Y’all need to stop with this “it’s not our fault” shit right now. I know you need to assuage your white guilt by any means but you really look dumb af agreeing with this. Do you know why the cost of living in those areas is cheap pre-gentrification? Because poc, esp black people, live there. Majority poc neighbors have a low market value by virtue of being majority poc therefore making the area “undesirable.” The “hipsters and dangly-earring gays,” ie white people, drive up the market value/prices just by moving there. Landlords and developers then push up the prices bc even the poorest white person has more money than the poorest poc.
But none of that even matters to the conversation that poc are having when we’re talking about gentrification. Being pushed out of our neighborhoods is the last step. What comes first is when the first wave of white people move in they bring their racism with them. They don’t try to adapt and assimilate to the established community; they expect the poc community to bend to their standards. They use the threat of police violence to achieve this. And by the time poc are priced out of our neighborhoods, we’ve been so alienated from them by white people; they don’t even feel like ours anymore.
So, no white people, you don’t get to wash your hands of your part of gentrification. Sorry.
dailybridgerton
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romaincrisis
titsay
yousharknotpass
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