals and what was left started to disappear in the late 2000s to make way for private development. But they did that to everyone that didn't push back. My grandparents house was demolished in Tampa. The old orange growers say the government infected their groves with blight so the trees would fail, they'd lose agricultural tax exemption, and be forced to sell. This really happened and we have heard stories of men in suits with briefcases lurking around groves at night.
This is one I found fascinating. They allege he stole the land/cut rate, but from what I've heard, it's just more fake "gibs us mones owed our ancestors" shit.
It's mainly nostalgia. It mentions how a couple assholes say he basically got the land at a steal because he went to the black neighborhood to buy it at a discount, like a lotta white people in the early 20th century. You know, the same ole "gibs me monies for my ancessors" bullshit.
Follow-up article: Local historian's tours of reknowned Black neighborhoods canceled after first event. Surviving participants report hearing gunshots before they were accosted by an unknown number of unidentified strangers that killed two, injured five, and took from all present their bicycles, wallets, phones, and shoes. Mr. Braybee says he is "terribly saddened by the tragic loss of business [his] establishment would have undoubtedly received" from Green's tours.
This would bore me in a millionaire's neighbourhood of hollywood, let alone in some city of 263,000 in Forida that nobody from outside the state can point to on a map.
You know what, I'll support this on your argument. There has been a ton of culture taken away to create the stereotyped and fake version of black culture. It would be awesome to start building up the actual thing.
Having lived in a ghetto, I have to admit this was a joke for a long time. People coming to the area and others acting out fake crimes and other stuff to welcome them.
"Oh look everyone, we're about to witness a drive by!"
"I say, K'Neesha, you doth verily have your accounting in arrears. Please pay forthwith or mine hand shall seeketh vengeance and smite thee yon and far."
Women are children. Protected and provided for by men. Insulated from reality and the harshness of natural law. Unable to comprehend a mans life - a life in the coliseum each and every day, as she has no personal experience of this.
Women should be escorted by a responsible man and defer to his decisions. Women should generally not speak publicly. It goes without saying they should not vote, as they simply vote to take men’s money and spend men’s life frivolously as they have no personal investment, not as much at stake as men.
How stupid can these people get
To qoute George Carlin "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that".
Great quote. Carlin made a lot of sense.
Notice 'up to 9 people' because she knows they're not going to be popular and black people aren't interested, only racists and black history majors, aka, low-key racists.
Truth
Sounds like your typical uppity yankee, coming in and telling YOU what your local history is. But no worries, if she keeps sticking her nose in other people's areas and making a spectacle of herself in Campbell Park, she'll pay the toll soon enough.
I take it Campbell Park is considered part of Darktown?
It is one of those historic black neighborhoods that got decimated to make way for the interstates, hospitals, ball field, and apartment buildings that transport, house and entertain all the wealthy white liberals who moved in. It was nice once, but became industrial and crime-ridden when eminent domain bulldozed all those people's 100 year old houses. The people who live there did not forget their history, and typically hate white liberal do-gooders like the tour guide in question. People like her have been coming in for years with promises of help and revitalization only for things to get worse.
So yeah, bad move.
Was it a historic Black neighbourhood though? Cause those are usually just neighbourhoods Whites built and got driven from by said Blacks and their violence. Then when the Whites try and reclaim them (gentrify), you hear this crap about it being a Black neighbourhood.
Normally ai would agree with you but in this case, those areas in St Pete, and other places in Florida and around the South were established as black communities. Pinellas county was very agricultural at one point, lots of orange groves and cattle ranchers (who were the real Crackers, a name that is now a slur). A lot of shipping and rail came through. Big hotels like The Vinoy and The Detroit were built, and all these industries needed workers. Black people were historically in agriculture, labor, and service before the elites told them those jobs were beneath them...which displaced them and led to our current state with increased crime, violence, etc.
Oh sweet! I've heard a bit about how St. Pete the city just takes what they want from the older black neighborhoods, and on the other hand how the younger residents act like their grandparents weren't compensated by businesses that bought their land. It's quite the tale.
Yeah, it's a mixed bag. On one hand, the city did take over properties for the interstates, Tropicana, and the hospitals and what was left started to disappear in the late 2000s to make way for private development. But they did that to everyone that didn't push back. My grandparents house was demolished in Tampa. The old orange growers say the government infected their groves with blight so the trees would fail, they'd lose agricultural tax exemption, and be forced to sell. This really happened and we have heard stories of men in suits with briefcases lurking around groves at night.
Government, Brazilians, Big Ag, same difference at this point.
This is one I found fascinating. They allege he stole the land/cut rate, but from what I've heard, it's just more fake "gibs us mones owed our ancestors" shit.
https://photos.cltampa.com/remembering-st-petes-webbs-city-the-worlds-most-unusual-drugstore/?slide=1&pc5411a
Honestly, I don't know if I can read this. I don't want to hear anyone shit on Webb's.
It's mainly nostalgia. It mentions how a couple assholes say he basically got the land at a steal because he went to the black neighborhood to buy it at a discount, like a lotta white people in the early 20th century. You know, the same ole "gibs me monies for my ancessors" bullshit.
Follow-up article: Local historian's tours of reknowned Black neighborhoods canceled after first event. Surviving participants report hearing gunshots before they were accosted by an unknown number of unidentified strangers that killed two, injured five, and took from all present their bicycles, wallets, phones, and shoes. Mr. Braybee says he is "terribly saddened by the tragic loss of business [his] establishment would have undoubtedly received" from Green's tours.
Funny, there's a few places like that, but most of her tour is focused on "this used to be" places.
They should tour the back alleys, I hear they used to grow the peppers there. Make sure you capture every moment on your $1k phone.
I hope they go to southwest st. pete, just off 19.
A guided tour of... a residential street.
This would bore me in a millionaire's neighbourhood of hollywood, let alone in some city of 263,000 in Forida that nobody from outside the state can point to on a map.
Modern day version of when they used to put niggers on display with bones through their nose and people would pay to gawk at them
If I didn't already make this clear, that is one DUMB ASS bitch
You know what, I'll support this on your argument. There has been a ton of culture taken away to create the stereotyped and fake version of black culture. It would be awesome to start building up the actual thing.
Just don't leave your bikes unattended while you're snapping photos or you may find yourselves walking home.
Are you kidding, these people would gladly give them up to help the underprivileged thieves.
Having lived in a ghetto, I have to admit this was a joke for a long time. People coming to the area and others acting out fake crimes and other stuff to welcome them.
"Oh look everyone, we're about to witness a drive by!"
"I say, K'Neesha, you doth verily have your accounting in arrears. Please pay forthwith or mine hand shall seeketh vengeance and smite thee yon and far."
Shakespeare in the Ghetto would be very entertaining.
Women are children. Protected and provided for by men. Insulated from reality and the harshness of natural law. Unable to comprehend a mans life - a life in the coliseum each and every day, as she has no personal experience of this.
Women should be escorted by a responsible man and defer to his decisions. Women should generally not speak publicly. It goes without saying they should not vote, as they simply vote to take men’s money and spend men’s life frivolously as they have no personal investment, not as much at stake as men.