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
putnamdenizen,
it is well understood that Lincoln was the first Republican president,
however, Jefferson’s views were unabasedly Republican, in fact he mentions those ideas in his writings specifically, his ideas on less government, rights of the individual and specifically a distrust of too much oversight.
of course you want to bring him down for what is his historical legacy for the immorality of slavery which was the world in which he grew up. Read his writings and you will come to understand that his was a conflicted time and he was a known abolitionist, what more is to be said than what I already stated;
his living legacy informs us in the republic in which we live and by the lives of his decendents who span the spectrum of race.
“Perhaps they could rename the playground after Thomas Jefferson and put up some faux slave quarters? After all who amongst us didn’t play master and slave when we were children .”
Can’t stop laughing!!!!
Perhaps they could rename the playground after Thomas Jefferson and put up some faux slave quarters? After all who amongst us didn’t play master and slave when we were children (heavy sarcasm there, folks)?
I guess the same could be said of any accurate depiction of the kingdoms of West Africa at the time.
Nonwithstanding anything that Jefferson was, he could apparently still spout what a liberal may consider to be wrong and un-compassionate. Rand was a genius writer too, but her views are crackpot.
Just because a person is well-known, accomplished and had a hand in history, does not automatically make them correct in all things.
I guess you guys like to genuflect before the founders, an American trait which as an immigrant has always puzzled me. It’s what paralyzes much change in this country…the inexplicable deference to the dated “wisdom” of a bunch of guys who lived centuries ago.
Posted by: cmu at March 24, 2010 2:53 PM
No, we just believe that if you earn your money in a hard and legal means through your own efforts, it shouldn’t get taxed away by the government to give to lazy SOBs who think they deserve it because they don’t have any.
Is that in more non-white elitist terms????
Common Sense (written by Thomas paine) transcends the centuries.
Unlike the policies in that wonderful, progressive place that was so great you left to come here…
Since I cannot abide to read all 180 comments, not sure how we ended up talking about Thomas Jefferson. But just to correct a couple things – he founded the Democratic not Republican Party; the Republican Party has its roots in the mid 19th century. Isn’t this the same Jefferson who the conservatives in Texas wrote out of the curriculum?
I find it remarkable that BSD et al have chosen to support putting black children in faux jails. Perhaps they could rename the playground after Thomas Jefferson and put up some faux slave quarters? After all who amongst us didn’t play master and slave when we were children (heavy sarcasm there, folks)?
DIBS: the people who were children when you were a child are not students at Berkeley now.
I guess you guys like to genuflect before the founders, an American trait which as an immigrant has always puzzled me. It’s what paralyzes much change in this country…the inexplicable deference to the dated “wisdom” of a bunch of guys who lived centuries ago.
Posted by: cmu at March 24, 2010 2:53 PM
cmu,
it’s called respect for what he and the founding fathers built, namely;
A nation worth immigrating to.
Nonwithstanding anything that Jefferson was, he could apparently still spout what a liberal may consider to be wrong and un-compassionate. Rand was a genius writer too, but her views are crackpot.
Just because a person is well-known, accomplished and had a hand in history, does not automatically make them correct in all things.
I guess you guys like to genuflect before the founders, an American trait which as an immigrant has always puzzled me. It’s what paralyzes much change in this country…the inexplicable deference to the dated “wisdom” of a bunch of guys who lived centuries ago.
dibs,
true,
There are Jefferson decendents living in Staten Island right now.
He has American decendents of all colors.
His story is truly an historical saga.
another useless bit of interesting information,
Christopher Columbus’ direct decendent is Puerto Rican.
He’s a Count living in San Juan.