Dong Hing Market – my go-to place for pork products and shrimp – has kicked the bucket. It seems like only yesterday that the market across the street burned down (see below).
The Atlantic Monthly magazine – owned by a billionaire heiress friend of Ghislaine Maxwell and edited by a guy who volunteered to work an an Israeli torture prison – recently published an embarrassing story about the open air drug market two blocks up the street from Dong Hing. The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs claims that “Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a zombie apocalypse.” A regurgitation of the same ancient right wing trope that providing addicts with anything other than incarceration only encourages them. The person who wrote this article should have examined how successful such programs have been in Europe.
The drug market on Jackson exemplifies nothing more than the typical pattern of gentrification in action - let the neighborhood go to shit to pave the way for development. It’s a long game. The people there are not zombies, they are human beings. And pawns in a real estate scheme.
—Alex
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Saying Goodbye to Viet Wah, Again
Exciting morning walk at work yesterday when a fire at the old Viet Wah space that started shortly after midnight flared up again.