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Dear David…you’ve placed a stadium in historic Overtown, and you seem not to have any awareness of the historic black experience that is Overtown, the horror of Overtown’s dismantlement and importantly you have no black Director on staff to tell you the difference…

How do you plan to connect the Miami soccer project to people who live right where the stadium will be, in a community with a HISTORY of white exploitation of the community to the detriment of its residents, without a leader of color to help?

Is this on your agenda? I ask because you seem to be surrounded by business people / folks of Latino/Hispanic descent, and that’s all well and good, but the physical presence of the club will be in a historically harmed black community. Where’s your black leadership?

Overtown, Miami prior to its decimation by “urban renewal,” a new highway in I-95 and a region that didn’t care about black success or black community.

I worked in world football and know that leaders who are African-American who know the sport and have worked in communities like Overtown seem rare, but as someone who is exactly of that background, not as rare as you might think…please get one of us to help!

Want to see your project in Overtown work for you and everyone else…good luck going forward.

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An overview of Overtown, Miami, and the harms that have been done to it. Reach out to David Beckham on his Twitter feed to ask him to answer the above questions, with a particular focus on his answer to ensuring no further harm to Overtown with any new stadium/soccer project. Send me any responses you get and I’ll update this post accordingly.