33%

A bit unrelated but it is application season for those looking to go to graduate and professional school. Several friends have children who are applying and all I can do is advise that everyone apply early. I strongly recommend this for minority students as 33% of those seats go to people like Ben and his fellow gentrifiers at DitmasParkBlog who are related to some wealthy white person and who do not deserve their seat. They didn't work for their seats at these elite schools. They were born with silver spoons in their mouths and did not earn their successes in life. They didn't deserve to be there(elite schools) in the first place.

Do not let this happen to a loved one.

More racism from Ditmas Park Blog

The Real Flatbush has all the details.

Racist, Pathetic, Elitist Ben Blames First Black President For Smears Against Him

Over at Ben's day job, the one that he was given because of who his father is, Ben decides to write up a lengthy piece that it is Obama's fault for why people think he is a muslim and a dirty black guy. He calls Obama's problem his "own devising."

Absolutely despicable. This "Ben Smith" is an awful "reporter" and an awful person for Victorian Flatbush.

May god hath no fury.

Ben's hiring!

Ben is looking for an assistant at his day job. I suggest that EVERY SINGLE MINORITY THAT CAN READ AND WRITE APPLY.

Let's see who he picks. I'm more than willing to bet it won't be one of us. This is your chance Ben to prove to everyone that you are not a racist.

This will only lead to racial profiling

The Times has an article today about how Brooklyn malls are restricting teens from hanging out at the malls. Isn't that what kids do? This will obviously lead to serious racial profiling as the mall in question--Atlantic Terminal--is primarily servicing those in the neighborhood who go to Brooklyn Tech. What are the kids from Tech going to do? Hit you with their graphing calculators?

Boycott Qathra!

This new cafe in the neighborhood does not have a single person of color working there. Are they trying to tell us that there wasn't a single minority in the neighborhood qualified that they could hire.

This is gentrification in full effect and it is destroying our neighborhood.

Worst neighborhood ever?

A reader writes:

I lived in Ditmas Park for 3 years. Worst neighborhood ever. EVER. Left in a hurry, will never come back, though real estate is dirt cheap and there were good deals. Why will I never come back, you ask? Because I have never, in my 40 years of life spanning several different Countries, experienced so much racial discrimination and pure hatred as I experienced from the Ditmas Park residents that preceded gentrification from people like me. It was simply a matter of walking down the sidewalk, on my way to the co-op or to work, and it would be a chorus of 'yo yo white bitch' from the huddles of men hanging around in front of their buildings under clouds of marijuana. On the street. Where children also live. Yeah. Awesome way to set an example. I also heard 'go back home, you f*#&$ing whitey', and several other equally idiotic comments. And these are the most benign ones. This is from complete strangers on the street. Granted, they were spoken by losers, but still racially based and oh so wrong. In addition, I found this to be the dirtiest, most unkempt, most crime-ridden neighborhood I have lived in. We could hear gunshots from our LR, coming from Ocean Av. And yet, we had moved in actually lured by the great prices and by the idea of diversity. It was important to us. Little did we know we would experience so much ignorant, primitive discrimination. Such ridiculous hatred. So to you dear blogger and to all those residents who are so terrified of improving your quality of life through gentrification: don't worry! Those people you love to hate and blame for bringing clean new Q trains are moving back out of your dirty, smelly, noisy, crime-ridden neighborhood faster than they could move in! Good Riddance Ditmas Park!

What a treat! I love how she tries to claim that all of us black folks are just a group of unemployed druggies. Good riddance to you Marina and why couldn't you have taken Ben with you!

Ditmas Park Blog "hires" minority blogger, sends them to back of the bus

Ha! Well DPB finally has included a minority blogger I am told but they are only allowed to post at the Kensington Prospect. How nice of the white folks!

He thinks we are stupid...

"He would be a familiar name, have more money than anyone else and, with a little love from Obama, might not get killed among African-Americans who might divide their vote between several candidates anyway."

Because apparently all of us black folks only vote based on skin color. Anyone else sick and tired of the gentrifying racist over at Ditmas Park Blog?

UPDATE: It isn't obvious who I am talking about?

You know your neighborhood is being gentrified...

When the MTA replaces the Q with one of the newer trains. I rode the subway this weekend for the first time in quite awhile and was so disturbed that we had a new train. Everyone knows that the MTA could easily replace ALL subway lines with the new trains but the won't. Why? Because the MTA refuses to give tax paying citizens in the more "diverse" areas quality trains. Notice which lines have new trains? It is only the lines for the white folks like Ditmas Park Blog's own writers.

Call the MTA and tell them that ALL lines should have new trains. Not just the lines traveled by gentrifiers.