You know I'm very tired of shows like Access Hollywood that want to always paint a negative picture of black people. Yesterday they gave that lying assed white bitch who leveled these false charges against Chris Brown. They let her on their show to tell whatever lie she wanted to tell and of course no Chris Brown to refute it. They got some Black girl interviewing her supposedly to prove they aint racist but they can hang that shit up! You ain't foolin' nobody with that stupid ploy and in fact we're quite tired of it! That's why we're calling on everyone to boycott this racist show and let's not let them win their ratings numbers so that there'll be no choice but to to take this racist lying assed show off the air!
Chris Brown has a released a new song a day after he was arrested and released on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Brown
posted the dance-flavored song "What Would You Do?" on his Soundcloud
page Wednesday. It was not clear when Brown recorded the song
It
includes the lyrics, "What do you do, fighting for your life when no
one's on your side? I can't stand to lose you, see you're in too deep
with nowhere to hide."
His record label said Thursday the track is not an official song or single.
Brown,
27, was arrested Tuesday after a woman called police for help at his
Los Angeles home. He was released from jail after posting $250,000 bail
and his arraignment was tentatively set for Sept. 20.
So a white girl at Chris Brown's party is looking for a pay day with these false accusations she's leveled against the singer. She's a golddiggin' bitch for sure and the lapd is made up of nothing but tricks! She's lookin' for a payday and the honkkkie kkkops are lookin to murder some Black people! On this girl's word alone, the kkk lapd descended upon Chris Brown's house with an army of kkkops (shows you what kind of ignorant cowards they really are) with a damned helicopter hovering above, and the girl had long since left the damned house!!!! Where you at now snoopy dogg and the game of tiddlywinks?!!? you were acting as spokesmen for these racist assed kkkops last month after that brave brutha dealt with those pigs in dallas and they were scared there would be copycats here in los angeles (we need some) so why you ain't out speaking up for your BRUTHA' Chris Brown?!!? Where you at?!!? Now what is the fuckin' justification for this kind of nazi style gestapo bullshit?!!? SHE WASN'T EVEN THERE ANYMORE!!!!! She wasn't even there when she made that bogus call!!! And still these honkie motherfuckers felt a need to show this kind of unnecessary force!!!! You ain't scaring us anymore you dumassed kkkrackers what you're doing is PISSING US OFFF!!!!! WE'RE SICK OF YOU AND YOUR BLATANT OUTRIGHT RACISM!!!! NEXT TIME THERE WON'T BE JUST ONE PERSON ACTING ALONE YOU WILL FACE AN ARMY OF US AND GOD WILL BE WITH US!!!!! WE'RE SICK OF YOU TRYING TO BULLY INTIMIDATE AND TERRIFY US!!!!! God please destroy them utterly and completely!!!! I've tried to avoid hate as much as possible but I'm getting there quickly!!!!! Where is that guy who offed them pigs in dallas?!!? He needs to come to los angeles!!!! That's why when God casts the white establishment down, this time they are gonna be utterly destroyed! It ain't gonna be like during the Civil War when the white establishment was spared annihilation, this time even if they run to the moon, it won't stop until every last one of them is dealt with!
(CNN)Singer
Chris Brown was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon
Tuesday evening, LAPD Lieutenant Chris Ramirez said in a press
conference.
Officers responded
to a woman's call for help at Brown's suburban Los Angeles residence
around 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to an LAPD spokesman.
A
search warrant was obtained by police Tuesday afternoon and law
enforcement officials spent several hours at Brown's residence before he
was taken into custody. Brown will be transported to an LAPD jail for
processing.
"My
client's position is that we're cooperating," Brown's attorney Mark
Geragos told HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky. "There's no truth to it, and we're
going to let it play out."
Brown
was booked and later released on $250,000 bail. Geragos tweeted that
Brown was "out and well," and called the charges "demonstrably false."
