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| Why I decided to move to a black neighborhood |
| 2016-07-23 |
| A millennial separatist's sad story about the evils of gentrification and the difficulty of finding an urban slave cabin. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 I once roomed close to work and bicycled in every day. The room was cheap and had become available because the prior tenant died from a gunshot. Neighbors were friendly and would cruise by and chat while I was out for my evening run. When the days became shorter I switched to running in the mornings because after dark the animals would come out and throw empty cans of Colt 45 malt as they cruised by. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-07-23 11:03 |
| #7 Just another lefty academic, hypocrite, progressive. Posted by AlanC Not too difficult to unscramble. Law, medicine, engineering, computer science.....no. She's going with the indoctrination. She's going with what she knows. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-23 09:49 |
| #6 We discovered that gentrification is many things and moving parts, but it essentially boils down to white wealth pushing out black and brown residents from neighborhoods that had once been undesirable – because they were composed of black and brown residents. no, it was because of the undesirable class and culture of the people, whether white, brown, black or green |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-07-23 09:46 |
| #5 The comments to the article are interesting. The consensus seems to be that the author is what she rails about. She is a striving middle class twit who is gentrifying a lower class black area cause she wants "authentic" culture. Just another lefty academic, hypocrite, progressive. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-07-23 09:44 |
| #4 When I was in school, a group of us rented an old house in a mostly black neighborhood. Our next door neighbors on the one side were older Black Republicans (surname of 'White' - seriously). The house on the other side was occupied by young Black radicals with one or two serious Black Panther types. We got along quite well with both. We helped the 'White' family shovel in the winter and mow in the summer. We co-hosted block parties with the radicals. Everyone up and down the street were good neighbors, except the radicals kept 'borrowing' all of our beer. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-07-23 08:59 |
| #3 The unspoken, key takeaway is the obvious failure of multiculturalism. Failure in this case, due to the author's tribalist longings, rejection of capitalism and economic progress. Or am I reaching too far ? Reaching further, more evidence of multi-cult frustrations can be found in yesterday's Munich shooting by a reported unnamed, German-Iranian 'duel citizen.' Did I mention the shooter remains unnamed? Not for nothing I might add. The mixing, or 'lion and lamb' liberal utopia will, by design, not happen on this earth. Possibly the next, but not the kingdom of man, I can assure you of that. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-23 02:48 |
| #2 read a little bit, got this far... "a friend I’d met while working as a receptionist at the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard" TL:TS:DR |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2016-07-23 02:34 |
| #1 Given the murder rate in black neighborhoods - is this woman crazy? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-23 02:24 |