After years of neglect, The Bottom in east Oak Cliff is blooming | Opinion
Pastor Vincent Parker talks to volunteers at a tree-planting event outside Golden Gate Missionary Baptist Church on May 21, 2022.Pastor Vincent Parker gathered a group of volunteers on a recent Saturday outside his church in The Bottom, a historically Black neighborhood just south of the Trinity River in east Oak Cliff. They were in sunny spirits even as an overcast sky threatened rain.
“For me, it’s a step of faith,” Parker said before launching into prayer. “I’m not going to get to see the benefit of all the shade that these trees will provide. This is a statement of our faith in our community and the work that is yet to come. Maybe my grandchildren will get to lay under the tree with all the shade.”
Cynthia Mitchell, 50, who will move into one of those homes, showed up for the tree-planting event and neighborhood cleanup. Mitchell, a call-taker for AT&T, lives in South Dallas with a roommate and is eager to move into her own home. She successfully applied for one of the first Golden S.E.E.D.S. houses after persistently calling the nonprofit to ensure the staff had received her paperwork.
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