Gentrification and anxiety. The effects of gentrification are an interesting lens through which to view mental health. And before I get too far into the esoteric or perhaps abstract; I think a critical piece is that gentrification is not a general term. It is not used for when a lively immigrant community moves in, paints…
Tag: greed
D.I.Y. Reparations
If you see a Black security guard watching over your local drugstore, tell him that you are participating in the movement of D.I.Y. reparations and hand him a $100 bill.
#columbusing and the pleasure principle
First I have to express my dismay at not coming up with the term – columbusing. It fully expresses something that I often think and speak about, the historical and modern day colonizing projects of white people. But now that we have the term, it is time to proliferate it.
let’s play a game – spot the hypocrisy
Bill Gates makes his fortune on new technologies – both hardware and software. Bill Gates uses a small portion of his gigantic fortune to fund “education reform”. He throws money at every new, shiny idea that comes across his desk – small schools, technology in the classroom, the Common Core, and educating for global competencies….
my soul will resist privatization
merriam-webster defines public as: of, relating to, or affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state <public law> Those who live to affect their individual selves, for their own gain, have been chipping away at all institutions of the public. Soon the public will be caged in by the private. I am a…
Bookstores have a self-help aisle, where is the help others aisle?
When I think the distribution of goods, there is the standard concept of material goods, which people feel they are due for their hard work. I can’t say my sense of reward is much different – when I see someTHING I want, I can rationalize it as a reward for my hard work. But the…
Achievement Gap to real talk: Resource Gap
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html Ah the eternal quest for the cure, but is the disease racism or poverty. The economists and Marxists declare that it money is the virus, tearing down our immune system of liberty and justice. Sociologists and cultural theorists have traced race to be patient X. Those who maintain a holistic view of our society,…
