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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am I understanding this correctly...that this is a lamentation over whites moving into an area that was for the most part considered a black neighborhood?

Cause if it is I am having a reverse flashback to a time in my youth I heard just the opposite.[/quote]

here are some quotes from the column:"The millennial newcomers--most of them white--jog, bike and walk about the city as if in a trance, oblivious to the lives that helped form the place they now call home."

"What is particularly grating is a disregard for the history of 14th Street as a black commercial center. . . "

"And after risking life and limb and finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, along comes an influx of new residents to reap the rewards."

Who is in a trance? Did he interview people to figure out they are "oblivious to the lives that helped form" the neighborhood? Who is disregarding the history of 14th street as a black commercial center?  Is it the mere fact that white people shop there now too?   Should people not move into a great neighborhood because they didn't live there through the bad times in the 70s and 80s?  Wait a minute - most of these millennials were babies or young kids in the 80s. I guess you're not allowed to live there unless your parents lived there.[/quote]

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