Posted on 05/05/2017 2:41:46 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Street crime in moderate doses doesn’t deter white millennials from swarming to take over traditionally black urban neighborhoods. On the contrary, they take pride in moving into an edgy, “authentic” community — and even brag about the violence.
That’s what American University professor Derek S. Hyra argues in his new book, “Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City,” about gentrification in the District. At one point during his four years of field research in the Shaw/U Street neighborhood, he attended a local fundraiser where white recent arrivals seemed to boast about crime in their adopted neighborhood.
“They described neighborhood carjackings, shootings, and purse snatchings with laughter and jokes,” Hyra writes. “It seemed that the neighborhood violence gave some newcomers ... something interesting to talk about at parties.”
Hyra’s book applies a sophisticated, academic approach to studying social tensions at the forefront of current politics, development and culture in the District.
The book raises an ominous warning about a cherished dream of District politicians and activists: that they can build neighborhoods that achieve harmony among diverse races and economic classes.
Instead, Hyra found that when mostly white millennials move into traditional African American communities, the two groups interact little and frequently chafe with each other.
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And to think some people say liberalism is a mental disorder...
The real underlying story is that D.C. Is becoming more white every year. Many blacks have left for Maryland (Pr. George’s Co.). The only solidly black communities are east of the Anacostia river.
In my opinion Brooklyn is is becoming whiter by the hour.
Quiet true...it started in the 1990s and continues even today. I would take a guess that by 2040, with the exception of the Anacostia region, DC will be 90-percent white.
Minorities are being pushed out with housing prices into Maryland. The city council dynamics will rapidly shift over the next decade as suburban white Democrats move into the management of the city, and the various agenda groups with their corruption will be forced out into Maryland to survive.
Perfectly describes Over the Rhine neighbour in Cincy here, where every guy who lives there has to be skinny and have a beard equal to half his body weight.
When I worked in DC (Pentagon) 20 years ago, we were scambling to find a place to live. We had 3 young children.
We had a realtor, and were agressively looking at properties in Northern Virginia. We were open to buy or rent (we ending up renting). After several disappointments, my wife and I asked the realtor, "Why don't we try Maryland?"
She immediately shook her head and said, "No! You don't want to go to Maryland."
I started asking friends and collegues, and they said the same thing.
I don't know if they were completely off base or not, because some Maryland communities are beautiful. But the "word" was that Maryland was where all the blacks were moving, and Northern VA was were the whites should move.
Any comments on that one are welcome. Like I said, I never understood it even back then.
Correct.
As a DC native who loves my city, I still shudder when I see how prosperous our leafy-green enclave has been while the rest of the country has suffered so much during the past 9 years. I think that if everyone from “flyover country” could see all the development here, they would burn us to the ground. (Might not be a bad thing.)
OTOH, we have to suffer with the Caps every year, so I guess everyone has burdens to bear.
I’m in Huntsville AL and things are very prosperous and booming here. Contruction cranes everywhere.
Because of their upbringing and schooling, Generations X and Y are probably the most susceptible to peer pressure, advertising, group-think and propaganda that America has ever produced. It’s a snowflake-making machine and every one of them are made to be the same.
I don’t believe any of this. No one thinks it’s “cool” to live in the ghetto, in little Kenya.
U of Chicago and other academics wrote exactly the same story about gentrification in the 1950s, and 60s, and 70s, and 80s, and 90s. And it is true of both liberals and conservatives, libertarians, Republicans and Democrats who move into changing neighborhoods. And yes, a significant minority of them (us) are not liberals.
Republican State Rep and Ward Committeeman Bill Robinson brought a large number of us YAF/YFG types into Chicago’s inner city in 1964 and yes, this describes us.
While I’m no fan of young hipsters, I believe there are more practical reasons for what is being described here. This trend certainly isn’t working in NJ (attempts to re-settle ghettoes with white taxpayers have failed miserably), but one aspect of this that can’t be ignored is that taxes are lower in these areas. Here in NJ, black areas are becoming very Hispanic, not white - and even the Asians we import by the planeloads know they can’t live safely in a black or mixed neighborhood.
I concur, see # 12. Young people who are tethered to YouTube know the dangers all too well.
Any young whites considering moving to a “mixed” area would only do so if they never intend to breed - and many don’t have any intention of having children, because propaganda told them it hurts the Earth (in more practical terms, they are simply too selfish).
>>Because of their upbringing and schooling, Generations X and Y are probably the most susceptible to peer pressure, advertising, group-think and propaganda that America has ever produced. It’s a snowflake-making machine and every one of them are made to be the same.
Do you realize that Gen X was born between 1961 and 1981? They are actually credited with being the most independent generation of all the ones existing today.
Gen Y is the true Millennials, but even they aren’t the real Snowflake generation. That falls on the Gen Z or Post-Millennials, who are the kids and college age people of 2017. Those are the one who grew up in a world of nothing but social media and large area peer-group influence. The earlier generations had peer pressure from a small group of friends or even a school, but the Zs are all influenced by the entire global generation but are not influenced by people near to them (unless they are part of the global Groupthink). That’s where snowflakes come from.
Same in Asheville. Downtown is experiencing a building boom.
We bought our first house in Arlington, VA in 1998 (I was an attorney at a big firm in DC) and were pretty much laughed at by our realtor when we asked about Maryland. We were told “our place” was VA (unless we could afford to buy in Chevy Chase). Only a handful of attorneys at my firm lived in MD and they were in multimillion dollar homes right on the DC border. The rest were either in the $$$$$ parts of DC or Northern VA (Arlington, McLean, or Alexandria).
Housing bubble aside, Northern Virginia ended up being the better choice by far... I know because I lived there while these things were coming into being.
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