Black History Month 2014

[Ed Anger]

I know where I like to put my genderfluid.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/eddie-murphy-daughters-pose-lingerie-shoot-article-1.1604365

? (NSFW)

[grumbler]

garbon is free to tell you what he wants you to read or post.

And I am free to tell him that I'd rather he didn't. 

[grumbler]

And I'd rather you didn't reply to me.

And I'd rather be sunning myself on a beach in Hawaii.  We don't always get what we'd rather. 

[fhdz]

I don't see black.

They live in different neighborhoods than you do.

[derspiess]

http://news.yahoo.com/trader-joe-39-drops-black-neighborhood-store-plan-224732374.html

[garbon]

Well, I do seem to recall that there weren't many black people to be seen when I was in Portland.

[CountDeMoney]

Even if they went into that location, they'd pull out in 2 years anyway.  Dropping a Trader Joe's into the middle of a low-income 'hood doesn't sound like a big moneymaker, no matter how many hipsters they're trying to get to move into the ghetto to raise the tax base.

I bet derweiß rolled his big ol' creepy ass cracker eyeballs at "non-oppressed populations", though.

[garbon]

Even if they went into that location, they'd pull out in 2 years anyway.  Dropping a Trader Joe's into the middle of a low-income 'hood doesn't sound like a big moneymaker, no matter how many hipsters they're trying to get to move into the ghetto to raise the tax base.

I bet derweiß rolled his big ol' creepy ass cracker eyeballs at "non-oppressed populations", though.

Knowing little of the area, I'm actually wondering though if the people of that neighborhood aren't already being priced out.

[CountDeMoney]

Knowing little of the area, I'm actually wondering though if the people of that neighborhood aren't already being priced out.

From Whiteypedia:

Alberta Street has always been one of the main hubs of the Northeast area in Portland. The street was once the essence of the culture contained by the primarily urban and African-American community. Since the gentrification in the Northeast area, Alberta Street is the heart of an arts, restaurant, and shopping district approximately 20 blocks long. The area around Alberta is becoming very popular with yuppies as well as hipsters, bohemians, hippies and other groups associated with the counterculture.

So they're at least working on it.

[derspiess]

 

[Admiral Yi]

The street was once the essence of the culture contained by the primarily urban and African-American community.

What?

[CountDeMoney]

Once the heart of Portland's African-African community, Northeast Portland is now actually only one-fourth black, down from 75 percent in 1990. According to reports, blacks represent only about 6 percent of the city's total population, numbering some 41,000 people. Thousands of African-Americans arrived in Portland during World War II to work in shipyards and the railroads. Also, according to PortlandPulse.org, unemployment among the city's black population has generally run twice as high as rates for whites and Asians.

They should move all the displaced black people in with you, then.  I'm sure you've got the room.  And, as an added bonus, you can ask Mr. Brown for some employment opportunities for them, what with his record of minority hires.       

[CountDeMoney]

The street was once the essence of the culture contained by the primarily urban and African-American community.

What?

Once upon a time, here there be blacks.

[Admiral Yi]

The street was once the essence of the culture contained by the primarily urban and African-American community.

What?

Once upon a time, here there be blacks.

I got what the writer was trying to say, just confused as to why he chose this way to say it.  "The culture contained by the community??"

[derspiess]

Once the heart of Portland's African-African community, Northeast Portland is now actually only one-fourth black, down from 75 percent in 1990. According to reports, blacks represent only about 6 percent of the city's total population, numbering some 41,000 people. Thousands of African-Americans arrived in Portland during World War II to work in shipyards and the railroads. Also, according to PortlandPulse.org, unemployment among the city's black population has generally run twice as high as rates for whites and Asians.

They should move all the displaced black people in with you, then.  I'm sure you've got the room.  And, as an added bonus, you can ask Mr. Brown for some employment opportunities for them, what with his record of minority hires.       

They'd be more comfortable on Cincy's west side, which is more "vibrant" than my part of town.