“In an Evolving Harlem, Newcomers Try to Fit In”
by: Timothy Williams. The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2008.
Overview
Recently the New York Times has been spending so much time covering stuff white people don’t like (Sarah Palin) that it has failed to live up to its duty of chronicling the experiences of white people in and around New York City.
In this latest installment, the paper takes a look at some enterprising white people who have decided to move into Harlem for its low rent, authenticity, and high potential for gentrification.
Jobs to enable you to live in Harlem
According to the article, the following jobs will allow you to live in Harlem. Amazingly all are Stuff White People Like:
- Lawyer
- Artist
- School Teacher (won lottery)
- Non-Profit Organization
White Plans for Harlem
The article goes into some of the plans and hopes that white people have for the neighborhood, and they include the opening of Thai Restaurant, A wine shops, hair salon, and a place that serves gourmet burgers and microbrews (implied).
White people are also hoping to close down things that they do not like, specifically churches. With over 100 houses of worship in the area, white people are concerned. Though the article does not mention why white people are upset at so many churches, it can be implied that they would feel more comfortable if they were to be replaced with condominiums, yoga studios, and white people churches (also known as Whole Foods).
Yet in spite of all these desired changes, white people would still prefer it if other white people did not move into the neighborhood.
One of the new residents says: “Harlem does have a character. I don’t want Harlem to become Union Square any more than anyone else does.”
Conclusion
Harlem had a good run.
Stuff Mentioned
- Apple Products
- Lawyers
- Gentrification
- Asian Fusion Food
- Microbrews
- Wine
- New York City
- Non Profit Organizations
- Dinner Parties
- Religions their parents don’t belong to
- Awareness
- Being the Only White Person Around
- Being On Time
- Being Offended
- Renovations
Stuff Not Mentioned:
Having Black Friends
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Wow, I feel really sorry for Harlem now.
BTW, great job on Conan! You were very put together and entertaining. I hope they offered you a writing gig!
Well, living in front of a church is bad Feng Shui. But that’s assuming most of us white folks know that ; )
Which reminds me, what ever happened to white person infatuation with Feng Shui? Did Yoga push it out, or did we lose interest as soon as we realized it was more complicated than where to position our new Ikea love seat?
White people are fucking crazy. They can also be extremely retarded and ruin anything that was once awesome.
Having all those people hanging out in front of a church after service on Sunday morning upsets White People’s meditation circles. Black churches can get kinda loud, you know.
got a big laugh out of reading your latest entry – see a lot of myself in the white people you describe – i have wondered, on my own, whether my diet was becoming like a religion and the local Whole Foods my place of worship…
I LOVE Sarah Palin and I am very, very white. Even more white than you because I live in the heartland.
It’s time for a new entry about white politics, especially with the election coming up! Lots of potential with Sarah Palin.
http://polarbearswimming.blogspot.com
Unfortunately, a lot of white people love Sarah Palin.
Please don’t let them turn the kitchen where Malcolm X worked as a dish washer into a museum. Check out new CARTOONS here: http://spinachflame.wordpress.com/
Please don’t let them turn the kitchen where Malcolm X worked as a dish washer into a museum.
Check out new CARTOONS here: http://spinachflame.wordpress.com/
Anyone who follows this blog should know that it’s the wrong sort of white people who support Sarah Palin.
I must say, even though I am decidedly against gentrification in NYC, as a native Brooklynite, I kind of feel safer walking around the newly gentrified ‘hoods. Or maybe it’s because I just recently grew a pair. But yeah, walking around the gentrified hoods makes me feel weird. I feel like I’m being secretely judged by some snotty white kid from far away all the time. Maybe I am.. maybe they see my first generation I-Pod, my run-dmc shirt and my too tight tapered jeans and scoff at how un-hip I am.
Anyway, in about 15 years everything gentrified will come back to “dangerous and scary” or as I like to call it, home.
ahahahah…stuff NOT mentioned….. white people are lame.
You know, I think there should be a new challenge to the news story submissions. I’m not quite sure if this has been mentioned already, but we should have a rule where people cannot use The NY Times anymore. I mean, it’s just TOO easy.
White people don’t like Sarah Palin? Guess I’m not white.
Russell Nance, 36, a lawyer, and his wife, Chrissy, 35, a schoolteacher, who bought a vacant 19th-century brownstone on 120th Street in 2006, are typical in many ways of the recent arrivals who moved to Harlem for its housing value.
Their first visit, however, in 1998, was accidental, and it brought a forbidding sense that Harlem was not safe for white people.
OMG!
does this make the next logical step the gentrification of the Globe Trotters?
The Google Ad for “Live Smart in Harlem.
Innovative green condominiums. 2-4 bedroom homes from mid-700K” came up for me on this entry.
Good entry here. Keep it up.
Gentrification is basically the white person theory that if you make a place expensive enough so that only white people can afford it and only the right kind of white people would want to live there, all the problems the place used to have (homelessness, crime, drugs, prostitution, etc) will magically disappear. Of course, that’s not the case, but that’s the theory that drives pretty much the entirety of white people’s thinking in terms of community development.
There goes the neighborhood.
What I don’t like is this:
“… decided to move into Harlem for it’s low rent…”
It’s *its* – jeesh!
Hey, it’s the reason that sort of white person loves illegal aliens. That sort of white person doesn’t feel that working poor American citizens (black, brown and white) are sufficiently grateful and humble, and they just won’t jump and scramble for the cheaper wages those white people prefer to pay.. so they are hoping to replace those inconvenient less affluent citizens, with non citizens who they presume will be more malleable. Just like their ancestors did with slave labor.
I mean, civil rights are ok for them, but when it comes to the underclasses, the concept kind of screws things up. That kind of white person feels that having a caste system is so much more culturally pleasing.
White people love Sarah Palin. Perhaps not snobby, stuck up, elitist white people but white people that work for a living and don’t look down their noses at their fellow man (and woman).
Long time reader, first time poster here. I’m suspicious that NYT is now baiting you. I mean they really seem to have followed the script on this one, don’t you think?
I don’t want to get all meta, but is appearing on stuffwhitepeoplelike.com becoming something white people like? Is there a cottage industry of people willing to install solar panels on a brownstone in Harlem in order to have some journo write it up in NYT so that the story makes it way here? I hope not because we (white people) have a tendency to ruin things once we become aware of them, especially status symbols in regards to subcultures.
Regardless, keep up the good work and I look forward to reading the book–once its available at my library!
Thank you. I was wondering who was watching the door. WKOWP everywhere!
Yes. Thanks again, RKOWP are doing their part!
The wrong kind of white people like Sarah Barracuda, the lipstick pig-bull.
Christian that looks suspiciously like you in the photo, did you get a buzzcut?
Harlem was the next logical gentrification destination. What do you predict is next?
“In short, Sarah Palin is the emblem of what feminism was supposed to be all about: an unafraid, independent, audacious woman, who soared on her own merits without the aid of a patriarchal jumpstart, high-brow matrimonial tutelage and capital, and old-boy liaisons and networking.”
—Victor Davis Hanson
Yes, exactly. Well, besides misspelling “pit” (is it really that hard to spell? Three letters!).
Yes, except that she’s not very smart, wants to ban books, fires her political and familial adversaries, is extremely religious, and sups at the public trough of political earmarks, even as she takes a per diem for living in her own home. She may be a lipstick pig-bull feminist, but who cares — she’s still the wrong kind of white person.
It’s a play on words, pal. Have you been reading the news today?
Goddammit, white people. First Harlem, what next? Chinatown?
By the way, the next entry really has to be “Talking smack about Sarah Palin.” Sort of a companion piece to the older Obama entry. It’s gotten to the point where no one is talking about the presidential candidates anymore. I mean, seriously, five of the top ten WordPress blog entries were all about Sarah Palin. Dotcha want to get in on the action, What White People Like?
El santo, i’ve seen your wolfman films, genious, but your days of a political pundit are numbered, c for yourself!
Skeptics fear particle accelerator will lead to the Earth’s demise, “No *****” says Hawking.
http://faqnews.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/skeptics-fear-particle-accelerator-will-lead-to-the-earths-demise-no-shit-says-hawking/
Here’s some white women in the news:
2 Women kidnap a kid from school to prove a point about how unsafe it is.
You’ll find the story on http://detentionslip.org
This is a racist article (on this site). The implication is that if you’re poor and white you’re not allowed to seek inexpensive housing in Manhattan. And, ipso facto, since white people are bad they will ruin the greatness of Harlem.
