Open Letter to ‘Joker’ Fans Flocking To The Bronx: Y’all Wildn

Ja-Quan: Lately, this Joker movie got all the Instagram feins running to The Bronx…or as hipsters know it, the final frontier of Gentrification. I get it. You had no clue the Bronx was anything more than a GPS location for Yankee Stadium and a nice field trip to the Zoo. Now you realize we’re home to a staircase that looks good on social media. As absurd as it sounds I really do get it. And I really don’t like it. The Bronx is still the poorest borough in NYC. The Bronx is still looked down upon by people from Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens..and still very hood in the eyes of all New Yorkers. People need to remember that BNP doesn’t condone violence, but we do acknowledge the possibility of it when people do some dumb shit, and rolling up to someone’s hood to take pictures on some concrete steps can get you robbed, stabbed or worse. With that being said, Frantz and I have some advice for all the Joker fans out there. “Bronx actors stage violent parody video to slam ‘Joker Stairs’ tourists” Frantz:

Y’all need to stop. I completely understand the cultural significance of Joker for the under melanated: this y’all Black Panther and somehow gallivanting up and down those stone steps is your “Wakanda Forever”. It’s quiet for that. The sets of giant staircases along the west Bronx have been the scene of the crime for years. But we GOTTA take those steps, and each time someone who lives there walks them they get a military stripe sewn onto their soul. Yall ain’t earn that. Meritoc…