Posted on 09/25/2015 4:39:17 AM PDT by blam
Reihan Salam
September 25, 2015
I live in a small slice of Brooklyn wedged between Brooklyn Heights, one of New York’s most prosperous neighborhoods, Dumbo, a relatively new neighborhood that is essentially a forest of condominiums catering to financiers, techies, and “creative professionals,” and Farragut Houses, a sprawling public-housing complex that borders the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Though you won’t find gated communities in this part of Brooklyn, you will find buildings with doormen, which is of course a quite similar phenomenon. The retail establishments catering to affluent professionals don’t formally exclude poor residents, but their high prices do the work of explaining who is welcome and who is not. Very rich people and very poor people live side by side in this part of Brooklyn, yet their lives rarely intersect. Rich Brooklynites and poor Brooklynites do, however, share their local public schools. And as you can imagine, not all of Brooklyn’s bourgeois parents are thrilled about this fact.
Kate Taylor of the New York Times has written a fascinating report on a school rezoning in my part of town. Basically, Public School 8 in Brooklyn Heights is massively oversubscribed while Public School 307 in Vinegar Hill, right by the Farragut Houses, is undersubscribed. The city has thus proposed shifting Dumbo families from P.S. 8 to P.S. 307, which seems sensible enough. So why are parents in Dumbo so outraged? Taylor explains:
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(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Shades of Little Rock.
It reminds me of Salem, Oregon, concentrated home of self-professed liberals who raised cain when the city tried to name the street in front of their homes after Martin Luther King. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to honor Dr. King, it is that they didn’t want their home values affected by the supposed association with minority areas of the city.
Sir. How dare you slight my home state, Mississippi? We were every bit as racist as them Crackers in Alabammy.
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It’s been my experience that the disadvantaged kids spend most of their time picking on good students.
——multiple-partner fertility,-——
ahh.... what a phrase
a bastard maker is in reality a multiple-partner fertility creator. bastardes knowing they are bastards are stressed beyond the limits for maintaining good behavior
in reality, the liberal hell hole produces human garbage that cannot be utilized by society
Obama’s mama had multiple partner fertility, so did his daddy.
That’s why he has half-brothers and half-sisters all over the world.
“they didn’t want their home values affected by the supposed association with minority areas of the city.”
In a similar vein, when we moved to NY State in Y2K, we liked a house on Clinton St. We wouldn’t buy it. Clinton!? I don’t think so.
Poor people and ner do wells promote multiple-partner fertility and the production of bastards.
When there is some wealth or assets, the question of inheritance rises. Then the question becomes who inherits?
To inherit, one must be of the family. Bastards born out of the formal lines of descent can’t and don’t inherit. When you are poor and dumb, it doesn’t matter if you stay poor
If you want to know how Progressives
Desegregate review our recent
History... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_busing_desegregation
... PRIVATE schools for the “elite” ...
Or as my “progressive” snot-nosed relative... says...
“The better things in life”... While looking down his
Dripping nose...at the “great unwashed masses”
... It is mental derangement which may originate
From SATAN .
When you see it up close and personal it will scare you
Unless you are in Jesus The Christ.
What-? Democrats are RACIST?! I’m shocked....SHOCKED! I tell you!
The same things have been going on for the last 40 years in Sann Francisco. And I suppose in other places in a similar situation such as Manhattan.
Not new in general, just a new case in Brooklyn.
The upper middle class liberal has always been a hypocrite.
The comments are great! The article...a big DUH!
I have a NYC relative just like yours. Fortunately, we never see him as he looks down his nose at our entire family. He’s embarrassed we aren’t upper class libs. You can bet he won’t be sending his new baby (from his teenage second wife that he was screwing around with during his first marriage) to ANY NY numbered school.
Libturds - Integration is for the Peons, not us!
Rather than copying their successful habits. They'd rather bring everyone down, than them selves up. There are exceptions, of course.
A neighborhood full of Liberals is called Dumbo?
Irony; The Mark of Quality Literature
“Blacks? Of course we love them! Integration is a great idea! ... But at a distance, so our children are not affected by their behavior. Or smell. But we love them!” (/liberal)
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