Hipsters Desecrating an Altar

p strongHipsters Desecrating an Altar/strong/p p nbsp;We began walking with span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Ayat" data-scaytid="1"Ayat/span, Ram, and I heading to Clarion alley a narrow street or alley surrounded by murals, graffiti, art, debris everything you can imagine in an alley, we were heading to the site that has POOR Magazine mural, a mural created by POOR Magazine Family multi-generational, multi-Ethnicity, multi-culture, and mural that speaks about the span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="GentrufuKation" data-scaytid="3"GentrufuKation/span, the displacement of poor, span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="migrante" data-scaytid="5"migrante/span and ldquo;minoritiesrdquo; out of the Mission. The mural also speaks out of the resistance that people are living and are fighting in the Mission day by day./p p nbsp;One our span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Sheroes" data-scaytid="7"Sheroes/span in the POOR magazine mural is Super baby mama she is a poet, writer, mother and she is on welfare, her words are her weapons, her voice is her power, she shatters stereotypes while protecting poor mothers and children everywhere. Her unborn child can detect police harassment at anytime from anywhere and she signals her mother. Super baby mama crushes the batons, guns and squad cars of the unjust law officers within 10 seconds.nbsp; El Mosquito is our span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="polylingual" data-scaytid="9"polylingual/span, multi-racial Superhero who speaks more than 2000 indigenous languages who are no longer spoken and he is a panhandler by day and fightrsquo;s for poor people justice by night./p p nbsp;Is privilege for Poor and oppress peoples to make and create art and be exposed, we are proud of the POOR magazine mural that was created by our family and community members./p p nbsp;As we talk of the mural we notice a group of ldquo;Hipstersrdquo; arriving from the other end of the clarion alley bumping disco music and looking as usual, nbsp;we didnrsquo;t care so we went back into talking about the mural and the message of it, we also admire a beautiful altar that someone had created, from flowers, posters, rare stones, and boxes that seems contain something inside, it was a beautiful Altar. As the nbsp;sun went down we decide to leave, as we pass by the hipsters we had no choice to walk around them to get by, as we pass them you can feel the negative energy they were given us, almost like ldquo;get out, you donrsquo;t belong hererdquo; but we kept quite and walk on. As we got to Mission and 16supth/supI realize I left my plastic bag containing my hot span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Cheetos" data-scaytid="11"Cheetos/span and Orange span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Jarrito" data-scaytid="13"Jarrito/span so I told nbsp;Ram to nbsp;wait for me while I went back to get my munchies./p p nbsp;As I was getting back I notice that two of the hipsters were close to the Altar and POOR magazine mural, as got closer I realize nbsp;what was happening, the hipsters were desecrating the Altar, dumping the small wooden boxes that seems they containing personal things and taking some of the posters with them and destroying the Altar I stood and watch as they continue to disrespect the altar, I wanted to say something but it was seven of them and I was by myself, one the hipsters notice that I was just there watching, he got up from sitting in the curb and start stretching like he was getting ready to fight, I watch until they finish disrespecting the altar./p p nbsp;I was sad and mad at the same time, and could not understand what I had witness, I told friends about the incident and my anger turn into sadness after realizing that those young man, they were product of the environment they were raise without respect, manners, without any culture, without knowing about their ancestors, just like span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Amerikkka" data-scaytid="15"Amerikkka/span was born. As I think more deeply of the ancestors of these young man ornbsp; ldquo;founding fathersrdquo; as they are know who were a bunch thieves, who rape and murder nbsp;who stole land and use slaves to build span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="Amerikkka" data-scaytid="17"Amerikkka/span .I am not surprised how even their ancestors were weird in dressing too, wearing fake wigs and the weird clothes they wear, to show their ignorance./p p ldquo;They say that apples donrsquo;t fall far away from the span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="tree.”" data-scaytid="19"tree.rdquo;/span/p p nbsp;Is sad to see the arrogance on these group of folks all over Valencia street, creating span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="GentriFukation" data-scaytid="21"GentriFukation/span and almost feels like they are entitle to do it../p p nbsp;I hope each of those creatures who disrespected the Altar get what they deserve and that our ancestors make justice./p p ldquo;You span class="scayt-misspell" data-scayt_word="gotta" data-scaytid="23"gotta/span Give respect, to get respectrdquo;nbsp;/p