The “Caucasian Invasion?” It’s kinda cute, but it’s also kinda disturbing. Sorta paints the presence of white people as a problem in itself. I can only imagine a similar poster in another neighborhood reading “The Coming Darkness” and some requisite picture of POC. Indeed, during the high tide of blockbusting and white flight, the entry of blacks into neighborhoods was other cast as an “invasion.” Often still is. I don’t think this is a good thing, regardless of which direction it operates in.

Funny, because it’s true. White people should stay in the suburbs where they belong, or should have to pass a coolness test to move to places like Brooklyn. Seriously though, what an ignorant view of gentrification.

Gentrification is not an event, it is a process that starts years, even decades before the “invasion”. Can we take a look at the events that makes gentrification possible. Most people effected negatively from gentrification believe there is a conspiracy involved to allow communities to become neglected and experience property value depreciation.

Gentrification is no different from any other market, or idea other than it has longer lasting effect as it effects the home, and the architecture of a given community. Think fashion, music, etc. The concept remains the same— some people make decisions based on need, then lifestyle, (ie the poor, then artists), and others will see that lifestyle they create, and want to get a piece of, and at a better deal. The latter falls into want, and they then go on to push the very thing they wanted in the first place, we could call it “authenticity,” but without any real sacrifice to actually own it. La Boheme all over. Artists usually lead the way in the gentrification of a lower income neighborhood.

Poor people will always get screwed until society as a whole behaves more respectfully towards each other and realize it’s in everyone’s best interest to do so.

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“unaffordable grocers” is so cool and shines the light on the marketing gimmicks like truly captures how some people have exploited the unsuspecting public by the use of labels like “locally or home grown “, “organic” and other politically correct or catch phrases to charge exorbitant prices for the everyday products they sell.
” boneless wholechicken ” may be a good metaphor for the people who fall for these gimmicks.

Strange this publish is totaly unrelated to what I was looking out google for, but it was listed at the first page. I suppose your doing something right if Google likes you sufficient to put you at the first web page of a non comparable search.