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[–]LennyLongshoes 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (7子コメント)

I love how black people lay claim to all the old Jewish and Italian neighborhoods. Canarsie? Still full of old Jews & Italians that didn't sell in the 80s. Bedstuy still has menorahs on doors. ENY? Most of the churches are old synagogues. New Lots he says? I wonder if he ever saw Goodfellas. The real taxi stand where Paulie Cicero was based was on New Lots Ave off Pennsylvania. Linden Houses used to be full of Jews, the CEO of Goldman Sachs is from there.

Neighborhoods go through cycles. Stop pretending you were there first.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (6子コメント)

You cannot compare white flight to gentrification. White flight was people WILLINGLY leaving their neighborhoods for better life in suburban outskirts. This was a huge advancement for Italian and Jewish communities. Brooklyn was a fucking slum and people wanted to leave, period.

Gentrification is the complete opposite. People are being priced out and then pushed out and displaced with no where to go. Gentrification has minimal benefit to the people that are victims of it.

So yes, that's probably why African-American communities lay claim to these neighborhoods. Let's not get it twisted.

And for the record, I come from a 1st generation Sicilian-Italian family from East New York (Linden Blvd & Cleveland St). I am very proud of my heritage and my family's struggles, but also not blind to the facts or fragile to criticism.

[–]LennyLongshoes 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I'm not comparing the two. Im stating that when I read shit like "they're taking OUR neighborhoods" I can't help but wonder if you know anything about the neighborhood at all. You can claim them as your place of birth but don't act like ENY or Canarsie are Harlem. You're 2 generations deep in there, at most. It's not the bastion of African American culture that you're claiming it is. The culture that your claiming is changing is nothing more than regular cyclical shit we see in most other areas. Your people moved in and now other people are moving in.

Edit: I love how gentrification is painted as a hostile take over. Love it. White flight happened willingly but the people selling their dilapidated brownstones for $1M are victims being driven off their land. Those poor dears.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

The culture that your claiming is changing is nothing more than regular cyclical shit we see in most other areas. Your people moved in and now other people are moving in.

You say you're not comparing the two but you clearly are. The problem is it's not a "they're moving in, we're moving out" issue. They're being forced out and displaced. This is where the hostility lies. This wave of gentrification is incomparable to the plights of the past, especially in regards to Italian/Jewish/Eastern European people of these neighborhood's past.

And also, how far down the rabbit hole should we go? Italians and Jews didn't arrive here in great flux until the early 1900's. What about the Dutch settlers beforehand? Or the Lenape tribe prior to them? Who's neighborhood is it then?

The reality is neighborhoods are nothing more than a embodiment and voice of the current communities that reside in them. Right now, that ownership in these places belong to the African-American communities and they're rightfully pissed. I don't blame them.

[–]randompittuser 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

The problem I see is that displaced people are getting angry at the wrong demographics. The white people moving into your neighborhood aren't really to blame. This is not an attempt to shift sympathy toward white people, but many of them were also displaced by rising rents. Not every white person in the city is making enough money to live in Williamsburg or Prospect Heights. The blame should not rest on people that, like you, are only trying to keep afloat in the city that's home to their job and their support system. Direct your anger at the landlords' behaviors and the city laws that fail to protect you, where it might prove productive in reforming a broken system.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I agree. Gentrification is an extremely complicated subject, one entangled within class and race, but more importantly the intersection between the two. We could probably debate this all day.

In terms of displaced anger, unfortunately we cannot put the burden of rectification on the marginalized. Also, generally speaking I don't think the anger is directed at individuals but more so the representation of said individuals.

More importantly, we need to end the fragility around this conversation if we want to make any sort of progress. Same shit with white privilege as a whole. Someone calling you a gentrifier isn't a personal deep-rooted attack. Nor does it make you a bad person. Nor do you have to feel guilty. It just might be an inevitable truth, one which you have clear choices on a daily basis on how to minimize your impact and go on with your life. That's all I'll say about that before I get flamed again.

