Echoes of 1991 in Crown Heights?
The Times and Sun have articles this morning about the escalating tensions between Crown Heights’ black and Hasidic communities. The stories talk about how the NYPD has stepped up its presence on the area’s streets and politicians have been holding press conferences to decry the violence, all to try to prevent the neighborhood from once…
The Times and Sun have articles this morning about the escalating tensions between Crown Heights’ black and Hasidic communities. The stories talk about how the NYPD has stepped up its presence on the area’s streets and politicians have been holding press conferences to decry the violence, all to try to prevent the neighborhood from once again becoming the war zone that produced the 1991 riots. The latest problems in Crown Heights began in April, when a black 20-year-old was attacked by Hasidic men in what the police have deemed a bias crime. Since then, black children have pelted a bus carrying Hasidic toddlers with stones and last week black youths beat and robbed a Jewish teen. The police believe the first attack against the black 20-year-old was done by someone with ties to a Jewish civilian patrol group called the Shmira. Bias crimes in the neighborhood are up this year; there have been nine so far, compared to seven at this time in 2007. Some Crown Heights residents say the city and politicians are overreacting to the spate of violence, according to the Sun, since “most of the culprits — both black and Jewish — are too young to remember the riots, and some community leaders say they are concerned that it’s actually the grown-ups who are stoking a conflict between the groups.”
Neighborhood Simmers With Tension Again [NY Times]
Threat of Another Riot in Crown Heights [NY Sun]
Photo by Frank Lynch.
boxgrl, all you ever do on here is attack other people’s intelligence, without actually connecting it to anything they say, and other nothing other than the worn and tired yourself. You are just calling names, and have nothing to back up your categorizations.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you have a huge chip on your shoulder about your own intelligence.
i hate when people focus on entire groups of people, instead of the handful of low-life individuals that are causing the problems….not realizing this is what causes racial riots.
Sad stuff.
When I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn last year, Crown Heights was one of the first neighborhoods I crossed off my list.
When someone asked me why, I said “The people there hate each other.”
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And please shall we not throw around more “Jews hate Black People” garbage; I had enough of that in the Times this morning.
Jews and People of Color worked hand and hand to build the civil rights movement upon which so many of us stand today.
Polemicist – eat your breakfast, you’re having a glucose slump or something. “Next level”? She’s responding to your HUGE generalisations, not waving a gun around.
oops – principAL arguments, not principle. looks like i’m the mediocre thinker, or at least writer!
Thanks 9:43
bxgirl, I’m just calling it as I see it. I don’t really have an explanation and don’t claim to have one.
Quite frankly, your incessant personal attacks seem to indicate you have a fundamental antisocial personality flaw – the same kind of flaw that leads to these ethnic tensions in Crown Heights.
It really is a small step to take from calling someone like me an ignorant ass worthy of insult, to believing I am an ignorant ass who needs to be silenced permanently.
For your own sake, and those of your kin, I do suggest you carefully examine why you cannot control your emotions and think rationally. In a world of ever increasing shortages of food and energy, tensions will only continue to rise. Do you honestly believe you are able or willing to take this kind of hatred to the next level?
Bias crimes up from 7 to 9? This is on the rise??? Seems pretty insignificant given the small number. Also, I think a lot of journalists view all crime between Jews and blacks in the neighborhood through the 1991 prism which is probably an overreaction to tell a better story.
it’s amusing to see someone whose principle arguments are ad hominem accuse others of “mediocre thinking.” great work!