Gentification Squared on Acid
Mike wrote:
I can agree totally with what Peter and Drifter have written.
Communities do
devolve to a point where only folks at the bottom of the economic
ladder are left.
The fact that these are often African-Americans is not so much a
testament
to the cultural inferiority of blacks as it is a statement about how
our basic
economic structure is racist. Along with Gregg, of course....
In Houston and Dallas, they chased all the poor people out, leveled the
ghettos, and installed yuppie housing for the unwashed masses who toil
downtown. The suburbs then become the new "inner city".
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