Clayton County:If its so bad,why is it Growing? (Atlanta: apartment complexes, houses)

[axemanjoe]

Originally Posted by Mgyeldell

I don't get why we as Americans throw this word around so much. Its a horrible stereotyping word that should not be used all willy-nilly to explain somewhere we don't like. And for people to use this word to describe Clayton County than you truly do not know what ghetto is. I lived in the Ghetto in Charlotte NC thru the 90's before gentrification hit the city. Clayco is no where near ghetto.

A ghetto is an overcrowded urban area often associated with a specific ethnic or racial population. This is the modern definition of a Ghetto. Not what Clayton County is. You can call it undesirable you can call it high crime but ghetto it is not.

Maybe 'hood would be a better descriptive of many areas in Clayton County. It certainly is not what it was 20 or 30 years ago. But no city is anyway.

[Listennow32]

Just say it...There are black people that live in Clayton County and all of the are hood. Point blank simple. Stop beating around the bush and say what you want to say.

[Frank.O´Hara]

Do you at least sometimes see a white person working there or going through Clayton county? Tourists?

I´m quite furious that we white people leave our communities like that. You know, if people will continue to segregate themselves it´s gonna end up pretty bad. If you look in a demographical map, the ATL metro area is prette segregated - and that means that whites tend to go only to certain areas, blacks as well. Think about it. Wouln´t it be great if there were no majority white/black areas, so you could feel good everywhere? If whites and black lived all together on one street? There are more and more people, America is only one. We can´t segregate forever. We must unite!!

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Frank.O´Hara

Do you at least sometimes see a white person working there or going through Clayton county? Tourists?

I´m quite furious that we white people leave our communities like that. You know, if people will continue to segregate themselves it´s gonna end up pretty bad. If you look in a demographical map, the ATL metro area is prette segregated - and that means that whites tend to go only to certain areas, blacks as well. Think about it. Wouln´t it be great if there were no majority white/black areas, so you could feel good everywhere? If whites and black lived all together on one street? There are more and more people, America is only one. We can´t segregate forever. We must unite!!

[axemanjoe]

Originally Posted by Listennow32

Just say it...There are black people that live in Clayton County and all of the are hood. Point blank simple. Stop beating around the bush and say what you want to say.

Yes there are black people that live in Clayton County. What's your point.

There are good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods all over this country. There are black people in both types of neighborhoods, as well as other ethinc groups also. It is how these folks behave that defines the respective neighborhood as a 'hood or not. Get the chip off your shoulder already.

[northwinds]

Originally Posted by Frank.O´Hara

Do you at least sometimes see a white person working there or going through Clayton county? Tourists?

I´m quite furious that we white people leave our communities like that. You know, if people will continue to segregate themselves it´s gonna end up pretty bad. If you look in a demographical map, the ATL metro area is prette segregated - and that means that whites tend to go only to certain areas, blacks as well. Think about it. Wouln´t it be great if there were no majority white/black areas, so you could feel good everywhere? If whites and black lived all together on one street? There are more and more people, America is only one. We can´t segregate forever. We must unite!!

Just curious....what part of town do you live in?

[Listennow32]

My point is you guys are saying its a bad area, don't even live there, probably rely on the whack reporting of the AJC to get your information, and then you judge an entire area based on the racial group that lives there. I'm not saying that there aren't unscrupulous characters that reside there. However, the population of the hard working normal people outweighs the former. Clayton is not as a high income as say north fulton or cobb, but it definitely is not ghetto or hood. And yes Frank, White people live in Clayton as do, Black, Asian, Latino, and any other race... this debate is really getting old.

[suprascooby22]

Originally Posted by northwinds

Just curious....what part of town do you live in?

LOL I was wondering the same thing.

[Frank.O´Hara]

Originally Posted by suprascooby22

LOL I was wondering the same thing.

Don´t laugh but I live in Europe! In a small town which is like 98 % white. I´m gonna move to the states in a near future and I´m just making observations... reading this forum often and using google street view.

Anyway, my english can´t be so bad if you thought I actually live in ATL, lol :-)

[Stars&StripesForever]

Originally Posted by Frank.O´Hara

Don´t laugh but I live in Europe! In a small town which is like 98 % white. I´m gonna move to the states in a near future and I´m just making observations... reading this forum often and using google street view.

Anyway, my english can´t be so bad if you thought I actually live in ATL, lol :-)

Frank, I mean no disrespect, I seriously don't. I only wish you the best. However, when people like superscooby or northwinds say certain things about certain communities, they're only doing so to be honest, not to sugarcoat things. Making light of certain situations benefits no one.

I can tell that you come from an overwhelmingly white area, such as much of Europe (as it should be. After all, Europe is the white homeland), given your almost utopian ideals of people living together side-by-side, in harmony. While things are better today than they were years ago, people groups have a different sub-culture, even within the dominant culture. We're also hard-wired to prefer the company of those like us. This doesn't take into account the various differences among the different demographic groups. In general, some of these characteristics some people value, while others disapprove of. As a result, all of this leads people to seek out locations and people like their own.

In general, those who are the biggest proponents of diversity are those who have the least familiarity with it.