"A Brooklyn midwife looking to make new friends has been branded a "colonizer" for attempting to organize a dice game night in her neighborhood. Online trolls have accused Ellen Christy, 30, of gentrification and appropriating black culture after the Jamaica Hospital worker posted online about her monthly "Bunco Club" dice game in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Community Facebook group. 'Hi all - seeking women living in Bedford-Stuyant to join a Bunco Club!' Christy, who is white, wrote in the post."
"She included with the post a selfie with a group of other women sitting on the floor, most of whom appeared to be white. But rather than being met with enthusiastic neighbors, Christy faced frothing wrath with a pile-on of angry responders who immediately accused her of running a "Colonizer Cee-Lo Club," referring to a dice game associated with historically black neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy. 'Yall playing gentrified cee lo?!' one poster wrote. Another wrote, 'colonizers be colonizing.'"
Ellen Christy, a 30-year-old Brooklyn midwife, posted in a Bedford-Stuyvesant community Facebook group seeking women to join a monthly Bunco Club. The post included a selfie with other women, most appearing white. Neighbors responded with more than 100 heated comments accusing her of gentrification and cultural appropriation and labeling the group a "Colonizer Cee-Lo Club." Bunco originates in 18th-century working-class England, and Cee-Lo likely arrived via Chinese laborers before becoming associated with inner-city Black neighborhoods. The original post was removed after the backlash, and a circulated screenshot provoked further vitriol.
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