Oh boy.
Via Newsbusters:
Here’s your latest installment of “everything is racist,” courtesy of the New York Times.
The paper’s “Race Related” section is described as “a weekly newsletter focused on race, identity and culture,” and for my sins, I recently subscribed to it. This morning, an email arrived from “Race Related,” attaching a story about gentrification in the historically black South Park neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina.
According to the article’s author, Emily Badger [emphasis added throughout]:
“A few new homes rise high above the modest, single-story properties around them. Those houses, some longtime residents lament, feel so large that they evoke plantation homes, complete with second-story porches an overseer might use to keep an eye on the black residents nearby.”
“So large?” Have a look at the photo accompanying the Times story. According to the real estate listings, the homes in question range from 1,200-2,000 square feet, significantly smaller than the average American single-family home. And do the porches in any way evoke those of plantation homes that “an overseer might use to keep an eye on the black residents nearby?”