THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

TWELVE MINUTES TO HARLEM!? | 2006-09-09

I was in a Subway sandwich shop some years back looking at the original 1905 (?) advertisements for the newly opened New York Subway. One of them was "Twelve Minutes to Harlem." This was a bit surprising.

One of the things that keeps people OFF the New York Subway, especially tourists, is the fact that it goes through Harlem AT ALL. We would all be astounded if a tourist brochure in New York said "Get on the subway and you're just twelve minutes from Harlem."

But back then, Harlem was a ritzy part of town.

From the point of view of tourists Harlem is now nowhere. From the point of view of those living there it is a place to get OUT of, like the rest of the third world.

In 1905 the idea of Harlem becoming a No Man's Land was as unthinkable as the southwest becoming part of Mexico is today.

It happened, and nobody suffered at all except those who had to move out of Harlem.

Every year, around every major city, whites move farther out. New Yorkers are in VERMONT now! Then liberal whites move in, demand low-cost (non-white) housing. The area goes colored, and whites move further out. Then n on-whties want to move THERE, because it's white, it's SOMEWHERE.

Liberals move from their gloriously integrated areas into white areas, and demand low-cost housing.

And so on.

Runaway non-white immigration is nothing new.

IT IS THE ANTIS WE MUST KEEP OUT!

COMMENTS (9)

#1 Mark | 2006-09-09 17:52

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Bob, sorry for being off subject here, but a question:

I just read where a man named BOB WHITAKER photographed albumn

covers for the Beatles during the mid 1960's. I don't guess

youre the same BW, are you?

Okay, back to the regularly scheduled programming...

#2 Shari | 2006-09-09 20:10

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Well we are being over run with very well heeled anti's who are bringing in their cheap labor as they take over. Where is there left to go? And how do the not so wealthy keep them out? AS my husband says "its not our money" you either spend it or fork it over. Can make a very hard working and talented white man tired.

#3 Dave | 2006-09-10 02:12

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Harlem. The winds of nature's hostility blow there.

The cops don't button down their guns in Harlem. They need them ready at hand. I noticed they were taut and alert.

It occurred to me: "Every set of eyes in Harlem has situation awareness written in them with a pen of fear." Then I thought: "Dereliction doesn't thrive in Harlem, its just too harsh."

Also, I felt it: A lullaby of hatred bobs about Harlem with a splendid contempt for the weak.

At the 115th street subway stop a Coon sat next to me and whispered: "I walk down those goddamn streets with my gun cocked. I tell you my belly is so tied in knots I'm in misery!!!"

I replied: "Good! You Live!"

I walked out of the station into the McDonalds next door and whispered to myself: "Ecologists deserve to die here".

I must have been overheard because the Mammy at the table next to me said: "You can take one Bloomberg and stack him end to end to the moon: He still won't equal a Nigger!"

And then the mulatto chick sitting across from her said: "Giuliani! Multiply him by all you need to get to Mars: Still, you'll never get a Spic!"

I walked out thinking to myself: "I couldn't agree more."

#4 C.E. Whiteoak | 2006-09-10 10:41

Being twelve minutes from Harlem these days means it's time to get the heck

off the train and catch one in the OTHER direction.

Isn't Harlem a Dutch word left over from the old, old days when New York

was New Amsterdam? I wonder if the last Dutchman out of Harlem remembered

to turn out the lights.

#5 C.E. Whiteoak | 2006-09-10 10:42

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Doggone it, forgot to say NOT SPAM in my previous post.

#6 Al Parker | 2006-09-10 11:27

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Only a psychopath like Clinton would decide to set up his offices in Harlem.

#7 Antonio Fini | 2006-09-10 12:45

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There was an article on a conservative blog about the thirdworldization of Great Adventures amusment park. It seems Six Flags had to close one of the parks due to increasing gang activity.

This seemed a perfect place to clip and paste Bob's Mantra and I did so. The next morning the whole article and all it's comments were pulled off the site. I guess I reached someone.

And Mark, if Bob photographed those album covers he would have put the Beatles in Confederate uniforms not those dopey marching band outfits.

#8 Pain | 2006-09-10 18:39

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Good job, Antonio!

#9 Bob | 2006-09-10 18:39

Al, if I had twenty-four hour armed protection from the Secret Service I wouldn't be afraid to be in Harlem either.