Is Staten Island still racially segregated?

[BugsyPal]

Originally Posted by GlamQueen

The harassment thing is true, unfortunately. My best friend (who is black) went to Staten Island for a co-workers baby shower about 20 years ago. She had tinted windows on her car and pulled up next to a cop to ask for directions because she was turned around. The officer provided the needed information and then promptly advised her to leave before dark, for her own safety.

That was twenty years ago!
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Same thing could have been said for parts of Bayridge, Bensonhurst and a few other parts of NYC.


Again there are blacks and other minorities out on the South Shore living, working, going to school, etc... Is everyone happy about it? No, but those that do know better today to keep their mouths shut, and hands to themselves. So they just post nasty remarks on SILIVE or whatever.


You *might* get an incident now and then...


Rash of Bias Crimes on Staten Island [Archive] - Wired New York Forum

But by and large the hardcore persons have either died off, moved off SI, or again learned that there are serious consequences and repercussions for their actions. Just as with gays and trans, NYPD takes all sorts of bias crimes seriously today as is the overall political NYC climate.





Joe Cassano, son of then FDNY commissioner posted some questionable racial remarks the kid got the boot. It didn't last long as he was rehired, but still. FDNY staffers fume as hateful son of ex-fire commish is rehired | New York Post


Again many seem to think SI is like some small southern backwoods down from back in the day (or Miami for that matter), and that simply isn't true. Besides as pointed out no place in NYC is totally immune from racial prejudice.


Walk around certain parts of Manhattan (UES, Sutton Place, etc....) and you find few blacks living there, and those living in *white glove* co-op buildings obviously want it that way.

[BugsyPal]

While the program had its faults, The Sopranos got quite a lot correct in many ways. How Tony S. deals with his daughter bringing a black guy into his house (much less dating) is how more than a few "old school Italian" guys in SI, NJ and elsewhere roll.


That is they have no problems doing business, working with or whatever when it comes to minorities. However there are boundaries and limits.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPLduQIZFzQ


That being said Meadow's reaction is often typical of many kids on the Rock and elsewhere; they tell their parents to stuff it and will choose their own friends. How well that goes down is a matter of family dynamics. But for at least the past decade or so the younger generation on South Shore is on average more tolerant and open about gays/minorities than their parents or grandparents.