White People Horrified About Extremely Minor Westchester Integration
750 lucky black or otherwise not white families are going to be plonked down in Pound Ridge and Larchmont and other tony, nearly all-white communities of Westchester, at the astonishing cost of $50 million. Wait: do not get your panties too bunched! Westchester took that much federal aid and then funneled the poor blacks into segregated sections of its cities. Oh, the Times commentariat is going wild.
From the Times comments!
· "to say that a group of affluent people should be "punished" for being Affluent While White by having poor and probably culturally incompatible people dumped on them is absurd."
· "Another move by the GLIC (Guilty Liberal Industrial Complex). Previous moves by GLIC gave us the housing projects in Coney Island and the Bronx, which did wonders to those areas, along with their pet project of social promotion (since being able to read and write is obviously a racist requirement created by white men in order to ruin the world)."
· "As a former Bedford resident now living in Montgomery County, MD, I can only tell my former neighbors in Westchester that you had better get ready for a (further) serious degradation in your property values."
· "And so……..what are they going to do about the crime that comes with this????"
But there is also something wonderful:
· "It never occurs to rich people that their floors would be cleaned more effectively and their yards would be manicured more carefully if the people who did this work did not have to drive 100 miles every day."
Choire: thank you.
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But I'm borrowing this computer today.
My ads are offering a porcelain Michelle Obama doll.
Date Sexy Black Women in addition to Afro Romance for me
That's great. So the other 13,750 residents can live in FEAR?
I think the Clintons can handle it.
COME ON!
Good stuff, Choire.
I know, I know, it's already a horrible cliché at The Awl to mention the ads that pop up with each posting, but AfroRomance.com deserves a mention for its slogan, "Where love is more than skin deep," which seems to contradict the site's very raison d'être.
Also, I used two French terms!
"Previous moves by GLIC gave us the housing projects in Coney Island and the Bronx"
Actually you have Robert Moses, insufferable bastard, to thank for that.
$50 million sounds astonishing, but it works out to $66,666 per family, which is presumably on the low end of what it costs to house a family in Westchester, yes?
true, but logic and racism do not good-bedfellows make.
oh my god. it's the rehousing project of the beast!
I wonder if any of the 750 luckies will be members of Larchmont's original residents, i.e. the Algonquin.
yeah, pretty much every time my racist uncle starts to bitch, I bring up Native Americans and the fact that Texas used to be part of Mexico. That usually shuts him up for a few hours.
I feel sorry for the nonwhite families being forced by circumstances to live in a place like Westchester. Christ. Can you imagine?
Whoa! Whoa! Not so fast. First, where are their long form birth certificates?
Sweater-vests and tennis rackets everywhere. shutter
Argyle socks and golf clubs everywhere. Clapboard.
I wonder which Larchmont elementary school the children of the new people of color will be attending. Would that be Chatsworth, Murray Avenue or Central?
Hmm. I guess … Central! What do I win?
But wait. Which part of the South is Larchmont …?
Having grown up in Bronxville, I'm wondering how long it will be before someone is lynched for not having pruned the yew hedge.