DON'T ASK ME TO FIGHT FOR YOU AGAINST RACISM

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RACIST ST. NICKS ALLIANCE

Story By: James Edstrom

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Friendly St Nicks Alliance Neighbors

No one ask and post on my boards or do stories on their complaints about racism against African Americans and Hispanics. Do not ask me to do stories supporting your cause anymore.

St Nicks Tenant

For years I do stories fighting racism and when I tell all my African American and Hispanic friends that I am being harassed, threatened by the Hispanic and African Americans in St. Nicks Alliance building I moved into in Williamsburg, they act like I am nuts. Since day one, the first hours we moved in here we were robbed, threatened, called white trash and everything else in the book. I complain to the landlord who is mostly African American And Hispanic and they do nothing. My kid was jumped in the lobby, they tried to smash their way into our apartment and nothing. They opened our ground floor apartment stole our blinds, threw drinks into our apartment and nothing. They are outside out windows yelling white trash, faggots and nothing. Since Sat a African American woman from this building has been yelling MOVE WHITE BOYS outside our windows. St Nicks Alliance does nothing. A Hispanic guy from this building has been outside our windows trying to get people to sign a petition to get us out. We hear him at all hours, we have to get rid of these white people.

We call the police and meet with the police, they think racism does not exist against whites. We post on our facebook pages this weekend about this woman yelling move white boys move and not one comment from my African American and Hispanic friends I have known for years. Not one ounce of support from people I have supported for years. This African American woman who I have known for 2 years now, Barbara, who insists on yelling and screaming move white boys outside our window, I confronted. I got to know her name when I moved here, Barbara, but she calls us white boys. Imagine if I called her Black Woman. Imagine, I would be called a racist pig.

Security reports from St Nicks Alliance's own security guards for two years now, writes report after report.  I am told by St Nicks Alliance that's not good enough, I need to wait for them to repair the camera system so they have hard evidence. They repair the cameras after a year and a half and now they have proof, they do nothing.

Hundreds of e mails to St Nick's Alliance Michael Rochford, Joseph K. Robles, Frank Lang, Hayde Cordero and Ivette Alerte provide no results. I contact politicians who contact Michael Rochford, and for over a year now he promises to fix the problems. Tells me when security cameras are fixed, they will take action. The cameras are in and they do nothing. 

Moving here has been a nightmare. All we wanted was to be was part of the community. We did not care if you were Black, White, Hispanic, Red, Yellow or Blue. All I wanted was to provide a home for the Homeless kid I took in 7 years ago. He never had a loving home and a room of his own. He is now terrified to even go outside, he stays in for months at a time. 

Racism goes both ways, but no one will admit it. My begging for help go unanswered. I go to events in NYC and tell my African and Hispanic friends what is going on here, they look at me like I am nuts, and say they hope things get better. One of my famous celebrity friends arrange breakfast with a famous civil rights activist and nothing. He's the first to yell bloody murder when African Americans and Hispanics rights are violated, but when I ask for help, show him photos and documentation, nothing. Do not ask me to support and march with you again.

St. Nicks Alliance signs a agreement to give us a application for another apartment in Oct 2013, there are several empty. Months go by and I keep asking for the application and get no answers. In Jan or Feb Michelle Sainsbury from St Nicks Alliance comes here with her sad face telling us she does not know why they have not provided us with a application. Meanwhile African Americans and Hispanics move into the empty apartments. I get a application In Feb and told there are no empty units and I will have to go on a waiting list behind 100 people. St Nicks rarely rents to white people. I got in the side door as a sublet. I guess we are their token white boys. 

I also got a hold of a e-mail between employees of St Nicks Alliance dated in Nov 2013, a few weeks after they signed the agreement to give us applications for a new unit. In it they state they will not give us another unit. They lied and lied. They never intended to live up to their agreement.

I am so sick of the abuse and I am sick of their racism. I am going to let the courts decide.