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mocha
Comment: How eloquent and graceful. The young lady responds, "I really don't want to talk about the only thing I really have to talk about, thank you very much."
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BrooklynBabe
Comment: Harlem is not the center of Black New York. Nor has it been in my entire 40 years on this earth. There are four other boroughs in NYC and the largest majority of Blacks are concentrated in two of the other four, being Brooklyn and Queens. Most Black residents of Brooklyn and Queens have never even stepped foot in Harlem. Takes too damn long to get there for one thing. And, when it's late at night, that's a long trip. I can count on one hand the number of times I myself have actually been to Harlem. Don't get me wrong, I love the Black renaissance era that took place in Harlem and all but, Harlem was only a small part of it and it has really, really been romanticized and spun.
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khufu
Comment: Respectfully, as a Queens native...Harlem has been the internationally recognized capital of Black America...historically...for bad and good.....for a number of reasons socially, historically, politically, economically, culturally and geographically that are too deep to good into here and now
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Name:
khufu
Comment: does Debra Lee try to look so white? ANd BET is still a detriment to the Black community
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McNasty
Comment: For real - she has nothing to answer to or for cause if this article hadn't reminded us we prolly wouldn't even wonder who she is. Anyway, why bother yourself with caring what folk you don't even know think of you? Why Lord do folk go to such lengths and at the expense of sounding ridiculous just to be or stay relevant?!
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RodEckstein
Comment: Being that it is from BET, it certain to be nothing but yet another every-other-word-bleeped-out, yelling and about-to-fight-at-any-minute show, which is the recipe for everything BET produces. Not unlike rap music itself.
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CianaDoll
Comment: BrooklynBabe, I am a native of Harlem. And, I can count on my two hands how many times I've been to Brooklyn and/or Queens for some of the same reasons you don't frequent Harlem. I could never speak for MOST Harlem residents. But, for myself, I can say Brooklyn and Queens was always too far to travel to. And, with my current residence being in Westchester, I still haven't visited much further than the downtown Brooklyn (right over the Brooklyn bridge) area and those surrounding LGA and JFK airports in Queens.
I believe that both Brooklyn and Queens are known for their rich diversity in MANY cultures whereas, before the aggressive gentrification, Harlem was always known to have primarily all Black people.
Call it what you want, I can't afford to live (well) in Harlem now. So, it matters very little to me.
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