What Would A Whitey Do
Just so you know, black people don't live in the Bronx. That's straight up. There are the Jews in Riverdale, the Italians in the northern most section, headed into Yonkers...and then the rest of the Bronx is all hispanic.
Seriously, though, Lyd and I are the only black people that live in the whole borough. I'm not joking. Well, besides one other dude. True story, I was walking down Fordham Rd. the other day (Fordham is to the Bronx what Jamaica Ave is to Queens and, say, Fulton or Flatbush is to BK) and the other black dude living in the Bronx spotted me across the street. He shouted out: "Say, brotha, whatchu doin up here?!" Then he threw up a fist, flashed a smile, walked across the busy street, gave me a hug and offered to buy me a duece-duece of malt liquor.
I just want to reiterate that there are no black people living in the Bronx.
With the borough being OVERWHELMINGLY hispanic, I've found myself behaving like a caucasion (one "whitey" per blog, thats my allotment). This means that I travel to perform routine functions that are available much closer to my abode.
Almost all of the errand type functions I take 10-15 miles north into Westchester County, an overwhelmingly white suburban county of NYC. When I go grocery shopping, I forgo the two supermarkets in walking distance and drive 15 minutes to the joint in Yonkers. I go to a gym in Westchester County because I don't want to have to deal with front desk girls that can't really undertstand me and I'd like for there to be at least three bottles of disinfectant in the whole gym. If I wanna catch a flick, I'll either head to Manhattan or travel north to Bronxville or Palisades.
What it illustrates is an inherit distrust of everything that has to do with quality when it comes to my hispanic neighbors, similar, I guess, to how my parents used to bypass two supermarkets on the East Side of Buffalo to hit the Tops in North Buffalo. Yeah, its a class thing, but I cant help but notice the snobbery every time I get in the car and drive away from the colored people.
It's funny, because when it comes to Blockbuster, I try to find the most hood store I can, my thinking being that, the more hood, the worse patron-tastes...
Seriously, though, Lyd and I are the only black people that live in the whole borough. I'm not joking. Well, besides one other dude. True story, I was walking down Fordham Rd. the other day (Fordham is to the Bronx what Jamaica Ave is to Queens and, say, Fulton or Flatbush is to BK) and the other black dude living in the Bronx spotted me across the street. He shouted out: "Say, brotha, whatchu doin up here?!" Then he threw up a fist, flashed a smile, walked across the busy street, gave me a hug and offered to buy me a duece-duece of malt liquor.
I just want to reiterate that there are no black people living in the Bronx.
With the borough being OVERWHELMINGLY hispanic, I've found myself behaving like a caucasion (one "whitey" per blog, thats my allotment). This means that I travel to perform routine functions that are available much closer to my abode.
Almost all of the errand type functions I take 10-15 miles north into Westchester County, an overwhelmingly white suburban county of NYC. When I go grocery shopping, I forgo the two supermarkets in walking distance and drive 15 minutes to the joint in Yonkers. I go to a gym in Westchester County because I don't want to have to deal with front desk girls that can't really undertstand me and I'd like for there to be at least three bottles of disinfectant in the whole gym. If I wanna catch a flick, I'll either head to Manhattan or travel north to Bronxville or Palisades.
What it illustrates is an inherit distrust of everything that has to do with quality when it comes to my hispanic neighbors, similar, I guess, to how my parents used to bypass two supermarkets on the East Side of Buffalo to hit the Tops in North Buffalo. Yeah, its a class thing, but I cant help but notice the snobbery every time I get in the car and drive away from the colored people.
It's funny, because when it comes to Blockbuster, I try to find the most hood store I can, my thinking being that, the more hood, the worse patron-tastes...
posted by Twistinado @ 10:09 AM
3 Comments:
At 9:03 PM,
Not Your Average Chimichanga said…
only you, twist.
but here's my question: do hispanic women do the daddy dance, too?
At 6:48 PM,
don alberto said…
So after clowning us for moving to the burbs, you turn PREJUDICED on me? And towards another ethnic group no doubt! US'A N@%...nope i said no more of that word...(see Richards)
At 2:23 PM,
Laila said…
First, I'd like to say that I don't believe any of your actions will be misconstrued as the behavior of a whitey. Ever. Second, that's "inherent" trust, not inherit. You must be a Burgard graduate.
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