Hood Terrorism: GentriFUKation’s Favorite Partna’ in Crime

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By Queennandi

Many of us are still healing from our scars and spiritual wounds after barely surviving the atomic bomb called gentrification that dropped on neighborhoods such as the Fillmore (fill-no-moe) and the La Mission (La Invasion) with an “entitled vengeance,” wiping out a high percentage of mom and pop shops, local meat markets, grocery stores like Goldlane (Aka Foodland), “hood farmers,” and family restaurants that were in the heart of our neighborhoods for generations. Even the “winos” had their own “kick it spot” at the mini park and any negative behavior or actions in the presence of children was next to non-existent.

As a fourth generation “Fillmoelian,” the experience of standing by, watching helplessly as the radiation from the “gentribombs” execute the final solution to the destruction of African descendent neighborhoods is a horrible slap in the face from the “nice racists” who strut down the street at a fast pace, normalizing “accidental” run-ins and sometimes knocking folks down to the ground altogether (elders and children are not excluded, neither was my toddler grandsunn) refusing to apologize because they are in a hurry, flying past people with apple earbuds on.

In my opinion, I am entitled to label this behavior as “low-key colonial assault” and if you’re not pushed to the side, you’re attacked by standard poodles (like I was) because the owner or “pet parent” wanted me to know and accept that the “MAGA Minded” is taking over Frisco (San Francisco) and there is not a “damm thing” I can do about it.

The COVID pandemic had sunk many of our rooted businesses from domestic services and families in the restaurant industry. The “takeout only” rule created devastating difficulties for many homegrown establishments while simultaneously these “cup-cake, half baked, pricey, only serve spicy” eateries began to sprout up like generic cabbage patch dolls because those with “privilege” have their own funds to cut through loopholes and snatch up an exodus of parking spaces to create outdoor dining, reserved spaces for motorcycles, motor scooters and bike lanes while there was no assistance, safety nets or “bailouts” for businesses owners who don’t have access to colonizer wealth.

San Francisco has always had a long standing reputation of being a multicultural, LGBTQ and migrant friendly city by the bay but unfortunately in an overnight’s time it has turned into a passive-aggressive “Mini MAGALAND” with the COINTELPRO agenda of flooding the impoverished communities with deadly drugs like Fentanyl while the arrogant “falsely entitled” step over overdosed souls, venomously scorning the downtrodden with cliche remarks like “ You need a job!” - NOT accurate and effective treatment of the mind, body and soul and stable housing - but “NO, You need a job!!”

These “locusts in inhumane form” will never dare stand tall against the “pharmaceutical drug leaks” that is killing off communities, even those rural areas that are mostly populated by impoverished white folks. They will never attack the source, only those affected by the results of the travesty that's quietly known as population control.

Instead those of us with Native Roots here have experienced unpunished hate crimes at a “Jim Crow” rate with the “gentrifukers” fussing and cussing at us saying that “WE don’t belong here!!” They follow it up with harsh, nasty stares and glares and the reason being is these “community terminators” genuinely believe that WE don’t deserve to live in communities grounded in any form of culture or spirituality - period! Even social media has a helluva platform for “internet gangstas” whose on purpose in “blinded life” is to log in, insult each other from different hoods/plantations, resulting in shootings and the continued genocide of children of color.

These naysayers always antagonize the people with the same “dumb-devil” questions, like “Where are the parents?” Well the answer for many in deep struggle would be “paralyzed, neutralized, traumatized” and self-medicating with the poison YOUR corporate pharmaceutical companies create with YOUR investments! So stop using the “street pharmacist” as a scapegoating excuse when they are just the low-level vendors and you are the TOP BOSS! They then go on to say, “Well why don’t you educate your children?” WELL why did you uproot and remove our primary educational resources of cultural learning (Marcus bookstore, The African outlet). Oh and this age-old “dumb devil” question always takes the cake - “Why don’t you go back to your own countries?!”

According to the oppressed masses the answer to that would be: “Why don’t you go back to yours, also?!” YOU have slaughtered and exploited many nations in order to successfully steal Turtle Island, so it is definitely safe to say that we are all immigrants as you label it, however the only exception would be that colonizers came here voluntarily and through invasions, while MY people were kidnapped, crammed into the bottom of slave ships brought here by force to build YOUR Amerikkka. You MAGA Monsters of racism to this day live off the fruits of our Ancestral labor. As soon as we built up OUR thriving communities and “Black Wallstreet” like in Tulsa, the jealous hateful so-called entitled white supremacists raided our neighborhoods, burnt down our homes and businesses, murdered the village, and had the unmitigated gall to create laws that prohibited Africans from defending ourselves from the original “ICE with white sheets.”

Last but not least is the grand finale question that’s worn down and old - the infamous “Why you people always pull the race card?” And it will be simply answered with, “Why did YOU create the deck of cards in the first place?!” It is frightening to overstand that these MAGA Kevins and Karens will NEVER look into the mirror and own up to their generational misdeeds, because to do so will dismantle white (non)-supremacy in so many ways (not to mention put a huge dent in their “false entitlement” way of thinking). Now WE the people DARE you to face it!

Queennandi X QCH PNN

(NOTE: QCH is the acronym for Queens’ Consortium of Humanity, in honor of CAROL X , Our lady saint LILLIE MAE and ALL of our Matriarchal SheRoes of the universe