Class and Lack There Of...

I have been talking recently with another community organizer/hopeful community garden creator. She found me from this blog. Our conversations have been extremely helpful in terms of better understanding why the community garden didn't work, and I feel quite strongly that the issue that created the most problem and opposition to the SHCG was CLASS. By class, I mean the socio-economic position of one in society. Looking back at the comments that were made and the issues that came up through the lens of class, I see things much more clearly. Some members of the SH neighborhood, in a desperate attempt to hold onto the idea that they are of the middle class and therefore better than others, saw the community garden as an indicator of a lower socio-economic status. I turn to the words of the Garden Chick to explain this idea better:

http://backyardnestegg.blogspot.com/2010/04/social-class-community-gardens.html
http://backyardnestegg.blogspot.com/2010/05/it-takes-community.html

Unfortunately, some members of my neighborhood suffer from a lack of class.

English?!

On an interesting side note, I have received many comments which are not in English on my post, The End. The readers do not see these posts because I have the blog set to let me review comments and then chose to publish them or not. Because I was unable to read these posts, I have not been comfortable with publishing them. However, I did ask a friend to translate one message just to see what at least one was about, and she said that the message was one of encouragement, so that is nice. This leads me to request (in case you would like to comment on my blog): PLEASE DO. I value your input and opinions and especially multiple perspectives, but I don't have access to that information unless you put it in English. Sorry for being so monolingual, but I thank you for patience and translation!