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Realty Association is fighting the city’s plan to use eminent domain to seize properties in the Iron Triangle of Queens. To help make their case at the City Council hearing on 11/29, they’ve put together this compelling video about the businessmen in the area: [WPIRA]On the Upper East Side, motley old newsracks are being replaced by silvery Cemusa-style dispensers. That pink sign in the background is announcing another Cashmere Mafia shoot):The removal of a bodega’s awning on 10th St. has revealed a set of vintage Cost and Revs wheat-paste posters, circa 1992.
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I love that everyone is always willing to declare the end of race. Mostly I wonder how people who write sentences like this one can do so without bursting into uncontrollable, and riotous, laughter:It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, issues of black vs. white dominated the national discourse. The Rodney King riots and the O.J. Simpson case inspired endless discussions and reams of editorial soul-searching. Affirmative action and racial preferences, multiculturalism, and political correctness were fraught topics. Then the twin towers fell, and suddenly we had a completely new enemy to worry about.Someone should tell Mark Steyn, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tom Tancredo, and millions of others on the right who think that such topics are still fraught, or at least worth getting pissed about. Interestingly enough, each of the essays I just linked to referrs to multiculturalism and/or political corectness in the context of Islam. Maybe the 9/11 attacks didn’t actually eliminate race as a dominant factor in American life as Kamiya is suggesting?Ah, but when he asked the question Is Race Dying? what he meant was, is black vs white no longer the dominant racial discourse in America?During the Katrina debacle, images of thousands of impoverished blacks jammed into the New Orleans Superdome brought the scandalous reality of black poverty back into view. But the moment passed. Today’s most charged racial issue, immigration, doesn’t involve blacks at all, but Latinos. The painful legacy of slavery — which, along with our de facto genocidal campaign against its native inhabitants, is America’s primordial racial trauma — is no longer at the center of the national consciousness.We still have a most charged racial issue, according to Kamiya, but since that issue involves Latinos rather than blacks, that still means race is dying. Which means what, racism only counts when its against black people? And does Kamiya really fail to see the discourse on immigration as having no connection to slavery? Or does he just ignore the familiarity of an underclass exploited for labor because of their race because…Actually I can’t imagine why anyone would ignore that. Especially not when trying to make the point that race doesn’t matter.In any case, someone should tell the FBI, since hate crimes have risen 8% in the past year, most notably in the form of nooses used to intimidate blacks that race is dying. Better yet tell the thousands of people who marched in Jena earlier this year. They didn’t get the memo.But Obama is running for president! That means race doesn’t matter right?It’s a peculiar moment. The white reaction to Barack Obama shows that the old I’m guilty, you’re innocent, everyone-bow-and-return-to-their-corner two-step is no longer useful. Obama’s race is still a factor, of course, but it is far less of one than anyone could have imagined even 10 years ago. Many whites are not just ready but eager to embrace a black man who has opted out of that worn-out racial dance. Yet the crisis of the black underclass rages on, and America seems less interested than ever in tackling it. And until that crisis is addressed, it will continue to cast a shadow over all black-white relations.Well I guess that means sexism is no longer an issue, after all, who can remember a conversation about affirmative action that dealt with its primary beneficiaries (white women) and since Hillary Clinton is running for president, that must mean Sexism is dying. You probably won’t hear that over at Salon.Also, how can race be dying if white people are so eager to embrace a black man because of his views on race? Doesn’t that prove the opposite point?I refer Kamiya to the young man who was interviewed by the Daily News at Columbia after the noose incident there:Im upset, but Im not surprised, said Shawn Maxam, 26, a master’s degree student who is black. I think its just a reflection of whats going on in America as a whole. We got tricked into thinking that race is not an issue because we’re in 2007 and Barack Obama is running for President. That’s not the case.Kamiya, that would be you hes talking about.But now we come to the real reason for this essay-that-I-wouldnt-wipe-my-high-yellow-ass-with, our Pew Poll from two weeks ago:According to a recent NPR/Pew poll, 37 percent of blacks agreed with the statement that blacks today are so diverse they can no longer be considered a single race. Among the youngest respondents, aged 18 to 29, a staggering 44 percent agreed. This is extraordinary. More than a third of the blacks who responded, and almost half of the young blacks, have rejected the cornerstone of American racial politics: black racial solidarity. If the poll is accurate, the most emotionally charged and immutable racial truth, the one-drop rule, is no longer sacrosanct for a large number of black people. Okay yeah, if youre black, chances are youre asking yourself when the one-drop rule was sacrosanct, because youre not old enough to remember. That rule has only applied to famous people since like, the 60s, and even then only to make a point.In any case, someone should tell the freckled, blue eyed Harold Ford that he doesnt have to be black anymore. Im sure hell be relieved after what happened in his last Senate race. Im not sure how the Pew Poll determines that black racial solidarity, as far as