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’

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.

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.

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.

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.