I thought I was so real, so Black, in choosing this apartment in this neighborhood. In truth, I was being racist, playing impoverished Black people cheap as human beings. While others had fled from impoverished Black people in racist fear of their dangerous inferiority, I was fleeing to impoverished Black people in racist assurance of the superiority conferred by their danger, their superior authenticity. I was the Black gentrifier, a distinct creature from the White gentrifier. If the White gentrifier moves to the impoverished Black neighborhood to be a developer, the Black gentrifier is
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