[#SoProgressive] Anti-Gentrification, aka Anti-White, Movement Targets Art Community

I think you should have posted in an even bigger font.

 

And bolder

 

The recent stark rise in your racial posts is disturbing. Does your strength in racial unity commentary only apply to the whites to the exclusion of others or does it also apply to the blacks and browns in their unity against the whites as it relates to gentrification? Explain yourself. What has turned you into a white nationalist? #SoCohete

 

Oops.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...es-gentrification-boyle-heights-race-activism

 

why are you spinning this to be an anti-white movement, when it is not?

for the most part, re-gentrification projects / developments in the Barrio section---encompassing the Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights,
City Terrace and El Sereno neighborhoods---of LA that have been well-received by the locals.

here is another LA Times article on other re-gentrification projects / developments in LA's Barrio section..

When the white owners of Indie Brewing Co. pitched a tasting room to the chamber's board members, they brought their consultant, Ulisses Sanchez, who was raised in Boyle Heights.

"This is really a community process, especially here in Boyle Heights," Sanchez told the board members. "There's been a strong effort to protect the culture here."

Indie Brewing Co.'s plans include community art on the walls of the tasting room; the company wants to meet with Boyle Heights organizations to raise the support needed to help get the OK for the tasting room from the city.

"We want to be accepted by the community, we don't want to just try and steamroll our way in," said Kevin O'Malley, part of the brewery team. "You can tell the community is very protective and there's a lot of culture and history here.… We want to fit into the culture that's here."

Vanessa Baek said she remembered when she opened the Heights Deli & Bottle Shop 3 years ago on Broadway in Lincoln Heights, she heard murmured chatter about gentrification based on the selection of craft beer and wine. But Baek said she didn't feel unwelcome, saying she was "kind of taken aback a little bit" by what she saw in Boyle Heights. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-las-palomas-gentrification-20160303-story.html
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But the re-development of the spacious 14-story Sears building, as described by Red Rocket's link, has run into resistance.

it is an outlier.
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Red Rocket's spin---cherry-picking the outlier---would have the world to believe that it is representative what's going on in LA's Barrio

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Reminds me of when we had the Blue Cat Cafe protests here in Austin lol. The video is spectacular at the link.

https://www.mystatesman.com/news/lo...-austin-turns-violent/Cl09659Zya2xCOV2gwSbeI/

 

Is this really a serious problem? A handful of protestors? Does this really deserve much attention?

There are conflicts in the USA and there are people that don’t like rich people, poor people, white people, black people, women, lesbians, foreigners and and endless number of sub groups.

However I have to ask is this real noteworthy or deserving of much attention? I could go wrangle up some fat guys I know (a dozen or so) and protest outside Lane Bryant saying fat men don’t want fat women in their neighborhood. However would that deserve media attention? Would that mean anything from a geo-political standpoint?

 

you do know that Joe Rogan is a stand-up comic, no?

had he been to Boyle Height, he would have seen the other re-gentrified projects there;

namely, McDonalds, Starbucks, Ralph's Grocery, USC University Hospital, Burger King, Jack-in-the-Box,
Pioneer Chicken, Hawaiian Grill, Domino's Pizza, etc.​

 

I was curious where you heard about East LA gentrification protests.

 

As a White, Male, Art-Scene Groupie, I am conflicted. I'm both upset that art-washing is considered a bad thing, yet hate most gallery owners because I'm not cool enough.