Brown's
accuser is a woman named Baylee Curran, who claims to be the 2016 Miss
California Regional title holder, according to TMZ and the Los Angeles
Times. But CNN has confirmed that she was stripped of her title in July.
"She
is not the current title holder," Joshua James, a spokesperson for the
Miss California Regional pageant, told CNN. "She was stripped of her
crown ... there were some incidents that we had to investigate, that she
was displaying erratic behavior. We can't go into detail on those
matters."
James added that pageant
officials have repeatedly reached out to Curran to "stop making public
appearances" as the title holder, but that she has "refused to give back
the crown and sash."
Curran claims that Brown pointed a gun at her after she admired a piece of jewelry a friend of his was showing her.
"I
don't know if it was Chris' friend or how he was related, but that's
when he told me to back away from the diamond necklace and started
cussing me out and calling me names," she told the Los Angeles Times. "That's when Chris pulled his gun and told me to 'Get out.' He said 'I'm sick of you girls, get the F out!'"
CNN has not independently confirmed Curran's identity as the accuser.
CNN
has learned that Curran is currently facing her own legal troubles in
New York. "She is wanted for an 2013 Grand Larceny that took place
inside the Plaza Hotel, " said Officer Lieutenant John Grimpel, a public
information officer for the NYPD.
The
LAPD Robbery-Homicide division is handling the current investigation
involving Brown. More details on the events that led to Brown's arrest
have not yet been made available.
Earlier
Tuesday, Brown posted three videos to his social media accounts. In one
video, the singer railed against the police and media and said he was
being unfairly portrayed as a villain.
"Good
luck. When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you're going
to walk right up in here and you're going to see nothing, you idiots,"
he said in one video. "I'm tired of ... dealing with y'all."
"At
the same time," Brown added, "when I call the police for stalker people
that are endangering my life, they don't come until the next day. Then
somebody make a f***ed up allegation about me, and oh yeah the whole
f***ing SWAT team."
In January 2014, singer Ke$ha announced that she was seeking treatment for an eating disorder and canceled upcoming concert stops in order to stay on track.
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In December 2013, director Adam Shankman was admitted into an undisclosed rehab facility for an undisclosed reason. The only thing his rep would say is that the "Hairspray" director's family and friends "support him and wish him well on his journey to recovery."
David Duchovny
admitted entering rehab for sex addiction in 2008, saying in a
statement at the time that he "voluntarily entered a facility for ...
treatment." Interestingly, he was simultaneously portraying a womanizing
writer on Showtime's "Californication."
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Eva Mendes'
2008 trip to rehab caught many off-guard, and what was even more
puzzling was the lack of clarity about what she was seeking treatment
for. Mendes' silence led to plenty of theories, many of which involved
allegations of substance abuse, but the actress brushed them off. "There
are so many lies out there regarding my recent trip to Cirque Lodge,"
she told Interview magazine in 2008. "But I don't care what people
think. I just don't care. So I will neither confirm nor deny."
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Like fellow actress Eva Mendes, Kirsten Dunst spent
part of 2008 seeking treatment at Utah's Cirque Lodge facility. At the
time, it was speculated that Dunst's stay was prompted by too much
partying, but the actress later said that she was suffering from
depression.
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In 2004, amid gossip about her frighteningly frail physique, Mary-Kate Olsen
checked into an undisclosed rehab facility to seek treatment for an
eating disorder. "This is a challenge that Mary-Kate has made a decision
to face," her rep told People magazine at the time. "This is a
challenge she will meet."
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Tiger Woods
declined to say why he spent 45 days in rehab around the start of 2010,
but given his admission to having multiple extramarital affairs, it
wasn't long before the public tried to fill in the blanks. Woods,
however, said that he went to rehab "to take a hard look at myself. And I did, and I've come out better."
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In 2011, "American Pie" star Seann William Scott
checked himself into rehab to confront "health and personal issues."
