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From what I can understand, there's a lot of animosity currently between the chassidim and the Black community in Brooklyn (maybe it's always been this way and it has flare ups)

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That doesn't quite make sense, as the Satmar are in Williamsburg, which was never particularly black. BUT. I have heard that sone Satmar families have bought up properties in poor black Brooklyn communities, leading to gentrification. And/or they charge higher rents.

So I guess I kind of get it. Except those anti colonial Yiddishists tend to live in those neighborhoods too

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