Speaking of cross continent racism, I was just having an exchange on another blog (which shall remain nameless) with a Japanese guy who said my neighborhood was too black. He lives in UWS Harlem.
quote:
You’d be interested to know that from the 1930s to the 1960s Paris (especially) was home to a large expat culture of Black American musicians, writers,
blah blah blah, and where are those black people in paris now? ALL PUSHED AND FORCED OUT INTO THE OUTER RING SLUMS!
“europe is the most racist and classist continent ever! for some reason they seem to get away with it because they have old school cuture. ”
You’d be interested to know that from the 1930s to the 1960s Paris (especially) was home to a large expat culture of Black American musicians, writers, and performers who found American racism too oppressive to work and live and moved to Paris. In fact I recently discovered that a minor Black American writer who just died, Carlene Hatcher Polite, learned French and published her first book in Paris, in French rather than English.
Denton, your best bet is to call the Brooklyn Yacht Club and see if someone with a smaller boat is willing to take you out there since the other boat rentals I know of are fairly big and will charge mucho dinero.
Brooklyn Yacht Club Inc
3147 Voorhies Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235-1046
(718) 646-9420‎
Benson, she is a character with a very distinctive way of spending money. She is single and insists on renting an apartment on 23rd St in a two bedroom high rise, probably close to 4,000 dollars a month, filled with government reports, newspapers, file cabinets. She wouldn’t buy a computer though (the cost!) and it would take up too much space!! She goes to the library to use the computer. Go figure. I am so jealous, because with speaking Italian as a kid, Spanish and Portuguese came easily to her.
“CGar – are you a T-Rex? If you’re a T-Rex, you can carry your umbrella anyway you’d like!”
BTW, ty, you’ve definitely got me pegged as the wrong dinosaur. T-Rex? Don’t I wish! Think short, squat and round, like a Stegosaurus.
brownstones half off,
I admire your tenacity,
you are never off point.
and, I fear there is some underlying
truth to your urgency.
Speaking of cross continent racism, I was just having an exchange on another blog (which shall remain nameless) with a Japanese guy who said my neighborhood was too black. He lives in UWS Harlem.
quote:
You’d be interested to know that from the 1930s to the 1960s Paris (especially) was home to a large expat culture of Black American musicians, writers,
blah blah blah, and where are those black people in paris now? ALL PUSHED AND FORCED OUT INTO THE OUTER RING SLUMS!
*rob*
thanks for the boat advise guys.
“europe is the most racist and classist continent ever! for some reason they seem to get away with it because they have old school cuture. ”
You’d be interested to know that from the 1930s to the 1960s Paris (especially) was home to a large expat culture of Black American musicians, writers, and performers who found American racism too oppressive to work and live and moved to Paris. In fact I recently discovered that a minor Black American writer who just died, Carlene Hatcher Polite, learned French and published her first book in Paris, in French rather than English.
benson, are coming out Thursday night to Dulcolax or whatever it’s called???
Denton, your best bet is to call the Brooklyn Yacht Club and see if someone with a smaller boat is willing to take you out there since the other boat rentals I know of are fairly big and will charge mucho dinero.
Brooklyn Yacht Club Inc
3147 Voorhies Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235-1046
(718) 646-9420‎
Benson, she is a character with a very distinctive way of spending money. She is single and insists on renting an apartment on 23rd St in a two bedroom high rise, probably close to 4,000 dollars a month, filled with government reports, newspapers, file cabinets. She wouldn’t buy a computer though (the cost!) and it would take up too much space!! She goes to the library to use the computer. Go figure. I am so jealous, because with speaking Italian as a kid, Spanish and Portuguese came easily to her.