Living with gentrification

yesterday i saw a white woman jogging on a sidewalk in a part of town that she would have been, at the very least, robbed in a few years ago. it was her, her ipod, and her little dog and as i saw her jogging, i kinda resented her. she probably lived in one of the new condos they built right up the street and she obviously has been fooled to believe that just because they cleaned up the street and put a Starbucks on the corner that she was safe to jog on that street. at night! she probably thought she owned a part of that neighborhood but what she didnt know is that the Starbucks on the corner and her condo did not totally displace the neighborhood that was there before she came and that if she turned off the main street onto one of those side streets, she would probably run into somebody that was an original resident.

I don't know....i just resented her yesterday. when I was a kid, people like her avoided that neighborhood if they could and now, with the Starbucks on the corner, she was jogging like it was her neighborhood. I don't like that.