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| Portlandia by Mysterio Lollerson 10/01/2016, 4:20pm PDT | ||||
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| You can't make this up.
Wally says: September 30, 2016 at 12:59 am Organizations like In Other Words are first wave gentrifiers. You are the cause of gentrification, not a silly TV show. While I love your beliefs and clearly the TV show has treated you terribly, you represent the vanguard of gentrification and to pretend otherwise is like watching Trump supporters pretend they aren’t bigots. In Other Words Staff says: September 30, 2016 at 1:23 am You’re right. We absolutely do represent the first wave of gentrifiers. We were a harbinger of gentrification when we moved from SE Hawthorne to NE Killingsworth and for years our space was an overwhelmingly white (and cis and upper middle class) spot in a majority Black neighborhood. We know and we own that and it’s a major part of the reason why our politics and organizing have changed so drastically in the past two years. We understand it’s not just enough to feel bad (or just say we feel bad). We have to do everything we can to build the power of communities that have been displaced, abused, and erased in the name of racist capitalist development and endless growth. You’re right to call us out. Xaxier is too. We hope people keep calling us on our shit and pushing us to do more. MissRaychella says: September 30, 2016 at 5:55 am And, In Other Words, you’re still here, existing in a spot meant for Black folk. You need to shut down your business or hand over the keys to Black owners, and distribute 100% of the revenue your bookstore has made over the years directly to marginalized people in the Black community. Only then will your apology be worth anything. NE Killingsworth is not yours and was never meant to be yours. In Other Words Staff says: September 30, 2016 at 10:25 am We actually handed over the keys to Black owners two years ago. Our only paid staff member is also Black. Handing the revenue over the neighborhood is a good idea. We’ve been talking about becoming a worker-owned co-op rather than a volunteer run space. If we did so, and hired more folks from the neighborhood, being a co-op means that they would own a portion of the space, have a collective say in it’s future, and also a cut of the all the money the center makes. We’re gonna have a community meeting about it too and all of our meetings (including our monthly board meetings) are open to everyone in the neighborhood. We’ll put it up on the calendar when it’s scheduled: http://inotherwords.org/events/ By the end of this exchange, the owners of some shit shop in Portland have agreed that handing over the meager profits their store has made over the last 10 years to "members of the community" is a good idea. Can you imagine living in some town and some horn-rimmed SJW with rainbow hair comes knocking on your door with a check for $0.27 because the dumbshit owners of a bookstore were shamed into distributing. I love it because these worthless shitstains are eating each other and they deserve this. |
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Portlandia by 10/01/2016, 4:20pm PDT  Re: Portlandia by 10/01/2016, 4:27pm PDT What is with the "we're dying EVERY DAY" histrionics again? by 10/02/2016, 12:27pm PDT we're dying EVERY DAY, worm! by 10/02/2016, 8:32pm PDT |
