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By: Jordyn Williams November 4, 2018
Why stop the stadium?
Why stop the stadium?
Stadium stompers, National action network, Black Clergy and the NAACP.When I first started writing this article, all I wanted was to understand was why they wanted to stop the stadium. Why was it so important? Who should care? How are we impacted as Carver students? Why should you care, and why should I?
Time to Look up and not down
Time to Look up and not down
After attending the October 30th meeting at Carver, I walked out that evening understanding the meaning of the words Gentrification and Social engineering . After obtaining this information I started to look up and not down. Looking in my neighborhood and seeing my old neighbors vanish, packing their stuff and leaving everything they know behind. For what ? And that’s what I am investigating.
Not just the stadium anymore
Not just the stadium anymore
This isn't about the stadium anymore; this is about gentrification in our neighborhoods. It's more than a cafe and dress shops. Its pushing the people who've been there all their lives. Making it so they can't pass down their house to their kids. The price for their houses skyrocket, making it impossible for them to stay so they are forced to leave. Giving them cash that is appealing to the eye but will be gone in the next two years.
Take a good look before it's all gone
Take a good look before it's all gone
It’s about "social engineering," which is changing a community in to someone else's ideal. And their ideal includes people who have less melanin and people who don’t look like us. They already did it downtown, and now they're bringing it northbound. They say they're doing this for the community, and yet by the time they're finished there won’t be a community left.
After doing this investigation, I learned that it’s not about the stadium or cafes. It’s about kicking us out and putting people who have the “right skin” in. In this fight by Stadium Stompers, National Action Network, Black clergy, and the NAACP to stop the stadium, it's important that Temple and the City of Philadelphia see that we’re united. This protest is one of many. Now that I know and so do you, we must fight!
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