I lived in Harlem for four years. I am poor and white. When the neighborhood began to change (and it did), I didn’t see anyone complaining. In fact, you’d be surprised to learn that minorities actually enjoy the same things white people do! I know it’s a shock to many, but I saw more minorities at the new eateries and restaurants than I did white people.
Also, Harlem isn’t that great. It’s historic, yes, and the historical landmarks won’t be going anywhere ( I hope!). But the rest of it is fairly dirty, run-down, seedy. There are certain places which are dangerous, and I witnessed a number (more than five) of violent assaults in the neighborhood, one of them while I was sitting in a bar called Toast on 123rd and Broadway. Someone was jumped and beaten outside, across the street from the bar and we all sat there and watched, horrified, while someone called the cops. But it was over, of course, before the cops arrived. Not surprisingly, all of these violent incidents involved non-white people. Violence, apparently, is something white people don’t like. But the dirty, worn, and dangerous look of the neighborhood was something nobody liked, of any race.
But living there I noticed that there were very, very few minorities between the ages of 18-40. I took this to mean that once they graduated high school they left home (for college, or careers, or whatever) and tried to live elsewhere. What do you think this means, in terms of our “gentrification” discussion, where the majority of white people who move into the neighborhood are between 18-40? Perhaps that white people are actually doing something to improve the neighborhood? (It can’t be! White people are bad! Everything they like ends up bad!)
What I’m trying to say is that this subtly humorous racism is not good. I understand the argument for preserving the heritage of the neighborhood, but not at the cost of misinformed racism. If you doubt anything I say, go there. Go see for yourself. Ask some people what they really think, people who haven’t been programmed by racial agendas (this usually means older folks who just want to live and be happy, which should actually be the goal for all of us of all races and salary brackets).
If you really want your narrow perceptions shaken, go to 137th and Broadway. There are three restaurants there which all serve delicious food. The restaurants are fairly new, clean, welcoming. I believe they are called, “Tres Pasos”, “Vinegar Hill”, and “Cafe Largo”. I ate there frequently and the food is fantastic, but I could see how people would be worried about “gentrification” since these places are welcoming and slightly more expensive. Just one problem with that though – the restaurants are owned by a biracial couple, one white, one latino. Or take the series of new delis, which are owned by people from Yemen, or all the chinese restaurants. In fact, I’d say that there are maybe five restaurants in the whole damn neighborhood that are locally owned. And it’s been that way for a good long time, since before I moved there anyway. And not to be rude, but the ones that are locally owned seem…of lesser quality. That’s why they have a tendency to close up within six months of opening. Go there, see it all.
So to make a joke about “gentrification” on a website called “stuff white people like” is actually a subtle mask for very real racism. It promotes the idea that white is inherently bad without explaining itself. Even the allusion to whites disliking churches is bogus. I have friends who live on 133rd and Adam Clayton Powell who attend the churches their every week. And these are white friends.
I had never seen this website before and was directed here by a friend, and immediately found the entire article racist and uninformed. White people in Manhattan don’t give a shit who they live near, and if the writer of this article (and the NYTimes piece) had actually done any real research they’d know that. The city doesn’t leave racism as an option – you live where you can and try to survive, no matter what color you are.
Um, white people don’t like Sarah Palin? Then how come McCain is trouncing Obama in the polls ever since he announced her as his running mate? All of the demographic polling data released over the past several days indicates that white people (men and women) LOVE this woman.
Perhaps you should do a piece on why white people like her so much. At least the ones who “work for a living and don’t look down their noses at their fellow man (and woman)” (to quote another commenter above).
This is one of the best blogs I’ve come across in a long time. Jesus told me not to come here, but I ignored Him.
It’s called sarcasm. You must be new here.
So begins the slow ascent toward Inwood. Will the Dominican Republic issue a statement? Will the world come to its aid? Will baseball still be played in the park? Or will it be replaced by frisbees and hackey sacks? Only time will tell.
http://becomingbrooklyn.wordpress.com
I’ve only seen polls that suggest that after Palin’s bump (and her illegitimate daughter’s bump) McCain is head-to-head with Obama. This is a white person’s blog. Don’t you get it? Which of these postings do you think Sarah Palin would agree with? Farmer’s markets? Asian women? The Ivy League? Studying abroad? (the only studying abroad this ticket has done is to study a broad). Wall Mart whites are the wrong kind of whites. This blog is for the right kinds of whites. Now, sport, if you can manage it, can you get me a martini?
Have you read ANY of the postings on this blog, or do you have any clue as to who reads it? OF COURSE we’re the type of white people who look down our noses at the Sarah Palins of the world, those cul-de-sac, c-plus state university students who marry loser drinker union boys and think it’s all going to work out as long as they believe in God. Good Lord, have you read anything in this blog? Sarah Palin is wrong on so many levels. Pretty, yes, but so is Cindy McCain, but at least Cindy picks ’em up at bars after they’re already married and have a carrer of their own. And anybody who celebrates the upcoming nuptials of their knocked-up first-born to a redneck who “doesn’t want kids” deserves to be looked down upon.
Wrong kind of whites. Go back to Hannity, or Savage.
“Harlem” is a DUTCH name, and therefore White.
Who built all the buildings, stores, and infratructure in Harlem? European Whites did.
It’s good to see Whites coming back to their home.
Huh?
Buddy, you have that totally backwards.
Jews hate Sarah Palin, and therefore the RKOWP people aka the SWPL types will too.
Jews get a kick out of putting down “White people” in a clever way, posturing as liberal multi-cultis when they think they are talking to self-hating White multicultis (the SWPL crowd). (“Like, don’t we all just hate ‘White people.’) But it’s really their secret sneer as Jews. I think they actually get a kick out of mocking liberal Whites right to their face (by putting down “White people”), while posing as just a “progressive White.” They view the “goyim” as stupid and love heaping sly humiliation on them, openly. It is high entertainment to them.
If White people havent figured out by now that the Democratic party’s platform is openly anti-White, then some never will.
However, the GOP is not much better.
In some ways an Obama win might be better for White people because it’s less dangerous to have an enemy outside your walls (obongo), than it is to have a traitor within your walls you can stab you when you aren’t looking (McAmnesty).
Fuck off white traitor.
Why is it that the lowest IQ Whites, the losers, think they can somehow rectify their low status by “being different” (aka becoming a self-hating White)?
Hillary Clinton only produced one White offspring, and all the Democratic party constituents (blacks, hispanics) have tons of kids and could care less about feminism.
When this country is majority non-White (thanks to Hillary) none of the non-White women will even care about “feminism”.
Feminism doesn’t help White women, because it stops White people from having healthy families and producing the next generations anyway.
No, you have it backwards.
Only the wrong kinds of White people support Hillary Clinton who produced only one offspring, and never fought for White people’s interests.
It’s quite odd that people who support openly anti-White politicians thing they are the “right” kind of white people.
It’s the exact opposite. Being anti-white doesn’t make someone “cool”, it makes them a fool, a person with no foresight.
It’s not as if the negroes and criminals. etc. are “going away”, they will resurface in inner-ring suburbs and turn them to complete wastelands.
Thing is, the suburbs won’t have the White tax base to cover for them like they do in bigger cities.
Don’t let the wrong kinds of white people bother you. They are the ones who aren’t white, since they support anti-White policies, media, cultural movements, etc.
These people think being anti-White (counter-cultural, etc.) makes them better than others, and it’s solely a form of an attempt at differentiation.
When you study the type, it’s just a form of delusion.
How can an anti-White person claim to be the right kind of White person?
It’s illogical.
Maybe one day these people will just grow up.
Harlem has not been safe for Whites for a long time. Raw statistics back that up. No mystery there.
Those kinds of Whites are stupid.
Of course, the alien works hard and doesn’t break the law. Look at the precarious position the alien is in.
Now, consider what happens to their 8 kids via birthright citizenship!!
HS dropouts, spoiled American sense of “entitlement”, hip-hop culture comes calling…..and that’s the problem.
Hell, every punk offspring of an illegal alien watches American TV and then thinks he has an American right to a blonde girlfriend. 😦
Rednecks love Sarah Palin. She’d rather ban a book than a gun.
The wrong kind of White people think that by being anti-White they are somehow “cool” and “hip”.
It’s comical. Most grow out of it. Some do not.
