Playground Jail in Bed Stuy Sparking Outrage
The emergence of a jail-themed jungle gym at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant has the community in an uproar. Black and Brown News, which ran this image earlier this week, did some homework and found that NYCHA was responsible for ordering it earlier this week. I don’t think they should put that there in…
The emergence of a jail-themed jungle gym at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant has the community in an uproar. Black and Brown News, which ran this image earlier this week, did some homework and found that NYCHA was responsible for ordering it earlier this week. I don’t think they should put that there in a neighborhood where many Blacks and Latinos go to jail,” one resident of the public housing complex told BBN. “My son will ask me, Mommy, if I go in there, will I go to jail. As of yesterday, NYCHA had told BBN it was “looking into” the matter and there had been no response yet from the mayor’s office. Pretty mind-boggling and offensive, no?
Jail Playground’ at NYC Public Housing Property [BBN]GMAP
Photo by Monifa Bandele
jester,
I realy liked that musical interlude,
it reminded me of a line from one of my favorite poets
Edna St. Vincent Millay;
“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. ”
ahh, to be a child again.
Legion, if Jefferson were alive today, the hypocrisy of his no-doubt well-meant public abolitionist views and his private life would make him a mockery.
In that, of course, he is no less hypocritical than all the (admittedly much “lesser”, I’ll say that before anyone else does) politicians we read about and love today.
Flat tax, cmu. It works really well in places that have adopted it, like Hong Kong. it’s usually somewhere in the mid to high teens where it has been adopted and many of those economies, like Hong Kong, continue to do quite well.
DIBS, exactly, lol!
I never for the life of me understood the sense in tearing down the historical triumphs of a society by pointing to the moral failings which are inherent in all men.
Where shall we begin to find a legitimate legacy from our common history,
and where would we end?
I’m going to Monticello on Saturday.
As do Iechacal, as do I.
If someone makes $350 million and pays 16% of it in income and realized cap gains, and I make, well a helluva lot less and pay upwards of 25% combined, how exactly is that not apples to apples?
My point is merely this – being incensed at the alleged handouts the poor get – as several folks oin this thread have done – makes no sense when the far greater problem (to me, admittedly) is that we are actually subsidizing the uber-wealthy to a greater degree than we subsidize the poor.
dibs, “it shouldn’t get taxed away by the government to give to lazy SOBs who think they deserve it because they don’t have an”
Stated in b&w terms like that, it puts you somewhat to the right of Attila, which I know you’re not.
We’ll just have to disagree on the levels of progressive taxation, which is really what the issue is. I support more (much more, bring back the 70’s) and you … less? none? flat tax?
Is there ever not a good time for an R.E.M. quote?
“I’ve watched the children come and go
A late long march into spring
I sit and watch those children
Jump in the tall grass, leap the sprinkler
Walk in the ground, bicycle clothespin spokes
The sound, the smell of swingset hands.”
~”The Wrong Child”