one of us, either you or me, needs to check their definition of gentrification. The way i understood gentrification was that a neighborhood lost all identity, that it was swallowed up in a sea of duane reads, dunkin donuts and KFCs. This change is commercial scenery was due to the fact that the upper classes (mainly the trust funs hipsters you spoke of) were moving in. My problem with your piece comes from the race part of it. I'll readily admit that the majority of the upper class and the guilty college liberals are white. BUT i am a little concerned. Adam you seem to have this...jealousy of people with money (understandable) that got rerouted into anger and near hatred for white people. It has always been my belief that in order to overcome racial divides, people need to become blind to the colors and see only the culture of any given person. So when I see one of my closest and supposedly liberal minded friends talking about their desire to be around only brown people, it begs for further explanation
When I visited NYC for the first time in five years, I took MANY pictures of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg so that I could compare them with my childhood pictures when I got back to Texas. Neither neighborhood looks the same.
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My problem with your piece comes from the race part of it. I'll readily admit that the majority of the upper class and the guilty college liberals are white. BUT i am a little concerned. Adam you seem to have this...jealousy of people with money (understandable) that got rerouted into anger and near hatred for white people.
It has always been my belief that in order to overcome racial divides, people need to become blind to the colors and see only the culture of any given person. So when I see one of my closest and supposedly liberal minded friends talking about their desire to be around only brown people, it begs for further explanation
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