I was talking in a previous post about my family from East New York, but if you're interested in the subject, I'd really suggest checking this out: http://www.powells.com/book/how-east-new-york-became-a-ghetto-9780814782675?p_isbn&partnerid=36604

It really changed my perspective after a lifetime of growing up entrenched with the "Ayee they stole our neighborhood!" dialogue of my relatives. Great read!

[–]KoreansEatDogs 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

"Willingly", yes if you ignore all the idiotic government decisions like use of eminent domain to force people out of their homes and failed urban renewal projects that turned blocks of houses into empty lots rife with crime.

If you're so proud of your history, you should probably bother learning it.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well, you are right to some extent. The FHA and HUD did destroy these neighborhoods through poor policy and urban renewal initiatives. No one is denying that.

But, if you're trying to claim that White European immigrants were the victims of these policies, you need to open a goddamn book.

Whites were given the opportunity to pour out of urban areas and into the suburbs. Yes, they ‘willingly’ left. They had opportunity and access to a higher quality of life. Safe communities. Free-standing houses. Good schools. Working infrastructures. This isn't an opinion, it's a goddamn fact.

Just look at the FHA's history of "redlining", a discriminatory practice that diverted mortgage funds away from urban, African-American neighborhoods, and toward borrowers in White, middle-class neighborhoods. From 1930 to 1950, three-fifths of all homes purchased in the United States were backed by the FHA, yet “less than two percent of the FHA loans were made to non-White home buyers.”

Everything you see, all this conflict and anomosity is a result of years of racial segregation as de facto policy where whites benefited at the hands of discriminatory policy towards marginalized people.

Judging by this thread, my opinion isn't very popular here but I'll say it once again: YOU ARE NOT THE VICTIM.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (41子コメント)

My feelings about being called a white devil:

My boyfriend (who is hispanic and I'm white) moved into Crown Heights about a year ago. We moved here because we found an apartment we liked that we could afford. We got priced out of Bushwick, believe it or not.

Since moving here I've had the sense that this is how the lifetime residents have felt about my presence here. I've told friends that I get stare downs on the bus, dirty looks in the street to which they tell me I'm making it up. I found this post today after my boyfriend got jumped outside at 9am trying to get some coffee by a group of about 4 people - they punched him in the head and tried so steal his keys. Again, 9am on a fucking Tuesday.

I did not move here to fuck anyone's life up. I didn't look up "which area can I gentrify and fill with vegan food?" I'm living in an apartment that is owned by someone who lived here 15 years ago and made the smart choice to buy - not in some huge high rise (and if I was, that would be okay.)

I am as sympathetic as I can be about gentrification being that I am white and can be classified as a gentrifier. I understand as much as I can how frustrating it must be to watch apartments and brownstones that have been here your whole life get torn down to be condos. But, talking shit because a white guy sat next to you and you're afraid of his leg hair, talking shit about couples holding hands.... it's fucking bullshit. I feel uncomfortable and unsafe almost daily in my neighborhood. I feel unwelcome and unwanted. I get a stare down almost every single time I leave my house.

We've been nothing but respectful to every person we've ever come across. My super and his family, who have lived here their whole lives, say we're like family to them. I would like to think I'm not the fucking devil because I'm trying to live my life. The real devil is the 1% and the real estate developers that are making it literally financially impossible for anyone making under 200k a year to afford to live anywhere in Manhattan or the quote "white" areas of Brooklyn (Williamsburg, Greenpoint, etc.)

I feel like I'm in an impossible situation and I may as well just move if I'm going to be judged and surrounded by hate.

[–]memyselfandeye 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep. Went through the same thing 10 years ago. Moved to place I could afford and felt a lot of hostility. Honestly, I started praying for the gentrification to hurry up, but there were too many rent stabilized apartments. I finally moved. It was five or so years later before the needle moved on the gentrification dial. It was really demoralizing because I moved there eager to be part of the neighborhood not to change it. And FWW I was far too old to qualify as a hipster or any sort of pretentious invader.

