Jason Percy
Ink Coffee was vandalized shortly after it had put a sign proudly displaying its effort for pushing development and gentrification in a neighborhood. In Denver and elsewhere coffee houses seek to be a place where people can have something nice aside form the pathetic liquor store and stale chip business and form Los to Denver a new type of activism has taken root going after these businesses that often lead gentrification. It seems you can't win as for years ghettos residents complain of only the corner liquor store being around and existing yet when something else tries to develop and open up areas for new business the clash and accusation of these owners attempting to push out current residents.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ink Coffee's vandalism had nothing to do with the controversial and unwise sign it had and other liquor store business owners wishing to keep this part of Denver a ghetto only offering fucking liquor,cigars, and chips were the real culprit as they have most to fear of possible gentrification and corporation of this Denver neighborhood. In the summer in Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angles weird Wave Coffee was attacked as residents fear a Whitewash of a long predominantly Mexican neighborhood long a barrio and now on the eyes of redevelopment and free of the tainted jingoism cultural supremacy of Mexican nationals in California. As the Los Angeles Times asked why were Starbucks opening not protested by these vociferous Mexican activists fighting to persevere segregation? I beg to ask why were not Dunkin Donuts not protested? I would beg to ask why the hell are liquor stores not vandalized when it is obvious they bring about much more harm to a community with the product they push and cause a complex number of social problems with their targeting and prevalence in certain areas of a city. These business occupy space that others wish to push and market alcohol and bad product for the local populace whether it be hard liquor or smokes. This is what the vandalism is all about as those who transform and perpetuate ghettos in America fear the loss of their valuable bank access assets and rising rents that would readily displace their awful business and replace it with something better through gentrification.
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