By Any Means Necessary Volume 1: Issue 4

others out of neighborhoods. The settlers are moving in backed up by the city police forces and demanding that the Black and other people who live there change decades, and sometimes centuries, of tradition and culture. They are demanding and receiving resources that poor and working Black people have begged for years but did not get. They are creating enclaves of white culture and safety inside traditionally Black neighborhoods and aggressively moving to force Black people out of these areas by buying land for pennies on the dollar and then raising the value of property making it impossible for working and poor people to remain in the neighborhoods. This is the same settler colonial tactic used in Israel against the Palestinian people. It is being used still in South Africa and Puerto Rico. It is being done in Atlanta, and Houston, and Los Angeles and wherever traditionally stable communities of Black people have existed. Gentrification is settler colonialism and is grounded in white nationalism and neoliberal capitalism. Our current struggle for self-determination and Black Power is a struggle against settler colonialism. This is simply an extension of our 400-year fight against our colonization by the white nationalist United States of America.