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Coffee Criticized for promoting that is "Happily Gentrfying" the neighborhood
I feel like I may be the only person in America who doesn't drink coffee. Denver is a growing City, I know a number of people priced out of the Bay Area have moved there.
It's a catch 22. Poor neighborhoods complain they don't have enough services but when the services do arrive it makes the area more desirable thus more expensive.
I don't know all the neighborhoods of Denver but I'm surmising if the NAACP is complaining about the sign it's probably one with a good size black community. Gentrification ultimately is more about class than race (because black people with money can gentrify a neighborhood as well) but race is usually a part.
Coffee shop criticized for sign saying it's 'happily gentrifying' Denver area
A coffee shop in Denver, Colo., drew ire from activists and community members after posting a sidewalk sign that read, "Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014."
The reverse side of the sign had a message that read "Nothing says gentrification like being able to order a cortado," local news station KUSA reported.
The coffee shop in question, ink! Coffee, hastily posted an apology to Facebook as photos of the sign and angry messages about it spread on Wednesday.
"Hmmm. We clearly drank too much of our own product and lost sight of what makes our community great," the apology post read. "We sincerely apologize for our street sign. Our (bad) joke was never meant to offend our vibrant and diverse community. We should know better. We hope you will forgive us."
The sign was placed on the street near the chain's outpost on the corner of Larimer and 29th streets in the Five Points neighborhood, where the median income more than doubled from 2000 to 2015, pushing longtime residents out,*according to the Denver Post.
"yo @inkcoffee we are not cool with this sign on 29th and Larimer. Bad decision. Bad design. BAD. W.T.F." read the tweet from Denver writer Ru Johnson*that appeared to draw much of the attention to the sign.
Some found the sign offensive enough that they called for boycotts of the business, and hundreds of others flooded the coffee chain with one-star reviews on Facebook. The president of the Colorado, Montana and Wyoming chapter of the NAACP weighed in as well, asking via email for the sign to be removed, the Denver Post reported.
Julie Gonzales, a candidate for state senate in the district where ink! Coffee is located, posted a statement to Facebook decrying the sign.
"Gentrification is nothing to joke about," she wrote. "The anger and frustration around the soaring cost of living in Denver is real."
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/ink-coffee-gentrification-sign-denver-colorado-12379025.php
I feel like I may be the only person in America who doesn't drink coffee. Denver is a growing City, I know a number of people priced out of the Bay Area have moved there.
It's a catch 22. Poor neighborhoods complain they don't have enough services but when the services do arrive it makes the area more desirable thus more expensive.
I don't know all the neighborhoods of Denver but I'm surmising if the NAACP is complaining about the sign it's probably one with a good size black community. Gentrification ultimately is more about class than race (because black people with money can gentrify a neighborhood as well) but race is usually a part.
Coffee shop criticized for sign saying it's 'happily gentrifying' Denver area
A coffee shop in Denver, Colo., drew ire from activists and community members after posting a sidewalk sign that read, "Happily gentrifying the neighborhood since 2014."
The reverse side of the sign had a message that read "Nothing says gentrification like being able to order a cortado," local news station KUSA reported.
The coffee shop in question, ink! Coffee, hastily posted an apology to Facebook as photos of the sign and angry messages about it spread on Wednesday.
"Hmmm. We clearly drank too much of our own product and lost sight of what makes our community great," the apology post read. "We sincerely apologize for our street sign. Our (bad) joke was never meant to offend our vibrant and diverse community. We should know better. We hope you will forgive us."
The sign was placed on the street near the chain's outpost on the corner of Larimer and 29th streets in the Five Points neighborhood, where the median income more than doubled from 2000 to 2015, pushing longtime residents out,*according to the Denver Post.
"yo @inkcoffee we are not cool with this sign on 29th and Larimer. Bad decision. Bad design. BAD. W.T.F." read the tweet from Denver writer Ru Johnson*that appeared to draw much of the attention to the sign.
Some found the sign offensive enough that they called for boycotts of the business, and hundreds of others flooded the coffee chain with one-star reviews on Facebook. The president of the Colorado, Montana and Wyoming chapter of the NAACP weighed in as well, asking via email for the sign to be removed, the Denver Post reported.
Julie Gonzales, a candidate for state senate in the district where ink! Coffee is located, posted a statement to Facebook decrying the sign.
"Gentrification is nothing to joke about," she wrote. "The anger and frustration around the soaring cost of living in Denver is real."
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/ink-coffee-gentrification-sign-denver-colorado-12379025.php
