Spike Lee lives in this $32 million mansion overlooking Central Park. His favorite subject is cursing white gentrification. Not that he ever knew poor since he grew up rather well off.
Posted on 05/04/2019 5:10:08 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Here's your latest installment of "everything is racist," courtesy of the New York Times.
The paper's "Race Related" section is described as "a weekly newsletter focused on race, identity and culture," and for my sins, I recently subscribed to it. This morning, an email arrived from "Race Related," attaching a story about gentrification in the historically black South Park neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina.
According to the article's author, Emily Badger [emphasis added throughout]:
"A few new homes rise high above the modest, single-story properties around them. Those houses, some longtime residents lament, feel so large that they evoke plantation homes, complete with second-story porches an overseer might use to keep an eye on the black residents nearby."
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That’s a great video. Thanks for posting the link. I sent to my sister who teaches math to mostly inner city black kids.
I’m not saying anything should be done. Just commenting that the houses are ugly and don’t fit with the neighborhood in general. What I find fascinating is the socially conscious people moving into these homes are oblivious that they forcing people out of their neighborhoods, esp as property taxes rise and the working poor cannot pay them.
The strangest sensation came over me when I saw those three modern houses. I had a sudden inexplicable desire to sit on those porches sipping a mint julep.
And I don’t even know what a mint julep is.
Spike Lee lives in this $32 million mansion overlooking Central Park. His favorite subject is cursing white gentrification. Not that he ever knew poor since he grew up rather well off.
This is not my beautiful house.
I notice he has a fence, not a bridge, around his home. How divisive of him.
Good comments at the end of that video.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minute here. My daddy was a cotton picker and so was I. It was good work. He had a big long store-bought ‘professional’ cotton sack that hung from a shoulder strap and dragged behind him as he picked himself down the row. Mine was a burlap gunny sack. We’d pick and stuff our bags full, then sling them over our shoulders and make our way to the cotton trailer. There, they’d hoist them up on a scale and pay us 3 cents a pound on the spot and in cash. Felt good to have those coins jingling in your pocket. Oh, yeah. In those days, the good old fifties, the government didn’t take a dime. What you earned was all yours.
Yes, and we white people worked side by side with black and brown skinned people and we got along just fine. We lived a sheltered life out here in central California. I’d read the news stories about the racial strife elsewhere in the country and couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about.
But guess I did stare in amazement at one guy. A black man with only one arm. The other was just a stump. But he was out there working just as hard as everyone else.
How many of their parents, grandparents, great grandparents or great great grandparents were out pickin’ cotton for da massa? A generation is about 30 years (yeah, LaQuishita’s and Treyvon’s generations turn over in half that). The slaves were freed 154 years ago so we’re at least 6 generations past field working age. Some folk need to get over themselves.
I’ve only been to Raleigh a few times recently and from what I’ve seen, very pretty area.
One taste of rush hour was enough to turn me off living there.
NC State vet school did wonders for the venerable GSD’s nasal cancer.
We had beef animals but we also raised cotton as a cash crop most years. Usually we put in about 30 acres of cotton.
And YES. I picked cotton too right along with the hired help. We all did meaning my whole family.
That's the way life was back in those bygone days.
That meme I posted was directed at the younger crowd not people in my age group......
Meaning those of us who'll never see 70 again.lol
I went to a NC state graduation year before last. The Vet school grads are NUTS! But, glad to know they do a good job too.
DANG!
More like 200 years old. The Late Unpleasantness was quite a long while ago.
Ever notice that for decades the constant turmoil in society is always caused by democRATS? Its almost as if they WANT to create stress and division. Funny how that works.
For some strange reason, I’m glad I had a paper route for six years—until I got a paycheck job @ 16 washing dishes...
In New Orleans & thereabouts, the old slave shacks (”shotguns”) are renovated into the coolest of the cool abodes.
Nothing’s as disgusting as a person who lives in an eternal ‘pity party’ state of mind.
Once in a lifetime.
Right! Both styles have two floor, window and entry doors ... striking similarity - no wonder the neighbors were agitated - imagine the possibilities for sniping!
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