I can guarantee that the locals didn’t vote for any ordinance banning music from a stationary truck. These people often have no say in the laws that are created by those who run the city. And stop being naive, most cultural norms are unsaid and unstated, not written down.

Demanding that the locals change the ways is not “valuing diversity”. It’s privilege and entitlement. No one is trying to make this white woman move. It’s her that is trying to make the locals move.

It is a unique cultural thing. It’s a tradition of American cities to have ice cream trucks. They are not universal. Lots of white Americans don’t have that experience because they grew up in the burbs. (However, their grandparents probably know about ice cream trucks)

Here race is important because I bet only whites new to Harlem have ever complained about this truck. They have a sense of entitled and privilege that the natives of Harlem lack. There probably is an ordinance against what the truck is doing and it has probably never been enforced. There are de facto rules and de jure…

I bet they flipped out because Chinese were moving in, not because the Chinese were forcing the Italians to change the local practices. There is a difference between not wanting someone in your neighborhood because of who they are versus resisting their attempts to forcibly alter certain local traditions and…

Where did ARay state or even allude to such an idea?

White people bitching about the presence of black people is not the same as bitching about someone coming in your neighborhood trying to change local protocols. One is about being the other is about actions and behavior. Whites don’t like black people not what black people do.

Owning “property” in a neighborhood doesn’t mean you own that neighborhood or can control the actions of the people who live there. But this is the typical attitude of snoot, entitled upper (no) class wypipo.

Just because your lazy butt is still sleeping at 6 AM doesn’t mean the rest of the world should be put on hold. “So sorry, prince(ess) we will defer all work and play till you have awoken from your well deserved beauty rest”. The workday starts at 5, deal with it.  

It’s very simple, Newcomers should always respect the established protocol. If it’s a quiet hood than respect the silence and don’t disturb it and if it’s a noisy hood than deal with it.

I seriously though this was an onion article!
“White woman moves to noisy city, tries to stop all the noise”. Go back to the ‘burbs.

I’d bid for the rights to distribute it in the states. That production has “cult classic” tattooed across its ass.

You need to get off Queen Elizabeths’ lap. Is she paying you for this propaganda?

Are there any royals married to non-whites or non-Christians? And who is this black member of the aristocracy?

Yeah, but he was trying to fit it into the vernacular, not make the characters sound like students of Shakepeare.

It actually sounds interesting to me, if only Steve Bannon wasn’t the one who wrote it.

Would it necessarily be racial stereotyping if it’s about gangs? If one studied the culture and practices of gang members and applied it thus it wouldn’t be stereotyping.

What’s wrong with a hip hop musical version of Coriolanus set in South Central LA?

Why do you say white people? They can be taking jobs from middle class black Americans, or Asian Americans or Latino Americans or Arab American. It’s a fallacy to think that only white people are against allowing undocumented immigrants to stay.

Yeah, but POC don’t dislike all white women. Your point doesn’t hold.