TheAtlantic finds "the secret, earnest Christians of Brooklyn"–as if Bkln didn't have 100s of well-attended churches! http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/st-lydias-microchurch-brooklyn-secret-christians/404119/ …
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@ChMadar The faux-Brooklyn that has synonymous with media hipster clichemongering is drained of all colour - esp black. -
@matttbastard Quite. "Brooklyn"–shorthand for 20, 30something lib arts grads, mostly white & Asian. Not a bad tribe, but not all of Bkln! -
@ChMadar A sampling of NYC hip hop over the decades makes for a fine (and funky) historical rebuttal to the whitewashing of BKLYN culture. -
@ChMadar ...or, yknow, any Spike Lee joint (this Cdn POC's original gateway to BKLYN). -
@ChMadar BKLYN-lite is the gentrified neoliberal urban ideal - bland, marketable, & devoid of cultural foundation beyond consumptive drive. -
@ChMadar ...hence why key cultural touchstones (church, film, music) are treated as an afterthought.
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@ChMadar@matttbastard And now that you've exposed it, the hipsters will take over that as well. -
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