[–]ohshiitakemushrooms 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

punched

Same incident as this OP or are the knockout games back?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Brooklyn/comments/5y2aan/punched_in_the_back_of_my_head_at_9_am_in_crown/

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Same incident, hoping that stupid ass knockout game isn't back.

[–]SammyKlayman 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (1子コメント)

As a gentrifier myself, I am sympathetic to your post. I really am. That said, I have a lot of problems with it, not the least being that you need to toughen the fuck up.

I can't deny the tension that gentrification brings. That said, you seem to have (searched for and) found a crazy rant about white people and are trying to pass it off as typical of how somebody in a gentrifying neighborhood feels about gentrifiers. The average person is not afraid of white people's leg hair. They're just fucking not.

But, talking shit because a white guy sat next to you and you're afraid of his leg hair, talking shit about couples holding hands.... it's fucking bullshit.

This is what I mean. How many people are actually doing this? There are plenty of people who are rightfully upset about seeing their homes disappear - but talking shit about couples holding hands? I'm not trying to be dismissive, but I've lived in Bushwick, I've lived by the Cooper Park projects, I currently live in Bed-Stuy and haven't experienced anything like that.

I feel like I'm in an impossible situation and I may as well just move if I'm going to be judged and surrounded by hate.

Can I ask what has specifically happened to you? While I'm sorry about what happened to your boyfriend, randomly getting punched or mugged is part in parcel of living in a gentrifying neighborhood. New York is safe, but unfortunately it can still happen to you. Maybe he was targeted, by unless you know that for sure, why put yourself into this headspace that you're living in a hate-fueled world that is out to get you.

This is some bullshit tumblr activist. Don't get too worked up. The reason I think you need to toughen up is - frankly - there are enough people in this city that you'll eventually run into a few of the truly terrible ones. You can't let them throw you off.

[–]ohshiitakemushrooms 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

That rant though! The burger place he mentions is owned, operated by, and targeting the chassidic jewish block that's been here for years

[–]tigermomo 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Become a high quality neighbor and get involved in the local scene. Start talking to people in the street and giving those guys asking for money a dollar. Go to community board meetings. Say hello to every person you see on the street. Adopt a tree bed.

[–]paratactical -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (2子コメント)

People are literally losing their homes and their entire way of life and you want to prioritize your feelings. Nut up buttercup or don't live in places that aren't all the way yuppified.

Edit: which is to say, that no one should be attacked (and I'm sorry your boyfriend was attacked), but you don't know that it has anything to do with gentrification. You don't know why the people look at you - you might be a fucking asshole taking up a seat with your purse or you might be dressed like you belong as the September page of the Hipster Chic calendar. You also don't know that the tumblr post you're posting is real and not just someone's bullshit. You're up in arms about how something makes you feel but you are dismissive about how gentrification makes other people feel. It's not really about the 1% - it's about wealth (and yes, comparatively, you are wealth) moving into neighborhoods and irrevocably changing them. There's not much any of us can do about it individually, and it's bullshit to single out specific people as those to blame, but jesus christ, this is not about you. You have the mobility and wealth to move the fuck out of the neighborhood if your sensibilities are so offended.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm not a fucking asshole taking up a seat with my purse I can guarantee you that.

[–]paratactical 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Okay, so we know that's not why you get the stink eye, but that doesn't mean you're getting it because you're perceived as a gentrifier.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you sure you didn't mean to post this in r/the_donald ?

Christ almighty, check yourself. You are not a victim.

[–]CaptainBeaver2 -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (30子コメント)

Tbh, I agree, a lot of us natives don't want you here. It's not because of you as an individual, but what your presence does to us. No one, other than the people living here, gave a fuck about the neighborhood until ya'll came along. Now we're getting all sorts of amenities, but will be kicked out soon in the process. Like you said, the real devil is the 1% and developers for screwing us out of our neighborhoods.

