Happy Kwanzaa!!

Today is Unity. Since DitmasParkBlog won't wish you a happy kwanzaa, we will.

Closing Argyle Schoolyard Is All About Race

Sorry guys I have been a bit busy but a tipster sent me an email regarding BSW Neighborhood Association advocating the closure of the playground on Sundays. Why? Because of "older kids who make a lot of noise." Translation: the blacks and browns will hang out if we keep the playground open. My tipster noted that Ben and Liena are part of the association but apparently they do not endorse this. Or so they say publicly.

Please let your voices be heard! This is all about race regarding the closure of the playground. The minority populations in this area do not have the luxury of going to their summer home in Rhode Island or Massachusetts or even the Hamptons for their kids to play like many of the people who are part of the BSW Neighborhood Association.

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.

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.

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.

Racist Ben Smith calls NOI leader a liar

Ben Smith over at his white man's only job mocks prominent African-American Rev. Hunter of Detroit,Michigan. Rev. Hunter was called to help quell a brewing situation outside of Minister Farrakhan's home in Chicago. In writing up his hate-filled tirade, Ben claims that because he couldn't find any evidence of the Detroit Times existing it must not exist. He calls a prominent African-American man a liar. Maybe if Ben knew a few black people he would have gotten his facts right. The Metro Times of Detroit was formerly known as the Detroit Times in which Rev. Hunter wrote numerous articles. The Detroit Times was known among NOI members at one time as being sympathetic to black nationalist views.

Get your Detroit Times with your bean pie!

He is a racist.

"I felt like I was entering the Klan's wives club."

A source sent an email about her acount at that "all lady networking shindig" that the founder of DimtasParkBlog was involved in. She didn't stay very long because she felt very uncomfortable and also found the women to be boring. No surprise there. According to my source, no one was really interested in her even being there and it appeared that practically everyone knew each other before the event. Of course they did, it was at the odious Kris W.'s gallery. I can't stand her nor her children. This is one of the yuppies from the neighborhood who is friends with this other white lady who refuses to comb her BLACK child's hair. It is appalling. The child's hair is always a mess when I see them near the playground or whatever the yuppies are calling it these days.

So there you have it folks, DitmasParkblog is actively promoting white "networking" events.

Probably White Women's Networking Salon

Anyone planning on going? Please email me if you plan to. It will be interesting to see the diverse makeup of this group. Or lack thereof as I suspect.

FYI: It is this Friday evening.

Purim but no Kwanzaa and Connie's

Just a few quick ones folks.

DitmasParkBlog can take the time to announce Purim but not Kwanzaa? Hmmf.

You know you are a gentrification troll when you demand that the owner of Connie's Cafe changes their name to Connie's Diner. Why? Will it make the food taste different? Of course not, gentrification trolls never engage in logcial reasoning.

"The outrage over a guy writting anti-semetic words on snow, as deplorable as that is, cannot be compared with state sponsored harassment..."

You can say that again. Harold is another Ditmas Park hero. He is absolutely right in his assessment of DitmasParkBlog. Like I said, there are many people in the neighborhood who think that DitmasParkBlog is for whites and jewish people only. The archives seem to point towards that. Are we really all supposed to share their outrage that someone is using their first amendment right in the damn snow?

Updated by Tina

"the Mineo case is a bit outside of the tiny slice of the city this blog covers, and so we haven’t covered it. .."

• The Children's Film Festival
• G&T roundup

• Third Root

Yeah right. Those were all mentioned on DitmasParkBlog, shockingly do not feature any minorities and all are far outside of the "tiny slice of the city" that DitmasParkBlog claims that they only cover. They can't cover police brutality but they can cover the children's film festival that featured a bunch of white racist trust fund hippies?

The next time DitmasParkBlog wants to send their people to flood my email with rants they might want to do a bit of checking because I did.

Ben gets called out for his selective outrage (UPDATED)

It looks like more and more people have just about had it with Ben and DitmasParkBlog. For those of you who think that I am nuts for going after DitmasParkBlog for being anti-minority, here is just one more instance of why I stand by my beliefs. Heck, my email box is also more proof but I don't need to tell you that.

A commenter asks Ben what we all have been wondering--why do you cover certain incidents(read: white people) and not others?

