Comments on: UnChocolate “By 2020, if not sooner” http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/unchocolate-by-2020-if-not-sooner/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Singularity2030 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/unchocolate-by-2020-if-not-sooner/#comment-232 Singularity2030 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:58:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3251#comment-232 Is this neccessarily a bad thing? Sometimes it seems people celebrate the dwindling of "whitey" and the making of the United States into a United Colors of Benetton. Why? I don't have a stake in what "color" the US is - I don't care, but I'm just wondering why one is considering more p.c. than the other. Is this neccessarily a bad thing? Sometimes it seems people celebrate the dwindling of “whitey” and the making of the United States into a United Colors of Benetton.

Why?

I don’t have a stake in what “color” the US is – I don’t care, but I’m just wondering why one is considering more p.c. than the other.

]]> By: Steven Swann http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/unchocolate-by-2020-if-not-sooner/#comment-214 Steven Swann Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:20:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3251#comment-214 In many ways, the demographic shift in DC has been telegraphed by social and economic realities extant for decades. However, what I find far more intriguing is the often polarized regard in which people hold this information. Lauded privately as a "cleaning" phenomenon wherein neighborhoods are upgraded to "better" custodians? Mourned as the displacement of the disenfranchised? Or even apathetically dismissed as merely inevitable? These data seem destined for a pedestal in the pantheon of a discourse that seems unable to get past the tribalism and fingerpointing that forbids an understanding of gentrification's deep and vast systemic roots. In many ways, the demographic shift in DC has been telegraphed by social and economic realities extant for decades. However, what I find far more intriguing is the often polarized regard in which people hold this information. Lauded privately as a “cleaning” phenomenon wherein neighborhoods are upgraded to “better” custodians? Mourned as the displacement of the disenfranchised? Or even apathetically dismissed as merely inevitable? These data seem destined for a pedestal in the pantheon of a discourse that seems unable to get past the tribalism and fingerpointing that forbids an understanding of gentrification’s deep and vast systemic roots.

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