Yeah. Living in St Pete, as a white man, I can say they don’t do shit for black residents. And when I was briefly a part of the local Dems, I listened in to a Convo with someone who built report with the chair. They always talked about giving reach around the aisles and was imo pretty tone deaf/ surface level about how they organized an mlk event and had basketball(felt like I was listening to someone who ran with the bit in airplane and didn’t realize it was mocking them)And slowly but surely it’s being gentrified to hell, even the ‘south side’. One very good example is the community I lived in shortly had a grocery store plaza, that didn’t have an actual grocery store in it since sweetbay went bankrupt(or consolidated or w.e.), so from about 2014 I think to 2022 for sure they haven’t had an easily accessible place to get groceries unless you go about 2 miles to Walmart. Which isn’t super far (to me, on a bike). But I and the rest of the neighborhood could’ve walked less than a mile had there been anything there. And I think there’s still nothing there, just a big empty dusty azz store.
Yeah. Living in St Pete, as a white man, I can say they don’t do shit for black residents. And when I was briefly a part of the local Dems, I listened in to a Convo with someone who built report with the chair. They always talked about giving reach around the aisles and was imo pretty tone deaf/ surface level about how they organized an mlk event and had basketball(felt like I was listening to someone who ran with the bit in airplane and didn’t realize it was mocking them)And slowly but surely it’s being gentrified to hell, even the ‘south side’. One very good example is the community I lived in shortly had a grocery store plaza, that didn’t have an actual grocery store in it since sweetbay went bankrupt(or consolidated or w.e.), so from about 2014 I think to 2022 for sure they haven’t had an easily accessible place to get groceries unless you go about 2 miles to Walmart. Which isn’t super far (to me, on a bike). But I and the rest of the neighborhood could’ve walked less than a mile had there been anything there. And I think there’s still nothing there, just a big empty dusty azz store.