Consider Bill and Hillary, a perfect example. They spent their whole lives kissing the arses of non-Whites, only producing one offspring, basically having no values whatsoever, and then the Democratic Party tosses them aside for a non-white.
Ricans are mulattos and so are you.
You left out Pro-Lifer…and yes she’s the wrong kind of white person. So, so wrong.
Yeah, so?
Mt. Vernon used to be White, but now it isn’t.
It’s not like all the Harlem blacks are disappearing. They still multiply at faster rates than Whites (and especially the SWPL types) despite HIV, incarceration, killings, etc.
The Chinese are colonizing the American and Canadian West coast.
The SWPL types cannot afford anything, and the Chinese own the property in San Francisco.
Congrats on the new supercollider.
A fantastic White accomplishment!
excellent post.
Only lemmings fall for White guilt, and you are not one of them.
Regards.
Look cunt, you are the wrong kind of White person, except for the martini comment.
Why in the world would the “right” kind of White women agree with a thread about “Asian women”?
Are you obtuse or something?
Palin is the right kind of White woman because she’s HAVING WHITE CHILDREN and producing a next generation.
Why is this so difficult????
Right, so dating “asian women” and pumping out non-White half-breeds makes one the right kind of White.
I see.
Someday maybe you will grow up, wake up, or something, and see that ridiculing White people, White culture, the backbone of what got us to where we are, etc. does not make you “hip” or “smart”.
You are a complete douche-bag.
Savage (Michael Weiner) is a Jew, and Hannity works for a Neocon jew.
Feminism has the ironic result of producing less women.
Who are you to comment on Whites?
Puerto Ricans are mulattos, so stfu, you opinion doesn’t matter on a White blog.
So what a mulatto thinks and says about Whites is meaningless.
You don’t see whites coming into your chat rooms and start telling you guys how to wear doo-rags and tell you what kind of rims to buy.
White people all agree, Tom from stupid long post sucks.
In a recent poll exploring why Pahlin sucks McCains old balls, we found why Tom sucks his own. Amazing stuff.
Also, white people would never wear that red striped shirt.
i dont hate white people, some of my best friends are white
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH……… This is one of the first erroneous installments of this funny premise….. White people LOVE Sarah Palin. LIBERAL WHITE PEOPLE do not like her. There is a monumental difference. This distinction is critical for “Stuff” to maintain humor and credibility.
I’m always afraid to reply to anything here, because it (and my fear) are part of the joke. As Tom proved.
Regardless: Empirically, white people do love Palin. The ones on the attack don’t want to admit it.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH…You are an erroneous commenter! Haven’t you noticed that this is, and has always obviously been, stuff[liberal and/or yuppy]whitepeoplelike.com
Ah, Harlem…
So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager
Dear sir;
As I white person I am compelled to point out that there is a misused apostrophe in sentence two. Please correct this immediately in order to preserve your creditably.
Thank you,
A Concerned
White Person
The right kind of white women would agree with the Asian Girls post because they understand irony — and the reality of these douchebags choosing to date outside their race in order to finally be more mascuine than the person they’re dating.
I doubt that Palin’s mongoloid kid is going to have the genes you’re looking for. I’m a male, I have five beautiful, gifted white children and my wife works. As an attorney. As do I. We don’t want the Sarah Palins of the world restricting our kids’ views to the books they approve of, or telling them when and how to have kids, or having their hand on the “new-cu-lur” button. We belong to the local country club. We don’t shop at Wall-Mart. My kids all play classical musical instruments and study at world-class universities, are champions in competitive sports (wrestling and water polo and crew for the boys and golf and tennis for the girls.) We’ve been in this country for over three hundred years, descending from German and Scots-Irish ancestors. We’re whiter than you’ll ever be. Shouldn’t you be applauding us?
wendyd is correct. It’s not its’ low rent (Harlem), simply the possessive its without an apostrophe.
White Guy Bob
It cracks me up that white people really, truly believe they should feel “comfortable” any and everywhere they go —especially since they have made it so much of their nature to make everyone and everything feel *un*comfortable and darn near extinct within 50 years of being anywhere near them. Man, this is priceless. *holds sides*
White people, man.
Gentrifying Harlem.
Knowing all about poor people.
Destroying the earth with a damned particle collider
When will it stop?
I am ashamed to be white, but glad I don’t fit into any of the stereotypes. I’m going to go sit out by the water and drink a 40 and listen to some Mos Def on my iPhone. Man, I should just move to Canada.
Hehe, did anyone notice in the images, the picture of the white mom with her baby “LuLu”? Ultimate white move. Poor child.
Yid, you are the one who is backwards.
I believe you meant CREDIBILITY.
Shame on you~ I’m 1/2 white and know that.
Funny stuff!!!
So, now you think I’m informed?
I bet your kids didn’t even shit their diapers.
Jesus is pissed; your children will shit their diapers.
Good bye.
NY,NY who cares? I just visit, and this will be one more thing to see. Hope the food in the yuppie joints is good; I’ll be hungry about then. Oh, does anyone honestly care if the churches are turned into Walmarts?
no, you do.
Hillary has never stood for White people. She’s spent far more time aiding and abetting non-Whites in their efforts for their races.
That makes Hillary Clinton the WKOWP by definition.
Bill Clinton spent his entire life kissing non-White arse (our first black president) and how is he repaid? In true racist form, all the non-Whites left him and Hillary for a non-White, the very first chance they got.
Clintons = wrong kind of White people (aka liberal Whites, aka anti-Whites)
Extinct?
White people today make up less than 10% of the world’s population.
What planet do you live on?
The SWPL-whites (aka WKOWP) further diminish Whites by race-mixing with “asians”, practising feminism (=no offspring), going to jewish abortion clinics to abort fetuses, using contraception and what else? Homosexuality produces no offspring.
I guess you could put loyalty to pets, instead of marriage & having children, up there too.
Good for you seriously. Hopefully your kids won’t hold some of the anti-white attitudes that you seem to still hold.
Palin isn’t going to be “banning any books” and you damn well know it. It’s hate-based groups like the ADL and SPLC that are on the forefront of book-burnings and censorship.
What you fail to realize is that “Palin” doesn’t represent the oppressive orthodoxy at all, the mind-numbing orthodoxy is the marxist-lite egalitarian anti-white brainwashing that’s everywhere today, as evidenced by self-hating SWPL types.
Liberal self-hating and angry Whites hate Palin.
They don’t just dislike her, their feelings toward her are hate.
Oh, does anyone honestly care if the churches are turned into Walmarts?
Jews do. They’ll applaud it.
All Jews have a casual distate for White Christians, NY Jews outright hate them.
Btw, how much money would you pay for a Mark Rothko (born Rothkowitz) painting? The banal rectangles attracted millions from some collectors.
If the art world ever wakes up from its self-deception someone is going to feel pretty stupid.
Ummm I am from New York, so suck my balls…However, closing down churches is kinda fucked up. I mean, unless the white people are apart of those churches, its wrong to close them down. My friend who now lives in Vietnam is also from New York. He went to Vietnam with little money and no job and has been blogging about his experiences there. His blog is hilarious and he just added a new post today. Check it out:
http://www.garbarrassing.com/Bill.php
No. The question is what planet do *you* live on? That would take the rest of your life to answer.
For you dummy:
The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery to New York (known then as New Netherland) in 1625 with the importation of eleven black slaves. These early slaves were put to work as farmers, fur traders, and builders……..
white people really like her:
http://journalofthieves.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/alaska-governor-sarah-palin/
white people:
http://journalofthieves.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/alaska-governor-sarah-palin/
I just don’t see it the way you do, entirely. What I hate is ignorance; what I hate more is ignorance combined with privilege (be it white, male or whatever), and what I hate more is people of privilege celebrating their ignorance. Think Plato’s cave allegory. I was taught that to whom much is given, much is expected and I tried to teach that to my kids. They have no excuse for being ignorant or narrow-minded. I’ve tried to introduce them to the realities of race and intelligence, to the reality of the Jewish influence on the corrosive popular culture, and to the heroic history of their ancestors. Skepticism is a moral virtue, as you point out regularly. It doesn’t equate to self-hatred.
is Taleb Kwalii going to be there?
so does Talebi Kawlisee
Oh… woops, you appeared on Conan and all the lamens (sp?) to the site realized you were white! This was a lot more fun when I thought you were a black man making fun of whitie. I wonder why there is only 100+ posts on this instead of the usual 400+ when I visit. Good play. A lot of suckers here, me included. Hope you made pleanty off the book, because it’s over.
