Voyeur wrote:
I think our "activist" is back on the anti-gentrification warpath.

Today Curbed featured a bland profile of (mostly downtown) JC's best-kept secrets offered up by a Barcade employee who has lived in town for three years.

It's much the same as several other puff pieces in recent years selling the merits of DTJC to the Curbed readership on the other side of the river - certainly nothing offensive in her observations.

Nonetheless, scroll on down to the comment section and take a read of the screed written by "RealJCNative1". Reads like the shrill ranting of the "JC Take it Back" girl that started this thread a few years back. And of course, she's still furious about the "colonizers" taking over her town.

Yawn.

Voyeur wrote:
I think our "activist" is back on the anti-gentrification warpath.

Today Curbed featured a bland profile of (mostly downtown) JC's best-kept secrets offered up by a Barcade employee who has lived in town for three years.

It's much the same as several other puff pieces in recent years selling the merits of DTJC to the Curbed readership on the other side of the river - certainly nothing offensive in her observations.

Nonetheless, scroll on down to the comment section and take a read of the screed written by "RealJCNative1". Reads like the shrill ranting of the "JC Take it Back" girl that started this thread a few years back. And of course, she's still furious about the "colonizers" taking over her town.

Yawn.

Voyeur wrote:
I think our "activist" is back on the anti-gentrification warpath.

Today Curbed featured a bland profile of (mostly downtown) JC's best-kept secrets offered up by a Barcade employee who has lived in town for three years.

It's much the same as several other puff pieces in recent years selling the merits of DTJC to the Curbed readership on the other side of the river - certainly nothing offensive in her observations.

Nonetheless, scroll on down to the comment section and take a read of the screed written by "RealJCNative1". Reads like the shrill ranting of the "JC Take it Back" girl that started this thread a few years back. And of course, she's still furious about the "colonizers" taking over her town.

Yawn.

Voyeur wrote:
I think our "activist" is back on the anti-gentrification warpath.

Today Curbed featured a bland profile of (mostly downtown) JC's best-kept secrets offered up by a Barcade employee who has lived in town for three years.

It's much the same as several other puff pieces in recent years selling the merits of DTJC to the Curbed readership on the other side of the river - certainly nothing offensive in her observations.

Nonetheless, scroll on down to the comment section and take a read of the screed written by "RealJCNative1". Reads like the shrill ranting of the "JC Take it Back" girl that started this thread a few years back. And of course, she's still furious about the "colonizers" taking over her town.

Yawn.

Devyn Manibo is a full time diva and East Coast based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in multi-media installation with a basis in diasporic affect, kinship, queer narratives of home and trauma through a postcolonial/neocolonial lens. She creates and collaborates as a means of cultivating space for resistance, survival, and love for and by her communities. She believes in femme supremacy, and has a love for extravagance and the illusion of lavish. She can usually be found race raging, shade bending, and averting your settler colonialist gaze with a resting glare of displeasure.

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JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

Um no. I was enrolled in a useful major at a good college (or maybe I was in grad school already - can't recall her exact age), had a job, managed my own budget, and didn't expect to live in the best part of town when I couldn't afford it.

You have no idea what her expectations are, or whether she manages her own budget. You're just making stuff up because you've formed an opinion of her. I agree that she isn't making any sense on this subject (I won't even call it an "issue", cuz it's not), but stick to the facts.

I'm going off of what she herself has posted on various sites about herself (expensive liberal arts college, "artist" for a career, lists brunching as one of her hobbies, etc.) plus this campaign which makes no sense for someone of her background EXCEPT with the explanation provided.

In any event, she has abandoned this stupidity so whatever, at least she has seen the error of her ways and that is so much better than most of these people, so I'm done with this topic as well.

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JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

Um no. I was enrolled in a useful major at a good college (or maybe I was in grad school already - can't recall her exact age), had a job, managed my own budget, and didn't expect to live in the best part of town when I couldn't afford it.

You have no idea what her expectations are, or whether she manages her own budget. You're just making stuff up because you've formed an opinion of her. I agree that she isn't making any sense on this subject (I won't even call it an "issue", cuz it's not), but stick to the facts.

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JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

Um no. I was enrolled in a useful major at a good college (or maybe I was in grad school already - can't recall her exact age), had a job, managed my own budget, and didn't expect to live in the best part of town when I couldn't afford it.

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This isn't a girl working fast food growing up in project housing shutting down for some luxury condos complaining that her mama works 3 jobs and her and her mama will have trouble getting to work and school now. If that was her I would still be annoyed but would at least understand where she coming from.

I?m sorry that she hasn?t suffered enough for your taste, but at least you have company here.

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This isn't a girl working fast food growing up in project housing shutting down for some luxury condos complaining that her mama works 3 jobs and her and her mama will have trouble getting to work and school now. If that was her I would still be annoyed but would at least understand where she coming from.

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JCMan8 wrote:
The only reason she's getting all this attention, and a rambling crazy homeless person is not, is because this reporter chose to write several articles about her.

FYI, I wrote one story about her and a colleague asked her opinion about the Silverman graffiti that seemed to be inspired by her.

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Frank_M wrote:
Thank goodness Ms. Manibo can be dismissed as a hypocrite, because we all know that in order to recognize or address a phenomenon?which of course may only be categorized as strictly good or strictly bad?we have to be removed at great distance from it.

Now we can all rest assured that we?re not part of any complex socioeconomic problems, otherwise, who knows what our ego defenses might lead us to say.

I wouldn't call her hypocritical. Even the non-affluent can go to trendy bars - I do it all the time ; and its good to see young people trying to find their social consciousness and political voices, and taking a stand for an issue, even if they come across as self-important. This provided she genuinely cares about the impact of gentrification on people who have less privilege and fewer options than she does.

JCMan8 wrote:
The only reason she's getting all this attention, and a rambling crazy homeless person is not, is because this reporter chose to write several articles about her.

JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

Frank_M wrote:
Thank goodness Ms. Manibo can be dismissed as a hypocrite, because we all know that in order to recognize or address a phenomenon?which of course may only be categorized as strictly good or strictly bad?we have to be removed at great distance from it.

Now we can all rest assured that we?re not part of any complex socioeconomic problems, otherwise, who knows what our ego defenses might lead us to say.

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Monroe wrote:
She was on channel 9's Chasing NJ last night, and Chaser Hank Flynn slam dunked her on being priced out of JC-he told her to move to Greenville, there are lots of edgy, affordable apartments there!

Do you recall what her response was? I'm legit curious what she said to that.

"But there are scary people there!"

"But I can't brun... oh, wait"

"That was a microagression"

"But I DESERVE to live here!"

JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

devilsadvocate wrote:

Um no. I was enrolled in a useful major at a good college (or maybe I was in grad school already - can't recall her exact age), had a job, managed my own budget, and didn't expect to live in the best part of town when I couldn't afford it.

JCishome wrote:
I'm amazed at the attention this person is getting. Weren't we all clueless, self-important blowhards at that age?

Monroe wrote:
She was on channel 9's Chasing NJ last night, and Chaser Hank Flynn slam dunked her on being priced out of JC-he told her to move to Greenville, there are lots of edgy, affordable apartments there!

Frank_M wrote:
Thank goodness Ms. Manibo can be dismissed as a hypocrite, because we all know that in order to recognize or address a phenomenon?which of course may only be categorized as strictly good or strictly bad?we have to be removed at great distance from it.

Now we can all rest assured that we?re not part of any complex socioeconomic problems, otherwise, who knows what our ego defenses might lead us to say.