Rosie Revisited
First Rosie was on Brian Lehrer. Then we blogged about it. Then she led a panel at WNYC. Then New York Magazine cornered her and blogged it. Here’s a clip from the New York Mag post: Perez got pretty slammed on the Brooklyn blogs for her comments. As much as I find Rosie Perez to…
First Rosie was on Brian Lehrer. Then we blogged about it. Then she led a panel at WNYC. Then New York Magazine cornered her and blogged it. Here’s a clip from the New York Mag post:
Perez got pretty slammed on the Brooklyn blogs for her comments. As much as I find Rosie Perez to be a decent actor, sexy and certainly part of NYC’s charm, I must say comments like these make me want to kick her in the shins, wrote one commenter on Brownstoner. We cornered Perez after the show, and she was happy to clear up what she worried was a hostile comment. What I really wanted to say was that, yes, I’m nostalgic for the past, but I’m also excited about the present and hopeful for the future,” she explained. “Things do change. Water always has to flow or else it becomes stale. But with change, you can bring along some of the good minerals that came from the top of the waterfall.” She said she’d read some of the blogs and seen the nasty comments. “I think it’s their guilt of being the gentrifiers. They don’t know how to take it,” she said. “But I had to look at myself and I realized it came off a little hostile, to be honest.
Her parting words? “Even if you’re in a bad mood, just give me a nod. We’ll do one better: Come to the Flea tomorrow, Rosie, and we’ll buy you a pupusa!
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“I’m sure the fake niceness is the same deal with dave’s neighbors.
Posted by: Santa at May 8, 2009 11:20 AM
I guess you know more about my neighbors than I do. Douchebag.
You need to pay attention to a long time Brooklynite view and understand where things are going!
Brownstoner is trying to invoke Covert Race/Class Warfare because there is waning interest in Real Estate. We are at the Dawn of a Depression and frankly the great “Experiment” has failed. To make Brooklyn a “Utopia” is going down the tubes and everyone who believed in that dream is going to get Assraped real hard! See the story on 23 Caton Pl.! Do think that is a joke?!?! That will be the reality in Brooklyn very soon and I wonder what you will have to talk about. I think ya’ll are all fucking losers, just like Brownstoner himself…
The What (Six month of Life Support Left)
Someday this war is gonna end…
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The gentrification debate in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill is all about race.
no, it’s not. about snooty people IMMEDIATELY moving in and imposing their snooty ideals on people who are chill and don’t walk around with popsicle sticks shoved up their butts.
*rob*
“Then we blogged about it.”
It? It? What the f*** is it? IT didn’t happen again! YOU happened again, brownstoner!!! YOU happened!!!
***Bid half off peak comps***
“my grandmother who is stuck down in the south now (south carolina) haaaaates it. she thinks everyone is (pardon my use of the word…)but totally retarded. and everyone says that southern friendliness is mad phoney. tho personally id rather encounter fake niceness than the nasty cold im better than you because i paid 2 million dollars for my home smugness that a lot of people complain about.
*rob*”
ha its alittle much. I lived there for most of my live and had to get out. I’m sure the fake niceness is the same deal with dave’s neighbors
“colored women” Haven’t heard that one in a loooong time, winelover.
white women or any colored women with small children aren’t unfriendly, they are just hallucinating from sleep deprivation.
I probably have a very different perspective as an immigrant to these shores. Whether at a macro-level (nations) or micro-level (neighborhoods), I believe the nativists’ arguments to be utter nonsense. So you were here first, what then? It doesn’t make you any more or less for that reason alone. As a recent American, am I any less valued than some crusty old clown whose great-great-grandparents came from somewhere else?
The gentrification debate in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill is all about race. That’s what Broklyn is talking about when he mentions Bensonhurst, that’s what Rosie is talking about with “gentrifier guilt” – talk about a Freudian slip. The expression I believe is white guilt. The US birth is inextricably linked to African slavery and European landowners. It is definitely one of the main founding paradox, that a country with a myth as a beacon for freedom also existed to keep slavery as a status quo.
Instead of arguing about the mask, we should discuss what’s underneath. Do we want ethnic ghettos? do minorities need the “protection” of ethnically pure enclaves? I think the answer was yes for the past century, but some of us are trying to move beyond that. I personally hope we can move beyond that. Of course I am conscious that it is easier to do as a white person. No one ever asked the likes of me to move to the back of the bus or get out of the way on the sidewalk.
When you are the chickens, it’s always harder and scarier to see the foxes move in then it is for the foxes.
I love it when topics like this start a real dialogue – much better than the artificial carry-on so often on the OT. Sometimes it’s amazing to see that there can even be differing points of view on some topics & it’s a revelation to read them (especially when they’re legit & logical.)
O.K., sometimes it gets a little venomous or ad hominem, but even that generally levels out over time as the Usual Suspects find that even they differ with the result that they moderate their own points of view.