Whitehead's tale of a quaint little crack house with a view doesn't say so explicitly, but being a white gentrifier is not quite the same thing as being black/Latino/Asian and snapping up an undervalued steal. ❋ Gary Dauphin (2010)
For the white gentrifier there is profit and maybe wry guilt, but for the colored gentrifier there is profit, guilt, and a fear of betrayal. ❋ Gary Dauphin (2010)
But Los Angeles 'ethnic communities are so diverse, so dynamic, that they can't help but include both the gentrified and the gentrifier. ❋ Gary Dauphin (2010)
And although I have mixed feelings about being a gentrifier, they wanted me to know that there soon would be more like me. ❋ David Serchuk (2011)
Well let me say, as a young gentrifier, it's not that easy. ❋ Tommy Simon (2012)
My other option, I think, is to complain to my borough government, a very American gentrifier thing to do. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)
This process is either a solution to urban blight or a desecration of Hispanic culture, depending on whether you're the gentrifier or the gentrifee yes, I made those words up, don't bother to comment on them. ❋ Daniel Cubias (2011)
Or the fact that the organic food section at my local grocery store is way smaller than I would prefer it to be -- as a gentrifier in Detroit I am also concerned with whether I will ever have an occupation that provides health care for me. ❋ Tommy Simon (2012)
So in response, I ended up a typical 20-year-old gentrifier, living in a 5-bedroom railroad flat in the mission sleeping on a floor-mattress, using my privilege to reject my privilege. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I had an irrational urge to shout out, "I'm a renter, not a gentrifier!", but I realized this was a ridiculous statement. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And years of feeling frustrated and angry and guilty when groups of young Black men in my neighborhood would periodically decide to chase me and threaten me and say sexually disgusting things to me and just generally make me feel unsafe in my gender because of resentment and tension around the fact that I'm a gentrifier. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
After the shock faded, I caught up to the male driver who un-apologeticly hurled very very hurtful insults(including some racial epitaphs) got the full contents of my water bottle(which contained a stick gooey power something) all over his face and any thing else in the vicinity,(car was stopped at light) damn gentrifier never had a chance. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
A gentrifier and offspring driving without a care in their rover oblivious to me riding along side in good ol brooklyn blocks from my crib, toss out of the drivers window a half eaten ice cream cone which remarkably lands right on my foot. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
