cwicseolfor:

floatingstirnerhead:

afronerdism:

afronerdism:

afronerdism:

afronerdism:

One of the things that’s already begun to happen is the mass exodus of white people from affluent cities and neighborhoods into the hood due to covid unemployment. And thus the mass gentrification process has begun.

And it is gentrification by the way. Y’all have to kill this idea that white people who’ve fallen on harder times aren’t gentrifiers. They absolutely are.

Look at the asks I’m getting. You can litterally see where the gentrification starts.

The framing of everything is “why are you being mean to these poor, sad, destitute, white people!? They have no choice but to move into these poor neighborhoods!” The expectation is for me to feel sorry for white people who are coming to live….in a place I already live.

Once again, the neighborhoods y’all move into when you struggle are the neighborhoods we grow up in. My neighborhood is so black, dominoes won’t deliver after the sun goes down. But you know what? We’re happy and feel lucky to be here. You know why? Because we know what you don’t know and that’s that 2 streets down is the hood. And 4 streets down from that is the projects. So we’re happy to be in our little black neighborhood.

But you? You move in full of despair. You hate being here. You feel at a disadvantage to be here. You hate our culture. You hate our cookouts, our loud music, the bass at 4 am rolling through, the weed smell, the fact that we leave our dogs chained up outside, the fact that we have pitbulls, the fact that we don’t really cut the grass like that, you bemoan everything about us.

And as more of your cracker friends move in you cling together. You don’t know our names but you look at us like we’re the intruders in our own neighborhoods, you start talking shit, you start wanting to “make improvements”, and worst of all you start calling the fucking police.

So we start getting arrested, assaulted, more of you move in, our rent goes up, we move out, you’re building a “home owners association,” you’ve got us all too scared to listen to our music or cook out anymore, the rent goes up some more, we leave, more of you move in, and suddenly our little black neighborhood that wasn’t the nicest but not the worst is full of white faces. White faces that peer at the few black people left. You make them so miserable they’ll leave anyway.

And all of this? Big money hasn’t even touched it yet. You bring gentrification with you as a poor white because you bring racism with you. You bring your privilege and upwards mobility with you. You bring your “improvement” mindset with you.

So no. I don’t feel sorry for poor white people at all.

Fuck y’all. Stay out of my neighborhood and go live with the white trash.

Wow white gentrification tumblr is really upset about this. This is why I don’t believe in this “anti-racist” movement because y’all want to say blm but not examine the ways you participate in structural racism.

I grew up around white people like this and its 100% true. They’ll talk a big game about anti-rascism, loudly yell about BLM and equality and inclusion, even ostracize other white people who say openly racist things, but when it comes to them and their actual lives the only black people they give a fuck about are the ones that already fit into their norms and expectations of proper behaviour, they dont give a single fuck about buddy down the road at the cookout except as a charity case, not an equal.

White readers, if this makes you uncomfortable, good, but if it makes you feel attacked, that’s more about you than it is the post. White readers, if you feel it’s unfair to be lumped in and judged with no regard to specific individual circumstances: imagine if that were your life and not just one unusual moment.

It is a systemic problem. Building systems – nets that aren’t made to let the most vulnerable fall through – is in fact the solution, but white supremacy is exactly why it hasn’t been done. It’s insufficient to merely not be racist; we have to be actively opposed to racism and working to dismantle racist institutions, systems, and patterns of action, which is not going to happen if we’re holding our hands over our ears when it may implicate stupid harmful or lethal shit we’re doing, ourselves, without actively intending harm, because we can’t get it through our heads that our experience of the world is not universal, that our upbringing or expectations are not the one true right way to exist, and that digressions from are not problems and Do Not need to be addressed by some appeal to an authority who comes in to tidy up for you. Your own feelings about racism mean nothing if you do not recognize that our institutions practice much bigger structural racism whether you intend them to or not, and tailor your actions – and especially your training to call upon those known-to-be-racist systems, whether it’s building managers or city code officials or police – accordingly. You’ve been rewarded all your life for doing it, people even tell you it’s a moral good to do it because the authorities know better than you how to handle these things, and you have to learn to fucking don’t.

And if you’ve already moved in, meet your neighbors.