Model Minorities, Artist, Block Huggers and Artistic MM’s need to step they real estate game up.

Peter Cooper Village on the west side is for sale for 5 BILLION dollars.

It is not a game anymore.

And artist, the poor, the working poor, and the middle class can’t say nothing.

This is what happens when we don’t think about the future, when we don’t plan and when we don’t anticipate getting evicted.

Fools better stop protesting and start investing before you and all your artist homies be communting in from Pennsylvania.

Trip.

Lets take the Dj’s from Body and Soul and the Neighborhood Fort Greene.

The DJ’s from body and soul had the following to say in the village voice:

We all know that it’s all about real estate. The club where we were doing Body & Soul got sold for $19 million, and they were gonna supposedly put all these fancy, multimillion-dollar lofts in there, and they still even haven’t gotten their permits, the architects. The new clubs are not about love of music. They are about investors and cans of beers and counting and sales. The kind of people who are moving to Manhattan these days are very wealthy. To them, they think about the clubbing experience as a fashion accessory, like, “Oh, what kind of shoes am I going to wear tonight, what kind of club am I going to go to?” That’s why, personally, I don’t really participate or ever play in one of those new big quote-unquote superclubs. I think the vibe sucks. Let’s just say it plainly. The vibe sucks.

Now lets take Fort greene.

In 1980-89, you would not rock over there.

Like in anyhood USA, that shit was super cracked out.

But peep.

Fort Greene Cats, Park Slope Cats and Prospect Heights cats are about to get displaced by the Ratner Stadium.

Peep this letter to the editor from the Village Voice:

Boomerang effect

Re Cindy Carr’s “Life in the Footprint” [August 28]: I find it fascinating that no one gave a damn about Fort Greene and all the changes until a bunch of white people decided they were being treated badly. Basically, they don’t want to happen to them what they did to the neighborhood in the first place. It really shows where the media and society stand when groups like Develop Don’t Destroy, the anti-Ikea people, and the Gowanus Project are all run by white people and no one brings that up. However, it is this gland that cialis 10 mg is responsible for something like this to be happening in his life. Various spinal manipulations and adjustments were attempted and viagra samples australia within 1 month of chiropractic therapy, the female athlete conceived. Physicians and researchers still indicate the level of testosterone that helps easy erection of the male organ and to get maximum levitra for women pleasure out of lovemaking. So you should leave to bother over your blood pressure elevation can be confined but also the major possible cardiac threatens can also be prohibited. cialis 10mg They are the defenders, the great white hopewith the exception of vote-whore [wowsa] councilwoman Letitia James you see no black faces. Boo hoo, white people; change happens long before you show up. Fort Greene is a beautiful and vibrant neighborhood. I have lived here for seven years and seen many changes, both good and bad. Change happens; you can’t stall progress.

Amy Patrick
Brooklyn

So. Amy’s arguement is that displacement is cool when YOU are moving in, but displacement AIN’T cool when you have to bounce because your house in standing in the way of “progress”.

Hate the game. Hate the game.

Ahhh. Divine Real Estate Order.

So lets call the Ratner/Harlem/Peter Cooper Village the boomerang real estate effect.

The lesson in this is that you allways need to care about your neighbor who is downtrodden or of the social class below yours.

Cuz, after they go, you next.

I kid you not.

Im sweeter and thicker than a chick-o-stick. Wow. So much news so little time. I got hella blog ideas in my mind that I need to parlay, so I best to get to it.
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Ron Isley is going to jail. Three words. Pay your taxes.

Whats gonna happen to his ‘do, once he goes to jail?
Maybe I can get his PFN number and send him a wave kit. ________________
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Crocodile man got murked. Its kinda sad, he was a true thrill seeker. He was the real like crocodile dundee. I wonder what kinda insurance his people had on him. ________________
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It was a cool weekend. The parkway was cracking yesterday w/ 2 million carribean folks. My ‘ol school homie visted from the Bay. She actually convinced me hop the fence on the parkway, so that she could cross the street. It actually was one of the iron parade barriers. All I could think of, was if I got arrested, I know the police would know that I SHOULD have known better. Defensless. Dude. Straight Defenseless.
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Why do I allways have to be the feminst defender yall?