That doesn't mean that we're not going to agitate the fuck out of gentrifiers. Until we can find a way to tackle the core of the issue, we'll do whatever we can to prevent gentrification from spreading, even if it means making you feel unwelcome.

[–]spaaaaaghetaboutitCrown Heights 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

what your presence does to us.

Riddle me this. If I was a black gentrifier, making $200K a year but decided to move into Crown Heights to save some bread would I get the same stink eye as a white gentrifier? You think you'd make me feel equally unwelcome? I doubt it.

[–]CaptainBeaver2 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

You're right, I probably won't make you feel unwelcome.

I debated this with myself for a bit and for a while equated black gentrifiers with white ones, but then I realized that the presence of black folks, $200k or $10k, does not have nearly as much of an affect on the neighborhood as white folks do, with those same numbers. It's this racist system we have here, where the bourgeois don't want to move into a neighborhood unless there is a certain number of white faces present.

[–]SammyKlayman 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I mean, that seems like a defeatist strategy. If my shitty neighbor is being shitty to me, I'm not going to care if they're getting pushed out. I'm just going to hate them. Hell, if they're especially shitty to me, I'll push them out myself.

Stop pretending that shitting on people who have limited options (just like you) is anything but a tantrum.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (26子コメント)

That's bullshit though - what my presence does to you? I'm just trying to live and take the bus and go to the grocery store. I also feel like being called a "gentrifier" is assuming that I'm moving into neighborhoods with the intent of gentrifying them, not because this was the neighborhood that I could afford an apartment in.

[–]CaptainBeaver2 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Oh please. You're a yoga instructor. Doesn't get more "gentrifier" than that.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

What does that have to do with anything? Aren't gentrifiers middle-high income people.... I think I've made about $600 total in my life teaching, it's not my profession.

Also, the studio I go in my neighborhood to is owned by a black woman who is from here who is a yoga instructor. Is she a gentrifier??

[–]CaptainBeaver2 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Read my earlier comment. In the racist system that we live in today, a rich black woman's presence has a lot less of an impact on displacement than a middle-lower class white person. Ya'll are just paving the way for the rich folks.

Case in point: Harlem has had it's share of bourgeoisie black folks for a while. They had little effect on the demographic.

It wasn't until the white folks started moving in that people were being evicted at a rate higher than before.

I'll give you the stats on this in a bit, but that's the way this system is.

[–]paratactical -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (2子コメント)

JFC for real?

Edit - apparently and also a vegetarian. The neighbors clearly have several legit reasons to hate OP besides her skin color and sensitivity.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (1子コメント)

That explains it.... I wear yoga pants everywhere, while saying "Namaste, meat is murder!" to everyone I pass, all while eating raw kale out of my yoga mat bag!

Surprised with all this digging into my reddit history nobody is calling me out for being a Teen Mom fan. That's probably the most offensive thing about me.

[–]paratactical -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I mean, your post history is like two pages. It's not exactly digging. And we all like bad shit. We're human.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill -3 ポイント-2 ポイント  (11子コメント)

Please, just stop. This thread is fucking embarrassing.

[–]spaaaaaghetaboutitCrown Heights 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (9子コメント)

If this thread is so fucking embarrassing why did you return after posting a comment 20 hours ago? Fuck out of here.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Bored at work and love airing out some racist out-of-town fucks. Hollatcha boy.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (7子コメント)

I'm not racist, my family is from here and I've spent half my life here... holla!

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (6子コメント)

Fine, you're not racist. You just post some cry-baby-reverse-racism-white-victim-complex bullshit on the internet.

Listen, Crown Heights is not a soft neighborhood. Yes, shit will and does happen, like your man gettin' rocked. That sucks, and I'm sorry about that. I know the feeling.

