“Regarding last night, it is extremely rude and inconsiderate to scream and stomp around your apartment until almost 2 a.m. My wife and I both have to get up early for work. A complaint has been submitted to the management. Next time this will go straight to the police.

Please learn your manners.”

That’s the hand scribbled letter received by Richard Brookshire (a manager for the Council of Urban Professionals according to LinkedIn). He resides in the heavily gentrified Inwood, NYC, neigborhood.

He took exception to the complaint, said to have been made by a white neigbor living below. He felt, as one of the only people of color in the building, that the letter stank of subtle racism and crafted an absolutely epic reply.

Part of the reply reads

“As one of the only tenants of color occupying this building at full market rate, I find it personally abhorrent that you’d levy the threat of involving the authorities for an insignificant infraction such as the one you noted in your poorly written and ill-thought-out correspondence,” Brookshire wrote. “As a Black man, I take these overt actions as a direct threat to my physical and psychological well-being and as an act of violence upon me.”

You can read the full letter in the image below:

He posted about the incident and with this image above to his facebook account.

What do you think of this letter?