"What is the danger Whitopias pose to America as a whole?"
Posted on 10/13/2009 9:25:23 AM PDT by onehitfrag
Let's start with the title of your book — what is a Whitopia, exactly? It's more than just a place where a lot of white people happen to live. Absolutely. A Whitopia has three things. First, it has posted more 6% population growth since 2000. The second thing is that the majority of that growth — upwards of 90% — comes from white migrants. The third thing a Whitopia has is an ineffable social charm — a pleasant look and feel.
You say many Whitopias offer a high quality of life, and tend to perform well on those "Best Places to Live" lists that run in magazines. Do you think people are also drawn to these places specifically by their whiteness?
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"What is the danger Whitopias pose to America as a whole?"
wow. This thread is gonna get ugly sarcastic FAST!
Once HUD spots them, these evil white people will have their fair share of drive-by shootings and sexual assaults in no time.
As Program Moves Poor to Suburbs, Tensions Follow - NYTimes.com
OK ...
Where I live in suburban Atlanta is a racially, ethnically and nationality-of-origin diverse area.
We have Korea-topias, and hispana-topias, and nearly-white-topias. But we have NO lily-white-topias.
Our street is classic American suburbia. Two-story brick front 3/4/5 bedroom homes. sidewalks. well-kept yards. too many cars in the house for the garage (teen drivers). DAMN LITTLE real crime anywhere near. good public schools. involved parents. peace, essentially.
oh, and within 10 houses on either side of the street, we have natives of every occupied continent except Australia; all skin colors; several native languages.
WHAT is wrong with that?
>> The major draw to Whitopia is that they’re safe communities with good public schools and beautiful natural resources. Those qualities are subconsciously inseparable from race in many Americans’ minds.
In a Whitopia, a “school board” makes decisions about schools.
In Chicago, a “school board” is what homies use to beat each other to death with after school.
Am I on the right track?
Instead of being so obsessed with “whitopias”, “teabaggers” and Consevatives, why doesn’t this guy spend some effort to improve the “blachaos”?
Pretty much what I’d thought it would be, another liberal media template bemoaning what a racist bigoted place America is. The truth : people not spoiled by “the state must provide for me” mentality tend to be white, so places without that criminal mindset tend toward white.
This idiot thinks that some how on;y white folks want a nice safe environment in which to raise their children and have a little peace and quiet. I guess that makes one a racist or something
because the three topics you mention are the ROOT CAUSE of blachaos????
It’s **YOUR** fault!!!
From the article: What is the danger Whitopias pose to America as a whole?
You can call me old-fashioned, but I'm an integrationist. A democracy can't function at its optimum unless all members are integrated as full members. A community full of like-minded people tends to enforce their own view of the world and closes off opposing viewpoints. You can go to parties in New York City where the liberal smugness is intolerable, because they're only hearing liberal viewpoints. On the Whitopian conservative side, it's spinning out of control. Look at the teabagger movement, where people are concerned their taxes are going to be wasted on minorities and illegal immigrants. Same with the movement that says Obama is not a citizen. (See pictures of the tea-party protests.)
This guy is a racist, but he thinks it's OK for him to be a racist, therefore he must be black.
I live in Idaho, does that make me a racist?
But is it your own private Idaho?
No, I share it with a few other people.
One has to wonder - when is this kind of crap going to end? We were told Barack Obama would transcend race, ending its use as a social issue.
Well, in my view, the use of race as a bludgoen, a cudgel, has got much worse in the USA since Obama was elected POTUS.
I’m sick of it!
Underground, Like a wild potato!
My community could be considered a Whitopia, but the fact is, our neighborhood has several black families, several families from India, a couple of mixed Anglo-Latino families (including yours truly).
What we all share are common values, it’s not about race, never has been.
People who adopt Black Culture do no good to any area, and it is just good sense to go to areas where such a debased culture has not taken hold.
People like to live around people that are like themselves in a variety of different ways. Why is this so hard to comprehend...oh, ‘cause we’re talking about the white devils. Never mind.
He lost me with “tea baggers.”
As an aside, my wife is a Reservation-raised American Indian, smarter than me, and actually payed attention in college instead of playing football and drinking beer like me.
She wants to move to the Villages in Florida. She calls it a Reservation for old people, but with golf and no liberals.
Randy James was born and raised in New Jersey and currently lives in Highland Park. He began his training at Rutgers University as a Dance and Theater major. In May 2002 he received the New Jersey Governor's Award in Arts Education. The NJSCA/Department of State honored him with a Choreography Fellowship in recognition of his artistic excellence and recently named him "Distinguished Teaching Artist". He has been a guest artist at various institutions nationally and internationally including ADF, Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival in Poland, Tage des Tanzes in Germany and Austria, Fine Five School in Estonia, Via Danse in Latvia, among others. James is currently the Artistic Director of Randy James Dance Works as well as Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Cleo Mack earned her BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where she was the recipient of the ACDFA/Dance Magazine Award for Outstanding Student Choreography. She was selected by Dance Magazine as one of “25 to watch in 2002”. Her work has been shown at DTW’s “Fresh Tracks”, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., P.S.1 Contemporary Dance Center, George Street Playhouse presented by Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Judson Church for Movement Research, and the Hungarian/American Dance Festival in Hungary. She is currently the director of dance at the Purnell School and Artistic Director of the Cleo Mack Dance Project.
source: http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/runy/runy04_dance_1.html
I’m certainly not going to buy this jerk’s book. Anybody have a list of the “Whitopias”? ‘Cause they sound like heaven to me.
