richardmurray

as a harlemite, whose bloodline has been in harlem long before I was born, I admit, I wish, black people will stop. HArlem isn't a black community anymore. Yes, Black people live here, but this community is mixed and going to white. it isn't black and I think people in media, black people in media, like to do what to many of the remaining black people in harlem like to do, and that is hang on to a former time... and in historical defense, harlem has been many things, before it was a black community, it was a white one, the white community version of harlem had four versions. Originally it was the defensive fort for manhattan. One of the last battles of the secessionary war, called the revolutionary war was in harlem. Then it became farmland, as a subset for the Bronx, which was the main granary of the city, owned by the brunkz family. then it became urbanized for the top rich ala the polo grounds or some of the homes in harlem's structure or appearance and then it was for the european immigrant in particular italians and jews of europe. And, before it was white, it was part of the lenape people's cyclic living where they found rare herbs on the island of manhattan. So, I am not bitter that harlem is not black today, but it isn't and I find the need for black people in media, as meagan good does in the article to evangelize a former community is... dysfunctional. ... to that end, I hope the show does well. Love the cast, pretty black women all, great supporting cast. Hope the stories speak well to black women in particular.

IN AMENDMENT

Yes, HArlem still has sexy black women walking around. What people have to comprehend about Harlem is its black populace at one time was the full length of black financial existence. Black people with money , more than most black people will know have lived in harlem. Louis Armstrong or Jackie Robinson or Sugar Ray Robinson lived in Harlem. So, Harlem has always been a home to the Black Statian financial one percent and for them HArlem has been unchanged, cause they weren't the ones kicked out. 

IN AMENDMENT 2

The executive producers are Pharell Williams and AMy Poehler, Pharell williams is from the south. His idea of HArlem is not a Harlemite's idea. And AMy Poehler is white and probably has a vision of harlem from the fiscally well to do from a black perspective blacks that historically hang around whites more. And meagan good is from L.A. and her father was a cop. what do any of these people know about Harlem? 

Ah well, what the hell.

I am willing to say I rather they chose PArk WIndsor Hills in Los Angeles? why not?  

Meagan Good and the Cast of am*zon Prime Video's New Series 'Harlem' Pay Homage to the Historic Black Community (blackenterprise.com)