Making Atlantic Yards a Black-and-White Issue
The map that ran with the Atlantic Yards article in yesterday’s Times was pretty neat. Not that the results were particularly surprising (they were about what you’d expect) but it was particularly interesting for us to see that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which get so much press for being so racially mixed are still…
The map that ran with the Atlantic Yards article in yesterday’s Times was pretty neat. Not that the results were particularly surprising (they were about what you’d expect) but it was particularly interesting for us to see that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, which get so much press for being so racially mixed are still predominantly black on a pure numbers basis. As for the article, it wasn’t much fun being reminded of the appalling amount of race-baiting that’s gone on in battle for the hearts and minds of Brooklyn residents over the Atlantic Yards issue. We thought Brad Lender from PACC summed everything up the best:
If you live nearby, you have a nice home and you have a job, you’re probably not that excited by the benefits, and you’re swamped by the drawbacks. If you live a little farther away, and you don’t have a job and a nice house, then you probably get a lot more of the benefits. None of that is about race per se. But when you layer on that the people who live nearby are more likely to be whiter and wealthier, and the people who live farther out are more likely to be people of color without good jobs or housing, the race elements have become stronger.
We agree. It’s much more about class than race. It just happens to be that economic stratification in the neighborhoods surrounding Atlantic Yards happens to occur along racial lines so it’s a convenient lever for the powers-that-be to try to manipulate.
AY Development Through the Prism of Race [NY Times]
hey, ratner goony. I hear that AY might never get built. You ought to be patrolling the queens blogs because chances are that LIC don’t want y’all over there either. Better make sure that yer plan B is protected.
yeah, ratner’s camp must be getting desperate to stoop so low as sending out a bunch of trolls to infiltrate blogs.
troll alert….I smell ratner goon and crony, 1:50 PM
Interesting new strategy – impersonating a virtual identity (e.g., CHP’s online identity). I’ve got to hand it to you, you’re getting better. You even have some of the vernacular, tone and expressions down.
Nice try but no cigar. Go away Gollum, you little troll hobbit.
That was the troll at 11:41AM.
4:49 PM = ratner goony = troll = annoying junk mail = spam
Elena = ratner goony = troll = annoying junk mail = spam
d-o-n-e-d-e-a-l
Why are you mentioning CrownHeightsProud and Eryximachus in the same sentence? CrownHeights Proud is no racist and the only problem seems to be the CHP has been targeted for torment by the troll. If you bother to read the archives you’ll see the truth for yourself. Or perhaps you are the troll. In which case, it’s futile to try to talk to you like you are a human being.
I should also apologize for getting ‘testy’ in some of my posts. I allowed Eryximachus and CrownHeightsProud to get under my skin, and that’s no reason to be rude to anyone else on this thread.