Portland homeless cesspool- Denver next?

[Ronin13]

The ridiculous situation that Ink coffee shop is experiencing shows that Denver's succumbed to the grievance culture. Professional rabble rouser is going to succeed in driving a thriving business out of a neighborhood and Denver's city officials are just going to watch.

I was listening to Mandy Connell discussing the Ink Coffee issue yesterday. That's frightening to watch. Gentrification, especially in an area like 5 points is a good thing. Look what it did to Lowry- that area is really nice! But these commie punks want the "white man" owners to turn over their business to the community. Really? If I were the owner I'd say "sure! You pay what the property is worth and you can do whatever you want with it." Either way, now is the time to get out, obviously they're going to make it too hostile to run your business in that neighborhood. Why is it always the most racist calling racism the loudest?

[KevDen2005]

The ridiculous situation that Ink coffee shop is experiencing shows that Denver's succumbed to the grievance culture. Professional rabble rouser is going to succeed in driving a thriving business out of a neighborhood and Denver's city officials are just going to watch.

I saw that. I as watching these people scream that the city has failed them by not investing into the locals in the community. What a bunch of crybabies our culture and city has turned into.

[Zundfolge]

The truth is, people that hate "gentrification" love to see people suffering in squalor ... these people are just evil.

[KevDen2005]

The truth is, people that hate "gentrification" love to see people suffering in squalor ... these people are just evil.

The news made it sound like genocide. It's always someone else's fault and when people move in to make the neighborhood safer, better, or more prosperous, it's always the people that weren't gonna do anything in the first place yelling about the government's lack of investment into them

[Martinjmpr]

I was trying to explain the whole "gentrification" controversy to my wife yesterday.

She said "so, people with money are moving into poor neighborhoods, improving the area, building up the economy, boosting property values and providing jobs. And the people who live in the neighborhood are angry about that."

I said Yup, pretty much.

Living in Charlotte, NC, I got to see the exact opposite of "gentrification" and it was pretty gruesome. That is, inner-city neighborhoods or close-in suburbs in decay, the people who have money (mostly the white people) move out, just beyond the city limits or the busing line (busing was a huge issue in Charlotte in the 1970's), and the inner city neighborhood (predominately black) continues to decline, while the suburbs that form a "ring" around the city are thriving. Then the city gets a GFI (Great F***ing Idea) to extend the city limits into the now-affluent suburbs, which just triggers another round of people with money moving farther out, and the once-thriving suburbs then start to decline as people flee beyond the city limits.

If you drew an economic map of Charlotte, with red for wealthy areas and white for poor ones, it would look just like a target: A red "bullseye" in the center of town (called Uptown in Charlotte) where the wealthy young people/hipsters live, surrounded by a ring of poor, mostly black suburbs, and that in turn is surrounded by a large ring of prosperous suburbs.

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The news made it sound like genocide. It's always someone else's fault and when people move in to make the neighborhood safer, better, or more prosperous, it's always the people that weren't gonna do anything in the first place yelling about the government's lack of investment into them

White people move out = "white flight" = racism

White people move in = "gentrification" = racism

White people = racism (every time)

I don't understand why this is a hard lesson for people about the Left (media) and their racial narratives but someone will be along shortly to correct me.

The interesting thing is that almost all of these gentrified areas/communities were built by the white middle class pre-WWII. It's more of a homecoming than an invasion. Why they left is the part of the story that won't be reported as it indicts big-city-Dims and even now they have to be careful because it is their policies and "leadership" that have increased rents. When was the last time Denver elected anything other than a Dim? 1963.

Maybe worthy of its own thread but the Denver ComPost has just reported both Handcock and Albus Brooks (shitty council) have decided to join the race baiting and stab Ink Coffee in the back for bringing in jobs and economic mobility...

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/28...equity-denver/


This is the kind of stupid that can wreck a big city. "Leadership" is saying it sides with detractors against businesses. Why would any business move here or stay with such big racial issues and economic injustice to be solved at their expense?

[Martinjmpr]

I guess I don't understand why Ink doesn't just close up shop and move to a neighborhood where they're welcome. If the area's being "gentrified" then the property ought to be worth more money, right? Sell the property and tell the protesters to buy it and start their own coffee shop.

[Ronin13]

I guess I don't understand why Ink doesn't just close up shop and move to a neighborhood where they're welcome. If the area's being "gentrified" then the property ought to be worth more money, right? Sell the property and tell the protesters to buy it and start their own coffee shop.

Therein lies the rub. They want the property turned over to them... they don't want to buy it, they want it seized by gov and turned into a community center. Modern urban American "Bolsheviks."

ETA: This subject might be worthy of it's own thread...

[Great-Kazoo]

The ridiculous situation that Ink coffee shop is experiencing shows that Denver's succumbed to the grievance culture. Professional rabble rouser is going to succeed in driving a thriving business out of a neighborhood and Denver's city officials are just going to watch.

The irony of this and other stories like it............The people who open business in areas like 5 points ar eof the same voting block. See what white guilt gets you.

[BladesNBarrels]

Living in Charlotte, NC, I got to see the exact opposite of "gentrification" and it was pretty gruesome. That is, inner-city neighborhoods or close-in suburbs in decay, the people who have money (mostly the white people) move out, just beyond the city limits or the busing line (busing was a huge issue in Charlotte in the 1970's), and the inner city neighborhood (predominately black) continues to decline, while the suburbs that form a "ring" around the city are thriving. Then the city gets a GFI (Great F***ing Idea) to extend the city limits into the now-affluent suburbs, which just triggers another round of people with money moving farther out, and the once-thriving suburbs then start to decline as people flee beyond the city limits.

Denver went through the same 1968 - 1995 with court-ordered busing. The experiment was a failure in that the end result was white migration, burning of buses, hate and discontent on both sides.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us...ed-busing.html

How soon history is lost with the influx of masses of people with no clue as to what has happened in the past.