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
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/07intop400.pdf
And, just as i thought, mostly capital gains followed by partnership & S corporation income. These are business owners and controlling shareholders in large corporations.
“inequitude” damned anti-intellectual spell-checker.
…and I doubt this was a Republican’s decision to put this shiny plastic playtoy in this clean and nicely rubberized space.
more likely it was the result of a bloated bureaucracy with little regard for larger societal issues.
In short, somebody was told to order a playground from a list of approved vendors and this was the cheapest one,
I guess all the “police station” playgrounds are someplace in chappaqua.
And before we get into full class warfare mode,
here’s another Republican view, from a man of genius no less;
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas Jefferson
dibs, it’s not a matter of whose fault it is. It’s a commentary on the inquietude of our so-called progressive tax system, which has skewed steadily towards the upper-income brackets in the last 20 years.
Anti-intellectual is idiotic by definition. You know the opposite of smart…You knew that right?
NY Times today. But I guess dibs & lechecal can safely ignore that liberal bullshit rag’s statistics.
Um, it was that bastion of liberal thinking, the IRS –
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/07intop400.pdf
ugh! now you freax got me feeling all dirty inside! grrrr.
::burns bra::
*rob*
quote:
Rob, I know I am beating a dead horse, but to me this sounds more like something I would expect to hear from a conservative Republican running for Congress than from the person I thought I knew who lives in Park Slope. That’s not a value judgment and there are plenty of people who agree with the sentiment (see: Newt Gingrich and his Contract with America), but I just would never imagine hearing such sentiment from you.
wow. so you mean because i have certain viewpoints, i cant live in park slope? whaaaaa? i thought you peoples of park slope EMBRACED ALL KINDS OF DIVERSITY! wow, i sure was wrong. totally hypocritcal. why is it wrong Or republican of me, or “anti-intellectual (totally idiotic phrase btw)” that i think poor people bring children into this world too freely and then depend on government assistance!? fine, if you already HAVE kids and something happens to you, welfare of all sorts is great. (but there HAS to be a time cap on this help).
*rob*