I grew up in South County and in the early 2010s saw some absolutely massive coyotes down there. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some wolf mixed into whatever groups are running around there.

What are they protesting - free expression?

I guess I disagree. A man and his family were able to personally profit for years off of a television show made in a Providence courtroom when the city, with its failing school system, didn’t make a dime.

The fact that this comment is getting downvoted is the most pathetically Rhode Island thing. We’re okay with grifters here!

Public officials shouldn’t be entitled to personally profit from their office just because they help others…

My point is that social media is to blame for much of teenage anxiety and poor MH. From body image issues to the loneliness kids can feel when they see false projections of what social life looks like. DOH isn’t going to solve that.

Are they going to ban social media? If not, I’m not holding my breath…

You’re facing two major highways and a petroleum port right down there - makes sense that the air is horrible…

Heng Thai, hands down

Thanks everybody!

Gonna be a hard pass to the guy posting Reddit photos of his “bing bong”

Depends on the crime. What kind are we talking?

You’re better off keeping these views limited to the RIPTA to Scarborough

This is the objectively correct answer...

Typical far-left thought policing; you’re also just wrong. I guess I’ll just rest with the community that’s chosen to downvote you so we don’t hear more of this nonsense.

This place, with an “executive pastry chef,” replacing an arguably-sketchy bodega across from a public park named for a prominent member of the Black community (https://www.billytaylorhouse.com/billy-taylor-bio), in a historically Black neighborhood of Providence, is a peak example of gentrification. Don’t be ridiculous!

Let me add as a coda to this thread that I’m excited to try this place, it looks great. I’ll probably go this weekend. And there are few things LESS black and white than a discussion about gentrification…

Where in my comment did I refer to any of these new groups as “white”?

Again, not saying this is a bad thing, it’s just something that should be openly discussed. I do think you’re sort of contradicting yourself by simultaneously saying no identity can have a stake in a neighborhood but oh wait this is a Jewish bakery in a heavily-Jewish area. Many would say, okay, then you’re saying that this is a Jewish neighborhood. It’s a distinction without a difference. And many, including myself, would disagree with you that identities can’t have a “stake” in a neighborhood. That’s aspirational and ahistoric. Blacks have a stake in Harlem, the Irish have a stake in South Boston, Jews in Brooklyn - that’s just history.

Pretty sure the “Black” neighborhoods of Providence consist only of South Providence and this part of Mt. Hope, what used to be called Lippitt Hill. Basing that only on my own experience and no demographic studies or anything, though. Either way - I’m certainly not saying the gentrification is a bad thing. I too have noticed its improvements. But this conversation should be happening. And my point was more that the kinds of businesses popping up in the area now would very likely tell you that gentrification is racist and wrong.

Also can’t help but notice the serious gentrification happening on Camp St. One of the city’s few largely Black neighborhoods getting filled up with “progressive” businesses and entities, like the bakery, the poke restaurant, the socialist bookstore—all of whom I’m sure will tell you how terrible gentrification is, and how important it is for that area to maintain its historical identity as a Black enclave.

RIP Black & White

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