Buzz'n Out: What Bees and Black Folks in Atlanta Have in Common

Did you know bees have thousands of babies daily, and 3,000 year old snacks? After some "B"izarre facts, this episode of IDKMYDE dives into what's happening in Atlanta--and why some say the Black Mecca is losing its people by design.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
What's happen to know it alls? Welcome to another episode.
If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. Big shouts
to the Black Effect Podcast Network and our Heart Radio.
I appreciate y'all for allowing me to educate. We together,
make sure you hit us on our social media. Man,
I DK myde with an underscore before it and at

(00:23):
the end of it you did what I'm saying. And
we kick off every episode with three of the most
useless facts you'll never need ever a day in life.
And to kick it off, did you know that May
was National be Month? And since I am b DOT,
that means I get to celebrate along with my brothers
and sisters of the Bee family.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And to celebrate my siblings because.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I am the king b I've got three of the
most useless facts you'll never need not a day in life.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
About bees? Number one, did you know.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That the queen bee can lay up to twenty thousand
as eggs per day? And that's one strong bee because
she don't even take maternity leave. Your second useless fact,
honey bees? Did you know they flap their wings over
two hundred times per second. That's what make that high
pitched b noise two hundred times a second. I think

(01:18):
that might be faster than the nouns and the verbs.
The twist are put together in a freestyle. And your
final useless fact, honey is the only food made by
an insect and eaten by humans that never spoils. They
found honey in ancient tombs and somebody tasted it to
let you know that it's still good. I bet that

(01:38):
honey in Jesus' tomb slapped. Those have been your three
useless facts. The clean bee can lay up the two
thousand eggs a day, honey bees flap their wings over
two hundred times per second. And honey is the only
food that's made by an insect eaten by humans that
never ever spoils.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
But speaking of being pushed out of.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Your hive, let's talk about what's happening to black folks
in Atlanta. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I didn't no.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Atlanta, the black mecca.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
We call it Wakanda, the city where black excellence isn't
the exception, it's the expectation. But what if I told
you that that same city the one with more house.
Spelman and mlk's childhood home is now the number one
city in America for displacing black residents. Yeah, kicking black

(02:39):
folks up out of there. According to the National Community
Reinvestment Coalition, that's the NCRC, no city in the United
States has pushed out more black folks due to gentrification
than Atlanta. Between twenty thirteen and twenty twenty three, over
twenty thousand black folks were forced out of their neighborhoods,
not because they didn't love the city, but because of

(03:00):
rising property values, higher taxes, and they had redevelopment projects
that prioritize new, wealthier, often white, transplants. It's like a
quiet exodus happening in loud, familiar patterns. They call it revitalization,
but a lot of us see if for exactly what
the hell it is displacement by design.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now let's pause for a second.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Let's put some history on this, because you know, the
podcast in February speaks specifically to black history, and we've
actually did an episode about the Atlanta race Riot of
nineteen oh six, white mobs attacking black communities and burning
them down because they thought black folks was out here
prospering and thriving, and we were. In the mid nineteen hundreds,
the federal government carved out highways straight through black neighborhoods

(03:43):
like Sweet Auburn. Do your history on I seventy five
and I eighty five, That might be next episode. They
used them highways to cut black communities in half during
Jim Crow Red Line and made sure that black families
couldn't get loans through by homes in nice neighborhoods, literally
drawing red lines around us. Now fast forward to twenty
twenty five, you got tech companies moving in property value skyrocketing,

(04:06):
people getting priced out of the very neighborhoods we built.
It's the same outcome, different uniform instead of red lines,
is rezoning instead of mobs. It's city council meetings instead
of burning crosses. It's for sale signs and cash offers
above asking price. Y'all, look, gentrification is not just some
multi syllable word about coffee shops and condos. It's literally

(04:30):
about the erasure of culture, history, identity, block by block.
And here's the kicker, the culture that they market to
attract new residents. It's our culture, the music, the art,
the food, the swag, but the people gone. So I
ask you this, If you design a city where only

(04:51):
the wealthy can live, and you know wealth is racially concentrated,
how is that not just a modern day version of
segre gation. And this ain't just about Atlanta. It's happening
in DC, in Brooklyn, in Oakland, right here in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
My brother Drank is he a comedian.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
He said, they didn't give the West Side a BBL,
just upgrading everything, but by doing so, they're also displacing
the people that built those areas. And if I'm being
quite honest, it hurts differently when it's Atlanta, because if
the Black Mecca ain't safe, where is I didn't know
that Atlanta led the nation in black displacement.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Maybe you didn't either,