His 30-day stay didn't change his sense of humor, though: he later joked
with the UK's Independent that he'd been addicted to watching his own
movies. "Have you ever seen 'The Dukes of Hazzard'?" he said. "Don't, it's f*****g terrible."
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After Chris Brown violated his probation in 2013, we were intrigued when a judge sent him off to rehab instead of jail to deal with his anger problems as well as drug abuse.
Goldiggin bitches just think Chris Brown is an easy target to try an make them some money, especially here in L.A. with the police (pigs) being so damned racist! We need some action from some other soldiers against these stupid pigs!
So That Chick Who Falsely Accused Chris Brown of Assault Is Naked
A few weeks back, Liziane Gutierrez falsely accused Chris Brown of hitting her, and no one’s more surprised than me that that turned out to be false. And now no one’s less surprised than me that she used it as a springboard to put naked pictures
of herself all over the Internet because what else are we going to do
with this thing? Not look at questionable pudendum at work? You might as
well spit in our forefathers’ eyes, you wasteful bastards. How dare
you?! THE SUPERFICIAL | About • Facebook • Twitter Photos: AKM-GSI
When will this scumbag disappear?!!? Here's hoping he catch a bullet somewhere. And I'm not asking that somebody kill this scumbag! Nobody needs to go to jail for vermin like this. But I hope he catches one from somewhere. Eitherway he's still trying to acquire political power so he can restart oppression against Hebrew (Black) on a massive scale. In lousiana right where that kkkop murdered Alton Sterling in cold blood! I guess he feels he's got a better chance of winning there! Who says it ever really stopped?!!? Eitherway here's the story.
David Duke is running for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana. So what?
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke talks to the media
at the Louisiana Secretary of State's office in Baton Rouge, La., on
Friday, July 22, 2016, after registering to run for the U.S. Senate,
saying "the climate of this country has moved in my direction."
(AP Photo/Max Becherer)
Convicted felon, white supremacist, and former KKK leader David Duke has joined a 24-candidate field vying to replace U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., who decided not to seek re-election. So, should we be embarrassed?
Assuming that you aren't thrilled by the former Klansman's return to
Louisiana politics and are being trolled by Facebook friends and family
who want to know just what kind of state you are living in, the answer
is "Not yet."
What it takes to qualify to run for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana is a
$600 qualifying fee or a petition with the signatures of 5,000 eligible
state voters, not fewer than 500 from each of Louisiana's six
congressional districts. For another $300 you can add a party label --
Duke is running as a Republican -- whether the party likes it or not.
The U.S. Constitution sets three qualifications for service in the
U.S. Senate: age (You must be at least 30 years old; U.S. citizenship
(You must have been a citizen for at least nine years); and residency in
the state you seek to represent. States are forbidden from adding other
qualifications for federal offices.
So, the fact that Duke has $900, just turned 66, never renounced his
U.S. citizenship and has a P.O. box in Mandeville means that he is
eligible to run. It does not mean Louisianians have embraced him. That
test is still to come.
Duke,
who hasn't won an election in 27 years, qualified Friday afternoon in
Baton Rouge after first announcing his intention to run on his website.
So, should we be worried?
If you are enthusiastic about the idea of a U.S. Sen. David Duke,
R-La., the answer is that history does not provide a lot of cause for
optimism.
You have to remember that Duke has been running for public office in
Louisiana since 1975 -- 41 years – and has been elected exactly once, to
a state House seat from a Metairie district in 1989 -- 27 years ago.
He ran for the state Senate in 1975 and 1979 as a Democrat. He ran
for president in 1988 as a Democrat and in 1992 as a Republican. He has
run for the U.S. Senate twice before -- in 1990 and 1996 -- and ran for
the U.S. House in 1999.
Duke finished second to incumbent U.S. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston in
the 1990 open primary when the leading Republican pulled out in an
effort to deny Duke a spot in a runoff against the vulnerable Johnston.
