Comments on: You need ghetto and richness living together in harmony to sustain a dope environment

By: missA

missA — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:36:16 +0000

dude sounds like he wants a white boy trophy for “[dealing] with black women of all ages yelling” (what does that even mean?) And has the nerve to call his place New Jack City? fuck this guy and his wannabe store.

By: Tiny Tim

Tiny Tim — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:22:17 +0000

In the rebuilt VG, they designed a wide street in the complex, in which to park cars. How is it that subsidized housing allows for car ownership by tenants? There are buses and there’s walking.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:54:16 +0000

I’ve sent you an email. Thanks!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:58:26 +0000

So why’d they all leave?

By: TopDogg

TopDogg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:34:50 +0000

HAHAHA I remember them! Good lookin out! Arf Arf!

By: Roofus Lupus

Roofus Lupus — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:33:37 +0000

I think it’s clear that things have deteriorated because those two rad roof-dogs are no longer on top of that building across 15th street. You need fido and bitches living together on balcony to sustain a dope environment. Upward mobility, y’all.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:25:18 +0000

Chicago is actually hyper-segregated. Not a whole lot of mingling between the classes. But I wonder if the author has ever even been there.

By: truth

truth — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:01:35 +0000

This quote represents ignorance about urban environments that are not on the coasts.

By: Brillo

Brillo — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:36:29 +0000

“The Midwest” is just a lazy metaphor for “boring places”. As a slur, it’s pretty mild. But this guy seems to value other people’s poverty a little too much. I wonder if he’d like to try opening a shop in Detroit (which is, I know, another lazy metaphor for “urban decay”).

By: Viv

Viv — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:32:07 +0000

ugh, what an a**hole. that store predominantly profits off of borrowed black, 80s hiphop culture and he has the gall to say that crap??? NEVER setting foot in there.

By: Olu

Olu — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:06:26 +0000

Gosh, you people act like you’ve never lived in environments that were economically and racially diverse before. Oh. Okay.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:16:54 +0000

Actually, quite a lot of Kansas has an awesome number of black citizens (who are not drug-running, plaza-residing slackers), because it was a free state. And no one ever accused Michigan of being “white washed”. I think YOU must be from a special case.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:39:11 +0000

Never met more, uh… Minneapolitans anywhere else but San Francisco, and I’ve only heard awesome things.

By: Tony T.

Tony T. — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:22:36 +0000

People want to live in a diverse environment, yet many get taken aback when they realize what “diversity” actually entails. The overwhelming majority of the black folks in the projects and the latino folks in the Mission are good, decent people. But the small, violent minority is a reality, and as another commenter astutely observed there’s going to be more violence, not less, as the economy continues to deteriorate.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:07:07 +0000

Hooray indeed… Cheers to you, my new friend.