East Austin Gentrification Documentary PODER Part 2

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[cherrrieee]

Not to mention, most minorities who maintain a strong cultural identity would prefer not to be surrounded by white people, aka the people who enslaved, raped, and stole from their ancestors, so the increasing presence of the white, private, self-employed entrepreneurs that you speak of probably served as additional incentive to drive the minorities out.

[cherrrieee]

Walking distance from downtown is PRIME location, and if these working-class minorities had been educated on the value of the land they posessed, they may not have chosen to sell out.

[cherrrieee]

I'm an Austin based black person, and I can testify that the flip side of the stories that you claim are NOT being told is the fact that many of the old families who sold their lots and houses to developers were un-versed on the true value of said lots and homes, lured by the prospect of brand new "updated" homes, which are actually less-than-builder-grade cereal boxes built so cheaply and poorly that the foundations are likely to collapse before they'll become family legacies.

[MarkusFunk]

Not to mention that the majority of the folks that are renovating property for profit in Austin are private, self-employed entrepreneurs that call Austin home and have a vested interest in it's communities and growth, not government-sanctioned institutional racists that this video claims... dislike!

[MarkusFunk]

This video is extremely one-sided. I'm an Austin-based real estate investor and can testify that the stories that are NOT being told here are the ones where the old families made enough money from the sale of their lots and houses to developers that they were able to pay cash for brand new, updated homes in places like Buda and Kyle. Safer neighborhoods, better schools, comfortable retirements and a legacy for their children. That's the flip side of whatever "cultural disaster" is being claimed.

[ThirdWorldTV]

@roughcoat09 Go back to Ohio

[wojtek0000]

We all gotta live together. Black, white, soon to be burned-skin (i.e. dead and dying with skin sagging from nuclear radiation, hanging on chain-link fences praying for repentance).

[armandosanz04]

If you live in Austin or the surrounding areas and would like to know more about the effects of gentrification in East Austin and what you can do to help, come to Freedom Weekend [ April 29 - May 2]. There will be documentaries on gentrification in Austin and other areas of the country, speakers, performers, workshops on how to help and how to get involved, and to hear about the effect on the people of East Austin Community.

INFORMATION LINE [Freedom Weekend Day-by-Day!: 1.877.846.2619

[roughcoat09]

You twisted take on this issue requires more psychiatric counseling than anything else. The history of the world is the movement of people get over it racist/ self hater.