- Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:00 pm
#130489
johnforbes knows his own thread is the actual race baiting. Look at the title he gave it to rile up Republicans and Trump supporters about some guy simply buying a nice house in a part of town they want to live in, as if whites are the only ones who should be allowed to do that in his world.
He calls a neighborhood of expensive homes a "white neighborhood". It doesn't occur to him that the ONLY reason the neighborhood is 88% white now is that for the last hundred years whites have managed to keep minorities out.
I would guess that the 12% of residents of the neighborhood that aren't white only bought there in the last 20 years because they weren't allowed to live there before that. But times they are a changin', much to the chagrin of throwbacks like dishonestjohn.
There is nothing inherently "white" about the houses and streets there. There is no such thing. johnny doesn't even grasp his racism that is revealed by calling the neighborhood "white" in the first place, as though a black man is somehow out of place in a $1.4 million dollar home. When johnforbes understands that it is not a "white" neighborhood but only what he calls a "posh" neighborhood where anyone can live if they can afford it, then he might wake up to his own belligerent racism.
As to the co-founder of some particular organization buying there, it only proves that the neighborhood is not a "white" neighborhood at all. It is just a wealthy neighborhood close to desirable schools, doctors, grocery stores, restaurants, and every other thing people are looking for when they are wealthy. It's the kind of neighborhood johnforbes lives in as he criticizes a black guy for wanting the same things he wants.
That's exactly what the "Black Lives Matter" organization is trying to promote--the right for blacks to live where they choose without being killed by police for working in their garages, driving down the street, or going for a run.
But boy, does johnforbes resent them for expecting to be treated the same way he is treated. The reader can practically taste the bile in his mouth every time he starts an indignant thread like this.