But Duke did make a statewide runoff a year later in what proved to
be the peak of his political career: a high-profile, one-on-one showdown
with ethically challenged Edwin Edwards that gave Duke national
publicity.
Duke ended up losing in a landslide with 39 percent of the vote to
Edwards' 61 percent in what became known as the "Vote for the crook,
it's important" election.
As it turned out, both Edwards and Duke would end up being "crooks"
convicted of felonies. Edwards for manipulating the state's gambling
license process and Duke for ripping off contributors.
Donald
Trump is stepping back from comments he made over the weekend when he
claimed to know nothing about former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke.
So, how can a convicted felon run for the U.S. Senate? Is that a Louisiana thing?
As noted above, the U.S. Constitution has only three requirements for
eligibility: age, citizenship, and residency. It is up to the Senate
(or the House) to decide whether a member is qualified to be seated when
a challenge is raised.
For the record, Duke pleaded guilty in 2002 to mail fraud and filing a false return.
He was accused of telling supporters that he was in bad financial
shape and at risk of losing his Metairie home and all his savings.
In fact, The Times-Picayune reported at the time, Duke "voluntarily
sold his home for a profit" during the period in question -- 1993 to
1999 -- and moved to Mandeville, held investment accounts that "at times
contained substantial sums of money" and spent much of his fund-raising
proceeds at casinos in Mississippi, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas,
prosecutors said.
Duke was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, serving his time in 2003 and 2004. So, does Duke have a chance of getting elected?
Keeping in mind the caveats raised above, Duke does have an advantage
with name recognition. He obviously is hoping to recapture the
lightning he caught in 1991 when he emerged from a crowded field -- 12
candidates -- to make the runoff.
One theory of Louisiana's open primary system is that it tends to
favor those at the polar ends of the political spectrum, matching the
most liberal and the most conservative in the runoff.
In a field of 24 candidates -- including some who are well-known and
well-funded -- Duke may be calculating that getting 10 to 15 percent of
the vote primarily on his existing name recognition could be enough.
Given that the Republican Party has already condemned and disavowed
him and that business and civic leaders will do the same -- think about
landing the 2017 NBA All-Star Game with Sen. Duke in the welcoming party
-- it seems almost impossible to think that Duke could win the Dec. 10
runoff.
One complication that political reporters and observers are already
starting to mull is the idea that the Louisiana seat -- the last one to
be decided because of Louisiana's open primary system -- could decide
who controls the Senate.
Then we can return to that question of whether to be embarrassed.
Now the family of Kayla Muhler is mad coz' President Obama couldn't save their daughter. Now I have some daughters and I would be very angry if they had gotten kidnapped and definitely mad if they died in a criminal organizations custody. They seem to forget the President sent a military outfit out to try an rescue the girl and THEY FAILED! Not the President, these special forces asses failed in their mission! If anyone is to blame it would be them. But I don't even blame them. I blame Kayla Mueller and her family. Yeah, I know it sounds fucked up, yet there's no way either one of my daughters will go anywhere in the middle east and I know they treat women like property! They're not going, if I have to tie them up in the house and hide them in the basement! You cannot expect because your child is white, she can go ANYWHERE in the world and be safe!!! There are parts of Mexico that white MEN go to,walk down an alley somewhere and disappear never to be seen ALIVE again!!! You allowed this girl to go into a hostile war zone and expected that NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN TO HER?!!? ARE YOU MADD?!!? I don't care how you feel about it it's time to inject some reality into this! When you leave this country, THE RULES CHANGE!!! You cannot expect to be able to go anywhere you want to outside of this country and be safe! Women are treated as property in most other places they go outside of the U.S. and they are subject to be kidnapped and sold to the highest bidder! Just like your daughter wound up one of their warriors wife and she had no say nor any choice in the matter, that is the fact of life in these other places! And she's luckyy that's all that happened to her, for she's blessed to have lived as long as she did! And had not someone chose her to be his wife they would have killed her. She had no business there! It's unfortunate what happened, but your trying to blame the President is ridiculous! He didn't suggest nor make her go there! She thought it would be a 'wonderful experience' no matter how good her intentions, it just wasn't a good idea! It ranks up there as one of the most stupid ideas a person can concoct especially a woman! I'm sorry but she killed herself coz' regardless of her good intentions, it simply wasn't a good idea! The Jordanian airforce had no way of knowing she was down there so it's not there fault either. The poor girl just put herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and the Jordanians were attacking the positions of an enemy who brutally murdered several of their captured pilots! So they are not to blame for this either. Even though the girl had no business going to this place it is an unfortunate accident and a sad ending to a young life. At least she was given a little respect when they buried her, for she was forcibly married to one of the isis warriors but he did demand the respect be given to a muslim wife.
