Boston Rage..Against gentrification:
Let me start by saying this will be an angry article. If you’re not looking to have your eyes open to the circumstances and situations around you, then by all means, please look away.
History: The Sickening Cycle.
Boston is unique to any other city in the U.S. for two very important reasons. The first is space, Boston is simply smaller than other “Major” U.S. cities, but besides the fact this means you literally know almost everyone in your demographic, it also creates another, real estate specific situation. There is no such thing as a bad location. No matter where you are in the city of Boston, you’re near the highway, the MBTA and the airport. You’re also near what equates the second unique Boston factor…a College. Boston not only has a lot of Colleges, it has a lot of the world’s top and most respected colleges.
Every year tens of thousands of “kids” (a lot of whom lack melanin…or they try to fit in with those who don’t) move into Boston, they are either wealthy or don’t mind living 6 to a room….and are willing to pay the “extra” to be near campus/class. Every year, a percentage of these “kids” graduates and stays in the city. They find jobs and roommates, and we, the natives, disregard it, because ultimately they stay clear of “the Hood”. However, a small percentage, if consistent in its growth over time can create a big problem. As “there” numbers swell, they inevitably look to us and our homes, for space, and they push us out (to the suburbs). They eventually pair off get married, have children and then move out to (guess where) the suburbs (yes..where they just pushed us), because Boston just doesn’t have the “space” for 2.5 kids a white picket fence and a minivan. So they move out to the burbs, push us back into the city, cut of our access, and viola it’s the hood again.
Stay in your Place:
A few short years ago, if you weren’t driving, and you were standing at the intersection of Harvard, Talbot and Blue Hill, it would take, at best, a bus and a train to get out of the city, to the tune of damn near 1.5 hours later. In fact if you were in “the hood” (If I need to specify…you aint there) to travel to the Cambridge Side Galleria (which is literally 50 yards from the Boston line (Think about where is the Museum of Science located..IJS) it would take you approx. 2 hours..Hell the round trip is the equivalent of a Megabus ride to NYC. The trains, both the red and the orange merely “skirt” “the hood”, don’t believe me…would you walk from Kay’s to either Forrest Hills or Ashmont??? The first rule of marginalizing a people is cut them off, limit their access. Make it so difficult for them to leave their surroundings that they simply choose to stay, in effect creating a Prison without walls. In less than a generation the inhabitants (Prisoners) will actually argue and defend that there is no reason to ever leave, and will even ostracize those who do. (Let that simmer)
Wake up
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How Could this Happen:
Simple solution… we don’t own anything in the community in which we live. We don’t own the business, or the land/homes. Hell… we don’t own the cars or the furniture (Shouts out to Rent-a-Center….which by the way is in only in low income neighborhoods. ) Actually it is quite simple to push us out, simply continue to raise the rent to beyond the already astronomical proportions, and let nature take its course. Keep promoting single family households where the parent (usually mom) has just enough time to work her 2 or 3 jobs to reach the aforementioned rent, keep her focused on surviving instead of living, Make sure that message has been passed down.
Boston Rage.
Get mad people, Let that anger fuel discussion, that create actions. To quote Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle in to that good night”. Make no mistake about it, this is a fight for your homes, for the community you have called home, and you are well on your way to having 781, 508 or 978 as your new area code. It should infuriate you that the changes that are being made to make the inner city look and feel better, are not not for you, it could have and should have been, but it just aint (Yes I said aint). We have to learn to see life as what we do, not what happens to us…..They want you to believe that you have no power, that all of this is separate from you. That you’re an individual, because the individual is weak, the collective is strong…Dorchester Strong, Roxbury Strong, Mattapan Strong…Boston Strong
