#73 Gentrification
February 22, 2008 by clander
In general, white people love situations where they can’t lose. While this does account for the majority of their situations, perhaps the safest bet a white person can make is to buy a house in an up-and-coming neighborhood.
White people like to live in these neighborhoods because they get credibility and respect from other white people for living in a more “authentic” neighborhood where they are exposed to “true culture” every day. So whenever their friends mention their home in the suburbs or richer urban area, these people can say “oh, it’s so boring out there, so fake. In our neighborhood, things are just more real.” This superiority is important as white people jockey for position in their circle of friends.
They are like a modern day Lewis and Clark, except instead of searching for the ocean, they are searching for old properties to renovate.
In a few years, if more white people start moving in, these initial trailblazers will sell their property for triple what they paid and move into an ultramodern home.
Credibility or money, they can’t lose!
When one of these white people tell you where they live, you should say “whoa, it’s pretty rough down there. I don’t think I could live there.” This will make them feel even better about their credibility and status as neighborhood pioneers.
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Speaking of Modern “Art”:
It was actually invented to rob people of their money so the peddlers of modern art would then purchase actual pieces of art from classical artist. A square with lines, random assortments of colors, and a figurine of Lord and Savior inside a jar of bodily fluids (I kid you not) are not art. Sometimes they are downright offensive such as what I mentioned.
Jay, many people enjoy modern art. It has to do with understanding symbolic language and colour theory. That’s why it’s often referred to as the artist’s art. Piss Christ was a message misinterpreted, from what I just read in your two posts you and Serrano have a lot in common on the basis of strong Christian ideals.
Why not just build new neighborhoods out west for the displaced poor people can live in? Many of the Latino inhabitents are illegal so they can and should be deported, if they are loyal to their home countries (to the point of having Spanish spoken in certain AMERICAN schools) why not just stay in those countries? Of course the legal ones should stay if they want provided they are loyal to our country and culture.
Gentrification has it’s good parts however: To get rid of ugly graffiti, reduce crime, make the cities more beautiful, add needed tax revenue, bring real culture (the greatest musicians and philosophers lived 300 years ago such as Bach and Vivaldi, at best we can just replay what they have written. How far the world has sunk when people listen to the so-called “music” of criminal ghetto residents utilizing vulgar lyrics, extremely heavy bass, and limited scales in their primitive noise they call “music” The downfall started with the invention of Rock which is also limited scale, immoral, and sings about drugs and sex) bring literacy back into the public lexicon (i.e.: No more double negatives or uneducated parlance such as “Pimping” “Peeps” and “Crib”)and perpetuate Christian values and culture that the Founding Fathers dreamed about.
I see no problem whatsoever with building new neighborhoods entirely for the new poor, and those poor could be given jobs at a nearby (clean, green) factory and work at the police force. The higher classes have already built new suburban towns for themselves, which I agree with as it insulates them from the kitsch pop-”Cultures” and crime.
You’re dumb.
In San Diego we lost millions by trying to turn an area east of downtown into a hipster neighborhood for white folks. We built a ball park and hundreds of apartment complexes that no one wants to rent. Now the city is broke and the people who lived in the area before the white tidal wave have no where to live.
so they move to Tijuana. I know a handful of white folk that moved there.
Its because San Diego is full of idiots. Don’t they know that white people don’t like sports and take pride in being the ones that “discover” a place. So your city deserves to be broke, plus I didn’t know there were white people in San Diego.
Right…on the beachside neighborhoods, that is. Anywhere south of Chicano park in the barrio known as Logan Heights hardly has white people. Most of the middle-class whites moved northward to Poway, Escondido, Carlsbad and the Inland Empire such as Temecula, Murrieta and Elsinore. +
Actually, I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about. I just like to see myself say stupid shit and pat myself on the back for it. +
I’m such an asshole.+
I applaud you for this.
In my experience in Chicago the newly gentrified neighborhoods usually follow this path:
1)Completely non-white
2)Poor white people move in, usually artistic type people
3)As their numbers rise the neighborhood starts to show it
4)When upper class white people start to notice they start showing up
5)This gentrification then forces out not only the non-white people that were there first, but the poor white people who started it all because all rents in the area skyrocket.
