Posted on 09/30/2006 1:10:10 PM PDT by neverdem
A clear reason for reparations.
I bet the same can be said about Harlem.
Harlem, way smaller than Queens, has a very different housing stock and much higher density, including lots of public housing.
What will race-hustlers like Sharpton do if the black middle-class continues to increase? Get real jobs? Or, continue to exploit the black underclass?
LI ping
Exactly. Blacks are succeeding?
Uh oh, this is not good news for the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world. What will be their function if a thriving Black middle-class becomes more prevalent?
Why, they won't need the services of Mr. Sharpton and Mr. Jackson any longer.
Harlem today has a weird, weird make-up...
He has a real job as a talking head and candidate for something, no?
Or, continue to exploit the black underclass?
How can Sharpton & Co. stop the BS?
Tenements/trashy apartment buildings/public housing will remain as islands of undesirability, as they do on the Upper West Side.
A lot of the old retail establishments have closed, which is a real loss (please, don't bring up Sylvia's -- the place was always over-rated). Basically Harlem won't be Harlem anymore...
Wait. How is that possible? Wouldn't the racism that keeps American-born blacks behind work the same way on foreign-born blacks? Hmmmm?
(Actually, Thomas Sowell addressed this very thing years ago, in Ethnic America).
That's very true...but NY has *always* seen this kind of transformation...the Jews and the Irish and the Italians all had enclaves that blossomed and faded...why should Harlem's ethnicity be any different?
Work Loaf for the government... city, state or federal.
Everything should stay exactly as it is/was! Chinatown shouldn't have crossed Canal. I should still be able to hear an Irish brogue in the Bronx and get a decent knish in Flatbush!
p.s.
That knish shouldn't cost more than a quarter!
And while I'm at it -- what the hell happened to Nedicks and why can't I get a decent egg cream anymore? The world has gone mad!
In the late 1800s, Harlem was an all white community of middle and upper middle class whites, or varying ethnicities.
It wasn't until the beginnings of the 20th century that blacks moved there and it wasn't until WW II, that Puerto Ricans moved into a part of it.
Harlem has been in the midst of a white influx and a massive gentrification for about a decade or so, now.
Yes, N.Y.C. has ALWAYS been in the midst of some kind of strum&drang, with once VERY fashionable areas turning into slums and slums turning into posh places. It's the natural history of the city!
But did they have to kill off the egg creams?
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