Posted on 02/27/2014 11:31:01 AM PST by massmike
There are complaints about property values going up. Some minority activists decry rising rents in gentrifying neoghborhoods, and that long time residents are forced out if they can’t afford higher rent.
Actually, the original European settlers named it New Amsterdam, after the ancient African city of Amsterdam. The English renamed it after their conquest.
As much as I despise Spike Lee, his portrayal of Malcolm X was pretty good even though he stuck himself into the movie as Shorty. It was pretty accurate regarding the book but I suspect he didn’t understand or refused to understand that Malcolm X’s ideas were evolving and had he lived, he would have realized the truth and that truth is the hucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have a vested interest in keeping a brother down.
After reading the book, I had a new-found respect for Malcolm X.
Why doesn’t Spike live in a project so he can live an authentic black experience? It’s like rich liberals slumming, they think they’re so edgy but it’s easy to visit a ghetto if you’re rich. I’ve yet to see even a single one renounce their money and live in a project so they can keep it real.
Always wondered why it's racist if white people say this, but not if people of color say it.
He sure had more integrity than the plagiarizing communist adulterer.
Lack-of-talent racist...at best.
They were Jewish, Polish, German, Italian neighborhoods long before his “people” moved in and trashed the area.
Old Spike, once again demonstrating that utter, rank hypocrisy is one of the defining characteristics of the left/liberal.
Amazing. So by his logic, those who object to immigrants who come to the U.S. and refuse to assimilate in any way, and instead insist on forcing everyone else to live by THEIR customs, are completely justified. Right Spike? Right?! I mean, we've been here for a couple of hundred years now, shouldn't anyone who moves here have to assimilate into our culture, just as the "gentrifiers" moving into Harlem should have to assimilate into yours? Of course, Spike and his ilk will accuse you of being a racist/bigot/xenophobe for even suggesting anything like what he just said.
Spike is yet another example of how even remarkably stupid hypocrites can become rich in this country.
Some of those original Dutch settlers were my ancestors. Some of them came as indentured servants along with a few black african indentured servants.
So does this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_David_Manning
snippet:
Manning is fiercely opposed to the gentrification of Harlem and calls for its residents to boycott its shops, ants, doctors, banks and churches.[8] That action, combined with a general rent strike, would force all property owners out of Harlem, he said, leaving the neighborhood to its rightful inheritors: black people.
I’m glad Spike Lee is finally deciding blacks should not take white tax dollars any more. It’s so racist and condescending for white liberal politicians to arrange all of this wealth redistribution to pay for things blacks are perfectly capable of getting on their own. So get out of the Black neighborhoods, Whitey, and take your dirty political money with you! :)
Well, yes, quite frankly. Africanism studies of all things African (not those white South Africans, but those dark ones, from Africa) dictate that all learning, culture, civilization, knowledge and humanity stems from Africa, be it the actual genes from Lucy, Suzie, or Shaniqua - whoever she was those many tens of thousands of years ago, or the yo-yos that little children used to play with. Hell throw in the iPhone, too.
That’s “Yoke” to you muthaf@cka :o)
Why isn't he living in the ghetto with his bros? Instead he's living in a Manhattan mansion just off Madison Ave on the east side of Central Park.
I personally favor freedom of choice. Let there be mixed neighborhoods, let there be apartheid neighborhoods. Let people decide what kind of neighbors they will have.
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