Anonymous May 21, 2012 at 1:52 pm

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You weren't having a private conversation if you were in PUBLIC and someone could easily overhear what you were saying. Anyway, sounds like you have a really astute understanding of gentrification. The only solution is to keep white gurls out of our neighborhoods!
geyser on May 22, 2012 at 9:04 AM Report this
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what does aggro mean?
pdxajn on May 22, 2012 at 10:26 AM Report this
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Again. Women in sunglasses looking at people. WHEN WILL THIS NIGHTMARE END??!?
Todd Mecklem on May 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM Report this
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Did she glare at you SIDEWAYS from the corner of her glasses, because if so that's really uncool.
Lonely At The Movies on May 22, 2012 at 12:36 PM Report this
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Some words I could stand to go the rest of my life without hearing/seeing again:

Twee
Hipster
Gentrification.

Just thought I'd share.
tabitharat on May 22, 2012 at 12:42 PM Report this
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@5, u mad hipster?
on May 22, 2012 at 2:26 PM Report this
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Could someone explain the gentrification situation to me? So, several years ago people living in northeast Portland sold their homes or businesses and white people moved in? Were the people selling their homes or businesses forced to?

I think I understand that area of town used to be predominately african american and now people are upset that white people live there?

I'm not try to stir the pot, just looking for an answer.
shark attack mountain on May 22, 2012 at 2:41 PM Report this
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I am not mad. Just mildly annoyed. I am sure someone would call me a hipster as it seems everyone who uses the term has a different idea about what a hipster is/ looks like.

@7, Exactly. Not trying to stir the pot either, but I do share your confusion there.
tabitharat on May 22, 2012 at 3:36 PM Report this
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Man, I had a great response to this written up, and then I screwed up posting it, and now I don't want to rewrite it.

But you would totally be laughing at it right now. Imagine something funny. That's what it would have been like.
Blabby on May 22, 2012 at 4:02 PM Report this
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Don't worry, I'm laughing at your comment about the light rail news.
geyser on May 22, 2012 at 4:06 PM Report this
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Actually anonie, if you're spending money on that street then you're contributing to gentrification...The Worst Thing Since The Holocaust (tm)!
on May 22, 2012 at 4:09 PM Report this
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and I thought the gentrification started when they kicked the bike clowns out

or maybe that the bike clowns were responsible for the gentrification

I'm confused too, but I think black folks view of gentrification is when white folks start paying $300,000.00 for houses that are only worth $30,000.00, but the county sees $$$s and raises the value of everyone's property to $300,000.00 and then the black folk can't afford the property taxes anymore and have to move.
randyzpdx on May 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM Report this
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TWO IA's in as many days bitching about women in over-sized sunglasses looking at people...

I never thought i'd say this, but i almost wish there were another police shooting here. This city is getting more and more lame.
DamosA on May 22, 2012 at 4:59 PM Report this
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WAAAAAAH. reverse racism!
Ain't that some shit.
TheOnlySanePersonInTheWorld on May 22, 2012 at 8:27 PM Report this
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Speaking of locals being all "aggro", i have to say i was rather taken back upon viewing THIS blog entry for just the first time today:

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto…

Wow, folks. Really some sensationalist stuff right here. Try dialing it back, alittle, why don't you?
DamosA on May 23, 2012 at 12:50 AM Report this
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Reverse racism? No such thing. It's just called.. wait for it.. racism.
Lonely At The Movies on May 23, 2012 at 10:28 AM Report this
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*gurl - lol

shut up damosa
tcraighenry on May 23, 2012 at 12:01 PM Report this
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Make me.
DamosA on May 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM Report this
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Gentrification = businesses bringing jobs into a neighborhood or people buying houses and fixing them up. That is some evil shit!
Demondog on May 24, 2012 at 12:44 PM Report this
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@7 to a degree, yes. But it was a slow process, as was the shift in the Neighborhood. I liked the improvements at first, then I was a bit dismayed at the transformation into hipsterville (damn, I used that word again). Do I think its still an improvement ? Yes. I would also say that many of the white 20-30 something residents moved here in the last ten or even 5 years and seem a rather homogenus sea of dorkdom . Unsure if that is an improvement. @ 19, true but that is a one sided view and while you did not displace people, your city did. How do you feel about that?
on May 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM Report this
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"Gentrification = businesses bringing jobs into a neighborhood or people buying houses and fixing them up. That is some evil shit!"


There's no way you can be serious. Clearly, you're being sarcastic.
DamosA on May 24, 2012 at 11:17 PM Report this
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Definition of GENTRIFICATION
: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents
Sped on May 25, 2012 at 12:12 AM Report this
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@15 ~ Damos...i tried to tell you about this.
kalikill on May 25, 2012 at 4:21 AM Report this

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