I get annoyed when people are like…….. “Oh, you live in Queens….I thought u had a half decent job…….Maybe when U make more money you will move into Manhattan”.
I just thought I would put this out there, cus I hear it too often………..
New York City is made up of 5 counties, which are also called Boroughs. Those 5 Boroughs/counties , Bronx/Bronx County, Brooklyn/Kings County, Manhattan/New York County, Staten Island/Richmond County, Queens/ Queens County, are just like any other county in the United States!
You have good parts and bad parts, granted per capita there are more rich people in New York County (aka Manhattan) than there are In Kings County (aka Brooklyn), but there are also many, many, many bad parts in Manhattan just like any other county in the United States………..
End of the day its all New York, where a One Bedroom in a bad part of Queens, will cost u $800.00 as opposed to the 2, 3 or 400 in Texas………..
I have had people come here and say, “Oh Queens is not that bad”. I think that’s so retarded, that’s like going to South Beach in Miami Dade county and saying” Miami is not that bad”. If I took them to Lil Haiti, or Overtown in Miami, which is the ghetto out there, they would say this part of Miami is bad. That will not make the whole of Miami Dade county bad. Same with any borough in New York City, There are Good Parts and Bad parts…
I love Eddie Murphy but I hate the movie “Coming to America”. I don’t like the way it makes Africans look naive and backward. Which is a Stereo type the general populace here endorses of Africans. Now that I live in Queens, I hate the flick even more, cus much like how anyone that has never been to Africa, thinks Africans act like the way they do in that movie, they think people that live in the outer boroughs are struggling (like how it is in that movie).
I know it’s a movie, its comedy. But like how I tell my New Yorker friends, come to Africa, and ill show you how off ur train of thought is… To my African Friends that have never been to Queens, Brooklyn, Staten or the Bronx come to New York and I will show you how off u are too….
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1 comment:
whew! exhale.
oh tunga, don't get me started on coming to america. i got into it with my african american studies professor - back when i was a deeper person.
and well, folk don't know new york until they know new york. you know i don't hang in queens because i am supremely lazy. it's a mission to get me 5 blocks from my house on a good day.
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