AfroDaily - Crude historical depictions of white males as homosexual-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate white males with homosexuals......[more]

Suburbs, Redlining, and White Flight: Black America's Answer to Empowerment

There is an old saying, "I know when I'm not wanted" that Black Americans should honestly consider where it pertains to empowering ourselves on every front. Below is information documenting, decade after decade, the fact that whites do not want to live near or among Blacks. Not to mention work, learn or do business with us. When will we wake up!......[more]

Housing Integration since the Civil Rights Era

The laws and Acts of the Civil Rights Movement promised a more racially diverse society whereby Blacks could live peaceably alongside whites, learn, work and eat alongside whites. Revaluating this promise today means that we should look at society and determine whether the "dream" was fulfilled, and if not, if the dream will ever become a reality........[more]

Gated Communities

In a study conducted by the Census Bureau's 2001 American Housing Survey, it claims that it is not just the rich and arrogant who seek to reside behind gates, but the "desire to lock out the outside world cuts across all income groups." This is nothing more than a sad attempt to ease the consciences of the rich and spoiled.......[more]

Suburban Ghettos

What is a suburban ghetto? A suburban ghetto is a place where the residents earn between $30,000 and $60,000 a year, live on the outskirts of the city and pay for garbage collection, own two or 3 cars, have two or 3 kids and organize groups for community involvement. This is the suburban description. The ghetto description is this; they live uniformly in similar housing units, practice similar social and consumer behavior, certain firms target them as a stereotypical demographic group, and they are all capable of committing criminal acts such as drug abuse, domestic violence, and murder. So, what sets them apart from inner-city ghettos? Not much......[more]

Before You Move To Atlanta

The recent plight of Blacks into the Atlanta metro area has increased 200% over the last ten years, not including the pouring in of other racial mixtures such as white, Hispanic, Mexican, and Asian migrants. Atlanta has become the urban Mecca of the United States in areas of economics, social life, and religion and from these three main areas branch the subcategories of employment, financial prosperity, and family life.....[more]

Welfare to Work, Poverty to Poverty

The very success of work-centered welfare reform in getting people off welfare and into jobs has brought another, more difficult, challenge into sharp relief: For many people, getting into work doesn't mean getting out of poverty.....[more]

Suburban Sprawl

Suburban sprawl can be defined as a pattern of suburban-metroplitian growth creating low-density, automobile-dependent, sectioned-off new development surrounding a deteriorating city. Some characteristics of suburban life include:.....[more]

Moving to the Burbs

When people have reached a certain financial level in life such as earning over $40,000 a year, they feel they deserve to move out of the inner city and into the suburbs. Another reason they feel justified in doing so is they want a better education for their children; they believe suburban schools offer more to children than inner city schools do.

Escaping crime, drugs, and poverty lifestyles is another reason people leave the inner city. These are legitimate reasons for leaving the cities but when they get to the suburbs, there are another set of problems to deal with.

If you are Black, the problem of relating to suburban schoolteachers is one problem. Many times Black parents find themselves defending the ability of their children to teachers who assume only the worst. They fight to keep their Black children from being enrolled into special Ed classes and from being subscribed hyperactivity medications.

More than often, new suburban residents have to confront neighbors about the appearance of their homes and deal with the pressure of keeping up the neighborhood standard where home additions, lawn care, and beautification is concerned. Then there is the problem with children and behavior.

Many new suburban residents may have to keep a closer eye on their children since suburban kids have been known to experiment with more trendy type drugs and criminal behavior, and with more radical wardrobes, attitudes, and cultural fads like tattoos, body piercing and the like.