At a time when White artists are appropriating Black culture at alarming rates, Matt Damon is refusing to foster diversity lest it interfere with merit, and Donald Trump is trying to take back a country created by immigrants, from…well…immigrants, a video that encapsulates all that’s wrong with White privilege has emerged to teach us something we just didn’t know.
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Race relations are the dark id of the American consciousness, but as this video shot by a bystander in gentrified downtown Brooklyn proves, the most fraught relationship is between white men… and white men.
An angry jogger who screamed at young parents that he “settled” Brooklyn first when he bumped into their stroller has admitted that he saw the “transplanted white trash” and lost his temper.
The guy screaming at stroller dad would probably just be disregarded as another shaved ape if it weren’t for the outrageous claims that white people could only move into the hood after this courageous meathead “settled” it first. This wasn’t an exaggeration.
At some point, a woman who is presumably Stroller Man’s wife calls Jogger Man a “sick fuck”.
You can see why this man has been dubbed “the Christopher Columbus of Brooklyn”. It allows Jogger Man and Stroller Man to enjoy the new amenities in areas that were once plagued with poverty and inaccessibility to food and education.
“You’re new to this neighborhood”, he says. “I’ll kill you with one punch…I fight for a living”, he yells. He’s also a native New Yorker.
Footage of the confrontation in the Downtown section of the borough earlier this week quickly went viral – but he admits he may have been quick to judge the pair after he saw the man’s polo shirt, “pink Izod” and glasses.
Also: “My street cred, especially in the black community, in this city, is huge”.
“Some people actually think they are the settlers of Brooklyn”, he said. I grew up on the West 4th Street basketball courts. “I grew up with Stonewall, I grew up on the laps of drag queens”, he said.
The Gothamist shows a cut on B.A.’s leg that he claims came form the woman’s stroller. So what I have in this city is ownership.
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“White privilege! White fucking privilege!” Let the manhunt for Brooklyn’s most obnoxious gentrifier begin.