Will you ever write about the disturbing news that happened on prospect park train station? A cop was charged with sodomizing a man. There’s a court case happening right now. It seems that there’s only one blog that is writting about that. Why the silence when it comes to disturbing news with the nypd? Why are you protected them? What’s the deal here? The incidence you reported is indeed disturbing. No one should be targeted because of their religion, but is that any worse then racial profiling? Why don’t you have the same compassion for the countless African American men who are daily targets by the nypd. After all an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. Your selective outrage is indeed an injustice to all of us who has had the indignity to be targeted for who we are.

DitmasParkBlog's response is even more pathetic. He accuses the commenter of being hostile and confrontational. Translation: stop being aggressive black man! I have made similar comments awhile ago on DitmasParkBlog about how they refuse to cover issues affecting minorities in the area and was shouted down by the gentrification crew.

Also, based on my source for a post I wrote a bit back, it is not uncommon for DitmasParkBlog to stand up for the police since after all they are quite connected. They do not care about anyone but their own people(again, white).

Thanks to those that stand with me in exposing DitmasParkBlog for what it is--a nasty gentrification site that hates minorities.

UPDATE: I should also point out that DitmasParkBlog's response that the incident is outside of their area is complete rubbish. How many times has Ben or Leina started a post, "this is a bit outside of DP or Flatbush but..." Don't make me go through your archives.

Ben Smith wants you to be afraid of black men

I am going to be having surgery in the next couple of weeks and am dealing with other personal stuff, but I just wanted to check in to show you the blatant race-baiting being done by the owner of DitmasParkBlog.

I am not going to link to the disgusting piece but right now DitmasParkBlog has a post warning people to beware of a fictitious scary black man. Disgusting. They don't necessarily know if the person is actually black man or just is tanned but here they go posting verbatim an "alert."

Absolutely disgusting but not surprising. I have enough stress but I guess they feel why not pile on.

Happy Kwanzaa!!!!

Since DitmasParkBlog won't wish you a Happy Kwanzaa, I will. One wonders why they wish their readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah but no Kwanzaa.

UPDATE 6:00pm: Just got an email from a neighbor who asked the DitmasParkBlog why they do not observe all holidays and only certain ones (read: white holidays) and the response that the neighbor got back from "ditmasparkblog" was, "if you are inquiring about Kwanza it is not a holiday."

Yes, they spelled it wrong and yes, they are anti-minority. We all know that they would be the first to scream if we said that Hanukkah was stupid.

UPDATE:

SAVING DITMAS PARK

Last week I and three other local residents spent a few hours talking with various business owners along Cortelyou about the influx of white racist yuppies. We encouraged them to boycott Ditmas Park Blog and in particular Liena and Ben.

The response was positive. One minority business owner complained about how his rent has gone up and he knows its because of the new people moving in. He said its as if his landlord wants him to fail so that some other business can move in. Of course he is right with the help of the writers at Ditmas Park blog.

Another lady who works at a hair salon complained about how the new people come into her shop to complain about how they need to fix the place up and make it modern. The hair salon is clean but it is run by minorities which of course these people equate "old" and "dirty" with. The lady took our flier and said she would be willing to boycott them. She also recommended a neighborhood group for the minority business owners to combat the gentrification that directly impacts their livelihoods.

We hope to make this a once a month "protest" in which we get out and talk with business owners. In the meantime, I and others will be doing our little part to expose Ditmas Park Blog and the writers, Liena and Ben who seek to ruin our area. One neighbor told me that they don't pay their taxes. I will be following up.*

*Ed. note: We apparently have some pro-gentrification folks who want to cause trouble. As I stated in the comments section I do not know if the writers at Ditmas Park blog owe back taxes. A neighbor claims that they do. Do I believe the neighbor's claim? I really do not know and would have to do my own investigation. I don't even know their last names so I really couldn't verify at one point or another right now. At this point, as far as I know (remember who said that?) they pay their taxes just like everyone else until proven otherwise.

It is obvious that someone or a group of folks are trying to silence another minority voice in the neighborhood. After being shot rubber pellets at (and still have the scars to prove it) and thrown to the ground after participating in civil rights protests decades ago, this is nothing.

I will not be silenced.

Is Ditmas Park Blog Racist?

This is a question that long time residents should be asking themselves. It appears that this website that is supposed to promote our neighborhood does not allow African-Americans or other minorities to post. One could say that they are trying to purge long time minority residents both online and off. It isn't enough that they have made a concerted effort to drive out the minority businesses on Cortelyou, now they want to drive out the remaining minority residents in an effort to create their all-white utopia in Brooklyn.

As someone who has been here before these people were probably ever born, I will not be silenced.