But if we put in trees we are “gentrifying” and “Europeanizing” them.
Housing Projects start out with trees and “green spaces”.
Then the trees are vandalized, and die.
The park benches are covered with graffiti and yanked apart.
The grass becomes littered, and finally turns to hard dirt, gets paved over, a basketball hoop installed, the net stolen, the hoop pulled down, and broken glass, used needles, garbage and trash litter the original “green spaces”.
And all because of “systemic racism”.
REALLY?