I see white people

What block is that?

White people on Nostrand?? Thats unpossible!

There are at least three white couples living on my block.

Subject: Jack Krohn

Last week, while riding the bus down Brooklyn Avenue last Friday, I saw two white twenty-something women get off at Brooklyn and St. John's. I also saw an Asian woman on Park Place near Brooklyn Avenue and a white woman with a young child in Brower Park.

Nebula,

This is all in good fun. Don't take it too seriously.

Back In The Day wrote: We've got two couples that own plus three or four renters. Park between Nostrand and NY. Actually, one of my friends has hypothisised that you'll know the neighborhood is changing not when you see white people, but when you see Asian couples.

I've seen two Asian women on Nostrand, one with her child, but no couples yet.

The few times I've walked down Nostrand I've seen Japanese girls ambling along.

Subject: What is the point ?

what exactly is the point of this thread?

Who's reporting they see white people? white people are reporting? or others reporting?

Jack Krohn wrote: Nebula,

This is all in good fun. Don't take it too seriously.

Ok, i guess its fun to "report" about other white people in a city...Does it make you guys feel better knowing other whites are moving in, and making the neighborhood better, or more to your liking...this is a pointless, stupid thread, and it makes an issue out of race, even if it is light-hearted..the fact that someone saw a few white people outside on the streets of Brooklyn and felt the need to talk about it in a forum means they obviously think a lot about this...kinda sad...making progress in relations requires a certain amount of color-blindness and just seeing people as neighbors, not this asian, or this white mom, etc...

Jose wrote: [quote=Back In The Day]We've got two couples that own plus three or four renters. Park between Nostrand and NY. Actually, one of my friends has hypothisised that you'll know the neighborhood is changing not when you see white people, but when you see Asian couples.

I've seen two Asian women on Nostrand, one with her child, but no couples yet.

The few times I've walked down Nostrand I've seen Japanese girls ambling along.

You can't have an invasion with out asian. (joke)

What's great is that we can all have an opinion that feels right for us. just don't push it on others and we can all get along. to be politically correct consciously is an act of denial, we are different and should embrace that. our environments/experiences teach us to want and value different things and seldom the twain shall meet...

change is necessary, good for some and bad for others - but as Earth Wind and Fire says. "That's The Way of The World"

Subject: crackers

listen, seeing white people is one thing, but make sure they don't come in with any knitting stores or organic co-ops. because then it's park slope all over again and that shit ain't right.

I don't think it's fair to label Nebula as just P.C. for the sake of being P.C. She's got a point. This is a stupid thread. Who's shutting down discourse? Nebula who thinks this thread is stupid and expresses that? Or the rest of you who jump on her, dropping the P.C. bomb? I can accept that a few of you might just be posting about white people to say, "Huh, isn't that interesting, white people this far east!" But you would be lying to yourself a little bit (at least some of you) if you didn't admit that part of you is thinking, "White people? Great! The kind of shops we like can't be far behind." Your issue may not be race; it may be class. But you are thinking that once white people come the money and stores can't be far behind. And thinking like that is race-based. I don't mean to admonish anyone. I'm the first to admit I find myself thinking that way too sometimes, but when I do, I feel pretty down about it. I try not to revel in it.

Maybe a few of you were just saying, "Hey, you don't see that everyday." Maybe I'm projecting some of my own issues. But I think Nebula had a valid point and wasn't just spouting P.C. nonsense.