Month: March 2021

 

Ode to Greenbriar Mall and the Evolution of Black Bourgeois Atlanta

No hyperbole or writer’s license necessary, my first conscious memory was at Greenbriar mall. I was pre-school age and my mom took me to an Easter breakfast program circa 1974 when Rich’s had a restaurant on the second floor that overlooked the mall. My mother and I watched the programRead More

Intergenerational Dysfunction is a hard row to hoe

The white south was so dependent on slavery ideologically and culturally that it nearly completely ignored finance capitalism, manufacturing, technological innovation, industrial innovation and the legal and wage labor benefits and tools that come along with them. The very same elitist cultural forces that kept Black people ignorant and illiterateRead More