politics are concerned, is over. You certainly wouldnt get that impression by looking at the demographics of who voted for whom in 2006 and 2004. In the two years between the election, blacks made the titanic shift of one percentage point, going 88% for Kerry in 2004 and 89% for Democratic candidates in the 2006 elections.Yeah I think that cornerstone could still hold up a building or two. Black berets and jackets went out in the 70s, but black people still vote in lockstep. Id call those numbers solidarity, but what do I know? Im only half black. I should defer to someone whos really black, like Shelby Steele. Oh wait.Almost as noteworthy is that middle-class black Americans have joined most other Americans in dissociating themselves from the values (and, by implication, the behavior) associated with the black underclass. The Pew poll found that there was a growing “values gap” between middle-class and poor blacks: 61 percent of the black respondents, and 70 percent of the college-educated blacks, said that over the past 10 years, the values of middle-class and poor blacks have become more different. Does anyone else find something fundamentally disturbing about the idea that “values” and economic status make you a different race, but only if youre black? Was Bill Clinton a different race from George W. Bush or Al Gore because he didnt grow up wealthy? Or does this arbitrary distinction based on values only apply to black people?Whatever. Juan Williams said it, so it must be true.These findings are evidence of a coming sea change in Americas racial landscape. Together with the explosion of the Latino population, whose racial/ethnic categorization is very much in flux, and the increasing number of people of mixed-race ancestry who refuse to place themselves in traditional racial categories, the crumbling of black racial solidarity shows that race itself is beginning to fade away. And if America can seize the moment and address class inequities, which disproportionately affect blacks and Latinos and which help maintain rigid concepts of racial identity, this countrys universalist, cosmopolitan dream could become a reality.I think what bothers me most is that the shifting racial landscape doesnt make people question ironclad stereotypes or concepts of race, it just makes them want to say that the people being born now simply dont fit them.Rather than the Pew Poll reflecting a scientific and cultural reality (blacks are not now, and never have been, a “single race”) or the diversity of the black experience, it is interpreted as proof that poor black people are a “different race” than bougie black people. The poll itself never says this; it says that many blacks think that black people are not a single race, and it says there is a values gap, but there is no question in the poll explicitly connecting the two things. There is no question asking respondents why, specifically, they dont see blacks as one race.Class inequities dont maintain rigid concepts of race. People maintain rigid concepts of race.It is however, as always, the hoods fault.The real point of the values answer is not that middle-class blacks are turning against blackness, whatever that is: Its that they are insisting that they have the right to create their own signifiers of blackness. And its that middle-class blacks — who suffer from white discrimination that is in part a response to black underclass behavior, and who are far more likely to be the victims of black criminals than whites are — are no longer willing to simply give every knucklehead in the hood a free pass because of “structural racism.”Thats right! If you suffer discrimination at your law firm its because your cousin Pookie smokes crack. Its not because people are racist. Black people in the hood are responsible for their actions, but racists in the workplace? theyre just responding (in part) to black underclass behavior! Im glad weve moved beyond giving “every knucklehead in the hood” a free pass, so we can give them to those who are truly deserving: white people.Ill be back. I have to deliver some disappointing news to Sean Paul.
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A legendary entertainer (he won the Lawrence Trophy for fastest century in a season twice, in 1936 and 1939), Ames was manager when Kent won the title in 1970. Six of those victories came against Australia - indeed, England won six consecutive victories over the old enemy under his leadership. He went on to captain the Kent side of the early thirties, who never quite managed to win the title but entertained nonetheless.
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But no.Instead we stayed in and ordered a super XL hot mess with extra cheese, pepperoni, and bacon with extra garlic butter from the Holy Grail of pizza joints, Papa Johns. Thank god they were because I started to do Pizza Math to see if either of those two were mine (you know, he’s on his third and this is my second so I have at least one more left). I gathered up their left over garlic butters and finished my slice.I bet you that you wont finish those two pieces” my brother-in-law teased.”Freallwy? I was feeling my stomach getting full and I knew I was going to regret this in an hour.”Oh yea, you need to finish it by 7:00″ Adam smirksIt was 6:57!!!!
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I’ve got them in a few other colours as well but limited numbers as always so make sure you hurry!Speaking of shade….how about going a little bit country, a little bit rock & Now it’s a party so you want to make yourself look a bit special, a bit interesting and a bit different. The preppy stripy ones from Mulberry would look tres cute with a coloured tank top.Or these Natasha shorts are very St Tropez and would look great with a white tank. In fact, I’m off to get it now…maybe it’ll be back in stock (cos you know I’ve tried about 10 times already!)If you want a little more coverage, try this unbelievably sexy tankini from Vitamin A.
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