To: Lonely Bull
“hipper Oakland.”
Beating up whitey is chic.
2 posted on
02/19/2014 5:19:49 PM PST by
Huskrrrr
To: Lonely Bull
trying to improve a ‘hood is now a bad thing?
3 posted on
02/19/2014 5:20:17 PM PST by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Lonely Bull
in need of an organic supermarket, better restaurants and "a coffee kiosk with patisserie bites."![](http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4739892813366923&w=133&h=179&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7)
4 posted on
02/19/2014 5:28:44 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Lonely Bull
I’ve heard the word “gentrification” several times recently.
Wondering what the word would be if the Oakland standard were introduced into a nice neighborhood in SF?
5 posted on
02/19/2014 5:30:15 PM PST by
Bronzewound
(Lost Hope & Loose Change)
To: Lonely Bull
"Why do you think you can move into someone's ancestral land and start taking it over, evicting them from their homes and pushing out their businesses?" wrote Lambert, who moved to the city eight years ago. "Ancestral" - you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
To: Lonely Bull
Hmmn, I wonder if this is the same jerk I had to deal with a couple years ago. My wife's mom owns a house in SF. This jerk and his boyfriend moved in next door, and started organizing a few other residents into creating a community garden and a newsletter. Unfortunately, he ran roughshod over longtime residents, ignoring their privacy. There's a strip of land, an alleyway that runs behind mom's backyard. Traditionally used for fire emergency access, and residents to access backyards. This jerk fenced it off with a gate and started planting trees and a pathway. Then he had the city cite my mom-in-law for overgrowth in her yard (mostly because it didn't fit in with his plans).
We fought the violation notice and got it revoked. Mostly because the supposed permits for planting trees behind mom's house had been forged in her signature by this jerk. Yep, he wanted his way and forged her name (in a way she never signs anything) on permits. I got in a big argument with the guy, who was a yuppie gay interloper new to the community. Mom-in-law and neighbor next to her been there since the early 1950s while these wine-sipping yuppies just arrived recently from out of state. After I threatened him and his business along with a couple other friend neighbors on our side, he and his boyfriend moved last year. Might be the same guy, all I know was his name was Steve. Might be a different guy, but the intentions are the same. Troublemaker to long-time residents.
16 posted on
02/19/2014 6:15:54 PM PST by
roadcat
To: Lonely Bull
Online critics swiftly labeled him a pushy colonizer with a "white settler mentality." They denounced him as representing a wave of tone-deaf newcomers trying to remake the city in their own image without consulting their African-American, immigrant and lower-income neighbors who held it together for years. Can you IMAGINE the uproar if residents of a white neighborhood openly voiced that kind of attitude against a black couple moving in? Obama would have called for federal troops to come in.
18 posted on
02/19/2014 6:18:49 PM PST by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Lonely Bull
“Gentrify” means fixing up your property without my permission.
21 posted on
02/19/2014 6:31:53 PM PST by
marron
To: Lonely Bull
“If you like your slum, you can keep your slum.”
To: Lonely Bull
There’s a Whole Paycheck on Bay Street near Lake Merritt. What’s his beef?
To: Lonely Bull
Hmmm, How much has Oakland Councilman Kalb and his stooge Danette Lambert done to drive out poorer residents by jacking up their property taxes?
33 posted on
02/19/2014 11:32:39 PM PST by
Rockpile
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