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As a Colorado native, I avoid Five Points myself and don't understand why any business would want to bother with the area.
It has nothing to do with the demographics but I know how rough of a neighborhood it is. Hillarious, how they put a yuppie coffee shop that looks like it belongs in Aspen or Boulder and act surprised that the coffee shop is riddled with graffiti.
So many yuppies swarming into these extremely rough areas that don't really want the diversity they claim to offer and then they are surprised when stuff like this happens.
Seems to be a common in Denver for rich, millennial utopian rainbow and unicorn yuppies who aren't familiar with Denver to swarm very rough neighborhoods like this one.
The area only has 13,000 people but yet has 3 times the violent rate of Compton and the neighborhood has a similar homicide rate to Detroit with already 5 homicides this year.
It always surprises me when rich yuppie liberals open up businesses in these areas and don't understand of the roughness of the area.
It is odd how many utopian-loving rich, white liberals will randomly move to very high-crime areas that have a different demographic and think they will be given a hero's welcome.
Denver is full of out of town yuppie liberals moving in thinking it is a rich resort town with no bad neighborhoods. Always interesting when liberals pay half a million dollars for a small brick home in a very rough neighborhood like Whittier or Cole in Denver and then they start whining to the news media that the neighborhood is very crime-ridden.
Gentrification and safety are 2 separate issues. Don't really understand your point, other than to expect crime in high crime areas. With that said, everybody deserves safety.
What's more frustrating to me is the "white liberals" who won't address the root causes of crime. And continue to push neo-liberal and failed democratic policies. The "black liberals" who fall in that category I feel the same way about. And any other race.
Well, at one point I actually looked at buying a house in the Highland section of Denver (not Highlands Ranch) which is right next to Five Points. It was being gentrified back when I lived there ten or so years ago. I decided against it, as I didn't want to deal with all the issues previously posted.
I loved the woman with the goofy sunglasses in the youtube vid. So typical.
SO some racists vandalized a coffee shop, and some other racists who think they should have some undue influence over property they do not own, hate "gentrification" because that means that their criminal ways will eventually be clamped down on and driven out.
The criminal element in five points should be celebrating these liberals moving in. They can now rob and murder people that actually might have some money or property worth the robbery.
I don't think the OP understands what happened here. I do think it was insensitive of the coffee shop to put that sign up - even if true. This vandalism was a response to a sign and not that it is a crime ridden area. OP, try to look at the world with a more open mind and it might make more sense. Cheers.
SO some racists vandalized a coffee shop, and some other racists who think they should have some undue influence over property they do not own, hate "gentrification" because that means that their criminal ways will eventually be clamped down on and driven out.
I wouldn't equate poverty with crime. It's not mostly criminals complaining about gentrification, there are a lot of people who simply don't make a lot of money who want to stay in certain neighborhoods.
The sad reality is we need ALL jobs and somebody has to fill those low paying jobs as well.
The very people that complain about being poor, about poverty-are the same ones driving businesses and opportunity out of the neighborhood. Most are too frickin' stupid to figure that out.
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