Obviously, you were drunk when you pulled that information from the article. Most of what you pulled came from quotes from a black guy. Get a life, and please stay out of Harlem.
Whole Foods is white people church indeed. They find meaning in their lives through organic microbrews.
GDAWG:
While this should in no way be construed as support for the racist dipshit’s sentiment above (I support racial _diversity_ in Harlem and elsewhere), it’s worth pointing out that essentially all of the physical infrastructure of Harlem was built around the late 1800s / early 1900s — long after slavery was eliminated in the United States.
Harlem was built, no doubt, by immigrants. Maybe Irish?
Yid, How did it come to pass that you view the world exclusively through the lens of tribalism? There is good in the world, as well as bad — not just “what is good for the Jews” or “what is bad for the Jews.”
Seriously, who nominated you as racial savior? Was it parental indoctrination?
“Raw statistics” from the NYPD show that central Harlem is safer than a number of neighborhoods in Manhattan, and many in the outer boroughs.
“Raw statistics” also show that you’re far more likely to be victimized by criminals in Harlem and elsewhere if you’re black than if you’re white.
Tell that to East Villagers. While the problems may become “externalities” — that’s precisely the point. Draw a ring and push it out.
You are one of that rare breed of xenophobes who is self-aware enough to call out the mostly visceral fear that underpins the entirety of his hateful world view — miscegenation.
I heard two years ago that Harlem was the new SoHo
I love this blog. It makes me laugh at myself so much. I am your typical white person, go us! I never realized how many little quirks we white ppl have!
And also, Dont forget organic dark chocolate, every starbucks drinking, whole foods shopping, mac using white person cant get enough organic dark chocolate.
White people love adjectives. The more words needed to describe something the better.
Ex: Coffee – meh
Organic, Gourmet, Fair Trade, West African Coffee – YES!
And listening to Bob Dylan. White people love to listen to Bob Dylan, preferably while sitting at starbucks, enjoying their fair trade Burundi coffee, listening to the iTunes they have on their Mac Book, before hittup on the ocal Whole Foods so they can buy more sushi and free range chicken eggs to take home with their resuable bags that they keep at the ready in the back seat of their Subaru Hybrids.
Yeah I said it.
This is the part I love the most, when all the white people start spouting out “obvious” facts.
What a stinking pile of anti – white dung. Seems to me that your head has been filled with the same stuff that Louis Farakhan, Jessie Jackson, and Al Sharpton keep telling. Hate breeds lies my friend, not the truth. The black community is full of biggotry against the white race, but, it is not justified no matter what you blame them for. God made us all in His image, and we are all sinners equally. No one is any better than any other, not me, and not you.
Don’t ever let anyone make you feel ashamed to be white. No one on this earth is any better than you. We were all made by the Hand of God, by His will alone. You included. Those who try to make you feel low about it should feel low themselves for trying to do that. NEVER BE ASHAMED OF WHO YOU ARE!!!! Jesus is a righteous King, and before you were even born, He knew you, and aproved of you, and He Himself set you apart. We are all God’s children no matter the race, and we all have mountains of sins to be ashamed of (no matter the race).
I think you hit the nail right on the head with this comment.
I mean The inbread yid’s comment was right, not the other one.
Anytime I hear some white person call Harlem SoHa I want to cut my wrists. I remember when Harlem had character, before white people made it snobbish. I pray for a recession so we can have our neighborhoods again and those gentirfiers lose all the property value on their homes.
Sorry, but I strongly disagree, Sarah Palin is a good leader, and besides, who but God can ever say who is right or wrong? He is the one who defines right and wrong, not any human being. A test for us all that God Himself gave us, is this, read His word and then see if you are the”right kind of person” or not.
So, NYT… wanna help Bed Stuy get gentrified, too? Or East NY?
😛
PS that book-banning thing is a myth. Whoops!
Something I learned while a student; any question with ‘ALL’ in it usually indicates the wrong answer. “Maybe the Irish Built all of the current infra structure.” Give me a break. I’m fairly certain that there were a multitute of craftmens and tradesmen of various ethnic groups including BLACKS and IRISH, to name two, during this era of expansion of the housing infrastructure. NOT JUST THE IRISH. Geez!
Sara. I hear ya!
i want her to walk on my back in her stilletos
probably causue he does yoga – post #22.
when can we have a SWPL happening in Seattle? like let’s all get together at Stumptown Coffee this weeekend?
Who’s in? 10:45 .am. Saturday. Wear an ironic t-shirt or BO gear so we recogize each other?
Oh, I love being cracker white, or should I say #99 cracker white. Here goes. POC’s post has a misspelled word, and I’m just itching to be all over his case. POC’s “gentirfiers” is spelled “gentrifiers”. There, I did it; I’m so magnificently white. Yippie skippie.
By the way “yippie” and “skippie” aren’t in the dictionary either. We’re even, POC.
the people who run and make facebook write a blog on facebook telling users what they’ve been working on and what they’re doing. the other day i read a blog from may about them spending all day at a company get together playing games such as dodgeball and kickball and red rover. so it just seemed to me that is ONE HUGE entry of “SWPL” haha.
Oh, right, all those buildings along 125th Street were built as slave shacks.
Shut up idiot.
Look at how pathetic “Pete” is that he has to preface raw basic history and fact with an anti-White, multi-cult speech.
What a loser.
Dude, you have been very well trained.
PS At least we call agree on one thing, the truth: That Harlem was White before it became black.
black tradesmen and craftsman???
LOL!!!!!
Even in the 21st Century, 55 years after the Civil Rights act there are none, so save us all this revisionist history that there were black craftsmen.
Only whites do not view the world exclusively through the lens of tribalism.
When it comes to being racist and knowing racist-ideology and tribalism, I would rank it as follows:
Zionists
regular Jews
Blacks
Hispanics
Asians
Whites
Whites are the most clueless when it comes to race.
i’m black:
http://journalofthieves.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/aayooo-ma-meh-lahh/
miscegenation is very, very much discouraged in “enlightened” Israel.
Gee, go figure.
Only a fool White would flush his ancestors genes down the toilet forever.
When a White marries a non-White, the offspring identify with the lower caste and the White lineage DIES OUT.
Do you not care about that?
How can there be diversity if Whites don’t survive intact? There is no evidence that Western Civ can be transmitted and continued by non-Whites, even those that move to First World nations.
I might add to this…..all you self-hating white liberals, the suckers for egalitarianism pushed on you my the marxist. All of you Christian-haters, listen up:
Even if it wasn’t God that made Whites unique, it was Evolution.
So you can’t deny both, now can you?
It’s white to gentrify, but it’s also pretty white to complain about gentrification. I’m white, and I find myself complaining about it all the time. Stupid cities.
http://becomingbrooklyn.wordpress.com
This is just a reply in general to the site. But clearly, this site is dedicated to stuff privileged-semiprivileged, middle to upper middle class white people like. I can think of millions of white people who hate Obama, drink coke out of a Big Gulp instead of coffee from an exotic brew, and would scoff their NASCAR hats at any fancy schmancy wine cellar. But I guess that website wouldn’t have as good of a name.
I think this is true for any cool city or neighborhood in the world. People always want to be the first person to move in, and then they don’t want anybody else to move in after them. People say they like places that are gritty, but in reality they just like places that used to be gritty.
This blog is hilarious…. you were really funny on Conan!
No stoopid. Harlem was Brown/Red before it was Black/white.
Thro yo hands in d air. like yo jus don’t care! holla be-yotch!!
From a brotha. Thank gawd a lot of white people like palin.
I really like the comment about black friends. The irony.
my favorite posts of yours are when you talk about gentrification, ’cause while most of the entries are funny, I can tell you’re actually personally against gentrification. your point of view comes through the light-hearted jabs. as someone dealing with a transforming (or deforming) san francisco, I really appreciate these entries, as do my oakland friends. thank you.
this website is funny because the author clearly has a good sense of humour and is a pretty good comedic writer. does it have ANY relevancy to it’s title though? perhaps a bit, for those privileged few who actually live the lifestyle he is speaking about, but for the most part, no.
i actually checked out the SWPL quiz on facebook, just out of curiousity because i do like his humour; but found that the quiz was soooooo irrelevant to my life that i couldn’t even bend my answers a bit to make them fit!
yeah…… this website is sort of off mark, but even so it is still entertaining and funny.