But this picture you're painting of utter non-stop and relentless harassment and intimidation SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU'RE FUCKING WHITE is mad suspect. This isn't the norm, so you have to stop and ask yourself what the fuck is wrong here? I mean, even your friends are questioning you? So either you're bullshitting, and if you're not which I will give you the benefit of the doubt, I really think you need to take a step back and look at the situation.

You're getting stared down every single time you leave your apartment? Every time? You're living in some sort of racial-tension-cold-war that makes life utterly unbearable while the rest of the white folks are out there galavanting and sucking down drinks on Franklin Ave? Fuck outta here.

Judging by this post, and the tone-deafness you have towards the issue of gentrification and the neighborhood as a whole, I'd say maybe you should check your attitude for real. Entitlement, nervous-fear, and being completely fucking oblivious of your environment is something the hood can smell from a mile away. You might be blood-letting into a pool of sharks.

[–]spaaaaaghetaboutitCrown Heights 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Except for the fact someone put exactly this comment on this post which contradicts your whole post:

That doesn't mean that we're not going to agitate the fuck out of gentrifiers. Until we can find a way to tackle the core of the issue, we'll do whatever we can to prevent gentrification from spreading, even if it means making you feel unwelcome.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Ok, fine. I'm wrong! YOU GOT ME BRO.

We're clearly in the midst of a race-war-ethno-social-fallout in Crown Heights that has graciously exposed by your girlfriend via a Tumblr screenshot and validated by your quoted post above.

For the love of God, let me get out of my fucking tiny violin and gracefully strum it for all the forsaken and downtrodden yoga-pant-wearing-cupcake-eating-Becky's south of Atlantic Ave. You guys are clearly the victims here.

[–]paratactical -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (7子コメント)

Not intending to do something that is shitty doesn't mean you didn't do a shitty thing.

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (6子コメント)

I had about 2k to my name when I moved, I fail to see how moving into an apartment I could afford is doing a shitty thing. I'm not living in some luxury building or prancing around the neighborhood. Like, guess what, this is the only apartment I qualified to live in based on my credit and my income so ... should I move to Montana or something?

[–]paratactical -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'm not saying you're a bad guy; I'm saying you are part of a problem the city has and you aren't exempt because you mean well. We are probably all a part of the problem.

But if you want to be somewhere where you can feel welcome, maybe you should live somewhere else. Maybe more roommates. Maybe Montana. You shouldn't begrudge lifelong community residents who aren't happy about your very real contributions to gentrification for not welcoming you or wanting you. Of course they don't!

[–]quesoqueso420[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

How am I contributing to gentrification by living in a building that is owned by the resident that lived here 20 years ago? I'm not in some luxury building forced other residents out. Please explain to me how I am contributing to gentrification other than that I'm white.

[–]paratactical 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

If you think only luxury buildings count as gentrification, you fundamentally don't understand gentrification. If you think you have to rent from a management company to count as gentrification, you are similarly incorrect. All you have to do is move into a neighborhood while paying more in rent than the long term residents of the neighborhood can afford - boom! - congrats, you're gentrification.

Edit: also it has literally nothing to do with your race; it's just more obvious that it's happening when a bunch of white folks move into neighborhoods that have been minority majority for a long time. You seem to want this to be racist against your whiteness; it isn't.

[–]paratactical 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Someone deleted a reply to this, but I had already typed out my response and I think it's worth noting:

It's not about race. It doesn't have anything to do with race. It's about a wealthier class displacing a long-time lower income class for a variety of reasons. It's not strictly about rent - it's about the income, the familial history of wealth, the access to wealth and the things that come with it - but it's really about the changes that make an area untenable for long-term multi-generation residents and making permanent modifications that appeal to a higher income class. It's a system that irrevocably changes the culture, demographic makeup, and environment of a neighborhood.

