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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm black and live in neighborhood near yours. There are several BLM signs around us in the yards of people who are not black. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'm glad people feel strongly enough about the message to identify themselves as believing in it.

That said, people will form opinions of you that you don't like and if your husband doesn't feel comfortable with that, that matters too.

We're also gentrifiers, though I guess being black cancels out the impact of that. But having kids changes what you have to consider and I could understand if your husband is coming at it from that angle, even if he doesn't articulate it that way. It's kinda ironic that I don't feel that my kid, young as he is, is entirely safe around gentrifiers.

So put up the sign because it sends a message to moms like me. Don't do it if it makes your own family uncomfortable. They're more important, and there are other ways. [/quote]

No. Being black doesn't cancel out the impact of that. As a white non-gentrifier you are just as bad. You are pricing people out of their homes and doing the same thing.  Own it. [/quote]

If they owned, they are not being priced out of their homes. If they live in committed affordable housing they are not being priced out of their homes. Renters of market rate housing may be forced out of "their" homes, though people like that moved before gentrification, and there is at least some evidence they live better in the suburbs.    And certainly the district govt benefits from the rise in property values and tax revenues, which it uses to pay for schools, affordable housing, and social services.  And to hire DC employees, most of whom are afrian american.

All in all the results of gentrification are mixed.

Kind of different from the results of policeman shooting a child. [/quote]

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