Saddest part is that these white people are aware that they have the potential to erase years of black culture and history, and they don’t think anything is wrong with that.
If you want Thai food or a fancy place to buy your liquor (excuse me, wine) then you can take the subway or a cab (I don’t think the trendy crowd does buses) to the neighborhoods that offer that type of thing in abundance. New York gives you the world at your fingertips, but give white people (especially New Yorkers!) an inch, and they take a mile: They want everything right friggin’ there. Diverse amenities are reasonable, but let’s not overtake it with Starbucks, and other places that sell expensive sandwiches.
Gentrification has its positives because when the wealthier population begins to move in, the powers that be start to pay attention to all the neglect that’s happened in the area, and then the infrastructure is improved, streets look nicer, etc..Sad that it takes $$$ for them to start noticing, though.
And by the way, I love this website. And that’s all I have to say about that.
Yeah, so is Loopy’s Fiasco.
I’m sure those people who attend those churches care. I can laugh at this site, sometimes. Gentrification is getting out of hand.
You are the wrong kind of person. Very wrong.
if we could just get all the dark people to move out…
yo can someone post the interview on youtube? i am a white 27 year old dude and of course i do not have tv.
As a Black Harlemite, I really hate all these white people moving up here trying to change the neighborhood to their liking. They have no respect for our culture and they are downright evil. And to all those liberal White people who want to be our “friends”, you guys can go to hell!
I’ll let you in on a little secret…Stuff Black people don’t like is…White people!
Your screen name says it all. I don’t even need to respond with anything half-intelligent.
As was this country…but does that mean what makes this country famous was built by Native Americans? Your argument is obviously fallacious.
What made Harlem famous was what African Americans made it during the 1920s- 1940s. You think the white people who appreciate Harlem for its culture are there for the Irish bars?
This is false. Bill Clinton was one of the most conservative Democratic presidents (not including those Democrats before the latest political alignment to ever serve this country. That is one of the misconceptions that has fooled a lot of blacks, but which started to come to light in this campaign.
More blacks faced the death penalty under Clinton than any other president, Clinton spearheaded welfare reform that left a multitude of low-income mothers with little economic means (which disproportionately affected African-American women) and economically, Clinton was very conservative.
Just because he played his sax on Arsenio, Clinton suddenly became a “black” president, but it was clearly a ploy to reinstill black support of the Democratic party .
Anti-yid, your faith in Clinton should still remain. He is definitely not the WKOWP. He’s simply strategic.
No they just come into our communities, raise our rents, enact policies to help them raise those rents, and use their political and economic pull to make everything to their liking.
And if what a mulattos says about Whites is meaningless, then STFU. You’ll be hard pressed to find anyone pure of anything.
Btw, how did this site get fillled with the WKOWP? It used to be for the hip and humourous. You’re a dickwad. That inbreeding affected your brain a bit too much.
Obviously Starbucks coffee and Whole Foods produce can be enjoyed by all, but that is fundamentally not the problem.
The effect of gentrification is that it makes rent unaffordable, increases property taxes, and allows businesses to take over residences where property owners are given a measly amount of money to seek residence elsewhere.
This consequently pushes older blacks and younger ones, to the outskirts of Manhattan where it is even more expensive, reaallly hood places where it is less expensive, or other boroughs. The fact that this disproportionately affects Black residences also brings up social justice issues. It’s both the history and the economic effects of gentrification that are of concern in the case against it.
Too late…Bed Stuy do or die is already in the infant stages. I peeped a few sidewalk cafes in a recent tryst over there…Whenever I can go to a place and buy sparking organic lemonade a Whole Foods is soon on its way if not already there.
Translation: Everything I just said was just a smokescreen and does not in any way speak to the fact that white people have tried to push everyone else off the planet and they really feel “disrespected” “undervalued” and “unappreciated” when people have the nerve to actually think they can push back.
…of us.
Man, nobody cares what you think of Harlem. Are you even serious? Get real. Nobody cares if you think Harlem isn’t that great. 90% of the stuff that goes on in Harlem isn’t meant for you or about you. I know this might come as a shock, but everything in this world isn’t geared to your white self. That would like me moving to Chinatown, have the nerve to write reviews and talk about Chinatown is dead. Nothing goes on there.
Yes, we know. Blacks are racist and the jewish masters of USA are allowing them to be that. I will let you in on a little secret too – white people really cant’ stand you savage negros, whithout you America would be a clean and safe place to live.
>>Saddest part is that these white people are aware that they have the potential to erase years of black culture and history
Are you on crack or something? Blacks ethnically cleansed half of new york city off whites. Did you cry for all those traditionally white neighborhoods and historic areas that were trashed by moving in blacks in the 70’s and 80’s? Turn on your brain and turn off that TV.
But its okay that our nation, founded BY and FOR white Europeans is being flooded with nonwhites who wish to reduce us to minority status right? You ARE a degenerate.
Yeah, I’m gonna cry bucket loads when whites will only be able to oppress the degenerate ethnicities with their economic capital.
White America’s are the ones who brought the blacks, by force, over to the US. It’s only natural that they’d develop their own culture over time, and they had every right to.
If I were kidnapped and forced to live in a foreign land I wouldn’t adapt to their culture either
Oh Culture Scmulture.
Everybody’s an idiot…except me of course.
NO U.
Anyone who puts their full and complete faith in a book without doing any research as to who wrote the book, when it was written, how factual it actually is, and what other books there are claiming the same thing, is a fool and a douchebag.
yes, but when it comes down to who makes the most money, we have to rank it as follows:
Jews / Asians / Educated Whites (tied)
Educated Blacks
Uneducated Whites
Uneducated Blacks
Hispanics
and i dont know about zionists
A rich, successful attorney would know how to spell “Wal-Mart”.
You’re a wigger.
“Harlem does have a character. I don’t want Harlem to become Union Square any more than anyone else does.”
Conclusion
Harlem had a good run.
[damn right / affirmative]
Since when does feminism = lack of offspring? Feminist strive for equality among the sexes. Equality doesn’t equal no children, just better opportunities for the female children that develop from heterosexual mating. Maybe you just construe women who reject you as feminists. Those many many women who are too smart to mate with a neanderthal who slings hate speech in a clear attempt to distract from a lack of intelligence.
I call it social darwinism… only the strong survive and thank god your brand of bigotry and elitism is being overtaken by the strong-minded MAJORITY of the population who think you are a complete idiot
you mean’ your arguement is specious
specious -Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
Deceptively attractive.
fallacious – referring to fellatio
Obama was right, poor people hold on to religion, which is why those churches have to go. Not all of them, because the older prettier ones are great for when the occasional group of whites decides to attend to hear some gospel. But of those 100, 98 of them can go. Harlem needs a Whole Foods, a Target, William Sonoma, a pottery painting place, about 15-20 mid to far east asian restaurants, 10 yoga studios, a fancy bakery, a pink berry, authentic non starbucks but actually just like starbucks coffee houses (dont want whites to feel too out of place, how would they know the right size cup if it isnt called tall, grande, venti?), farmers market, turn one of the churches into an art gallery, another into a fun vintage clothing store, a record store, an Apple store, an recycling center, 2 fancy preschools, an independent movie theater, and a Restoration Harware, and thats the basic needs for white people.
Im expecting Harlem to have all of those in around 4 years. Hopefully once white people get their hands on Harlem the real estate prices will be so high that black people will move out and thus the reason why white people moved to Harlem in the first place. Hiding their racism and prejudices in ridiculously high housing costs is what white people are all about.
Cant wait for the William Sonoma!
Yes agreed.
And pray to the Almighty Organic. Give your money to the Reverend Fair Trade.
Sing the songs of praise of $5 jars of peanut butter.
My grandmother lived in a neighborhood that had been built up by East European immigrants in the late 1800s. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was taken over by blacks and Puerto Ricans because the houses were duplexes and triplexes which could house many, many people (several families per house). A lot of crime moved in to accompany the poverty, but the place was never a war zone.
In the last ten years, yuppies have had their hearts set on that neighborhood. They are encouraged by the remnants from the original residents, not that any of them are Eastern Orthodox or would ever set foot in a church. My grandmother has mixed feelings, on the one hand, she is still bitter that the place was taken over and turned into a shanty town. But she recognizes that her neighbors were to blame somewhat–many of them moved out and then rented out their places and became slumlords.
