Hipster Denial about Race and Crime

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I would like some of the Brooklynian readers to STOP DELUDING THEMSELVES that violent "crime can happen to you anywhere", and pushing the relativistic attitude that all neighborhoods are somehow equally safe or unsafe, particularly for whites. CRIME STATS., HOWEVER UNDER-REPORTED CERTAIN CRIMES MAY GO, ARE AVAILABLE ON THE NYPD WEBSITE. All you have to do is type in a zipcode. I've lived in NYC for 10 years and am a New Yorker by birth.

I lived for two years in a Puerto Rican section of Williamsburg and never had one (NOT ONE!) issue of attitude or crime directed at me (and there was “crime” there, and it had a sketchy appearance). I walked around late at night all the time (past midnight). Actually there was one time someone said something nasty to me, instigating it, it was a black woman (just think about that... in a Puerto Rican neighborhood). It was a nasty racial remark, combined with an eye roll. I yelled at her, of course.

I currently live in the predominantly white, Russian/Jewish immigrant area of Midwood. I'VE LIVED HERE FOR 6 YEARS. While there is drug-dealing or criminal activity, I HAVE NEVER WITNESSED 1 SHOOTING OR VIOLENT CRIME. LAST TIME I CHECKED, THERE WERE 0 MURDERS AND 0 RAPES IN ANY GIVEN YEAR HERE, and only a smattering of muggings, presumably by all of the little ghetto black kids that hang out by the train station, "horsing around" . They don't actually live in this neighborhood, technically… they get on buses after school and head north. All races feel welcome enough to come and shop here, though.

I once witnessed about 15 of these little ghetto black kids by the train, boys, “jump” a white kid (1 KID…VERSUS 15) on a bike who didn’t even know them. They did attempt to steal something from him, but mostly just punched him and pummeled him for no real reason. A black girl who was standing next to me witnessing this commented “Sometimes, I’m just ashamed to be black”.

I walk around at 4 am, or 2 am. My roommates take the subway at 4 am to work, or coming home from parties. WE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE THE WAY YOU DO. SOMETIMES I EVEN LEAVE MY DOOR UNLOCKED, IF NEEDED.

I think I might later post this other post I found on craigslist about a Hispanic family that is willing to pay someone to use their zipcode so that they move their child out of the Harlem area school districts, where she is teased and threatened relentlessly for looking white, having "nice hair". How pathetic. How sad it is that people have to move around or pay money or make any effort at all to send their children to a SAFE SCHOOL to avoid the ghetto problem. Inexcusable.

So anyways, I find it annoying that certain POLITICALLY CORRECT, MORALLY SELF-RIGHTEOUS readers here attempt to “beat-down” any person who posts a safety question about given neighborhoods.

DON’T DELUDE YOURSELF THAT THERE IS AN EQUAL RISK OF VIOLENT CRIME IN ALL AREAS. Or even an equal risk of being at the receiving end of “ATTITUDES” OR unwarranted, unjustified RACIAL HOSTILITY.

Like 90% of “whites”, I am not descended from slave-owners. Stop justifying that behavior.

Funny, my black ex-boyfriend was the first to remind me to lock my car doors when we were driving through Flatbush, years ago. And he grew up around there…

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