Brooklyn????
Well, Spike Lee will be pissed off about this news!!
Spike is all offended about these “white mothers” strutting around, pushing strollers, and not having reverence and respect for the history of ghetto neighborhoods which are becoming gentrified.
Maybe off topic, but so many liberals are angry about gentrification and renovation of downtrodden urban neighborhoods. Is gentrification really that bad?? If we see formerly neglected areas revitalized??? If we see properties renovated, and adding to the tax base?? If we see new businesses moving in??? If we see crime rates plummeting as habitual criminals are driven out???
I’ve even heard that we are seeing some redevelopment happening in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which has been one of the worst slums in Brooklyn.
It’s funny too, that Spike Lee laments the passing of the Brooklyn ghettos that he is so nostalgic for. He became successful and moved to the upper east side of Manhattan. He won’t even live in Brooklyn himself anymore.
“Bedford-Stuyvesant”
It is my understanding that it had/has a mix of high-quality and low-quality housing.
“gentrification”
Federal law is such that it is now legally impossible to flee from black people, so white people often no longer do so.
Blacks were helped as well as hurt by skin color discrimination.
Now we have greenback-based discrimination.