Mt. Pleasant is the hood where I reside in the ‘Couv. It is a neighbourhood that is gentrifying by the day and even though it’s in East Van, real estate ain’t cheap anymore. A block away from my place there was a fire last year and instead of an ugly commercial building with a medicinal marijuana store and a sex toy shop, there is now a lovely little park with green grass, benches and a Christmas tree that is still lit up every night…why?!? It’s March….but I digress. The local business association put up these signboards in the park that talk about ‘our community’ and ‘sustainability’ and other crap like that with pictures of smiling people of all ages and races on them. Overnight, these signs were vandalized with spray painted slogans and swastikas saying ‘go home yuppies’ and ‘stop killing our hood’. Really?!? Us Westside people *with jobs* are ruining your hood by pouring money into it, making it safer, planting trees and chasing the crackheads out? You have got to be kidding me.
