The following observation was recently offered by TS, my friend and colleague: "I think some White people will try to take (destroyed) land from Black homeowners (in hurricane-impacted areas). That's one reason why evacuation is such a double edged sword. People need to leave for safety 's sake but when reconstruction begins, will they still own their land?"

This one gave me pause and energized reflection on an old community security concern.

"Predatory Gentrification" is my nickname for displacing Black inner city residents via sweet heart deals with White contractors and the misuse of eminent domain by local governments.

Like a giant broom these measures force lower income African-Americans out to allow upper income Whites in - all in the name of "revitalization" and "urban pioneering."

I first heard the "urban pioneering" term after I'd given a security presentation to a Savannah College of Art and Design graduate school class.

Visions of brave White settlers beating back hordes of wild-eyed Negroes came to mind but I kept this to myself.

The students were genuinely nice young people and there was no need to step on toes after such a good exchange of ideas and information.

Black people are being displaced in America's cities in the name of progress. Ironically, in Savannah, Georgia where this article is being written, sections of town where Jim Crow had labeled as "Black-Only" now experience a steady stream of White, Asian and Latino newcomers.

As a lifelong inner city resident, I am concerned by this changing demographic because when White people come to the neighborhood, it often isn't too long before their darker predecessors are subjected to enough local government attention to warrant voluntary relocation.

City inspectors will appear for every real or imagined infraction of municipal code and the police (the White community's bouncers) will be summoned whenever a new neighbor finds himself on the losing side of an argument with one of the indigenous residents.

Posit this against the staggering span of damage endured by Black homeowners in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and it would behoove the Congressional Black Caucus and their state counterparts to take measures to preempt any land grabs.

The same advance action should be taken by the NAACP, Urban League, SCLC and every other civil rights organization.

Crisis presents opportunity - the opportunity to give and, as TS and others observe, the opportunity to take - even the land from the water logged grasp of Black hurricane victims.