Blog 2- Nashauna John

Money is everything to this country and if you don’t have it you might as well keep your mouth shut. I have seen many resources in my neighborhood that have been closed down or replaced with something else that doesn’t make any sense. For example, there was an ice cream shop that had a lot of computers that the public could use and it was $5 per hour. Also, they would let you print out papers and that would be .25 cents per hour. I loved this place so much and unfortunately it got closed down for literally no reason. I also noticed many cleaners in my area being replaced by private businesses which is an issue because now if we want to go to a cleaners we have to go somewhere really far which is so ridiculous. The worst thing about it is that these business owners aren’t having a choice or given any options. Their only choice is to move along and find somewhere else to go. In Dickinson’s text it states,” It also served as an opportunity for the business community to implement a panoply of policies that pushed poor and working-class people out of the city, or at least to the margins.” History always repeats itself and we can see that because this was  happening in the 1970s and it’s still occurring today. In my opinion this meme is saying to me that moving in another direction away from the government’s norms will have a consequence unless it’s brining in a profit for them.