I am kickinn’ it with my homie yesterday. Lets call him Mr. BedStuy.

Over veggie fish cakes at Red Bamboo, he tells me that he is not gonna f*ck with women from his circle no more cuz, the be mashing with mad dudes within the circle..
I told him that it sounds like he doesn’t want someone who is been passed around.

I told him that at our age, any person you rocked w/ ain’t gonna be a nun & and it was f*cked up for him to criticize female sexuality, but NOT THE behavior of his boys.

He tells me that yes I do have a point, be he ain’t trynna rock with the dudes, he tyrna rock with the women, so, their behavior is what matters to him.

I shut up after that.

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I think that is it for now.

How was our Labor Day?

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One of the things that I like about blogs is the level of interaction a writer has with her readers.

That being said.

What do you want me to write about?

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More of my BBC antics. Less about BL?

More about cultural topics like the N-word?

Fewer rants about being angry and a minority?

Lemme know. I have a couple of ideas up my sleeve and I want your input?

As what you all say will effect the priority in which I post?

~m.dot.

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Don’t think that the East Village would not look the way the it does without the assistance of NYU, The New School and the Medium Box fashion chain stores.

What the East Village has that Harlem does’nt are abundant owner occupied apartments and town houses. The EV also several blocks and areas zoned as historic.

I knew it was gonna happen. I just could not figure out how.

Then I saw this article and it crystalized for me.
City has built a dorm at 130 & St. Nick. Peep the excerpt below.

The scene might have been typical at any other university. But at City College?s 36-acre campus, it was an unusual sight, as students moved into the college?s new $56 million dorm building for the first time yesterday. The building, called the Towers at the City College of New York, is a beige-brick, ultramodern complex at West 130th Street and St. Nicholas Terrace. There are 164 apartments to house 600 students and faculty members.

Don’t get me wrong. I understand that “Progress” is inevitable.

That is a major underpinning of property law.

However my question is allways, progress for WHOM?
Especially in Millionaire City!?!?!?!!?

A Blind Man can see that the evolution of Columbia and City College are going to be the two major forces that take Harlem beyond the tipping point.

Photo courtesy of Lina Polotta.

N*ggas ain’t even useta go past Avenue A ten years ago. Unless they stayed there or if it was crack related.

Sh*t, when we usta go to Nuyorican’s in ’98 + ’99 we usta roll kinda deep, lest we get caught out there onna late night. Hyped up from 3 hours of open mic performances.

Peep Jarett Murphy’s dope piece in the Village Voice that brings all this issues together, tight, like a RZA beat.

What’s more, you could end up working or studying in what will take their place in Manhattanville: nearly 7 million square feet of offices, research space, and housing for Columbia University. With scant wiggle room at its main Morningside Heights campus or uptown medical center, Columbia wants to move onto 18 acres roughly north of 125th Street and just east of Twelfth Avenue. To do it, the state’s oldest college is asking the city for a special rezoning, scooping up parcels of land, and preparing to ask the state to invoke eminent domain if necessary.

Needless to say, not everyone in the area is thrilled with the idea. Residents, business owners, and some Columbia students have banded together to oppose the plan. The local community board is pushing an alternative development scheme. Civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel has signed on to resist eminent domain. A sign on a door in the area reads, “Dear Columbia: Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself.”

In the constant evolution of New York neighborhoods, this sort of fight isn’t anything new. And for Columbia especially, this is not a first. Thirty-eight years ago, the university’s bid to expand into Morningside Park?coupled with outrage over the school’s military contracts?touched off days off unrest on campus in which students occupied five buildings and, in some cases, clashed violently with cops. After the bloodshed, that expansion plan died. Columbia has pursued projects in the years since, but none were as ambitious as the vision for Manhattanville.

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Walt. I read this and I thought of you.

?We?re not rednecks,? Will joked. ?We?re Appalachian-Americans.?

Contrast the excerpt below with the journalist normally cover the side show. Notice also the point made about how, if the ability to cruise is taken away, then the young bucks won’t have anything to do.

