“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”
I interviewed Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore for The Chicago Reader.
An excerpt:
“We brought the trendy restaurants and boutiques that we stared at with anguish and disgust, the yuppies we scorned—it was our fault that the Mission was no longer known primarily as a high-crime Latino neighborhood or just a place for thugs and welfare cheats and crack addicts on disability. We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”
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