A video was recently uploaded to YouTube showing a mother yelling and cursing at an Asian woman on the New York City subway.
[WARNING: The Following Video Contains Strong Language]
At the beginning of the video, the mother yells: "F***! ... He didn’t get up for me! He didn’t get up for me ‘cause my daughter black. ‘Cause my daughter black, he didn’t get up for me to sit with my daughter!"
The Asian woman interjects, saying: "Mind your language." The mother shouts back: "What am I saying wrong!"
"Be calm, be calm," the Asian woman states. To which the mother responds: "What’s calm? You playing with my kid! That’s your kid, you’d be okay with it?! ... So f*** you!"
Once again, the Asian woman asks that the mother mind her language. "Mind your a**, and move it!" the mother demands. "B****, I will move you off that seat! Try me!" she adds.
The mother then tells her young daughter to "push" the Asian woman off of the seat. It appears that the girl does as her mother demands, nudging the Asian woman from her right side.
The mother then leaps up, and pushes the Asian woman from the seat onto the ground. "Go ahead, b****! Move! Move your a**!"
After being helped up by another passenger, the Asian women again tells the mother to watch her language. The mother responds: "F*** your language!"
She continues, turning to another passenger: "Tell her what she did wrong! She put my child outta seat!"
From here, things take a decidedly racist turn. "This ain’t your country! Welcome to America! Gangsta. Welcome to Brooklyn, b****!" the mother screams. "Gonna put my child outta seat ‘cause my daughter’s Spanish and she Chinese, you gonna get up for her to sit down!"
The Asian woman then sits down opposite the mother, and says something unintelligible. The mother responds: "You right, I am crazy! B****, I spit at you!"
Near the end of the filmed encounter, the mother seemingly gears up to spit, then challenges the Asian woman to "do something."
NYC is a filthy armpit. Large cities are cesspools filled with animals, that live like sheep.
Nonsense. Paris is the best city, and New York is the greatest city. San Diego and San Francisco are nice. So is Milwaukee and London. I love the wild, and the farm, but the city's pretty good too, and the best American City is NYC.
Just make sure to keep your New York "values" the hell away from the Normal-American Community and our kids. We've worked hard and lived properly to escape that muck.
We've worked hard and lived properly to escape that muck.
Where have you worked harder than New Yorkers? New York is a pressure cooker of very long hours.
And where are Americans "living properly"? There's a meth lab in every trailer in the Midwest, prostitution is legal in Vegas, not Manhattan, and pot is still illegal in NYC, and just as decriminalized as it is in Mississippi.
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Bloomberg all come out of New York. This is a city that works, not merely a venue for the freak parade.
You're right. America sucks, except New York. Best to stay right there.
America doesn't suck. America is grand. There are warts and pimples everywhere, though, in New York and outside of it. As far as cities go, New York does a whole lot right, starting with generating staggering amounts of wealth that affects the whole nation, and generating more concentrated employment - and tax dollars - than any other place in the country.
Nowhere is as productive as New York, or as diverse, or as big, and yet New York City isn't even in the top 25 most dangerous cities in the US, its violent crime rate is very low. So this is a sprawling, hard-working, diverse, wealth-generating and ORDERLY city, relatively speaking, compared to the rest of America.
New York is a hard place. The people have pretty thick skins. Chicago is tough too, but Chicago is full of crime and corruption. New York is not. New York WORKS, and it is THE bastion of American capitalism, par excellence.
I'm not from New York, and growing up in Michigan, then living in Maryland, Texas, Florida and California, the idea of living in or near New York City was frankly a horror. I came to the Big Apple as so many others have to: for education and work.
It is true, what the song says: if you can make it here you can make it anywhere. This is not a place where millennials rule the roost. It is not a place where weird politics gets anybody a bye either. You have to WORK, and you have to be GOOD at your job, or you're gone. Boom. But if you do your work and are good at your job, nobody cares what you do in your free time. Nobody cares if you're gay, straight, bisexual, furry, Democrat, Republican - nobody cares. Nazi is a problem, and sheet-wearing Klansman is a problem - but New Yorkers don't care if you're as far right as...well...Donald Trump.
Everybody hates New York. I did. But actually, New York is the successful example of the urban American dream. It works. It's a meritocracy. It's free. And really, nobody cares what you do, pretty much even if you do it in the street, as long as you show up to work on time, sober, and get the job done.
Anybody can live well in New York IF they can hack the work. Elsewhere, you might not GET the work if you're the wrong politics, the wrong color, the wrong religion, the wrong something. In New York, nobody gives a shit what you look like, what your superstition is, who you fuck or how, who you vote for, why - get to work on time and do your job, and do it WELL, and what you do outside is your own business, as long as you can pay for it.
This is the American ideal.
New York is gritty, grotty, ugly - it ain't Paris. It's also alive, and busy, and smart, and diverse - the whole world is here - and it works.
So yeah, three cheers for New York, from a Michigan boy. There are problems here, sure. Compared to Detroit? Detroit is dysfunctional. New York works well.
My where-to-live decision tree starts "Never live anywhere the broadcast stations begin with W", then "Inspection stickers on windshields? Avoid." and go from there.
Whatever works for you. Work is not the center of my life (although I've started and/or partnered in 5 companies to date) and as they say nobody on their deathbed ever wishes they'd spent more time with the office.
