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While I agree that race should have nothing to do with it, culturally it's much more acceptable to talk about white gentrification then gentrification by any ot
by debt 13y ago
While I agree that race should have nothing to do with it, culturally it's much more acceptable to talk about white gentrification then gentrification by any other race. Also, in this case I'm not interesting removing the white designator because it really is predominantly white males.
Also the gentrification happening in the Mission is very much a race thing. "Keep the Mission brown" is a slogan used by many in this neighborhood. I'm assuming it's not new and it's also racist. So I don't really know where to draw the line. I am a white "techie" male gentrifying a "brown" neighborhood; at least that's how those who live in the Mission see me. And, to be honest, that's what is going on all over San Francisco so I can't really disagree with their assessment.
It's a fascinating and complicated and very sad situation for everyone involved.
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- 001sky 13y agowouldn't mention a thing about race SF Mission is/was an ethnic neighborhood that happen(ed) to be working class, more than than the other way around. There were many poor-er areas in sf, but you went to the mission for colour, sun, ethnic food, and the fact that nobody was snobby or annoying. It used to be a great place to throw house parties...as long as you weren't violent or setting shit on fire...nobody would ever blink/complain...etc.
- walshemj 13y agoThen how come all the pics I have seen of the buss/gentrification >90% protesters have been young whites?
- a3n 13y agoProbably because they are predominately young whites, but always remember that the picture you see is the photographer's choice (by taking it or not) and the editor's choice by running the one he did and not the ones he didn't. Every picture tells a story, but not necessarily the only one.
- walshemj 13y agoTrue enough but this has happened more than once