Someone told me I only blog until I find out the answer to my question then I stop writing! Well I guess I’m coming back to find the answers to more questions. Yes, I’ve changed and so have you so let’s start it up again at the new level of understanding that we now have.

So I don’t know when I will activate The Press but as of today it’s on the schedule!

Let’s go! I really enjoyed my trip to Atlanta and actually it was more than I could imagine. Now my trip was about 5 days but I had 3 full days and I went everywhere people told me to go and some places where people told me not to. I stayed in Buckhead near Lenox Mall and I’m glad I did because I needed to be a bit away but a close drive in instead of being in the middle of it, afterall I am a Kali kid and we don’t stay on the street where shit is poppin we like to drive. I was probably happiest because I like being around Black people and being in Atlanta during the weekdays you get to see everyone working and that’s when you get to see the sheer amount of upwardly mobile folk on Peachtree.  I went to every mall you can think about, went to happy hour everyday I was there, went to the W hotel downtown and midtown, went to LA fitness and worked out, got some ghetto hotwings both off of Cascade Rd and on the backside of Stonescrest mall in Lithonia, ate some Crystal Burgers, was disappointed with Chick-Fil-A and didn’t mind the thunderstorms and rain it wasn’t that bad. So for the fluff part of my trip Atlanta it’s a great place to go and even live. Affordable and the crime that went down the week I was there was some ol bullshit robbery shit in Midtown.

Now I have to admit to you when I created the plan I was thinking pure topography just looking at the lay of the land thinking this shit should happen. Now that I have been there and walked around the city it’s even further along than I thought to bring my plan into being. Just on the other side of downtown as you get towards the Underground there is plenty of opportunity to start a whole other side of Atlanta on the Southside. The city doesn’t look like they are trying to help those folk on that side out at all, you want to see Neglect keep taking peachtree through downtown and to the otherside.  The folk out there didn’t seem violent as much as the bad side seemed to be poor and that’s a helluva difference than being violent. Maybe it’s the Compton in me but I didn’t feel too much fear of my surroundings even on the so called bad side of town. The infrastructure of the Southside to the Airport is actually very affordable, the fucking Marta stations are there to provide access, the cargo areas near the airport are set up, and for me all the people in Customs were black as I walked in and talked to them.  If you have never been to the South you would think it’s country but I have been around a bit and it wasn’t anything different from what I’ve seen in Norfolk, Tallahassee, Houston, or even Miami to tell you the truth.

So will the plan work? Hell Yes I even added some new ideas on to the plan after spending the majority of my morning crawling through a lot of streets on the southside and even sometimes in Decatur. My boy who is from my neighborhood has a nice house out in Lithonia confirmed all the shit I was thinking about. He told me compared to the violence we grew up with this is a vacation. He said you see all the brothers and sisters doing stuff and it kind of inspires you to get out there and hustle. He and I were laughing because he didn’t come up with a hustle yet and he said he kind of feels embarrassed that he doesn’t have one. He is a Kappa so he told me where all his frat brothers and young people lived around Midtown up to Buckhead. We did a lot of crawling through bad areas getting out actually touching the dirt to get the feel of the folk. He bottom lined me and said cats out here just are ignorant and he said their education is lacking down here as he volunteers at one of the High Schools off MLK by Morris Brown. He just looked at me and asked me when I was moving here and I told him Money First – Life Second but I told him I would definitely be down there more because I actually just like Atlanta.

Sorry back to the plan!

