Comments about the colonial

There are 19 comments about "the colonial"

Arrest Development: Let's get real, gentrification, which means "from gentry, noble birth, good genes", is really a catering to Euro/Anglo culture who are given privilege, mobility, whether it's suburban or in the city, and easier access to......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

K: I was gonna give these pure maggots fifty percent of this nation since fifty percent actually are willing to infest this continent with their dogma. Now I think we should just put the zionist/neocolonial type......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

Jamie: Classic citynoise! Thanks for tihs slice-of-life from the other side of the planet. I love the mix of old and new, it's not how I imagine Sydney, or Australia in general to look. Quite colonial,......

in response to: Downtown 1 by Ross

John Dereszewski: To DeSales: I can tell you a bit about this small street in extreme southern Bushwick. First, it was originally known as Hull Street and marked the point where the then winding Bushwick Road took a......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: A different type of compromise may be in order. In order to appease the hard-core nationalism that demands that a country bear such a bizarre name as FYROM, we should just let FYORM stay as......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Alexander The Thessalonikian: An ethnic group is characterized by the common language, customs, religion, inscriptions, area of origin and ways of education and living. By that means all the area of todays Greece was inhabited by Greeks since......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Xavi: I live in Humboldt Park, in the Paseo Boricua commercial strip. Reading through most of these comments, I have this to write: In order to understand the state of Humboldt Park and the Puerto Rican......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Jamie: again. that last shot, were it not for the flamboyantly colonial building on the end this scene could easily be anywhere in {manchester} or {leeds}. Totally {English} architecture. Is much of St. Louis and Missouri......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. II by maybetoday

j.walthers@timesnewsweekly.com: In response to upfromflames regarding Bushwick Corners: This response requires both historical perspective and adjustment of mind set to the Colonial New World. The 17th Century was a fundamentally agrarian society dedicated and tied to land......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy. * There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

JNJ: Your reflections are very impassioned and provide a perspective that I could never understand as a caucasian and an outsider to the neighborhood. I guess what I still don't understand is why, I would be......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo! Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: Arsaniq, for your compliments, nakurmiik. The finishing the roof pic is of Aquuja Qisiiq, by the way. I am thankful he let me take it. I have so many pics of Kangirsujuaq that I took from......

in response to: Igloo Construction by EvilGentleman

Peter: i think its funny that this thread has diverged into a rant about {america} and {england} when the original post was simply a tag put up by one {graf} writer, dissing another that goes by......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: Technically, when these photos were taken, this country was officially called Burma. [[wiki:Explanation_of_the_names_of_Burma/Myanmar]] **Favoutite quote:** ##"The new name "Myanmar" has been recognized by the United Nations, but several countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, sometimes refer......

in response to: Rangoon by ian

Marc: Re: eye of the storm "well don't heal tooo quick if it keeps you writing so well..." -some jerk seriously, this piece is my favorite of yours (so far)- when i first read it i was floored! hope......

in response to: eye of the storm by elaine