ClydeR
10-08-2021, 01:28 PM
They're calling it "Buckxit": The proposal by the affluent Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead — an epicenter of urban luxury — to break off into a municipality known as Buckhead City, as Jennifer A. Kingson and Thomas Wheatley write.
Why it matters: The petition, now before the Georgia legislature, raises squirm-inducing issues of class, race and crime. Buckhead City, with 90,000 residents, would carve off a fifth of Atlanta's population and be about three-quarters white. (Atlanta itself is currently majority Black.)
The secession "would strike at the power of Atlanta’s Black political class," per Bloomberg Businessweek.
"Today, a mostly Black cast of elected officials is in charge of the largest city in the South, which has one of the highest concentrations of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the nation."
More... (https://www.axios.com/atlantas-whitest-neighborhood-may-secede-7ae8755d-d378-4aa1-8534-f90faf029356.html)
Good idea or racism?
Why it matters: The petition, now before the Georgia legislature, raises squirm-inducing issues of class, race and crime. Buckhead City, with 90,000 residents, would carve off a fifth of Atlanta's population and be about three-quarters white. (Atlanta itself is currently majority Black.)
The secession "would strike at the power of Atlanta’s Black political class," per Bloomberg Businessweek.
"Today, a mostly Black cast of elected officials is in charge of the largest city in the South, which has one of the highest concentrations of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the nation."
More... (https://www.axios.com/atlantas-whitest-neighborhood-may-secede-7ae8755d-d378-4aa1-8534-f90faf029356.html)
Good idea or racism?