blogger practice post

      As I've mentioned in my previous article, there are a lot of problematic issues that surround gentrification-- the generational wealth lost, the injustice of a system that serves rich white people, and low-income children growing up in low-income households with little or no opportunity to break out of this cycle because of the neighborhood they've grown up in.     One of the most important details I'd like to focus on in addressing the issue of gentrification is the fact that "integration should not solely involve the movement of people of color into White schools, neighborhoods, and work places, but also the movement of White people into spaces occupied primarily by people of color," (Pierce 2). However, that often leads to wealthier, White people moving into POC neighborhoods, raising the rent for the neighborhood, and then forcing POC out of their neighborhoods because the housing cost rises-- or in other words, Gentrification. However, there...

      The story of Seneca Village is lost gem in the erased history of America. A village of Black, multi-racial/multicultural people living in New York and making a good living for themselves have been completely destroyed and forgotten to make way for NYC’s infamous Central Park.  It’s absolutely devastating to think about the impact of its removal— the generational wealth lost for the descendants of Seneca village, forcing successful POC to remove and start over as low-income households, and an injustice of a white-washed history that refuses to acknowledge the removal or do anything about it.     There are a couple steps that must be taken to make amends to this situation (although we could never truly fully be able to do so, since a true amend would be to give the original people of Seneca village their houses and their community back). We need to make sure that the story of Seneca Village is told— there was a temporary set-up in Central Park with info...