Gabriela Wallberg Gentrification in My City

Gabriela Wallberg

Gentrification in My City

there is a subtle irony every time a white woman leaves the comfort of her suburban home and life to drive to Minneapolis to go shopping she will walk into some trendy shop selling raw dog food or rare houseplants and inside that store there are other women who look just like her and yet these shops in North Minneapolis were not intended for the actual residents that live there because they are preoccupied with a different set of problems they are trying to stay alive in a place were having brown skin can get you killed by the very same people who are supposed to protect you

that same woman will always be sure to leave the city before dark and then she will get back into her car and drive back to her suburban home without ever understanding the magnitude of that privilege and without ever recognizing that she is part of the problem.