Gentrified for Dating?
"Poor folk and old people are being driven from the city they've lived in all of their lives … but it's easier to hook up with someone hot and enjoy some coffee afterwards."
The blogger comments on the changing face of U Street NW, pointing at the Mocha Hut as a symbol of change.I understand where the author at listentoleon.net is coming from. For those of you familiar with this blog, I have expressed the same sentiment repeatedly.
So what if historically Black neighborhoods are wiped out to make it easier for singles to "hook up and enjoy coffee." I have also been to Mocha Hut many times and I have yet to find "someone hot." This is because the "hot" women are not interested in me. Trust me, I've tried.
Your humble blogger is not "hot." You see the photo at the left. I am considered quite ugly.
This city is considered ugly to those who wish to remake it into a futuristic Utopian image of a clean, prosperous city suitable for "hot people to hook up and enjoy coffee."
The "ugly poor folk and old people" are being "driven from the city" for "hot rich folk and young people."
As said in Miranda's speech from Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
- "O wonder!
- How many goodly creatures are there here!
- How beautious mankind is!
- O brave new world
- That has such people in it!"
I shudder to think that this is the case.
1 Comments:
That one quote was meant as a joke, but one that makes people step back and take a look at what is going on right in front of their very eyes.
When I wrote that, I was hoping that it would hopefully get a dialogue going. Thanks for choosing to blog about it and make your voice heard
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