re: Gentrification, good or bad... Thoughts?

I said that?

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But we're specifically talking about America. Why bring up other countries?

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i bring up other countries because it's relative to the discussion. I'm sorry but poor people don't own cars, cell phones, weigh 300lbs, go to saints games, etc..

There is a big difference between being broke and being impoverished

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That is a good question, but you can't deny that this an issue for many of these people.

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well gentrification is literally a reinvestment in poor areas where the end result is a positive. the issue is that positive means property values go up and new (often more expensive) services are available. the "negative" is just the positive spun into a negative (high prices)

i have a saying that applies here (when we're discussing government policy)

we should create policies that aid those who are doing things the right way (instead of creating policies that aid those who aren't)

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In Dallas, most gentrification has been of abandoned industrial areas, which is the best kind of gentrification because it does not involve displacing original residents.

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Are you serious Clark? East Dallas is going through major gentrification and forcing out communities as quickly as possible. Anything within a 10 minute drive of Highland Park is being completely gentrified.

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Do you believe people should be able to achieve a 4.0 in school? Or should the max be a 3.5 and the extra 0.5 be added to the lowest failing students? Further, those lower failing students also get and extra 0.1 from every student who has over a 2.5? Also, every honors class and AP program has a mandatory set of 5 seats for those with the lowest test scores. It doesn't matter how many qualified applicants there are for each class, 5 seats have to go to the lowest graded students. Finally, any student who maintains a 3.5 after the 0.5 cut must also give an extra 0.2. Sound like a good education system to you? This post was edited on 4/1 at 5:00 pm

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Great point, allow me to expand.. A lot of the deplorable schools in inner city's are famous for passing students thru without any real education, some of these students graduate with honors and can even read at a 5th grade level.

Later in life when the 'honor' student can't get a good job because he/she is essentially retarded, racism is seen as the reason.. Afterall, "i graduated high school with honors, it must be the color of my skin". The sad thing is, most of these people don't even know the truth, they have been used and lied to their whole life.

So while they are being failed from the moment they are born by every adult in their life, in the end, it is always The Man's fault

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I don't see things like this in terms of good and bad. It's simply a social/economic trend. My generation wanted to be out in the suburbs where there was more house and land for the money. The generation of my children seem to prefer living in the city where the action is. Sure the displaced people in the city get priced out of their neighborhoods but considering the state of most inner cities, I don't see this as a bad thing.

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Yup. It's not good or bad. It just IS. It's a generational preference. A couple of generations in a row preferred the suburbs and pushed them further and further out, hollowing out the cities. The subsequent generation preferred the city and rejected the suburbs, ejecting the people who had been renting for cheap in the dilapidated city out to the far suburbs.

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They are, or certainly have a greater right to be their than the white interlopers.

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Why? I want to hear your rationale, Heather.

I had already thought about posting how gay gentrification may be the exception, because gay gentrified areas are racially and economically diverse.

This is certainly the case in Dallas.
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Yet again you are wrong, Heather. I am an evil straight white male that lives in Oak Lawn(THE gay Dallas neighborhood) & I am surrounded by the evil gentrifying whites. Hardy any of your so called "discriminated against minorities" in sight of this area. Go to Cedar Springs Road after dark & you will see diversification at its best at all the bars but not actually living in Oak Lawn any more. Good attempt at your SJW talk.