Random Rant

Pet Peeve #33091

If you're white and middle-class and have moved into the city in recent years (I'm mostly talking Cleveland, here), YOU ARE PART OF THE GENTRICATION GAME whether you like it or not. And the more you complain about *other* folks moving into the neighborhood and gentrifying it without recognizing that, whether you mean to or not, you're contributing to the gentrification as well, the more of a problem you're making it. And if you brag about the homeless folks and crack dealers in your neighborhood as if they're a little URBAN gold-metal you can pin to your chest, the more you need to start wondering whether YOU VERY WELL MAY BE MORE OF AN INSIDIOUS LITTLE PROBLEM THAN THE YUPPIES IN THEIR PERFECT LITTLE TOWNHOUSES.

But that's just my two cents. (And one of the two is really dirty and kinda green and a little kid was sucking on it about 20 minutes ago until his mom smacked it out of his hand.)

/end rant

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