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Farmers markets cultivate racism.

Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 4 months ago to Culture
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The white peoples habit of shopping at the farmers market creates gentrification.
Apparently when a good or service improves an area. White people will move to the area improve their property and price the non white out of the neighborhood. With that premise Home Depot is like the klan.
F....ing idiots.


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  • Posted by BeenThere 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of those markets I have attended (while visiting away from home), I concluded they are more a social event, with greeting and chatting far out weighing buying.
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  • Posted by BeenThere 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have found it difficult "...to find more of their quality." Altruism has severely damaged the culture, but I do find, here and there, the blossoming of sprigs of AR's name and AS mention.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 6 years, 4 months ago
    Nothing more "white" than wanting to get fresh vegetables at a reasonable price? Then call me "Snow White". By the same token, however, doesn't this imply that Blacks are willing to pay high prices for sub-standard produce? All one has to do is reverse the argument and one can see how truly racist this argument really is.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Whoa!
    I'm supremely happy to have moved sout from Michigan to anywhere below the snow line. When you get what they call "Lake effect snow" it is wet, heavy and miserable (looks pretty) but we get more rain, however, you don't need to shovel rain.Lots of flooding last year, though. However, our developer had the good sense to build 3 huge retention ponds on our neighborhood, so, no problems. The ponds are perfect baseball fields in the summer.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Gentrification is an insult to everyone.
    Kind of like no child get's ahead.
    Oops I meant no child left behind oh well same difference.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes the quality of friendships and the standards I set often eliminate many. The ones I do acquire
    are rare and valuable.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 4 months ago
    Whatever happened to "we should locate there because it looks like an area where we can make a buck?"Next came studies of population growth and income growth of the area and will we get to stay for at least 8 years in order to make our investment back plus a fairly juicy profit. As far as I know, as someone who has been in the retail brick & mortar type stores for a number of years that was the only consideration. What the social implications of the combination of stores was not at the forefront of our consideration.
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  • Posted by Joseph23006 6 years, 4 months ago
    Long before stadiums and parking lots, Pittsburgh in the fifties had a vibrant 'farmer's market' on the North Side below the railroad tracks. Friday night was farmer's night and everybody went. It was only a vacant lot where local growers paid a fee, parked their trucks and sold just picked fruits and vegetables, fresh baked bread and other goods, plus meats and cheeses from family run businesses in Pennsylvania and Ohio, I guess 40 to 60. Several of these truck farms were near to where we lived and some distant cousins came from twenty miles south with newly dug potatoes. Little did we know this was truck garden cultivated racism and gentrification. Progressive urban planning destroyed that and the area now has stadiums, resident suite hotels, overpriced restaurants, and touristy attractions; the real vitality of the area never returned. Those places being 'gentrified' are merely being returned to their former shape after urban planning blighted the area.
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  • Posted by chad 6 years, 4 months ago
    Amazing how easily people can take offense at the behavior of others. I suppose if I went to a club where mostly black people went and didn't like it I would still be the racist not them even though they were busy cultivating their bias toward me??
    I am not racist although I do discriminate to a high degree which probably explains why I have few people that I qualify as friends and as I get older my friends have begun to disappear from the planet and I don't know that I care to put in the effort to find more of their quality.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That looked hard until I stared at the first word of the sentence and me dino realized that the first word of the sentence does not have to be the first word of the sentence.
    So verily, to wit and therefore, me dino came up with~ta da!~
    Loony lib logic lets loose limitless lunacy.
    That written, me dino is considering the first and last words of the sentence and is thinking it's redundant. Let's try again~
    Lopsided lib logic lets loose limitless lunacy.
    That's better, I guess.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Our market The competition amongst the vendors is pretty good every Wednesday during the summer months. Probably 30-40 stands the site is in a community park on the south end we re on the north end of the boundary 1/2 mile hike. There is a band stand with live music.
    I would go but Wednesday I golf.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 4 months ago
    I am definitely a culturist. I like some cultures and dont like others. I could care less about "race" actually and never did. BUT, that said, when I look at the entitlement of most black people today (not all), I would be called "racist". I could care less about being labeled that actually, as it is factually incorrect. Nevertheless, as a matter of efficiency in conducting my life, I tend to avoid black people UNLESS they show me they arent entitled. Good thing I will never run for political office- I would be disqualified for that comment I am sure.
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