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In line with such other freedom fighters such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, one “Name withheld” calls the troops to action.
I remember a time not that long ago when it seemed like there was conversation going on in West Philly about gentrification and how to organize against what was about to happen. Then, people seemed to stop being engaged, maybe they got busy or something. Well, while you were having fun and going to dance parties, guess what happened?
THERES A BREW PUB at 50th and Baltimore, and a YOGA STUDIO and a COFFEE SHOP. HELLO.
Now I am not one to argue that everything is black and white and that those things plus a bunch of white folks moving into a neighborhood simply equals gentrification, but in this case, it is really hard to see the situation as anything else.
I suppose partly because nobody seems to give a s�t and ya’ll are going on with your hipster lifestyles. I mean Christ, the brew pub is open and nobody broke the f�ing windows yet. It was bad enough when Trader Joes got a compactor and nobody sabotaged it. IS THIS WEST PHILLY OR WHAT? Aren’t ya’ll supposed to be anarchists or something? If s�t gets to a certain point, should you need to take direct action if you failed to engage in the process that could have stopped it?
A bunch of you are white homeowners, you could have been at the neighborhood meetings. You could have stopped that s�t. And what’s with letting these snot-nosed hipster fu..s move into the neighborhood so they can look cool? Are you really just going to accept this manifest destiny bullshit or are you going to take responsibility for where you live and for what you have helped happen. Silence equals consent remember?
I’ll be honest: This is so well done, I can’t tell if it’s a parody or not, though I’m leaning toward it. Either way, good show.
Open Letter To West Philly From A Concerned Relation [UC Review, line breaks supplied by Philadelphia Will Do]
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As a west philly resident, I am nearly 100% sure this isn’t parody. After some of the rants I received from the Dressed in Rags patrol when I bought my house, all of which claimed that “property is theft”, i believe this is the real thing.
How awful. What’s next, photos of Alycia Lane in a bikini?
I remeber the good old days when you could go 50th and Baltimore, buy a nickel bag of rock, spray paint the chinese resturaunt with the bullet proof glass and get shot all in the same night, now there is a brew-pub and a yoga studio?! what I have to go all the way up to huntingdon park to get mugged now? What is this city coming too?
It’s Hunting Park, dumbass.
Thank you Anonymous (clever tag BTW), and that was supposed to be such a coherent post too. I am so ashamed.
u r welcome, dumbass.
P.S. u r gentrifying scum. Go back where you came from.
I hope they build a Starbucks on your house.
Look at that poor lady in the photo DMAC posted. Doesn’t it make you feel ashamed for forcing her out of her home?
I hope u get mugged and beated.
Yeah they should have had a Pic of Alycia Lane in a Bikini
John, if that poor lady is in a house in west philly, I think getting her out would be the right thing to do.
She has been dead since 2005.
You’re changing the subject because you can’t defend yourself. Shame on you.
P.S. I bet you hate Barbaro and puppies, too.
Good point John, I’m sure Ms. Parks would agree that certain areas should be restricted to people of a specific race and/or economic level. I’m pretty sure that is what the civil rights movement was all about right?
And you want to put that poor old lady out on the street, along with all the other little old black ladies you’ll personally force out of their homes with your sneaky gentrification scheme. You should really be ashamed of yourself.
If all the Yuppies hadn’t forced us hipsters out of NoLibs, then we wouldn’t have been forced to move to UC and upset the negadelphians’ precious Yoga-free lifestyle…
I hate yuppie scum!!!
All I wanted to do is live the dream - squat in shitty properties and live off my Daddy! Then those damn yuppies had to come along and ruin everything. What with all the rent increases, I even had to get a damn job!
That said, the only thing worse than friggin’ yuppies are people from Jersey. Just think what all these UC types are going to think once all the Jersey-heads start showing up in their Hummers at their Sunday brunch spots?!?!?
They ruined Honeys. Mark my words, they’ll ruin some great brunch spot in UC next!!!
If only we could all band together - hipsters, yuppies and UC negadelphians - and fight the true scourge that is the South Jersey Hummer driver!!!
Wow, I drove my Toyota all the way from South Jersey for brunch at Honey’s on Sunday morning. Fortunately the smell of cooking soy-sausage is nearly enough to eradicate the stench of angry hipster self-righteousness. Almost. Next time I’ll bring my Hummer so I can run down the dirty hippie who was sitting on the curb outside before he has the chance to remove his socks and shoes and pick his toejams while I’m eating.
Interestingly enough, West Philly up to around 49th-50th street used to have the most expensive real estate in the country when the neighborhood was first built.
well, i dont mind gentrification at all. I’m black and got three properties waiting for home increases and my winbdfall. meanwhile lets get this straight, white people define gentrification as the radical cool white artists moving in first and the snot nosed yuppies right after causing price hikes. blacks define gentrification as governmental neglect, increased drugs crime, abandonment of property, and then the whiteys come buy back for cheap. Whatever it is, blacks cannot stem the tide of gentrification. To me i feel sorry for the people who are forced out because of increased taxes, but for the mugger, robbers, drug addicts(well i know how they got that way, but,,,)they dont care i’m black they’d kill me in a heart beat. I ‘d prefer the sensible right minded blacks remaining and the whites moving in, they sure as hell wont break in my house. I’m black and every thing, know the history of how things got this way, but damned if we fight to keep it the way it is now in the hood, so at least let some of us make a buck out of the change meanwhile, feel me moms, pops, sister, brother? I’m not condoning, just keeping it real