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
cmu,
“supposed”?
A Revolutionary
A War Hero
A President
The writer of the Declaration of Independence
The founder of a University
An Architect
A statesman
…and man hasn’t changed much in 400 years,
not even 4000 for that matter. Same old story,
just better clothes and hairstyles.
OK, you (and the NYT?) pulled a number from a line item in an IRS publication. There is a huge amount of complexity that underlies that statistic. I understand more than your average guy on the street – enough to disagree that you can say to the average person that the richest 400 americans are only paying a 16% tax rate without misleading them into thinking that this is an apples-to-apples comparison to how you and I pay tax. Suffice it to say a debate on the merits of that statistic is not something worth pursuing today, but I will point out that you should not consider this a meaningful comparison to your own tax situation.
quote:
Anti-intellectual is idiotic by definition. You know the opposite of smart…You knew that right?
oh go jump off your damn ivory tower already.
*rob*
sometimes, the truth hurts. Leave them there, maybe they’ll try a wee bit harder to not end up where mommy and daddy are. Enough of this BS coddling. Just open up a Starbucks nearby, end of story.
It is extremely naive to quote the supposed genius of elite white folk who lived four hundred years ago in circumstances that bears only a faint resemblance to modern life.
Posted by: cmu at March 24, 2010 2:31 PM
Spoken like a truly entitled feeder from the government trough, cmu. Which i know you are not.
Sheesh!
Most kids love historic jails. Go anywhere that has one and you end up dragging them out in tears when its time to go home.
There are two theories behind this: kids like being secure, and two kids like to play through their fears.
cmu and johnny,
please don’t make me drag out the actual statistics of the “poor” in America.
we’ve had that debate here before as well.
You won’t like it.
Jesus, when did we become such a nation of cats?
…yeah, that’s a euphemism. 😉
Jefferson and Rand would’ve gotten along jes’ fine, it seems.
It is extremely naive to quote the supposed genius of elite white folk who lived four hundred years ago in circumstances that bears only a faint resemblance to modern life.
Wow, this all sounds so serious.
When I was a kid, I had a libertarian approach to play, with a heavy Catholic fascist overlay from parents, Church and school. I should add that my political personal childhood hero was FDR. You can see the tensions there.
During our non-school hours, I had I had so much freedom to get in trouble, it was scary. We would do things that I now can’t believe — not advocating this — hanging out train platforms squashing pennies on tracks, swinging on huge cable ropes connected to tires from monster trees swinging over ravines filled with rusted car wrecks in the woods, I ate ungodly amounts of sugar on a daily basis and ran with a pack of kids all over. Every now and then one of our activities got shut down when for example, one of the kids fell into said ravine and got a concussion. There were almost no activities organized by adults, except for sports.
So I guess I feel a little sorry for the kids and think of that pathetic playground as kind of sad more than anything. I am sure that the kids will overcome the stupidity of its creators.