re: Austin’s Black Population Leaving City, Report Says

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if you were in a large crowd that was 98% black, wouldn't you be counting the white people?

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were already starting to sell and move to Pflugerville

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if you were in a large crowd that was 98% black, wouldn't you be counting the white people?

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Sounds like they're being priced out of the neighborhood.

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Houston has the makeup to make you feel really white and American.

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There are people in our county that consider the city I live in to be Mexico. Even the Mexicans say the same thing.

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Yup, since when is gentrifying a neighborhood racist?

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Here’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn’t picked up every motherfrickin’ day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. P.S. 20 was not good. P.S. 11. Rothschild 294. The police weren’t around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.

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Then comes the motherfrickin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfrickin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud.

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here’s another thing: When Michael Jackson died they wanted to have a party for him in motherfrickin’ Fort Greene Park and all of a sudden the white people in Fort Greene said, “Wait a minute! We can’t have black people having a party for Michael Jackson to celebrate his life. Who’s coming to the neighborhood? They’re gonna leave lots of garbage.” Garbage? Have you seen Fort Greene Park in the morning? It’s like the motherfrickin’ Westminster Dog Show. There’s 20,000 dogs running around. Whoa. So we had to move it to Prospect Park!

I mean, they just move in the neighborhood. You just can’t come in the neighborhood. I’m for democracy and letting everybody live but you gotta have some respect. You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations and you come in and now shite gotta change because you’re here? Get the frick outta here. Can’t do that!

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And then! So you’re talking about the people’s property change? But what about the people who are renting? They can’t afford it anymore! You can’t afford it. People want live in Fort Greene. People wanna live in Clinton Hill. The Lower East Side, they move to Williamsburg, they can’t even afford frickin’, motherfrickin’ Williamsburg now because of motherfrickin’ hipsters. What do they call Bushwick now? What’s the word? [Audience: East Williamsburg]

That’s another thing: Motherfrickin’… These real estate motherfrickers are changing names! Stuyvestant Heights? 110th to 125th, there’s another name for Harlem. What is it? What? What is it? No, no, not Morningside Heights. There’s a new one. [Audience: SpaHa] What the frick is that? How you changin’ names?

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