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Not only are you making a lot of assumptions here, you have a woeful ignorance of Chicago neighborhoods but throw out names of neighborhoods like you're an expe
by goat_whisperer 2y ago
Not only are you making a lot of assumptions here, you have a woeful ignorance of Chicago neighborhoods but throw out names of neighborhoods like you're an expert (perhaps obtained from listening to Drill records or something).
Also, Beverly is one of the most integrated neighborhoods in Chicago, and it isn't even majority Black, so not sure why you even mention it. It also isn't 'adjacent' to Bronzeville unless you ignore all of the neighborhoods between them.
- pc86 2y agoMost people who complain about gentrification have no idea what they're talking about, why should this comment be any different?
- notinchicago 2y ago[flagged]
- tptacek 2y agoI grew up in Beverly. It's an Irish Catholic enclave. "Integrated" is not a word I would choose for it. You're right to call out that previous commenter doesn't seem to know anything about Chicago neighborhoods; how else could you claim someone was "gentrifying" Beverly? But I wouldn't call out Beverly as a bastion of racial equity. My Black friends couldn't walk with me down the street after dark, in the 1990s, without us getting fucked with by passing cars. I doubt it's that much better now. "Bronzeville-adjacent" is a very funny way of describing it; like saying Tacoma is Capitol Hill-adjacent.