White People Horrified About Extremely Minor Westchester Integration

Choire Sicha
The Awl
Published in
2 min readAug 10, 2009

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HERE WE GO AGAIN

750 lucky black or otherwise not white families are going to be plonked down in Pound Ridge and Larchmont and other tony, nearly all-white communities of Westchester, at the astonishing cost of $50 million. Wait: do not get your panties too bunched! Westchester took that much federal aid and then funneled the poor blacks into segregated sections of its cities. Oh, the Times commentariat is going wild.

From the Times comments!

· “to say that a group of affluent people should be “punished” for being Affluent While White by having poor and probably culturally incompatible people dumped on them is absurd.”

· “Another move by the GLIC (Guilty Liberal Industrial Complex). Previous moves by GLIC gave us the housing projects in Coney Island and the Bronx, which did wonders to those areas, along with their pet project of social promotion (since being able to read and write is obviously a racist requirement created by white men in order to ruin the world).”

· “As a former Bedford resident now living in Montgomery County, MD, I can only tell my former neighbors in Westchester that you had better get ready for a (further) serious degradation in your property values.”

· “And so……..what are they going to do about the crime that comes with this????”

But there is also something wonderful:

· “It never occurs to rich people that their floors would be cleaned more effectively and their yards would be manicured more carefully if the people who did this work did not have to drive 100 miles every day.”

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