My NYC Black Folk......Gentrification
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theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
not really, i would say this is what happens when you don't own where you live and you dont practice capitalsim, this might still happen but back people would be making money off this movement if we owned properties
and now people are demanding "affordable housing" ie living in property you dont own
Theyre in East Flatbush now 
Today I was in the keyfood on Nostrand and Winthrop looking for coconut milk and there was a cac in there in right next to me, same aisle with his whole family
I swore they wasnt coming to East Flatbush but it looks like i was wrong. Ive been seeing more and more getting off on winthrop. It used to be because they'd be working at the hospital or students there but no. Whole cac families and hipsters walking on nostrand and church
Today I was in the keyfood on Nostrand and Winthrop looking for coconut milk and there was a cac in there in right next to me, same aisle with his whole family
I swore they wasnt coming to East Flatbush but it looks like i was wrong. Ive been seeing more and more getting off on winthrop. It used to be because they'd be working at the hospital or students there but no. Whole cac families and hipsters walking on nostrand and church
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92% of New Yorkers rent.
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I find that funny cause every born & raised Ny'er I know looks at them the same way. Deep down inside...they know. That's why (in North Brooklyn) they stay in their little enclaves of coffee shops, gentrification cafes, kidult bars, and other tripe. Cause they know they'll never be accepted as true blooded New Yorkers.
I can't stand these hipsters and their view of NY like it's some extension of their pissant liberal arts college.
Straight up moving to the city and then crying when they actually get the grittiness of the city. Just because they saw Friends, How I met Your mother, or some shytty movie they decided to move here.
But...since they couldn't afford to live in Manhattan, invade neighborhoods in the outer boroughs inhabited by generations of New Yorkers of ALL backgrounds.
They just have this colonist/colonial view of New York. They don't care to assimilate and make friends with their neighbors. They don't want to mingle with the people that made the borough. They don't change to reflect the neighborhood...they want the neighborhood to change to reflect them.
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Mikael Blowpiff
#LosIngobernabrehs
ask them where you can catch the irt atI got one better...
I'm going to go there asking for directions to shyt long time residents would know...
the next guy
Superstar
Group economics can be capitalism. Look at the old italian hoods before the 2000s. Black people own homes in these places as well, but we don't support each other. We screwed up. The majority of blacks are not on government housing so why are blacks still going south? Because we can't afford it. Part of it is ownership. Part of it is other factors. Like building up the community, a foreign concept to blacks in America.
the next guy
Superstar
Very true. I'm black and born and raised in Canada but I did my homework. Most people don't even know I came from Canada.
King Crimson
Member of a very exclusive gang
Couldn't have said it better myself. I said in an earlier post that that was my biggest problem with gentrification. They come with no respect or regard for the people or the cultures that existed before them.
Theyre in East Flatbush now
Today I was in the keyfood on Nostrand and Winthrop looking for coconut milk and there was a cac in there in right next to me, same aisle with his whole family
I swore they wasnt coming to East Flatbush but it looks like i was wrong. Ive been seeing more and more getting off on winthrop. It used to be because they'd be working at the hospital or students there but no. Whole cac families and hipsters walking on nostrand and church
I be seeing them nikkas too, thinking they work at Kings County or Down State.
There's even a few in the building across the street from me. 
I think some are actually the children of the owners who never sold but just moved to LI, and now their kids want to move to the city.
Good movie
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Interesting development last night at a bar in Bushwick.
So last night I was there to meet up with some friends and have some drinks. I'm doing some fancy footwork/uprocking on the dance floor and these two white hipster girls start gravitating towards me. I wasn't really interested cause I wasn't feeling them, and I was drunk and trying to do some ill shyt on the dance floor (I ended up starting a dance circle...house dancing mayne). I guess one of the girl's boyfriends was there, some beta male hipster with the stereotypical black framed glasses, skinny jeans, chuck taylors, and vintage t-shirt and started getting kind of heated. Seeing me, a tall black male with an athletic build with his girls around me, must of set off something inside that dude. I rode to the place on my skateboard (since my apartment was four blocks away for the bar) and I had it against the wall of the dancefloor. While I'm dancing, I see him walking to the bathroom and he just deliberately kicks my board out from under the wall on some slick shyt.
I guess he wanted a confrontation but he realized that since I was taller than him (he was probably 5'5") and could probably beat him up, he backed down.
So last night I was there to meet up with some friends and have some drinks. I'm doing some fancy footwork/uprocking on the dance floor and these two white hipster girls start gravitating towards me. I wasn't really interested cause I wasn't feeling them, and I was drunk and trying to do some ill shyt on the dance floor (I ended up starting a dance circle...house dancing mayne). I guess one of the girl's boyfriends was there, some beta male hipster with the stereotypical black framed glasses, skinny jeans, chuck taylors, and vintage t-shirt and started getting kind of heated. Seeing me, a tall black male with an athletic build with his girls around me, must of set off something inside that dude. I rode to the place on my skateboard (since my apartment was four blocks away for the bar) and I had it against the wall of the dancefloor. While I'm dancing, I see him walking to the bathroom and he just deliberately kicks my board out from under the wall on some slick shyt.
I guess he wanted a confrontation but he realized that since I was taller than him (he was probably 5'5") and could probably beat him up, he backed down.
ogc163
Superstar
Interesting development last night at a bar in Bushwick.
So last night I was there to meet up with some friends and have some drinks. I'm doing some fancy footwork/uprocking on the dance floor and these two white hipster girls start gravitating towards me. I wasn't really interested cause I wasn't feeling them, and I was drunk and trying to do some ill shyt on the dance floor (I ended up starting a dance circle...house dancing mayne). I guess one of the girl's boyfriends was there, some beta male hipster with the stereotypical black framed glasses, skinny jeans, chuck taylors, and vintage t-shirt and started getting kind of heated. Seeing me, a tall black male with an athletic build with his girls around me, must of set off something inside that dude. I rode to the place on my skateboard (since my apartment was four blocks away for the bar) and I had it against the wall of the dancefloor. While I'm dancing, I see him walking to the bathroom and he just deliberately kicks my board out from under the wall on some slick shyt.
I guess he wanted a confrontation but he realized that since I was taller than him (he was probably 5'5") and could probably beat him up, he backed down.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
I've been skateboarding for almost 25 years (I'm almost 30). I love it and been reppin it.