Boy, talk about blowing your whole credibility with one word. It's analogous to me writing a book on black neighborhood and referring to the residents as "coons".
That being said, it's not about race (no surprise this race obsessed/racist liberal took that away from his experience). It's about culture.
I don't care what color a person is, I care about their values, mores, behavior, etc.
I have blacks, asians, and latinos on my block, and I couldn't care less. The neighbors I want off the block are the white members of the Pagan Motorcycle Club. They're the ones who don't work, don't keep up their house, come and go at all hours of the night, etc. They don't share my culture.
What is the danger Whitopias pose to America as a whole? You can call me old-fashioned, but I'm an integrationist. A democracy can't function at its optimum unless all members are integrated as full members.
Danger? Why does it pose any danger? Because of those high white-on-white crime rates and gang activities?
A community full of like-minded people tends to enforce their own view of the world and closes off opposing viewpoints. You can go to parties in New York City where the liberal smugness is intolerable, because they're only hearing liberal viewpoints. On the Whitopian conservative side, it's spinning out of control. Look at the teabagger movement, where people are concerned their taxes are going to be wasted on minorities and illegal immigrants. Same with the movement that says Obama is not a citizen. (See pictures of the tea-party protests.)
OMG, where to start? Does not integration mean like-mindedness? And whenever the term teabag(ers, ing), pops up, sound the girlieman alert.
Time magazine is a real danger to America (the America my forefathers knew and made great).
All people are welcome in these areas, provided that they act like honest, hard-working, law-abiding non-violent civilized people. Their physical appearance is irrelevant.
Nope, it’s their own fault. I refuse to accept blame for their predicament.
Miss Morford wannabe.
Randy, I don’t interfere with your life, so please don’t interfere with mine. I live in a nice, relatively peaceful multiethnic suburb. Please don’t ruin it, like you leftist bastards ruin everything else.
You see, to a leftist moron, white people create a problem just by living their lives.
Bump and +1
‘white migrants’ ????
...but we already knew all whites are racist, sexist, homophobic and bigoted. They’re not telling us anything new.
We just do not like the crime, the trash, the stupidity, the taxes etc. TOO BAD!
There is no reason that the inner city communities can't be better places to live than is currently the case. It is all about behavior and making an effort to lead a decent life. The inner city neighborhoods used to be nice, but government meddling and the influence of the drug/gang culture have combined to turn many neighborhoods into war zones. I don't blame any person, white or otherwise, for wanting to get as far away from this grabage as is possible.
THAT is discrimination! Profiling alert!
We mainly live in one of these areas with some sprinkling of others. We moved here a year ago, after the Katrina evacuees moved into our area of Houston. My wife would not go unaccompanied to the grocery store or do other local shopping. Break-ins, shootings and murders all around our neighborhood. The apartments absorbed many New Orleans folks and the crime rate became too much.
America’s Booming White Enclaves
50+ years ago that was pretty much across this nation and what made America great. Now we have diverse slums, peublos and thugocracies to be oh so proud of. When whites finally get a belly full of being told just how awful they are for being white this country is going implode.
If I want to yell at my State Rep, she lives five houses down. We have an Eight man police force, five part timers and a very active Volunteer Fire Department and a lot of people that like to speak their minds at Town Meetings.
The problem is the Massholes and other foreigners that want recreate the Mass Mythical in NH.
Author Rich Benjamin
I live in one and it prospers for the reason folks here probably can’t face.
Tough..
I think they are talking about where we CHOOSE to live.
I visited Boise, ID about 15 years ago when I was looking to leave California. It was a beautiful place. While I was wandering around the shopping mall I felt like there was something weird going on. Finally I noticed there were no black people. None! All of the communities I visited were well cared for and everyone was very friendly. One of the reasons I chose not to move there was the constant warnings that this or that neighborhood was Mormon and I would not be welcomed there. So white isn’t always as good as it seems.
What do you want to bet the author lives in a whitopia?
I have non-Mormon friends who live in Utah and they get along great with their Mormon neighbors. They are well accepted.
But...If you're not into wholesome and inexpensive entertainment, if you insist on social events with smoking and alcohol, if you don't like kids, yeah, probably you won't have much in common with them to build a friendship regardless of the religion.
But...If you have an open mind to attending their smoke and alcohol free, kid-filled, church and social functions which are open to all, you would get along great, and would make many warm friendships.
I had the same feeling while visiting Olympia, Washington once. I saw a white guy doing landscaping. I’m so used to seeing Latinos doing that kind of work, my friend and I literally did a double-take.
My husband and I ( who are not Mormon) visit Utah often to ski and visit friends. I sometimes joke that Utah is like vanilla ice cream...white and sweet! :-)
We love it, and as I posted previously, our non-Mormon friends who live there get along great with their Mormon neighbors and have made many, many friendships there. It's like any other place. If you don't share similar interests and values there isn't much basis for building a friendship.
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