We learn more from the straight-talking email than from the PC MSM "news" stories.
Posted on 11/06/2005 9:49:36 AM PST by rock58seg
Surely you jest. The entire world was an enlightened utopia until America was discovered.
That's because most of the Brooklyn neighborhoods, were pretty well finished "changing" by then. Most of the "change" at that time, was happening along the Brooklyn/Queens border.
Of course some of those areas are now undergoing gentrification. The people it changed to then are now lamenting the "changing" neighborhood.
I myself Bought a house in what was then being called a changing Queens neighborhood. We at one time had 57 different nationalities living on our block of one family houses.
What most people are usually cry about is the change in property values. In my case the house was bought for 24,000 sold 27 years later for 150,000. Also, The mortgage payment was very low compared to what rents were going for. Those houses today are selling at 650,000.
It showed a family living in Sunset Park (Bay Ridge?) moving into Park Slope, which was a neighborhood that, at that time, was widely thought to be on the wane.
Well the fact that I was from South Central Texas made me sort of immune to the thought that there was something wrong about living near Black or Hispanic neighbors. By the time the Viet Namese, Persians, Marielitos, Koreans and Haitians became the new wave in the 80's, Our area was already very diverse. Diverse had a much better connotation then, than now.
The real heart of the matter was, we assimilated people who had the means and sense to take care of what they bought. There were no instances of low-class tolerated , and when they briefly occured, (There were some rental homes.) they were handled by the ethnic group involved.
I thoroughly loved our block parties!
The left and right in Europe hate us. Which makes me so happy to see their cities and "ancient culture" go up in flames.
The neighborhoods that "changed" were largely inhabited by parochial white Catholics, who would freak if they saw a black walking down their block, let alone buying a home. Now the non -religious yuppies are buying in Williamsburg, Bushwick, East Harlem, etc., indicating that those "soft yuppies" are made of tougher stuff than the white Catholics who "tawked like dis."
He is unfortunately correct in stating that the US has been feverously lobbying for Turkey's EU membership. The US goverment is simply not credible in the eyes of many European conservatives due to this fact.
Another disgruntled, Kerry-supporting PEST sufferer?
Then he ought to know better.
I had to go look that up. Not so bad. Most philosophers were iconoclasts, just depends which ox they are goring at the time.
Oh, I'm certain that's what he meant. It's an implicit assumption that we'll cut and run, or otherwise "lose". His problem is that while he may very well be more knowledgeable about the situation in Europe, he is woefully ignorant of the actual situation in Iraq, and is viewing it through the blinders of his own prejudices.
That's only if we lose, which suggests that this so-called "pro-American" ally is rooting for an Iraq loss. I'm so glad that our friends in Europe think so highly of us, our President, and our military.
He certainly doesn't seem to lean conservative to me. All he does is bash Bush and America.
Delete this crappy post and revoke his citizenship.
Oh Clemenza, it wasn't just the Catholics. It was almost anyone who considered himself "White". That's why the suburbs grew as fast as they did. That and rent control with no decent new affordable apartments being built. The old ones not being maintained in order to squeeze the last dime out of them before they imploded.
We learn more from the straight-talking email than from the PC MSM "news" stories.
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