lightspeedsound:

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2:

I have a question for ya’ll.. I felt that gentrification is when the property values of a neighborhood or community are driven up because white people decided to move there. Basically just by being white and living in the neighborhood the property levels go up. However my partner says that race is not automatically involved and has nothing to with it. It’s people who are rich coming in and gentrifying it and that white people gradually moving into minority communities alone will not make property values go up.

K, so like, here’s the thing

Imagine you have like this pool, right. Like a tiny tiny fucking swimming pool. It’s sort of small but like whatever, you grew up playing in it, and like your buddies all play with you and shit, right? Like whatever, it may be small and sort of cheap and whatever, but like, it’s a pool. You’re six and it’s the fucking shit.

But then like one day you got like these big-ass bully kids showing up who are like a couple years older and already going through puberty whereas you and your buddies are still short as fuck and a little chubby. So like immediately these big-ass bully kids, they start like shoving you around like “FUCKING MAKE ROOM FOR US, FARTFACES!” or whatever bully kids say nowadays, I’m not really sure because I’m old and a bit out of touch, whatever, let’s move on.

And anyways like it’s only like two of them right but they’re already like doing SHIT TO YOUR POOL to make it more for big kids and some of these things are like fucking awesome like they somehow made the pool bigger (you’re not sure but you think they like stole a fucking bulldozer or some shit) and they installed like a diving board or whatever and now there’s a fucking lifeguard and shit and you’re like ok, this ain’t bad, they’re sort of dicks but whatever, hey, a pool.

But THEN these bullies they like get on their cellphones and they fucking like CALL THEIR BUDDIES or whatever and you’re like WHAT THE FUCK because suddenly like you’re like there is NO MORE ROOM FOR US. And like since it’s fucking nicer or whatever more and more ppl come over and now all of a sudden ppl are like charging membership into this banging pool party and you and your buddies are left standing in the dirty concrete parking lot, clutching your diving rings and fun noodles like “wtf just happened.”

So….that’s what gentrification is.

Being white means that you bring all sorts of things to the table. Because white ppl don’t just sit around saying “OH HEY I’M WHITE IT’S AWESOME.” They do shit like they remodel houses and turn abandoned lots into starbucks and jamba juices and next thing you know there’s no fucking room for the original ethnic enclave members because these goddamn bullies have rooted them out of the pool.