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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Um...I did.  Difference is that I don't give a sh*t about what you or anyone else thinks about where I choose to buy a house. [/quote]

Faulty assumption 1) I care or anyone else did until you decided to post that your skin color cancels out YOUR impact of gentrification (hint: it doesn't)

Faulty assumption 2) that white gentrifies care what other people think[/quote]

Hmmm. The only assumption I'm making is that they're irresistable to people who make a lot of assumptions.

The OP identified herself as a white gentrifier and then asked what others think.  As a black gentrifier, I don't share the same concerns she outlined in her post.

What I do share is an awareness that just being [i]who[/i] you are [i]where[/i] you are is an invitation to others to make assumptions about [i]what[/i] you are. So those little details about the who, what and where that I am are germane to the discussion. Your opinion on them is not germane to mine. 
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