Yeah i said it!!! I live in harlem and talk about extremes! I live on 115th street and right on 115th street there is Kalahari House, the latest "green" creation by real estate developers for upper class folks ( meaning: CRACKA). and then right across the street are King Towers, the projects; where i live... shit brown buildings, petty drug dealers, old people being "look outs" for them and a constant flow of people in an out of the building. as if folks don't already know that people are dealing drugs from their homes!!! at king towers we have old,dirty, pissy elevators, and rotten, uneducated-ass mofos breaking the locks on the building door so that these fucking crackheads can get in, buy, smoke and take the biggest shit right in the stair case! That's right... on your way down the stairs in the morning you gotta watch your step!! damn shame!!!!! Let's not forget the lazy folks who would rather let the garbage pile up in their apartments for three days and then drag it downstairs only to deposit it right in front of the building sign that states garbage should not be left in front of the building! I guess it's too hard to walk a few steps down the hall and put it down the garbage chute!
juxtapose this with the ever increasing number of white folks moving to harlem, casually walking up and down lenox as if the whole world is theirs and we colored folks only exist in terms of their "have" to our 'have not." All these condos are the city's version of gated communities. you see crackas go in, and go out. You don't really see them ensconsing themselves within the existing communities, at all! You seem them jogging to and from central park in the mornings and early evenings and some of them casually pushing the latest baby stroller carrying the next generation of entitlements!
So we got these crackeads who don't give a fuck about the good working, progressive, upstanding colored folks in the hood and then you have crackas who don't give a shit about me or the bottom of the barrel vermin that lives in the projects right along with me!
I swear it's tough out here for educated,bourgie, progressive people of color. The expectations and stereotypes practically work against each other, leaving me, and i'm sure others like me, wondering where the hell do we fit in!
So i say fuck the crackas and fuck the crackheads! The world would be a better place without either one!
And yeah I'm conflating shit....Who gives a Rat's Ass!!!!!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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