?The kids ain?t gonna leave, I don?t care how many tickets the cops write,? said Laura Strother, 22, who had driven from Waynesville, a tiny outlying town with an odoriferous paper mill, she said. She was trolling Patton that weekend in her 2001 black Mustang ? nicknamed Bullitt, after a favorite movie. Her cruising companion, Kelly Edwards, 17, also of Waynesville, who wore a tiny rhinestone stud in her nose, agreed: ?If you take this away, then nobody has anything to do.?

For some teenagers on this side of town, cruising becomes a chance to explore, and define, their budding identities. Will Thompson and his friends proudly fly Confederate battle flags ? ?They say ?Heritage, Not Hate,? ? Will emphasized ? and crank up old Conway Twitty albums on the car stereo while cruising Patton. Most nights, they set up lawn chairs that teeter in the bed of their pickups.

?We?re not rednecks,? Will joked. ?We?re Appalachian-Americans.?

The Dixie vibe is readily apparent on Patton Avenue in the form of rebel-flag bumper stickers and decals. Still, it?s hardly universal. Many of the teenagers would not seem out of place in Santa Monica, Calif., with their Abercrombie & Fitch meets ?The O.C.? look ? baggy jeans, flip-flops, oversize surfer-style shirts.

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One man’s heritage is another mans hate.

Thats some deep sh*t to being a week thinking about.

How was your weekend la familia de la blog.

I have an interview with an artist friend in the works.

What have you all been working on.

By the way. I hate when my innernet service gets interrupted.

Other than that. Life is bien!
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So, Wil-E-Coyote, the resident Scorpian Artistic-Know-it-All says I have a bit of Negro ADD. Its true. But my brand of ADD is special because I can have a conversation about three things at once AND keep track of that sh*t.

That’s talent fam.

I mention this because I started this post, a few weeks ago.


And in browsing drafts of old post I realize that I was working on this, yet I never posted it. Yall know I am allways interested in issues relating to women & money, men & money, Sex & money, gender and money.

You add somthing to the cream and I will talk about it.

So this post is about how model minorties are making it up the ladder and saying f*ck it rather than toil, becuase that sh*t is too painful. It certainly gave ME something to think about.

Enjoy!

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There are a couple of articles out about professional model minorities and how they faring in a cash rules society. The first article is from the New York Times. It is about what Wall street is doing to keep women. Women are leaving for a variety of reasons. Among them are the fact that:

• “Women are leaving once they hit thirty-two”.

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• “Women leave to have babies”

• “The firm needs to retain women because the represent an enormous brain drain.

Investment banks and brokerage firms typically lose women when they are in their 30?s, executives say. Expected to ramp up to reach coveted managing director jobs, many women feel that midlevel jobs offer them little while demanding a lot. Pulled to have children and pushed by a less-than-rewarding workplace and often uninspired midlevel management, they leave.

Only a substanial CHANGE in the way Big Law Firm, Wall Street Firm, Big Banking is structured will women be able to remain at the firms after 32. Companies are SIMPLY UNWILLING to change the power dynamic to reflect the fact that Firms are doin’ little work shops here and there. But the bottom line is this. Both the egg and daycare situation need to be addressed.

• If Wallstreet cats wanted to keep women, they would invest 100 million in state of the art day care, all down in soho, tribeca and battery park city.

• They would also invest in another 300 million in egg freezing technology. If the desire to procreate is what is driving a womans decision to leave Wall Street. Address the issue by extending the window through which she can conceive.

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The other article is on the attraction and retention of Gay MBA’s graduates. These firms going into model minority overdrive hunh!!?!?!!

Is it in the water?

And of course. While lip service is paid to “diversity”, being progressive.

It all comes down the the cream. Peep the business week article.

Plus, there are economic incentives. In 2006 the gay community reached an estimated buying power of $641 billion, with 69% of gay people fiercely loyal to companies with progressive work policies, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization. “If the business world didn’t reach out to the GLBT community, years from now the result would be staggering?not only to the U.S. economy, but to the global economy,” says PwC GLBT Strategy Leader Matt Milligan.

What will Wall Street think of next?

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This weekend it went straight from summer to fall.

Overnight.

New York weather is sooooo dramatic.

The Bay be all cool and mellow and 58-75 degrees all year long.

Whereas here, lets just say I found myself packing away the tank tops and unpacking the sweaters too.
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