At least if you’re going to diss a joke — and really, we all know it’s just a stupid joke — use some real facts. You are conveniently forgetting (erasing?) Brooklyn’s 10% East Asian community and your percentages add up to over 110% even without that group factored in, though I understand there is overlap with Hispanic and white & black (reinforcing that racial categories are pretty useless). The Hispanic community of Brooklyn is about 20%, not 35%.

Also, the white community, which is more like 47%, like the black community (34%) is not a monolith.

Portland’s breakdown is 76% white, 6% black, 7% East Asian, 9% latino and 2 or more “races” is 5% (I’m guessing the overlap I mentioned above means these don’t add up perfectly). It’s curious to note that only 1% of people in Brooklyn identify in the multiracial category.

youngmanhattanite:

pareene:

jawnita:

ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE.

Yep, pretty much this

And Sanfrooklyn and Broaklynd and Willadelphiaburg and…