On the other hand, the goddamn yuppies, while being clean and law abiding, are indescribably annoying and are more foreign and difficult for to relate to than Spanish speaking latinos. And they are bullies about getting the neightborhod the way they want it–the site of her favorite liquor store was converted to a Thai restaurant! So, she now has really, really bonded with her immigrant neighbors for the first time.
Despite having never been anything more important than a school lunch lady, she was still one of the most important and reliable people working for the local Democratic party, and this year pretty much had that taken away from her, too. The police are now also tied up with never-ending whinging complaints from the new residents. She bakes cakes for the coppers and gossips with them about how the place is being overrun by a lot of goddamn sissies. And she misses her dead husband more, who was hardworking, faithful, successful, manly, and a total badass.
I was happy when yuppies were sequestered in the “suburban town center” movement that “redefined” the lameness pervasive in the suburbs. Perhaps electric fences will be needed in the future to keep these people from escaping.
“White people” on this site is a euphemism for “obnoxious nerds”. Except that nerds have co-opted the term and invented “nerd-chic”, whereby being awkward, poorly dressed, uncool, and wimpy is an actual goal, not a cross to bear. Once the insulted take ownership of the insult, it is hard to get it back. So “white people” is used in an understated, ironic way. They are the whitest of the white Americans, whom no other people on the planet want to claim.
an off-topic question: is krautrock something white people like?
You don’t find any of this a bit ironic? You all are condemning the yuppy, so-called ‘white people’ on a… blog. Gee Doogie, you should so blog this!
Yes, good show, chum. Stick it to those hypocritical white elitist white people that shop at Whole Foods for food that hopefully won’t give them cancer, cannot abide country-club mega-churches that preach intolerance, and vote for a black man who says maybe things ought to be different.
You provide excellent fodder for those other white people (you know, the ones that are really white – no brown skin here, except our weekend at Talladega), who are really exclusive: no blacks, mexicans, or non-christians need apply.
In a few years, when we’ve started wars with 5 new ‘evil’ countries, you can write about your hypocritical military commanders who tell you we’re maintaining peace by launching nuclear missiles. It will be hilarious… until your caught with it and condemned to re-education for your negative thoughts.
Suggested SWPL:
The Kennedys
Screening calls
Stationary (extra points for personalized!)
My brothers and sisters, look! Jesus Christ (JC) is speaking. Please give more to the Reverend Fair Trade Certified and Organic. It’s working!
MJ is right. GDAWG is wrong.
Harlem was built, created, and financed by White Europeans..
When Manhattan was (cough, cough) “brown/red” Harlem and 125th street did not exist.
If it were a fair fight, it’d be somewhat different.
Jews are very collectivist and racist and help to perpetuate wealth creation within their networks and communities. Jews self-segregate to a few neighborhoods and suburbs away from diversity. They don’t believe in it.
Whites, on the other hand, are openly discriminated against ( the only non-minority on that list), via being on the hateful and wrong sides of quotas, affirm action, government wealth transfers, socialist programs (never help Whites), etc. etc.
Whites furthermore are bombarded with anti-White propaganda, White guilt, and other forms of White-hate via the media, that sadly take their toll.
Did anyone notice the “new” movie out? “old” subject, again:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2007-07-16-ernie-davis-feature_N.htm
stormfront.org has a thread on this article
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/nyc-liberal-whites-moving-into-522773.html
You didn’t really just misspell stationery did you?
racism and prejudices you say?
It has actually been 54 years since “1964”, and during this time period of “negro emanipation” 50,000 innocent Whites have been slaughtered by the “Free” negroes, around two million White women raped, and tens of millions more robbed and assaulted.
I’ll take Williams and Sonoma.
character? That’s about as lame as the liberal who calls eating an authentic greasy taco “cultural”.
It has actually been 54 years since “1964″, and during this time period of “negro emanipation” 50,000 innocent Whites have been slaughtered by the “Free” negroes, around two million White women raped, and tens of millions more robbed and assaulted.
I’ll take Williams and Sonoma.
It has actually been 54 years since “1964″ and “Civil” Rights and during this time period of “negro emancipation” 50,000 innocent Whites have been slaughtered by the “Free” negroes, around two million White women raped, and tens of millions more robbed and assaulted.
I’ll take Williams and Sonoma over feral TNB.
If there are those who like that kind of stuff, just move to South Africa and you can live around 45 million negroes.
excellent post!!!
Why is it that everyone who isn’t a liberal, geek, nerd-chic dupe is assumed to be a NASCAR fan?
What ever happened to real Whites? Are they extinct? I think the only ones left are our grandparents, the generation that was sane, White and built this nation into something…..as it now being unraveled by multi-culturalism and anti-white ideology.
here we go, another idiot calling slum-life “character”, as least he/she did use the term “culture”.
Woody Allen and Robert Zimmerman are White-hating little pervert Heebs.
No White person with a brain, or with instinct, would consider either of them.
No they just come into our communities, raise our rents, enact policies to help them raise those rents, and use their political and economic pull to make everything to their liking.
Ha ha,
who came into White communities, lowered our rents and values, solely on enacted policies communist and anti-white racist in nature (Sect. 8, FHA loans, etc.) Who used political and economic incentives to push anti-White and anti-American and pro-black racist policy?
Shame on you.
Seems like this site used to be a fun little blog for ironic hiptsters, white people who can laugh at themselves, and others that like to laugh at white people. Now it seems that a big segment of actual racists read this and it sort of emboldens them. Wonder what people think of that?
I make sure to post here under a bunch of aliases each and every day ever since I burned my penis off and got on disability.
Truthfully, crystal meth is my only friend. It’s the only one that I haven’t driven away.
Stuff White People Don’t Like (Aside from Sarah Palin)
1. Getting called out
2. Having to consider the possibility that not all churches are evil
3. Getting reminded that some people don’t care about ManBearPig
4. The fact that McCain is throwing out the word change as often as Obama
5. Capitalism
6. Using “your” and “you’re” in the correct sense
Shit their diapers? Hell, they don’t even exist! Guess that’s what happens when you claim your Webkinz as your dependents!
Me too! And if she could change my diaper afterward, that’d be TREMENDOUS! I would almost forgive her for having an Israeli flag in the governor’s office!
You got me. FWIW, I DID give $250 to the Obama campaign! Seriously!
For me to COMPLETELY forgive her, though, she also need to squat on my face and let loose a MASSIVE, TITANIC, ABSOLUTELY ACRID FART!! It’s the kind of fart you read about in the Bible, the kind you can only get by eating moose meat!
Oh, I’m quivering right now just THINKING about it!
Ah well, time for another crystal meth drag… You damn yids realize you drive me to do this, right?
where is Taleeb Kwali when you need him?
Harlem is awesome now. You can walk around without getting mugged, you only have to face the “You in the wrong neighborhood!” taunts about half as often now.
Thank you for proving the point of this website.
I totally agree with you. We should repeal the 13th Amendment and get back to the good old days…..
Agree, I see a lot of black racists posting negative comments about white people here.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THE JEWS ARE TRYING TO STEAL MY BRAIN AND FILL MY SKULL WITH CHUNKY PEANUT BUTTER!!!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
I LIIIIIIIKE SMUCKERZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!
The next time you walk through a Williams and Sonoma story, think about this: I have stuck something like 75% of the items in that store up my White ass. Serving spoons, kitchen applliances, cookbooks, highballs, placemats, it’s all gone up there!
It’s the only way I’ve been able to get any kind of sexual gratification since the Hoover Vacuum Incident. Plus, it keeps the feral negroes from sodomizing me, so, dude, two birds with one stone!
I just saw this video on YouTube. I think I’m going to go slit my wrists…
eh, little bit from Column A, a little bit from Column B.
Whites like me need an enemy, and Negroes like preem need an enemy. And I am happy to oblige preem in being his enemy.
Which is why white people risks their lives to redo these neighborhoods so the housing prices are so high that black people are forced to move away. Its payback, white people finally make the neighborhood fun and livable and black people arent allowed to stay.
White people love rubbing their success in gentrification in minorities faces.
Hey fake Yid!!!
Run along like a Yid and find a “scapegoat”!!!
Let’s get back to the humorous anti-White racist comments only
AAAIAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
EEVERYONE HATES US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
VEE MUST GET THE GOYIM TO BOMB IRAN FOR US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAAAAAAA!!!!