I'm not saying that gentrification is evil or that OP is bad; only that OP is tone deaf, placing their feelings over what are serious issues for many people, and making bad faith assumptions about the people around her.

Gentrification causes lots of issues. Some of the things it causes are positive. Many of the things are negative. There isn't a good solution. No individual should be held personally responsible for it, but each individual should be aware of it, its impact, and how their actions contribute to it, in order to help try to mitigate the worst damages of the system. We should all be working to help our city find a way to marry new residents with old and work to provide more housing protections and rent increases for tenants.

[–]DolceDolceClinton Hill 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Please explain to me how I am contributing to gentrification other than that I'm white.

Dude, you legit have no grip on what gentrification is. It's bigger than high-rise condos. The issue is race! Your mere presence in a neighborhood:

-Makes it easier for other white-middle-class-college-graduates-whatever-demographic to move in

-For people to open businesses that cater to these demographics' lifestyles

-For landlords/property groups to renovate or redevelop their properties to attract other new, wealthier residents who want access to said businesses and amenities

From there, the rent median skyrockets. Local-minority-centric businesses get priced out and replaced. The neighborhood begins to look different. Police presence is increased. And in this case, racial tensions build.

It's real, and you're a part of it. Why are you trying to deny it? This isn't some some far-fetched theory, it's the backbone of urban development and economics in the history of this city.

And with all the above said, NO ONE IS ASKING YOU TO FEEL GUILTY, EMBARRASSED, OR SHAMEFUL. NO ONE IS ASKING YOU TO LEAVE OR TO THROW YOURSELF INTO EASTERN PARKWAY.

But you need to acknowledge your role in it. That's all for now. Can we just start there please?

[–]frznmntn 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (6子コメント)

And they say reverse racism doesn't exist!

[–]REdEntBrooklyn Heights 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (5子コメント)

It doesn't, its just called racism.

[–]Robin420 -2 ポイント-1 ポイント  (4子コメント)

I've heard a rather convincing argument that only minorities can be the subject of racism as we define it, on account of privilege etc. Apparently we should refer to black on white hate as a racial prejudice and not overt racism. I'm not entirely convinced but it's an interesting view.

[–]REdEntBrooklyn Heights 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yeah I don't agree with that at all. Racism is prejudice based on race, plain and simple.

edit: its a semantic argument which infuriates me. No matter what you call it, it is still bad, so lets stop doing it.

[–]epochwinPark Slope 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (2子コメント)

In this situation it feels more like anger towards the class privilege and the changes that a person from the 'white' class brings in terms of higher costs of living than hating someone for the sake of being white

[–]REdEntBrooklyn Heights 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Does it though? One of the first parts is lamenting that white people are shopping at their "hood ass market". Next statement is about "white noise" on their local bus and the next is that white people are living in even shittier neighborhoods than them. One is literally "a white guy just sat next to me actually, I'm afraid of his leg hair tbh".

Sure, a lot of this is couched in a hatred of those rich assholes that buy up as much space as they can in the burgeoning market, I get that, I hate those people too. But this is clearly a wider brush than that, to the writer every single white person is taking advantage of the housing market and stealing apartments out from under non-whites, no chance that these people are just taking whatever apartment they could afford.

"tl;dr white people are collectively the devil"

[–]fiddy-twenty 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm white. I can't afford to live in the gentrified places. I don't shop in anything "boutique". I hate IPAs. Yet I'm included in the white devil label.

It's exactly the same as calling blacks thugs or robbers and following them around the store. And by any account I've ever seen, that's as racist as one can get.

[–]Man_of_Many_Hats[🍰] 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm a white guy from Canarsie that lived here before white flight took place. I still like it here and like most of my neighbors. This neighborhood is just as much mine as it is anyone else's that lives here. Fuck you if you think otherwise.

[–]Joseph_KP 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (1子コメント)

Is this a goddamn tumblr post?

[–]Danjour 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think so, you can't hide those colors from me.