Quote of the Day
Everyone I know, who has either held on during the bad old days, and is still hanging on, or chose to come back or join our communities since then, is very, very committed to not only keeping what we have now, but improving it. For ourselves and families, not to make it attractive and desireable…
Everyone I know, who has either held on during the bad old days, and is still hanging on, or chose to come back or join our communities since then, is very, very committed to not only keeping what we have now, but improving it. For ourselves and families, not to make it attractive and desireable to others. Because we, as a black community, are certainly not all poor, not criminal, not all unemployed, and not all concerned with impressing other people. We in Crown Heights North, did not work like dogs to get our neighborhood landmarked to impress white people, or make it “good enough” for them to want to move here. We, and by which I mean an organization that was about 95% black at the time, did it for US, because we are proud of our neighborhood, and wanted it protected, for now, and for our future generations, no matter who happens to live there.
— by Montrose Morris in What the Census Says About Us
” You were pretty nice to Wasder yesterday about his kid. What happened?”
You can read! Go back to the posts and get back to me later..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
From what you say you clearly would have been happier living in a non-immigrant city. Unfortunately for you, 4 out of 10 new yorkers are foreign born, and another 3 out of 10 come from somewhere else in the US. new York is and always has been, a city of newcomers. So tough shit.
Biff Montrose Morris can speak for herself…
Off meds again. You don’t even truly understand half the things you cut and paste. Asshat
daveinbedstuy
See I rest my case….
I have to share this story. I was walking down Fulton St and noticed how beautiful my neighborhood is and how fortunate I am to be born and raised here. I understand most of my fight is with people that have no connection to Brooklyn. Cobblehiller can relate to some of the things I rant about and Wasder is a long time Brooklynite that want to raise in the city that he was born in. Wasder you have notice that I don’t attack you (that much lol) anymore because I think you are sincere about what you want. I don’t think at this time you have a Gentrification agenda but just a neighborhood thing. You could’ve join the piling on with the Asshats but you try to bring me around and You would make Dr. King proud. As for everyone else you can still suck me off! I hate the rest of you and hope that you are impacted by the collapsing of the Mutant Asset Bubble.
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
Wasder my statement does not mean we are friends, it just means I understand…
I wonder whether there has been even 5 minutes of introspection or self-analysis in Mr. T. What’s life.
great as ever MM. Now the What is whinging about being abused?! He’s upset that everyone is so negative and yet the second the most positive and upbeat person on brownstoner posts, he starts bashing her. but that’s par for the course when you would rather be part of the problem than part of the solution. It got him attention before- he’s thinks it will work again. I say nay. And Yay! to MM.
slopefarm, What is upset and embarrassed that the quote was a response to his own rants and put him in his place. I re-posted the entire quote from MM, which shows this.
Montrose, well said.
What, you are the first comment on this thread. I see nothing in the QOTD that could have possibly offended anyone. So don’t go around making gratuitous attacks apropos of nothing like you did at 3:37 and then blame it on others. You were pretty nice to Wasder yesterday about his kid. What happened?
Off meds again. You don’t even truly understand half the things you cut and paste. Asshat.
Montrose, I had a feeling this would make the QOTD! Wonderful stuff, as always. I’m taking the liberty of posting your entire quote, which was so typically articulate and thoughtful.
“”The “nice White People” are going to call U-Hall and pack up and leave! Then our neighborhood will go back to the “Bad old days”! This is my main problem with Gentrification! When things don’t “work out” and the Asshats leave everything get worse!!!!!!”
Ok, this one I’m not going to leave alone, or laugh off. What, your self hatred is showing. You spend so much time being a homophobic, misogynist, racist that you’ve decided that you might as well hate everyone equally. If every non-black person left Crown Heights, Bed Stuy, or any other predominantly black Brooklyn neighborhood tomorrow, they’d do just fine. Are you insinuating that black people are all so irresponsible and helpless that we’d all revert to chaos and anarchy? I don’t think so.
Everyone I know, who has either held on during the bad old days, and is still hanging on, or chose to come back or join our communities since then, is very, very committed to not only keeping what we have now, but improving it. For ourselves and families, not to make it attractive and desireable to others. Because we, as a black community, are certainly not all poor, not criminal, not all unemployed, and not all concerned with impressing other people. We in Crown Heights North, did not work like dogs to get our neighborhood landmarked to impress white people, or make it “good enough” for them to want to move here. We, and by which I mean an organization that was about 95% black at the time, did it for US, because we are proud of our neighborhood, and wanted it protected, for now, and for our future generations, no matter who happens to live there.
I resent the implication that we, as a people, cannot be self sufficient, or self governing, or cannot be trusted with our own communities. I expect that from some of the less enlightened who post here. You demean yourself even further, if that’s possible, by doing it yourself.
Montrose Morris, PBA
Posted by: Montrose Morris at December 11, 2008 11:44 AM”