ISIS Emailed Kayla Mueller’s Family Pictures Of Her Corpse
When ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller’s family confirmed her death on
Tuesday, they knew because the terrorist group had personally emailed
them evidence she was dead.
The family received at least three photographs of Mueller’s corpse, according to The New York Times.
In two, her body was wearing a black headscarf, presumably shortly
after her death. In a third it was wrapped in a traditional Islamic
funeral shroud. (RELATED: ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller: ‘I Have A Lot Of Fight Left’)
It seems likely that this evidence led U.S. government analysts to
conclude that Mueller had, in fact, died in ISIS custody. The direct
cause of her death remains unclear. The extremists say she was killed by
Jordanian airstrikes, but photographs in their initial statement, as
well as descriptions of the images given to her family, seem to
contradict the claim.
The photograph of a funeral shroud indicate more considerate
treatment of Mueller at ISIS’ hands than some other prisoners received. Intelligence officials have speculated that she was given as a “bride” to a male jihadi fighter.
While initial reports stated that Mueller had been ISIS’ last
American hostage, others have claimed there is at least one more
American in the group’s custody. (RELATED: US Hostage Kayla Mueller Confirmed Dead In ISIS Territory) According to the Muellers’ congressman Rep. Paul Gosar,
the U.S. government made at least one rescue attempt, in which a man
approached an ISIS camp in Syria and identified himself as her husband.
But Mueller, unaware of the plan, denied that she had a husband, thereby
accidentally passing up a chance at freedom. The Daily Beast has reported
that the Muellers also tried to set up a prisoner exchange similar to
that which secured the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. In the plan,
their daughter would be freed in exchange for Aafia Siddiqui, an
al-Qaida co-conspirator with degrees from MIT and Brandeis University
who is currently serving an 86-year sentence in a federal prison in
Texas.
Foreign hostages’ families have been put through turmoil throughout
the Syrian civil war and the ensuing rise of ISIS as a transnational
jihadi “brand.” The U.S. and U.K. both have staunch “no-ransom”
policies, on grounds that paying a ransom for captives is an unreliable
way of securing their safety, and that it simply encourages the
continued kidnapping of innocents. But Denmark, France, Germany, Italy
and Spain have all successfully paid ransoms for the release of their
citizens.
The parents of Austin Tice, an American journalist and former Marine
who vanished in Syria in August 2012, has repeatedly demanded more
government accountability for their son’s fate. The State Department has
speculated, based on very limited evidence, that Tice may be held by
Bashar Assad’s government regime.
The families of beheaded American ISIS hostages James Foley, Peter
Abdulrahman Kassig, and Steven Sotloff have also expressed frustration
with the administrations no-ransom policy. Some relatives sent their own
messages to ISIS, trying to negotiate terms of release, and saying they would gladly pay federal fines
for ransoming their loved ones. But even in the presence of trustworthy
intermediaries, U.S. government officials have reportedly refused any
attempt to set up formal channels for negotiation with the group, and
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Investors Move Next Door, Unsettling a Black Beachside Enclave
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William Pickens III, 80, has
lived in Sag Harbor Hills, a subdivision of the Long Island village of
Sag Harbor, for 66 years. Some residents have grown wary of an
increasing number of investors sweeping up properties in the area.Credit
Nicole Bengiveno for The New York Times
William
Pickens III has spent most of his 80 summers in Sag Harbor Hills, a
beach community of modest bungalows on the edge of the Hamptons. His
grade-school principal built the house across the street; his family
doctor lived two doors down. Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis were his house
guests. Those were the people who came to Sag Harbor Hills.
