Trader Joe's drummed out of Portland neighborhood

[MickZagger]

There is a lot of land in NE that is basically full of project housing or dying businesses. The area west of I-5 and Interstate is becoming Whiteville, just like Hollywood/Alberta. The swampland north Rosa Parks, and east of Interstate, is a wasteland, though. You'd be fine driving there during the day, but take a drive to Exit 306, go east, and then then go south from there and tell me that it's what Portland should look like.

Look at you,

Mayor of Tualatin drawing up cultural boundary guides for the city folk.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Slowly pushing lower income folks out, Echo Park (L.A.) style.

If you want a good example of this - read up on what L.A. did to this once seedy barrio.

Its still a seedy Mexican class working neighborhood though. Sure, some hipsters go there to eat at good restaurants, to drink in dive bars and hang out and eat whatever they do. The soul of the neighborhood still remains intact.

I don't know on what planet people enjoy depressed communities, crime, and despondancy. While we're at it, why not make sure never to improve the schools in that area so more white people don't move there. Trader joes is a pretty good store, its cheap, foods are pre-made and relatively healthy. That community lost a lot b/c of the slap in the face of a pretty popular business not choosing to set up business. And then blacks complain about not having nice groceries and banks and services in the ghetto. Woe is me!

 

[MickZagger]

There's cities with a lot worse of race problem than our little place (we don't really have one for that matter).

My cousins grew up in a suburban St. Louis town called Chesterfield and the black folks would get bussed in from inner-city St. Louis (because they had to close down a lot of the inner city schools) to go to high school and they were basically treated like shit. Almost like modern day segregation type shit the way my cousins described it.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I don't know on what planet people enjoy depressed communities, crime, and despondancy. While we're at it, why not make sure never to improve the schools in that area so more white people don't move there. Trader joes is a pretty good store, its cheap, foods are pre-made and relatively healthy. That community lost a lot b/c of the slap in the face of a pretty popular business not choosing to set up business. And then blacks complain about not having nice groceries and banks and services in the ghetto. Woe is me!

I agree 100%

 

[PapaG]

Look at you,

Mayor of Tualatin drawing up cultural boundary guides for the city folk.

I work in the city, and work with city government. Maybe I should move to the 'Couve and wear brown shorts in the dead of winter so I can understand things better.

 

[PapaG]

There's cities with a lot worse of race problem than our little place (we don't really have one for that matter).

My cousins grew up in a suburban St. Louis town called Chesterfield and the black folks would get bussed in from inner-city St. Louis (because they had to close down a lot of the inner city schools) to go to high school and they were basically treated like shit. Almost like modern day segregation type shit the way my cousins described it.

We keep all of our black folk in NE Portland, like it used to be before Brown v. Board of Education. We're progressive in that way.

 

[MickZagger]

I work in the city, and work with city government. Maybe I should move to the 'Couve and wear brown shorts in the dead of winter so I can understand things better.

It would be a start. Or being born and raised there might help more.

 

[PapaG]

It would be a start. Or being born and raised there might help more.

Being born and raised in a part of the city you moved away from would help?

White flight. You're an example of it.

 

[MickZagger]

Being born and raised in a part of the city you moved away from would help?

White flight. You're an example of it.

Just moved back, sucka.

 

[PapaG]

Just moved back, sucka.

Good for you. Nice to hear it. What are you doing to keep the neighborhood shitty, since you're a white guy who moved back to a part of town that Portland wants to keep poor?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79156969/


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[MickZagger]

Good for you. Nice to hear it. What are you doing to keep the neighborhood shitty, since you're a white guy who moved back to a part of town that Portland wants to keep poor?

I don't clean up my mess after I pig out at Por Que No

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79156969/


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Cue the 'Mi Vida Loca' video.

 

[noknobs]

I think they should put a marijuana dispensing store there.

I was thinking a Popeye's.

But I like your thinking. Or maybe the dispensary and the Popeye's?

Purple drink store!


Or they could bring in the Russian Olympic planning committee to help 'develop the area'.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Need moar sizzurp

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I'm still looking for a counter argument to the idea of bringing new businesses into this area of town.

Hoojacks, can you please explain why you think it's a good idea to keep the lot vacant?

Not until you explain why you hate black people

 

[maxiep]

The comments are the best part of the article: http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Community-Organizers-Chase-Trader-Joe-s-Out-of-Portlandia

 

[maxiep]

Not until you explain why you hate black people

I love the thought process: Denying economic opportunity = loving black people.

You would have made quite the plantation massa.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Lot of Trader Joe's lovers here. I don't see the big deal with putting restrictions on the type of business that goes into that spot. I also don't see the big deal with restricting the LO condo porject.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Purple drink store!


Or they could bring in the Russian Olympic planning committee to help 'develop the area'.

It's called "Purple Drank".

Learn the drugs, then post.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

This entire discussion reminds me of how I tried to buy a house in a particular area of St. Johns a couple years ago, and I was denied because our household income was too great. WTF?

 

[noknobs]

It's called "Purple Drank".

Learn the drugs, then post.

1) It's a beverage, not a drug. 2) I'm going with Dave Chappelle who says Purple drink in his standup, so leave me alone.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

1) It's a beverage, not a drug. 2) I'm going with Dave Chappelle who says Purple drink in his standup, so leave me alone.

It's a drink-able drug. Prescription strength codeine is a drug.

Google it. If you type in "purple drink", google literally asks you if you meant, "purple drank". No joke.

Just sayin'.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

I love the thought process: Denying economic opportunity = loving black people.

You would have made quite the plantation massa.

And I love how easily you people are trolled. Such outrage!

PapaG chose to assign me my opinion, so I assigned him his.

 

[MarAzul]

I love the thought process: Denying economic opportunity = loving black people.

You would have made quite the plantation massa.

Oh! I thought he had a cockle burr mixed in his short hair.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

This entire discussion reminds me of how I tried to buy a house in a particular area of St. Johns a couple years ago, and I was denied because our household income was too great. WTF?

You need to learn from the armenians on how to properly pull off Section 8 scams.

 

[PapaG]

Not until you explain why you hate black people

What? Typical bullshit post from you.

Black people shouldn't have nice things in their neighborhood seems to be your approach. You still haven't explained your position, other than the usual "he's a racist" nonsense.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

What? Typical bullshit post from you.

Black people shouldn't have nice things in their neighborhood seems to be your approach. You still haven't explained your position, other than the usual "he's a racist" nonsense.

Go back and show me where I said what my position was and I'll go back and show you where you said you hate black people.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

You need to learn from the armenians on how to properly pull off Section 8 scams.

Yeah, I suppose so.

 

[MickZagger]

This entire discussion reminds me of how I tried to buy a house in a particular area of St. Johns a couple years ago, and I was denied because our household income was too great. WTF?

Sounds a little far fetched. What part?