November Post #2

"What Happens When Your Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express" was a very upsetting first person account of how destructive the process of gentrification can be. Gentrification is the displacement of poor women and people of color. I feel that small instances of  gentrification is necessary in order for cultures to integrate, but I don't think that one culture should ever dominate and exile another. For example, the native americans were conquered by the English so that the colonies could be founded. Despite the huge advancement, the culture of the native americans was disregarded and ruined, very similar to the Mission District in San Francisco and the poor people that lived there. I believe that gentrification is basically a subtle form of murdering cultures with the shroud of "good intentions" or "necessary expansion". People should be able to integrate together and work together instead of being so single minded on conquering one another.