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Spike Lee Gets Brutally Honest When Discussing Gentrification in Brooklyn
Complex City Guide ^ | 2/26/14 | Julian Kimble

Posted on 02/26/2014 3:35:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa

Edited on 02/26/2014 3:47:18 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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To: SkyDancer; All

Know people who bought into a very rough neighborhood in the late ‘60s for around $20,000. They knew it would be rough, but the improvement was moving in that direction. Several break-ins, muggings, etc. later, houses in that block now sell for $1 million.


21 posted on 02/26/2014 4:06:37 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: x

That looks like Charlton Heston’s place in The Omega Man.


22 posted on 02/26/2014 4:06:53 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: gleeaikin

This is 100% happening in the Bay Area. If you bought in the Mission or in Potrero Hill in the 90’s you would be sitting pretty right now.


23 posted on 02/26/2014 4:11:16 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Impala64ssa

What was the name of the Expressway in Detroit, Gary-IN, Baltimore, St Louis, East Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Camden, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland. etc.? I believe they all contained the name: WhiteFlight or GetOutOfTownHonky..
Perhaps the NFL should have threatened to pull the Super Bowl out the cites with NFL teams.


24 posted on 02/26/2014 4:12:09 PM PST by BilLies (330,000 WHITE Union military went to their deaths to free the slaves .... REALLY???!!!)
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To: Fai Mao

Them be the One-Percent.


25 posted on 02/26/2014 4:14:32 PM PST by BilLies (330,000 WHITE Union military went to their deaths to free the slaves .... REALLY???!!!)
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To: wac3rd; All

The family I mentioned paid their dues. The husband had his jaw broken and was wired up for 6 weeks, the house broken into 3 times. The wife exposed to certain unpleasantness as well. A decade later the husband was also mugged once, held up at gunpoint twice, and in protecting someone else being attacked on the street had his nose broken. Early “gentrification” is not for the faint of heart or naive.


26 posted on 02/26/2014 4:17:26 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Straight Vermonter
and then move here and try to change everything.
Yeah, when I lived in Orange County, NY the yuppies who bought the overpriced mcmansions around the onion fields in Warwick, like clockword b!tch and complain about the slow moving farm vehicles that clog up the roads and the pesticildes that are "killing their children". Not to mention, on those hot sweltering days in July and August, the unmistakable aroma of cow manure wafting in the air. A similar situation by the dirt track in Middletown, they complain about the noise from races every Sat night in the spring and summer. HEY, SCHMUCKS! you knew where you were moving to, what did you expect?
27 posted on 02/26/2014 4:18:58 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: BilLies

At some point it crosses MLK Blvd. That is usually not the place to look for a gas station with a clean restroom


28 posted on 02/26/2014 4:20:59 PM PST by John Galt's cousin (WTF? We couldn't rescue four men in Benghazi? Is our military IMPOTENT? ( /s ))
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To: tophat9000

Inglewood was also like that.


29 posted on 02/26/2014 4:21:55 PM PST by windcliff
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To: BenLurkin

Profanity is a small mind attempting to speak with force.


30 posted on 02/26/2014 4:35:58 PM PST by DeltaZulu
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To: Impala64ssa

None of that matters to Lee. He is a black supremesist bigot. Ever lie he tells and every truth he lets slip is to further cause of making whites second class citizens. Viewed through that prism even his illogical statements make sense.


31 posted on 02/26/2014 4:39:06 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Impala64ssa

Obviously Spike hosted a conference to finalize proper Honkification Standards..
Al mulattoes are equal except some are more Honkyified than others..

There MUST be rules in abrogating conservative blacks..
Can’t have blacks “waking up” en mass getting all OUTRAGED...


32 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:17 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Impala64ssa

pigeon-toed, pipsqueek punk azz rasis...


33 posted on 02/26/2014 4:58:25 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Bloom right where you are.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Amazing what a bitter person he is.


34 posted on 02/26/2014 5:21:13 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Bookmark


35 posted on 02/26/2014 5:24:01 PM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Hmmm. If Spike Lee bought an old home in a run down Brooklyn neighborhood, and fixed it up, would he be called a “gentrifier”, or is that term saved for whites who do the same thing?


36 posted on 02/26/2014 6:08:59 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Impala64ssa
Hey Spike, let me guess -- you don't live in Brooklyn with your race. Am I correct?

I bet you aren't living in a 2 bedroom apartment either, so STFU.

37 posted on 02/26/2014 6:11:49 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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38 posted on 02/26/2014 11:11:28 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: Impala64ssa

I love seeing the Volvos and Beemers impatiently following the farm vehicles and getting splattered by the “mud” coming off the tires.


39 posted on 02/27/2014 5:35:10 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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