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HEIMDVLLR t1_jak62ip wrote

> Long-standing inner-city majority Black, Asian and Latino neighborhoods are becoming whiter, as the reverse occurred in traditionally white “semi-suburban” areas in outer boroughs.

no duh! It’s called gentrification. Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…

> The study, published by the Washington Post, found that for every 91 white friends a white American has, they have only one black friend, one Asian friend, one Latino friend, one mixed-race friend, and three friends of unknown race. Comparatively, the average black American has 8 white friends for every 83 black friends. - 75% of White People Can’t Even Use the ‘I’m Not Racist, I Have a Black Friend’ Defense

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TheAJx t1_jal7uwx wrote

>no duh! It’s called gentrification. Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…

You sound just like the racist neighbors I had that complained about my immigrant parents coming to their neighborhood.

The white population has declined every decade, including this last one. A few neighborhoods have seen some more white people moving in (which, given all the complaints about white flight and our supposed positive approach to desegration, shouldn't be a bad thing) and a bunch of neighborhoods have seen the white population decrease (and people of other races move in). That's normal.

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Rottimer t1_jamfqgh wrote

I feel you completely missed his point.

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TheAJx t1_jamlslb wrote

No, the poster had a bullshit point, which was "we don't more of those kind of people around."

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Rottimer t1_jammqlk wrote

Then you definitely missed his point. I did not read that in his comment at all.

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TheAJx t1_jamoa24 wrote

> Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…

"Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…"

You realize that white suburbanites make the exact same comment when minorities or low income folks move in to their neighborhoods? It's bullshit then, it's bullshit now. This is America, we share this place together.

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Rottimer t1_jang7rz wrote

>You realize that white suburbanites make the exact same comment when minorities or low income folks move into their neighborhoods. . .

No they don’t. Instead they repeatedly call the cops on any perceived offense and refuse to speak directly to their neighbors, similar to how some of these “gentrifiers” treat their neighbors of color that may have been in the neighborhood for decades. That’s not everyone, but it’s a significant number. And that’s what OP was complaining about. He never said they weren’t welcome.

But we all know how a lot of redditors get hard at wanting to paint minorities as “the real racists.”

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TheAJx t1_janmxhg wrote

> But we all know how a lot of redditors get hard at wanting to paint minorities as “the real racists.”

I'm not painting minorities as the real racists. Most minorities are chill just like most everyone else. I'm saying you're the real racist.

Anyways, you think anybody moving into the neighborhood, white or non-white, would want to interact with busybodies like you, measuring whether they looked at you the right way or if they acknowledged you appropriately enough. Fuck that.

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HEIMDVLLR t1_jam50as wrote

So you think it’s okay that transplants move into a neighborhood and consciously not acknowledge their neighbors or even try to get to know anyone from the community?

The complaints about white flight were real. People moved away because they didn’t want to integrate, not because they were being priced out or couldn’t afford to live there anymore.

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TheAJx t1_jamreqn wrote

> So you think it’s okay that transplants move into a neighborhood and consciously not acknowledge their neighbors or even try to get to know anyone from the community? >

People should generally try to get to know their neighbors, of course. But that shouldn't be a precursor to getting to live somewhere. People need a place to live. The same comments you make about "transplants" not acknowledging their neighbors is the same one that white suburbanites make when minorities, immigrants or low-income people move into their neighborhoods. It's bullshit.

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siposiposipo t1_jakci2i wrote

Damn who has 91 friends? 😢

I worked many years with White transplants in Bushwick and Bed Stuy. The type that are all about getting into social heaven, being perceived as accepting. They never had an answer when asked about gentrification. Just the most entitled people.

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paulwhitedotnyc t1_jaki6qy wrote

How dare they move to a neighborhood they can afford and attempt to be polite and accepting of their new neighbors, especially with the color skin they have.

New York is so easy to afford, they could live anywhere they want, and then to not even be able to explain the actions of the millions of other people that look like them?! Disgusting!

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Rottimer t1_jamg2y3 wrote

The point is that people complain that many of these “gentrifiers” for lack of a better term, aren’t accepting of their new neighbors and aren’t interested in getting to know them.

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LongIsland1995 t1_jakkfeg wrote

I know a Puerto Rican guy from Bushwick who actually prefers the white transplants over the native white New Yorkers from places like Glendale and Maspeth. He said the former are fun to hang out with while the latter he remembers being racist when he was growing up.

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michaelmvm t1_jal9nvd wrote

well yeah theyre old white people from glendale and maspeth, would you expect them not to be racist lmao

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