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malsperanza's avatar

Sigh. Running in the district next to mine, in West Harlem, which now includes a generous dollop of the area around the New! Bigger! Fancier! Columbia University <strike>corporate for-profit medical research facility</strike> Physics and Life Sciences Campus.

The presumption is that this part of Harlem, with its beautiful old brownstone housing stock, will very soon get whiteified, with lots of<strike>Jews</strike> academics moving in. Goodbye illustrious history of black America; hello Whole Foods.

So this charming fellow with the Caribbean name, who is after the council seat of a guy who has been there for a decade and is pretty good at his job, despite being a Blah, is indulging in the time-honored political tradition of pandering. Only he can't seem to decide which interest group he is pandering to, and which one is the badguys. Mr. Lopez-Pierre? The bigotry is supposed to zip up the <i>back. </i>

(PS Andrew Goodman's mom is a longtime neighborhood activist in these parts, so that's probably what that's about. This corner of our town may be the only place in the USA where that name still carries a lot of water.)

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Chris Grrr's avatar

Are you suggesting that their evilness might not have any connection to their religion / genealogy ??!?

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