Seriously, when does it end? What is "it", you ask? IT is the bullshit bias and systemic discrimination of poor people and poor people of color. I can't complain about the East Bank Project. It's super duper for some people. However, when I read that Voinabitch announced that the city is receiving HUD $$$ to build a fucking grocery store in the Flats, I bristled.
Um. Meanwhile on East 55th and St. Clair....
Meanwhile on West 65th and Detroit....
Meanwhile on East 79th and Superior...
There are no fucking grocery stores. None. Yet, yuppies who can plop down thousands of dollars to live in fancy new condos will have a nice convenient grocery store full of fresh veggies and organic milk. I know that this deal is more complex than meets the eye, but why can't we get grocery stores in every neighborhood in this city? We have corner stores, Subways and check cashing stores, but not everyone has a decent, full service grocery store where they can buy healthy, fresh foods.
But people who have the ways and means to access pretty much any grocery store they want, will have the additional luxury of having one in their new Flats neighborhood.
Color me pissed.
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You can't get them in those places because a grocery store, unlike a check cashing store, does not perpetuate the power of the powers that be.
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