You in you small corner and I in mine .....
Oh you won’t
like it is a very gentrified place. Said a friend to me what she wanted to say
was you are brown and that is a white middle class or affluent locality. The
term has come to mean one thing only – affluent white people. this is
problematic for two reasons one it assumes only white people can be affluent. Two
it assumes people of colour come on one class alone- poor.
Areas marked out
for their diversity are also the poorest and have some of the highest crime
rates. It is all we have to aspire to preserve our culture for public
consumption. While I don’t deny our communities have problems they are divided
on class lines too just like they are in white society.
