<![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Not to get too serious on this light hearted subject, but, um, Mr. Scribles, that might be because in some places, "the same lighthearted jokes" turn very ugly very quickly. Down here in the deep south, there are still places that are, literally, sunset towns, meaning if you aren't white, you better be out of town by sunset. The majority of white folks that live in those areas don't feel that way, but it is amazing what a small and violent minority can do.

flyoverstate

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> We are all one. This was made apparent to me when Barbara Walters uttered the word "bling". Let the healing begin.

ExTexan

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> (Sorry for D-P. Happy Crimmustime)

Alfonso X. Alfonse

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> I guess I qualify as both a The Hipsturd™ and The Plain Jane & Joe since I recently "elfed" myself.

For me, I don't just see it as a black/white thing. It's a class thing, period. White people don't mind living next to edumacated blacks and vice-versa.

I'm from New York, so I just see it as everyone from outside of here is on our jock, to the point that they come here and make it as bland as where they're from.

Screw all of you raiders, you could have my city because it's over anyway!

Cheap Shot

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Yaaaaaa-aaaaaaawwwn-izzle.

Alfonso X. Alfonse

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> YAaaaaaa-aaaawn-izzle.

Alfonso X. Alfonse

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> You forgot the "Old Scary Caucasian," the one who forgot to move out when all the Black folk started moving in. Old Scary lives in the condemned-looking house down the block and rarely emerges, save a trip to the liquor store or to feed the squirrels living on his front porch.

nycmia

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> oh, mr. scribbles. just let it go. it's never gonna happen. as long as there are still real racists, white people can't be faux racists. we can make fun of fat people though? that's about it.

idratherbesailing

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Mr Scribbles, I see your point. Unfortunately that won't happen in New York until white people move out and bring the costs back down.

Cheap Shot

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> When you say, Mr. Scribbles? I think the phrase I'm looking for is, "when pigs fly."

notatallfamous

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Dear Mr. Assimilated Negro (can I call you that?):

What you write is funny. Seriously. I really like: "Keep an eye on them, they make news happen."

But why can't My People (white-ish American mutts) make the same lighthearted jokes about black people moving into white neighborhoods without being labeled a Klansman?

I mean, dammit, My People need some political incorrectness, too! (Yeah yeah, legacy of slavery and white domination and hosing high school students in Arkansas, etc., etc, but what does that have to do with Me and You?)

I want My People to be emancipated from the shackles that bar us from socially accepted racism! When can I, dear Mr. Assimilated Negro, like Seinfeld, poke lighthearted fun at the quirks of Ethnic Folk, without being discriminated against? When? When!

We shall overcome! Oh, Lord. We. Shall. Overcome!

mr-scribbles

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> "Pour a little latte" will now become my new favorite phrase, and I will use it repeatedly in 2007 until sadly it is relegated to next December's Blog-Media Cliches post, at which point we will spend the following two weeks debating its origin. Do give TAN credit.

chrisb

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> It depends on where "here" is. Also it depends on what you mean by "work."

GaryGnu

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> gary, do you work here?

cdmunch

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Oh, I also cleaned the dog's ears. Very, very fulfilling day.

GaryGnu

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Even sadder, I'm sitting on the couch with the dog, at home, waiting for my boyfriend to finish editing the pitbull-mix in antlers shots so I can send out lame ecards and then go to the dog park in Springs.

But it has been a slow last two months at work, too.

GaryGnu

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> "But a look at the ghetto through a different lens reveals a different vision, one that isn't about painfully awkward rhythm..."

Whoa, white people have no rhythm? No one has ever told me this before!

AlannaBanana

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> As a very pale girl who lives in Sugar Hill, I gotta add the Dunkin Donuts to the list of gentrification prophets, (egg) sandwiched in between the KFC and the Dominos.

On another note, has anyone noticed that almost every "last comment by" on this page is by GaryGnu? Slow work day, chum?

ediebeale

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> I would qualify as The Black Caucasian. Also, sadly enough -- a McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks are all on the same Astoria block where I live.

For shame.

notatallfamous

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> Well, yaya, I think you have just described Little Italy in Manhattan to a T. If there hadn't been a tacit compromise for tourism's sake, that strip would have become Chinatown long ago.

Sadly, I don't think that once the artists and/or the gays, aka the harbingers of gentrification, move in there's any way to stop the process aside from maybe killing the pioneers. As the Native Americans discovered, once whitey gets a foothold, it's all over.

GaryGnu

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> So what are the options, preserving certain areas or Harlem, Chinatown or where ever, a la Sturbridge Village, with people in period dress, language and food? Maybe Disney will open a ghetto theme park. Being a poor arty caucasian type myself, who needs to find the least pricey spaces, I have experienced the gentrification of artist spaces many times, as the up scale folks come in after the artists clean up that cool warehouse. Can't we just corral the up scale folks and syphon off their resources?

yaya

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> "Sadly, without these parasites, there is no obvious de-gentrification mechanism."

Equilibrium at its best.

clipper

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> "...mock turtlenecks" LOL--> who wears that shit? Happy Holidays, TAN~!

josh speed

]]> <![CDATA[Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians]]> TAN, I think you've forgotten the long-ago pioneers of some ghettoes: the White "Block Busters," realtors who paid people to vandalize their own homes to drive whitey out to the burbs and churn whole neighborhoods. This of course would then pave the way for future gentrification and hopefully another churn of the neighborhood. Sadly, without these parasites, there is no obvious de-gentrification mechanism.

GaryGnu

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