WE NEED MORE GOY MONEY FOR ISRA-HELL!!!!
You are just dead wrong and you must have a raisin for a brain.
You represent the demograhic group that reproduces the LEAST. So social darwinism doesn’t look kindly on feminist ideology that leads to less than replacement levels.
White women are twice as likely to remain childless as 30 years ago.
Childless US women (are) increasing at an alarming rate… The present study has found a strong difference between different ethnic groups. Figures show that Hispanic women between 40 to 44 years have an average of 2.6 children compared to a national average of 1.9 children. Nearly one-fourth of non-Hispanic women namely white are childless…”
There’s a very solid reason for the decline in the White birth rate. Our government and big corporations continue to change laws and policies, making life WORSE for any White people, who want to raise a family. The result is a decline in the number of White children. Liberal politicians and big corporations then panic at the thought of having fewer wage slaves –er citizens, so they open up immigration from the Third World even more, making living conditions even worse for Whites in the US, which means even fewer White children as a “Destructive Feedback Loop” is created. The Third Worlders of course don’t mind the overcrowding which is natural for them, having arrived recently from Mexico City, Calcutta or Bombay.
Intelligent races tend to put off having children during difficult times. During the Great Depression and World War Two, Americans had fewer children because the future was uncertain and because job prospects were few and far between, making it difficult to support a family.
Ha, keep on crying asshold.
I’m always ahead of the low IQ anti-White dolts who know nothing about science or history and culture.
You are an idiot and obama is nothing more than a mandela-lite.
Do you honestly want the USA to follow in South Africa’s footsteps? become like Brazil? You are a shallow and short-sighted White.
That is the goal of people like Obama and his retinue. How can you lack instinct to understand something this basic? Do you have a low IQ or something?
Moses threw the tablets at the dumb-ass greedy jew golden-calf worshipers. I remember that in the Bible!!!
You sound like a jew pornographer. Too many to list the names.
Why don’t you stick to one name and go with it?
But you burned your dick off, how smart can you possibly be?
Hey,
That’s me in the pic. Unsurprisingly, I started a blog chronicling my life Uptown: http://harlemhybrid.blogspot.com
Thanks stuffwhitepeoplelike! U can add stuffwhitepeoplelike.com to Stuff White People Like! (or is that a tautology)?
Peace,
J
“miscegenation is very, very much discouraged in “enlightened” Israel.”
So, what you’re saying here is that Israel would be enlightened if it encouraged miscegenation?
I feel your pain. I am a Latino male and have been in Harlem for three years. I get shit as well from black people but those people are usually just sore. I even was called “White” by a bum lady that wanted a dollar from me on Lenox one night when I was walking my sister to the M60 for a redeye. I like a lot of stuff white people like but I am brown. What color are you if you grow up in the suburbs? I like to shop at Whole Foods although I do not like to pray there. Harlem does not need any flipping Thai restaurants, although would it kill you white people to put more Pathmarks in Harlem. I live too damn far from the one on 145.
Spicaro
you are my hero
WASHINGTON – Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a “stretch” to say she’s qualified to be president.
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“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States,” Hagel said.
McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin’s qualifications, citing Alaska’s proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”
Hagel took issue with that argument. “I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'” he said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”
Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn’t expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama’s running mate.
Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, before becoming Alaska’s governor in December 2006.
Palin visited soldiers in Kuwait and Germany last year and said in an interview with ABC News that her only other foreign travel had been to Mexico and Canada. She also said she had never met a foreign head of state.
Hagel told the newspaper that other governors have been elected to serve in the White House without experience in Washington. He said judgment and character were also important for the job.
“But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world,” Hagel said. “I think that’s just a requirement.”
totally
Thanks for the notice as to what the NYTimes is reporting – I think there was one omission of what white people like: always winning an argument.
“I’ll ask, ‘What are you angry about?’ And their anger kind of dissolves, and then they’ll say, ‘The new money coming in is aloof and snobbish.’” … Try to tell a white person that the problem is more complex than that, and it won’t go much farther – the non-white person is wrong until they take on the white view.
Like Lisa Delpit notes, usually white people think that, in the end, non-white people (instead of being silenced) agreed with their logic: “After all, they stopped disagreeing, didn’t they?”
Dude, you’re so right. And your hyper-ironic tone proves you’re so far beyond this long-dead culture of irony, you’re actually genuine, by which I mean able to be ironic in a post-ironic world. Maybe there should be a term for that.
Emo?
And you’re right, y’know; gentrification is so ’98. What business do white people have moving into poor non-white neighborhoods and bringing their crappy mass-market luxury retail capitalist starbucks junk food culture with them? Never mind that people with more money everywhere prefer to spend it in more expensive (read: trendy, overpriced) restaurants and stores. Never mind that Harlem has been dying for some kind of improvement that was impossible as long as people of all colors were afraid to go there with more than $10 in their pockets: Here was the last part of Manhattan where you could still find hookers, card scams and crack on Wednesday night, without having to rent a hotel room.
Like most non-white-people, I’m sure you availed yourself of all that good social authenticity as often as you could, and spent lots of time Sunday morning, sweating those demons out in the churches up there. Like you said, it had a good run. What a shame economic mobility should come along and destroy all that beautiful blight.
Guess you’ll just have to go to the Bronx now to prove how hard you are.
Although I read somewhere that pseudo-ironically trying to prove how hard you are by denouncing gentrification is…uh…something “white people” are prone to…
The Bronx is next. Already there are plans underway to rename the South Bronx as SoBro.
It’s happening faster than you think.
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This is why I moved out of America — out of New York City. Still is, always has been and likely always will be filled with uptight whites who believe in their own racial superiority, and black folks who are still angry.
Generally, Americans (still) see a person’s skin color first and judge them based on that only. What a shame.
Fight amongst yourselves.
Yeah, but look who wrote this post. This isn’t a serious fight, not here; it’s astonishing how many people want to jump on one side or another of this without thinking about what a total farce this website is and how many things are just fundamentally confused and wrong in what the author is saying.
This is from a guy the Atlantic lovingly described as someone who refers snidely to ‘white people’ as the elites who read the New Yorker. As if somehow the Atlantic Monthly could snatch a little high ground from their competition if they outed them first as being “white,” whatever the hell that means.
Forget that none of this contributes to any serious conversation about gentrification or class and race divisions in the US. The point is, the author of this site lapped up a big corporate book deal in about 2.5 seconds, which was offered him on the ridiculous premise that he was somehow an authentic voice for …people too hip to accept a big corporate book deal.
It’s not that what he’s saying about the gentry writ large is absolutely wrong — it’s that his whole point in writing it is to prove that he isn’t one of them, and the whole snobbish exercise proves in itself that not only is he one of them; he’s actually the worst of his kind.
1 correction to your arguement….nothing, no thing, ever is over-priced, if somebody is willing to pay for it.
so, that argual/prosciutoo sammy for $12 is not overpriced if someone actually buys it.
the person paying for it may have their perception of value out of whack, or they may not.
the only thing that is over-priced is something that doesnt sell.
simple econ.
“Gentrification” = ethnic cleansing. You can pretty it up and call it whatever you want, but the bottom line is you want all this “prime real estate” and you’d rather not have all those darkies running wild and keeping property values down.
Same thing is happening all over D.C.
Which is why more and more African-Americans from large urban areas of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic are moving to the Carolinas and Georgia.
That’s freakin’ ridiculous. It has nothing to do with race; it has to do with rising property values in urban centers and the return of money to blighted places. The places aren’t blighted by the race of the people living there; they’re racked with poverty, pure and simple, and there’s no reason they should stay that way. What we need is MORE mixture of rich and poor, and different races, in the same neighborhoods, living side by side, and that can only come when wealthy people are willing to invest again in poor neighborhoods. New York has a long history of mixing cultures and the rising tide lifts all ships. To compare it to ethnic cleansing is, frankly, offensive and wrong; it stirs a pot of racial hatred that New Yorkers of all races have tried to do away with; it’s divisive, stupid, and a comparison that could only be made by someone mired in the politics of victimization, anger and recrimination.
Next you’d have Harlem launching katyushas at the upper east side.
