Comments on: How a small business can survive gentrification http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/03/how-a-small-business-can-survive-gentrification/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Blanonymouse Male http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/03/how-a-small-business-can-survive-gentrification/#comment-421 Blanonymouse Male Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:51:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=4998#comment-421 "Over the weekend, The Washington Post profiled the transformation of D.C. Councilman Marion Barry’s former east Capitol Hill neighborhood from a nearly all-black neighborhood to one that’s more mixed" A more politically correct way to say it wuld be, "from a nearly all-black neighborhood to one that's more DIVERSE". Diversity is good, right? At least that's what America is being told (sold) right now. " the old-timers lamenting no longer knowing their neighbors" What - the old-timers haven't gotten the "diversity memo"? Better get crackin'! "“They’ve got money,” he lamented, “but they spend less.” That's called "future time orientation" and "saving money". Its how smart people go from poor to middle class or from middle class to upper class. The Diversity Gods better consider this; diversity doesn't just mean people of color moving into people of palor's 'hoods. It also means the opposite - like it or not. Maybe its time to rethink the multi-cult? “Over the weekend, The Washington Post profiled the transformation of D.C. Councilman Marion Barry’s former east Capitol Hill neighborhood from a nearly all-black neighborhood to one that’s more mixed”

A more politically correct way to say it wuld be, “from a nearly all-black neighborhood to one that’s more DIVERSE”.

Diversity is good, right? At least that’s what America is being told (sold) right now.

” the old-timers lamenting no longer knowing their neighbors”

What – the old-timers haven’t gotten the “diversity memo”?

Better get crackin’!

““They’ve got money,” he lamented, “but they spend less.”

That’s called “future time orientation” and “saving money”.

Its how smart people go from poor to middle class or from middle class to upper class.

The Diversity Gods better consider this; diversity doesn’t just mean people of color moving into people of palor’s ‘hoods. It also means the opposite – like it or not.

Maybe its time to rethink the multi-cult?

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