6)The neighborhood then lives on for awhile until all of the real reasons is was popular in the first place die out and it then becomes a piece of **** covered in glitter with a bunch of phonies and posers trying to “keep it alive”.
Thats pretty much the story of New York. Hardly any Ethnic neighbourhoods still exist within a 30 minute commute of manhattan. F*ckin hipsters and wack ass yuppies come through and drive out working class people.
@jobo; In MY experience ( being black, born/raised/ on the SOUTH SIDE of chicago ) u got it half way right pal. Those “poor” whites that u call the “artistic” type usually aren’t that poor.Hell, there aren’t any “poor” whites that reisde/live in the city,middle class but defintely not lower class whites. If so, show me a neighborhood in the city where poor whites live? They just appear 2 be lol, cause thats what their “lifestyle” promote ( I.e shopping at thrift stores, buying used jazz records, etc). Anyway, the perfect example of gentrification couldn’t be described more eloquently than the Robert taylor homes ( where I was Born by the way ). If you’ve been in chicago for 5 plus years, u know what i’m talking about ( or maybe u dont). Or the Cabrini Greens! Just 5 yrs ago those ares where litered with high rises/poor blacks. the last 50 yrs, those (projects) was pretty much the residence for the avg blacks and whites lived in places like Naperville, or Wheaton, or whatever suburb. Now, fast foward, whites want those areas ( metropolitan area) back! More convient for their lifestyle. Meanwhile, those same people who where displaced, are set up in the suburbs where whites once lived. i call it the NEW ethnic cleansing of America.
I concur. The poor whites typically do not live in urban areas. They live in the suburbs or in rural areas. The young hipsters that come to gentrify a place are only poor in the sense of young middle class people starting out are poor.
You can bet in many cases their mommies or daddies are helping them foot the bill. How do I know? This is the case of many young, white friends I have living in gentrified areas. I am like them, except black.
I live in the city, but not the heart, in a house dab smack in the middle of a poorer area being gentrified.
That’s retarded. Ethnic cleansing has to do with systematically exterminating an unpopular minority. This is more about people living wherever they darn well please. If a bunch of white folks like your neighborhood and move in and make it nicer, great, they’ve made it nicer. If you can’t afford to live there anymore, you have to move. Again, what’s the problem? Mobility is a fact of human existence and should be fostered, encouraged, not lambasted for being racist. That’s completely retarded.
The shoving around of poor people should be fostered?
I could get with what you’re saying only if it actually benefited people other than the rich. But the fact that ONLY rich people benefit from it, and the fact that most of those rich people are Whites, just shows how corrupt it is.
Its like, you wouldn’t invest, build a library or a new school here 20 years ago when the hood was all Latino and Black, but now you wanna build fuckin skyscrapers for White folk? Fuck you.
if you’re poor, it’s your own fault. where do you get the idea that someone else is supposed to build anything for you?
People can be poor for reasons that aren’t their fault, just as the opposite is true. So if you don’t know somebody’s circumstances it’s easy to say “it’s your own fault!”
I know I was poor. I had the misfortune of being born to teenaged parents and growing up in the inner city. Yes I got out, but I had a support system and grew up in an environment that was more nurturing. Not everyone is as lucky.
Be grateful for the privileges you have enjoyed and realize that but for the grace of God go thee…just sayin’
I was liking the idea of gentrification at first, to make ones neighborhood safer, cleaner, useful and has more stuff. But all I know is renters drive up cost of apartment or housing, and drive out the non-affluent out, may end up homeless in many cases. Good people do live in bad neighborhoods, but they need the money, ability and will power to repair their troubled decrepit communities by themselves.+
Someone is bitter? Yes, the poor artistic types with degrees from Amherst and Williams. innocently drawn to these neighborhoods for their cheap abandon warehouses and boarded up storefronts. Their galleries, restaurants, music venues and bars are just gifts to their new cracked out neighbors.
Totally agreed.
exactly. PREACH!
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