February Article / 2021 - Turning The Page
Buffalo Latino Village TURNING THE PAGE Valentine’s day is coming! Make it an everyday event and collectively “Love Thy Neighbor as thy self”. Along with getting a new president, give your community a new Manifest Destiny. Originally coined by journalist John O’Sullivan in 1845 to mean “expansion of colonial borders”, the term eventually came to mean “everything on this side of the hemisphere would be Anglo, protestant, and English speaking”. The ending days of the Trump era revealed that, to many, such mind set is not only alive and well but expanding. Together with the 1823 Monroe Doctrine warning war with anyone attempting to encroach on, or interfere with the national agenda, look at your community. Is not the process of disinvestment and reinvestment displacing low and middle-income families and small businesses? If you don’t harmoniously unite and protect your borders the process of community gentrification will eventually feel like genocide. And make no mistake it i...