Fluffy White Puppies and Unicorns
Do you know who’s on my nerves today? White people.
It’s like, OK: The corner of our block is a local crack spot. We have neighbors living in hazardous, underground converted apartments due to the fear of deportation. I know one woman with mental health problems whose kids have probably never seen the inside of a school.
And you’re going to strengthen our block by building a community garden? Do you ever notice that the "community" you’re trying to strengthen consists exclusively of other white people from Southwest Detroit’s petit burgeois?
I don’t know. It’s just too puppies and unicorns for me.
Agreed.
Comment by Shashi — July 18, 2009 @ 7:27 am
The does sound problematic, but community gardens properly done can do a lot. Properly done part #1 = actually being of, from, by, and for the community.
One step up on the problem v. progress scale is when the community garden is “for” the local brown people, but more or less run and designed and governed by the white petit bourgeois.
Comment by J — August 18, 2009 @ 4:55 pm