Must be liberating for black people to be able to express how disappointing and "alienating" it is to see a neighborhood that was once overwhelmingly populated by people of their own race become mostly populated by people of another race and not be called a racist. And I can't help but notice that when this sort of thing happens to black people it almost always means that the neighborhood is getting safer and better and when it happens to white people it almost always means it is getting worse in nearly every way. You'd think that, this being the case, it would be white people who should be allowed to complain, and not black people. But that's not how it works in America.

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“I once lived in a Black mecca. But by the summer of 2022, my toddler son and I were often the only Black folks on the playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating and surreal,” the novelist Naomi Jackson writes.
Jackson was born in Crown Heights to

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