Gentrification is aided by police. It’s not just trap yoga and craft beer. That’s the back end.

The beginning is the carceral disappearing of our folk and the drain (emotionally, spiritually, financially) that leaves on our families.

I’m disgusted that so many have turned Breonna Taylor into a meme. Social Justice Influencers have turned her into a bag (ahem BreonnaCon). If you truly honored her life, you’d devote yourself to ending the things that stole her from us. https://theappeal.org/the-role-of-police-igentrification-breonna-taylor/

From my own seat, I watch how clergy/ community leaders often finger wag at folks who are in and out of prison.

The compassionate question is, “why the hell is it possible that you keep ending up HERE? Could it be that this system is designed to make a permanent inmate of you?”

And when you get to that question, you then wonder, “hmm. Who stands to gain from the consistent and repeated arrests of Black people?”

It is difficult* to organize against the system when you are interrupted by court dates and hearings. That’s the fucking point.
* difficult, but not impossible. Shout outs to our people leading strikes and doing liberation work while Inside.

The whole point of this system is to dehumanize you to the point of ineffectiveness. There is no amount of training or bias workshops that anyone can do to eradicate that demon out of this system.

As they say, it’s a key feature, not a bug.

So yes, we should absolutely shame gentrifiers and tell them to leave.

And also. We should abolish the police. Because they actively aid in the project of gentrification.

And while I’m at it. Don’t you for ONE second believe that folks aren’t getting evicted in a pandemic because “it’s illegal.”
You can do anything you want if the cops are on your side. Too many stories to tell.

Just know... it’s happening.