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Reminds me of how Central Park is on land that was taken from a predominantly black neighborhood called Seneca Village. The government used eminent domain to st
by theturtletalks 8y ago
Reminds me of how Central Park is on land that was taken from a predominantly black neighborhood called Seneca Village. The government used eminent domain to strip the residents of their land. Where would those black families be if they were allowed to keep that land in the heart of NY?
- zaphirplane 8y agoYou mean if the land taken from the native Americans that was sold African Americans, wasn’t acquired by NY? At least the forced acquisition has a veneer of legal and public good. But to speculate on your question, i strongly doubt that finding yourself owning prime land years after purchasing it translates to multi generation wealth. Yes the lives of those families would be better if they sold and did something useful with the money. I suspect mostly it would be wasted away, mismanaged and wilted down thru inheritance, that’s my observation from personal observation of how much land wealth my x*grandfather had compared to my parents
- empath75 8y agoProbably would have been forced to sell it due to rising property taxes.