1. Step 1 of the plan of a chicken place would work and Atlanta cats love some Chicken Shack hot wing shit. That’s the angle that will work on all sides of the A as I saw trailers in the middle of nowhere with lines of cats for hotwings.
2. Step 2 – strategic jobs is unnecessary because alot of folk already have those jobs so that part of the plan can be skipped.
3. Step3 – Radio & TV will fucking work there are a lot of black people on the news and hosting the shit already but since Atlanta is kind of by itself that TV station and radio station can be what KDAY was to LA back in the day kind of the real station for the people. You can go back to some Don Cheadle Talk to me movie stuff in Atlanta because the folk seem to be proud of the city so make something to be proud of.
4. Step 4 – Black Banks can happen because you have SunTrust, B of A, and Chase with SunTrust seeming to be the most dominant. There are so many black suburbs and the lay of the land is so spread out you can easily make a community bank without actually making people come to it for black purposes. Also, the Southside is fucking wide open, when I say they didn’t do anything down there they seem like they make motherfuckers walk further for the bus.
5. Step 5 – Boarding Schools – I think the city will fucking give you money to remove the eye sore of what’s going on the soutside. Shit you wouldn’t have to move the school that far out the city as there is plenty of land and truth be told the schools could probably be built in the community. The drug shit is heavy but it’s easily avoidable because of how much land is just laying barron.
6. Step 6 – Distribution Logistics – Like I thought the southside even from the downtown area has the most old factories as that must’ve been the industrial side of the city. From the Airport Cargo area to the train tracks to I-20 running through that side of town it’s prime land to set up shop. Plus did I say the land is cheap!
7. Step 7 – Farming and LiveStock – I went down MLK out towards that Cascade skate rink that you see on ATL and kept going. There is so much land surrounding Atlanta man you can cut the cows throat and still hear him mooo on how fresh food can be in Atlanta. I was shocked coming from LA to see so much land with nothing on it just like 10 miles outside of town. They built a lot of houses but they haven’t destroyed all the land.
8. Step 8 – Healthcare Clinics – Look I’m so positive that this would work on the Southside of Atlanta because cats were literally walking miles to get to the fucking Krogers that you could set up a whole strip mall and make a killing. Like I said it’s spread out but there are black folk behind them trees and they need all kinds of services.

When I thought of my plan I thought shit Atlanta is big and it’s going to be a big fucking feat. Now that I have been there I’ll tell you that about half the city is doing just fucking fine. The educated folk are doing good for theirselves and I don’t think they need anything as they figured this shit out. The real opportunity for the plan to work will be with the Southside of Atlanta from downtown to the airport. A lot of that area is prime area with the right folk to help. Literally Atlanta provides a opportunity to create a Black owned part of the city. The rich areas look exactly like the poor I mean the same basic footprint. Anyone with a organized plan could easily go in and make that side of Atlanta better. Now of course it will cost a lot of money but I mean a directed focus by someone could make a hell of a difference and really control that part of Atlanta. I keep shaking my head back and forth thinking what they got nuclear waste on the Southside or something. That part reminds me so much of being in Compton when I was a kid that I know what a little bit of money can do. Real Talk you could probably create  another bus service on that side of town taking people to the Marta or anywhere because I saw a lot of cats walking.

Solution: I know some of you think this Kali motherfucker is Naive wait til he gets here and see the real Atlanta. Well you might be right but in order for growth to happen you need cats who only see what they can do instead of getting caught up in why they can’t. I was actually excited and encouraged when I left Atlanta. I was kind of in a state of shock because it was so much further along than I imagined. Atlanta has the chance to be the greatest city for Black people to live period in the United States. The housing is affordable, black people are upwardly mobile, black people are on TV, we own restaurants that don’t look like shit, we got money to front, we dress nice and have some class and the biggest thing is we are everywhere. I flew home early sunday morning only thinking to myself how can I get that snack company or chicken place started. Oh yeah I didn’t drive to Savannah I got caught up crawling Atlanta but it was only the cargo area so it wasn’t the main focus.

Look I know this plan seems far fetched because you already doubt that people will help. But, I never said I planned to ask any motherfuckers for help in the first place. I ain’t the Civil Rights kind of guy and I’d much rather we take over than march hand in hand.. There are enough customers aka middle class Black people to buy the product to fund me going out there on some straight businessman shit. There is a whole neglected area that is prime land to grow and anything I do on that side will help black folk because that’s all that is there. Since I ain’t from there all I see is opportunity and cheap land. I ain’t trying to bring LA with me (but I didn’t see too many taco places) but I am bringing the LA hustle with me. What a opportunity to actually build it instead of just hoping to be part of it!  My mission with putting this plan out is for us to see how if we focused on one area instead of being all over the place we can make a place for ourselves where we own everything. Atlanta is that place! I see it and I’m going to build it because I know most people are followers and they will notice things way after the leader has capitalized on it.

So when you see me I won’t be hard to find I’ll be the cat wearing the A from the Angels hat, I ain’t from the A but I can be part of the AA to build it for All of us!

Extra: If you haven’t been through Atlanta its worth the trip. I mean I don’t like that I didn’t see a beach but it’s worth buying a house there and living there. For all the black business people this place is still wide open especially all of us who come from the bottom because I see the opportunity on the poor side. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at the black makeup of the city. Sure there are some ignorant folk but where isn’t it some ignorant folks. For all of you with money on the sidelines you have a chance to go to Atlanta and be a big fish in a small pond with a lot of room to grow.  The infrastructure is there to build legacy businesses not just a franchise. Take a trip for yourself and I’ll see you at the top!