Pattillo refers to the benefits NKO received as a result of its proximity to Bronzeville, a predominantly African-American community that thrived as a black mecca in the 1950s and 1960s with numerous black businesses, which served from a safe haven for black life in Chicago. NKO was such a wonderful place that even the late blues legend Muddy Waters called it home demonstrating its charm. Unfortunately, when Dr. Pattillo shifts gears and provides context to NKO's decline, she mentions the construction of the Olander Housing Projects, overcrowding due to subsidized housing along with increased crime, drugs, and rising poverty levels. . While his research is fact-based, he does not mention the lack of intermediaries across the black middle class to serve as conduits to prevent NKO's unfortunate fate. She instead indirectly criminalizes and places blame on a number of variables, particularly the residents of the projects, without mentioning the emerging black middle class who do not use their power to evoke change in their respected