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

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You're protected from head injury, and you should feel protected from head injury!

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Pandirectional pandering is inclusive.

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Don't forget psychoanalysis: a cure with no scientific basis for an illness without definition, lasting upwards of 5 years at $200+/hour, consisting of sitting around talking, unmonitored, without objective measures of success, and with no terminal date.

And yet there some who deny that the Jewish people are geniuses. Really, it can only be explained as racism.

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If a shiksa is a gentile woman attracted to a Jewish man is there a corresponding term for fellows like Lopez-Pierre? Blicksa, perhaps?

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Trying to reconcile these revelations with the image of Ena Sharples has given me a splitting headache. Thanks.

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Doesn't Pam Geller live in Upper Manhattan?

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He forgot to mention Korean grocers.

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