… Bold words given that developers are investing billions of dollars a five-minute bike ride away in downtown LA, transforming the skyline with gleaming towers and the streets with boutique bars, restaurants, cafes and galleries.
With rents soaring to Manhattan levels, eyes have turned to the community of 92,000 souls packed into six square miles just across the 6th Street bridge.
Known for low-income housing, mom-and-pop stores, taco stands, service workers and mariachis, Boyle Heights may appear ripe for transformation. Most residents rent, and many are poor. Other Latino enclaves in east LA, after all, have morphed into trendy areas where whites now walk their dogs.
Not so Boyle Heights, at least not yet, as some outsiders have discovered to their cost.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Anti-gentrification is just code for No Whites Allowed.
* The “activists” pictured seem to be mostly white Mexicans, who themselves have a decent amount of Jewish ancestry, starting with crypto-jewish Spaniards heading to Mexico to avoid the Inquisition in the 1500′s, and a smaller wave escaping Franco and Hitler in the 1930′s.
Look at some of these photos:
Photo 1 has two guys who could be 100% European, three more that look 80% or more European, and only one person who is an obvious mestizo.
Photo 2: A pale woman who would not look out of place in Russia
Photo 4: The center of the photo has three people who look like Spanish hipsters
* I notice they give Latino a capital L but whites has a lowercase w. When do we get our capital W?
* The Latinos in this LA neighborhood who are resisting gentrification are acting like white people opposing blockbusting some decades ago: maybe worse. That will be the way to portray gentrification, if you want it to succeed.
The fact is, wealth, and the economic, social and political power that it represents, are what ultimately determines what happens. Inclusive ideologies simply maintain the safety nets, which is fine as far as it goes. The poor have rights and certainly a right to some dignity, but they don’t determine what happens with real estate. Just ask the people who built Dodger Stadium.
The main thing to keep in mind is that the people who are constantly promoting SJW and the moral tingles that go with it are basically powerless in economic terms. Yes, they can intimidate people into silence and make the public square so PC that it becomes uninhabitable, but they aren’t creating any value.
I keep wondering how long this is going to go on.