About a year and a half ago he noticed a change.
There
were new buyers, and they were different. They did not mix much, and
they identified themselves by names like 81 Harvest Holdings L.L.C. or
45 Hillside Holdings L.L.C.
“I
don’t know Mr. and Mrs. L.L.C.,” Mr. Pickens said. “But I know the
family on either side of them, because I grew up with them. But who the
hell is L.L.C.?”
Photo
A sign at one of three
entrances to the enclave, which became home to a robust African-American
working class after World War II.Credit
Nicole Bengiveno for The New York Times
“It’s worrisome,” he added. “May not be illegal, but it’s worrisome.”
Sag
Harbor Hills and its neighboring subdivisions in the Long Island
village of Sag Harbor, Ninevah and Azurest, are uncommon among American
beach communities. After World War II, when Sag Harbor was home to a
robust African-American working class, developers offered parcels in an
undeveloped swath of town for $1,000 or less. Black families bought in,
creating three adjoining communities linked by dirt roads. Two nearby
subdivisions, Eastville and Chatfield’s Hill, also attracted black home
buyers. As in other black enclaves of segregated communities, laborers
lived next to professionals and high rollers. For many it was a world of
their own, a decompression zone — home in a way that even their city
residences might not be, because it had been built by people like them.
The racial makeup kept home prices down. White buyers tended to choose other parts of Sag Harbor.
That
is changing. As house prices in the Hamptons soar, Sag Harbor Hills and
its neighbors are now luring investors looking for bargains.
A
lawyer named Bruce F. Bronster, backed by investors, has bought at
least nine properties in the three communities, each registered to a
different L.L.C. Others have followed. In November, residents received a
mass email saying a buyer was willing to pay up to $600,000 in cash for
houses — was anyone interested?
“It
feels like a hostile takeover,” Beverly Granger, a retired dentist,
said, adding that strangers have come onto her property to post offers
to buy. “People are very aggressively buying up properties and wanting
to put bigger homes that are out of character for the community. It just
feels different.”
Photo
Beverly Granger, a retired
dentist, lives in a home in Sag Harbor Hills that belonged to her
parents. “It feels like a hostile takeover,” she said of the recent wave
of investors.Credit
Nicole Bengiveno for The New York Times
On
a recent afternoon, the shaded ranch houses and small lots gave Sag
Harbor Hills the feel of a quiet suburb, shaggy in a few spots,
embellished with home additions in others, all leading to a ribbon of
bayside beach. Neighbors waved as they passed one another on the street.
Because
banks in the 1950s and 1960s would not lend money in African-American
areas, the homes that went up were small. So family life took shape
outdoors, among neighbors, said Ms. Granger, who has spent summers in
Sag Harbor Hills since 1951.
“There
was no television,” Ms. Granger said, describing life in the hamlet.
“You got a little bit of radio. And so you really went in the homes to
sleep and eat, and the rest of the time you were outside doing things.”
Neighbors watched one another’s children, she said. Houses tended to
stay within families or among friends; turnover was rare.
With
the arrival of celebrities like Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, the
restaurateur B. Smith and Allan Houston of the New York Knicks, the
communities rivaled Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard as a vacation mecca
for successful African-Americans. Colson Whitehead, writing about the
summers of the black elite in his novel “Sag Harbor,” described an oasis
apart from his white prep school. “We fit in there,” he wrote.
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At
a village trustees’ meeting this month, residents faced off. Mr.
