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!