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Noname
June 12, 2007
“Conference organizer Nellie Hester Bailey, director of the Harlem Tenants Council, cited the provisions of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in telling the approximately 100 tenants, researchers and organizers gathered: “Housing is not an entitlement; housing is a basic human right.”
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I’m SICK of Nellie Bailey. It’s all basically pointless socialist sloganeering applied to a very capitalist city, NYC. Living in Manhattan is a CHOICE for everybody except those with the very handful of civil service jobs that require your live here (Cops, Firemen, some of that stipulation and there are subsidized programs for those people to secure housing).
Asserting anyone has a right to live in Manhattan is no different than asserting someone has a right to buy a BMW or Lexus when they need a car, or go to Nobu ($$$$$) when their hungry and want dinner, or shop at Tiffany’s and Bloomingdale’s when they need to Christmas shop.
Nellie does not want to consider that just maybe Manhattan is a place to live if you make at least $100K. Lots of hard working Manhattan people got priced out of Manhattan and they’ve had to move to lower cost locations – why can’t Nellie? That’s called real life.
There is a “class” in Harlem that wants to be immune from real life, economics, etc. “everything must change, nothing stays the same” – Not with Nellie the loon Bailey. Life is suspended with her and her crowd – “Anti Gentrification”? The very concept is a joke – I am embarrassed as a Black person. This is like the Chris Rock joke about Black people liking not to read (advance), etc.
Pathetic.