Bronster was seeking approval to build a house of 5,300 square feet on
several combined lots, the biggest in an area where the median house
size is 1,378 square feet. Neighbors, including a group called Save Sag
Harbor, which formed to keep big-box stores out of downtown, came ready
to oppose him.
Mr. Bronster brought backup to the small-town gathering.
“He
brought his architect, he brought a land-use attorney and some other
attorney, and he had aerial photographs and professionally done graphs,”
said Victoria Sharp, a former director of the AIDS center at St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.
“If
Bronster was putting up a house of 4,000 square feet, people would be
fine with that,” Ms. Sharp said. “But putting up a house of 53 hundred
square feet represents a tipping point. The next one is 55, and the next
one is 59. And he’s got big money behind him and is going to make this
neighborhood what it never has been.”
Like
others interviewed for this article, Ms. Sharp, who is white, said the
tensions were not racial. She said that since moving to Sag Harbor Hills
from another neighborhood in the village last February, she has been
welcomed into her neighbors’ homes. “It’s exactly why I moved here,” she
said. In 14 years in her previous house, she was never invited to a
neighbor’s party. “There’s a real sense of community here. And that’s
about, unfortunately, to be interrupted.”
Photo
A woman preparing to relax on
a beach in Sag Harbor Hills. Residents spoke of close ties between
neighbors and a sense of history that they fear could soon be lost.Credit
Nicole Bengiveno for The New York Times
Mr.
Bronster said he had no intention of changing the community’s
atmosphere. He, too, was drawn by the neighborly feel, he said.
“I’m
especially appreciative of the history of the neighborhood, how it was
started, what it means to the residents who live there and how that has
enabled the community to develop a very warm and gregarious and
welcoming sense,” he said. “That’s why I want to be there.” He added
that he was developing dilapidated houses to rent to “year-round
families that want to be part of the community.”
An
even bigger house, of 5,900 square feet, has been proposed for four
combined lots that belong to Robert Kapito, the president of the
investment firm BlackRock, who is also one of Mr. Bronster’s investors.
Mr. Kapito earned more than $20 million last year, according to company
filings. Final approval for the two houses is pending.
Renee
Simons, who lives next to the site of Mr. Kapito’s proposed house, said
that she felt dismissed by the newcomers, and at odds with some
neighbors, who hope the new houses will raise the value of their homes.
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Kennedy Scott (carrying hula hoop) at the beach with her family for her seventh birthday.Credit
Nicole Bengiveno for The New York Times
“It
feels like us versus them, which is not healthy,” Ms. Simons said.
“It’s not what I come here for. There’s such an increase in contention
now.”
“We’re on defense,” she said. “So then you get called a rabble-rouser.”
Dianne
McMillan Brannen, a real estate agent who has lived in Ninevah for 25
years, said she worried about a domino effect: investors combining lots
to build bigger houses, which drives up sales prices, which tempts more
families to sell, until eventually a historically rare African-American
haven looks like just another upscale beach resort. In the last year,
she said, 13 houses have been sold to builders or investors, compared
with the usual four or five.
“An
identity is the most important thing that could be lost,” Ms. Brannen
said. “This area is not always going to be African-American. You could
have 250 homes, and it would be an entirely different set of people
here. And those sets of people are not going to regard it as we have
regarded it. And they’re not going to have a story to tell about what’s
happened previously. And unless we tell that story, it’ll go away.”
Mr.
Pickens, whose grandfather was an early field secretary of the
N.A.A.C.P., said he welcomed newcomers, whatever their race, but not
investors or people with four or five houses and no commitment to the
community.
“This
is sort of reverse integration,” he said. “That’s fine, that’s the
American way. But there are 5,000 miles of coastline in America, and
five are commanded and owned by blacks. So we treasure what we own. That
begins to disappear. Think about that. So that’s what we’re dealing
with. And once you leave here, you can’t afford to come back.”
Of
the newcomers, he asked: “Do they really want to be here or do they
want to see us out of here? I’m for integration, I’m not for
elimination.
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