The reason why White people hate the churches is actually not ideological, believe it or not. See, churches have very strict zoning laws, and you cannot apply for a liquor license within a 100 feet from one. White urbanites love to drink with their restaurant dinner, and trendy bars are also a must in any self-respecting hip gentrifying neighborhood. Well thanks to the insane concentration of churches in Harlem, if you create a liquor-free zone in 100 foot radius around each church you pretty much have no place you can open a bar except for a few locations. Closing down these churches would open up more locations to open up trendy bars and would allow more restaurants to serve liquor.
“the rising tide lifts all ships”. A morally and intellectually bankrupt phrase when first uttered by that great hero of the Gentrifcastos, Kennedy… and one that after 45 years is frankly laughable and naive, at the very least.
Yes, Josh. You’re absolutely correct. The solution to poverty is to move the poor out and move the Starbuckians in.
What a bunch of condescending, self-important garbage.
But at least you won’t have to worry about the inevitable rain of katyushas once the Upper East Side moves to Harlem.
I hear Norman Podhoretz has already purchased a brownstone on 125th Street.
That’ll show those budding Nasrallahs. 🙂
The gentrification process will be complete when the following signs appear along New Harlem’s borders:
“No American Cars Beyond This Point!”
Your missive is yet more proof that Americans have difficulty grasping irony – some lingering German influence, mayhap?
To this nation of earnest peasants, irony seems deceitful and subversive – which of course it is…
Stuff white people like:
leaving idiotic comments on otherwise decent blogs.
Also they love when the right kind of non-whites (liberals) agree with them.
pathetic.
On another note this blog is freakin hilarious. As a half wrong kind of white and half wrong kind of black I think its awesome.
I would think that white people would be in favor of keeping the black churches. It adds to the cultural dynamism of the region. There must be something else that can be eliminated in its place to make room for the white people businesses. Maybe housing.
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Aimee, btw love the spelling of your name. The elimination of black housing is an excellent idea, as would some of the asian markets that cater to those living in the eliminated homesite. After all those markets never have the imported asian goodies white people like and it is doubtful they could ever compete w/ Whole Foods Mkts vast array of organic and heirloom veggies. Besides the iron gates tretched across the front of many of these stores is just too depressing. Better to replace them all w/ upscale coffee houses, nd a few agarden and flower shops.
It’s not that I don’t get the irony this kid’s striving for… I mean, he’s white, he makes fun of what he calls “white people,” then takes great pains to separate himself from them, all while taking a big expensive book tour at Borders all over the US and talking to white people …well, like most of the ones who post comments on this blog.
And really, it’s all ‘very meta’ like my pot-dealing neighbor used to say, but what good’s your condescending “you-don’t-get-the-irony” when nobody’s laughing? I mean, did you laugh at any of it? Was it funny?
Irony should be funny. Or at least clever. And this kid’s all superficial cliché. The site’s barely a chuckle at best. It’s not real funny. It’s not highbrow Woody Allen funny, or even stupid Dave Barry funny. It’s not serious social commentary, or even serious griping. It’s like reading Dave Eggers in cliff notes simplified for seventh graders.
Sure, I can see how a dumb, immature, self-conscious white kid who hates his parents and was brought up to feel bad about his place in modern multi-cultural society might really wanna jump on the bandwagon and be the first to yell how brilliant this was, but come on.
And “mayhap”? Is that a lord of the rings word or what? I smell a 13-year-old Monty Python fanatic. Security!
Hey Guys;
Love your site.
Anyway, I’m a white living in Harlem. I love it. Basically, I grew up in a town of 600 people in the Northern part of Ontario Canada. We had a few assorted black people, but you can imagine….not many. Despite this, there wasn’t racism, being culturally sensitive is just part of the norm where I’m from.
I moved up here about a year ago. I take care of the apartment for a friend who moved in with a girlfriend in Park Slope (he’s black). The neighbors have been really great to me for the most part. Recently though, one old lady upstairs has had it in for me. Whenever she’s on the stoop she refers to me as “THE DEVIL” and tells me she’s “putting together a petition to get rid of the caucasians in the building”. I think this was spurned on by me recently having a friend of mine from Canada (from the same town, white guy) stay with me while he hangs out in the city. I’ve been nice to this old lady, gone to the store for her, lent her money, etc. This is the only negative moment I’ve had here. Otherwise, it’s been great.
wow when it comes to humor canada must be a barren wasteland… kind of like canada when it comes to anything now that i think about it
Are you retarded? The only people who love Sarah Palin are white.
Die Fahne Hoch…
Wow, I thought this blog post was being sarcastic, but such is not the case.
The third page of the article is especially funny, with criticism of the illegal behavior that goes on in Harlem: double parking, large street bbq’s, and *gasp* public drinking! Not Safe For White People.
Stuff Black people don’t like!…White people who move to Harlem and try to change the neighborhood to their liking and take it over like they do every thing else!
white people churches aka Whole Foods…
hilarious!
TWKOWP
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The thing that’s wrong with gentrification is that it doesn’t uplift the people in the neighborhood, it just moves the poverty to another location. Yes, Harlem may have needed to be uplifted economically, but wouldn’t it be nice if the people who have lived there for most of their lives got to enjoy the improvements?
And to think D.C used to be nicknamed “Chocolate City”. I wonder what they’ll call it now?
The creator of this website is from Toronto…you do know that is in Canada right?
I didn’t know that black people that would write racist shit like this were intelligent enough to use the internet.
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hey nick, you are a moron because “stuff white people like” is a book written by a white guy. read a book, any book, you ignorant, racist dolt
Big time fruads look how many people were suckered into the silly PET ROCKS i though the fad was rediculous and that phonie unicorn which was realy a surgicly altered goat
Just because you live in free country don’t make it ok to insult people. Not all blacks are dumb, its just you dont understand them.
Today i learned when people say “not real, not real”
it means they’re just talking a dialect , like how italians americans tend to slurs and express their talking more as though they’re about to slap you on ur face, what mobsters normally do.
I meant to say “for real, for real”. It”s like when white girls say “no way?!” for meaning “really??”. This is a style of talking dialect i guess. The words are in English but the culture is different.
damnit, i just got into an arguement with some haitian-american twentysomething solicitating at my house. I asked him where he’s from since i heard a slight accent in his english and doesn’t speak black english hard enough. he says he’s from Haiti, i say to him alot of scams come from from Haiti, then he start saying all this BS about Hating on Black americans and getting ghetto language on me.
I thought they come to ask for money not give me a lecture on what I should be. This kid just doesn’t know when to shut up. I was about to get bruce-lee on his ass.
Amen. And this is coming from a white woman.
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Just read another riotous parody of Stuff White People Like at FreedomHaters.org.
Their SWL entries include: Sickle Cell Anemia, A Thesaurus, and the IFC sketch group The Whitest Kids U Know. Had me in stitches!
I recommend checking it here:
http://www.freedomhaters.org/content/once-again-yet-another-salute-stuff-white-people
lollzzzzzz “…… and white people churches (also known as Whole Foods).
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The picture that accompanies the NY Times article was not even taken in Harlem; its a coffee shop / bar on 110th street. The place is generally full of Columbia University students. I guess the photo editor mistook it for Harlem because there was a black man sitting at the bar.
white,no just a dick.
110th street past Morning Side Park IS Harlem. Harlem doesn’t start on 125th street contrary to what you may think.
Look at this fuckin’ dick.What a white dick.i hope he gets robbed in Harlem.
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This isn’t about race – it’s mainly about economics. You need to understand this. Neither is one white viewpoint representative of all white viewpoints – if you feel it is, you have no right to complain when you are stereotyped in this manner. Under this Obama administration you are ALL screwed – concentrate on that instead of fighting amongst yourselves. While you’re at it take a look at the border situation with Mexico.. American troops are dying overseas protecting their borders? Those borders are a complete farce. These globalists do NOT care whether you are black or white, or anything in-between. All they care about is that you lay down and allow your country to be raped and pillaged by offshore interests who seek to profit from letting the world and his son gain access to your resources. Why do you think the North American Union has been kept so secret, for so long? Because those in charge of it know the shock and horror it will cause. If you want to really help places like Harlem then start looking at the bigger picture, the bigger problem – and work together to solve it.
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About the part of the article white plans for harlem saying they don’t like all the churches that they should be replaced with yoga studios and condos, they need to leave our churches alone they’re our temples of worship. They want to come to the black community and try to shut down our churches but they wouldn’t go to a Jewish community and try to shut down their synagogues. Leave our churches alone, build your fancy condos, yoga studios and fancy bistro restaurants somewhere else
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