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
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better clothes and hairstyles.
(i wouldnt go that far)
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at March 24, 2010 2:41 PM
So you were actually envious of 11217’s wig???
When I was a wee child growing up in perfect and glorious California, we had “creative” playgrounds to encourage our inner Free to Be You and Me whatever
The same students who recently set fire to berkeley because of rising tuition!!!!!!
And if any ” white folk who lived four hundred years ago” knows anything about things interacial it’d be ole Thomas jefferson!!!!!!
Strange tangents taken here, let me know when we get to good cobbler recipes.
guilt-ridden white paternalist libs who are largely responsible for perpetuating/prolonging the problems in poor neighborhoods, and those who love their nanny-state, will make for at least 400 posts before the day ends. stay strong bxgrl, stay strong!
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When I was a wee child growing up in perfect and glorious California, we had “creative” playgrounds to encourage our inner Free to Be You and Me whatever. A jungle gym with a “jail” in it is just ultra-bizarre no matter where it is.
So did they take it down yet?
🙂
quote:
better clothes and hairstyles.
(i wouldnt go that far)
*rob*
And, just as i thought, mostly capital gains followed by partnership & S corporation income. These are business owners and controlling shareholders in large corporations.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 24, 2010 2:29 PM
Exactly. This is a misleading number for people who don’t understand what goes into it. I haven’t seen the NYT article, but if they cite this figure without making this point in some way their intellectual stock just went down another few points.
Uh, “supposed” genius of Thomas Jefferson?
“A polymath, Jefferson achieved distinction as, among other things, a horticulturist, political leader, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962 he said, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”[5] To date, Jefferson is the only president to serve two full terms in office without vetoing a single bill of Congress. Jefferson has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest of U.S. presidents.”
-Wikipedia
I think you should crack open a history book.