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
“In 2007, the latest year data is available, the richest 400 Americans had an average annual income of about $350 million. And their tax rate was 16%.”
Bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit.
Show me where you got this figure. Not some made up bullshit liberal rag, I mean real numbers from a real source. And “income” had better mean income, not some conspiracy theorist’s conception of economic gain.
Right wingers love to blame the poor. here’s a fact –
In 2007, the latest year data is available, the richest 400 Americans had an average annual income of about $350 million. And their tax rate was 16%.
If some of us were more advanced thinkers we’d stop griping about how much we (don’t actually) subsidize the poor, and instead question why we subsidize the rich.
Also – this swing thing is blatantly offensive. That it might do no long term damage completely beside the point.
Also, calling someone a Sarah Palin is funny. . . .in this case. An apt moniker for someone regurgitating simple minded and inaccurate prejudices.
“Don’t ever change Rob. Stay the same.”
ROFL!!
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What id like to know is do children actually enjoy playing on these things? There is never anything fun or semi-dangerous at these playgrounds anymore. No tire swings, no monkey bars, no tall slides or ladders. They consist usually of a wimpy slide and some bridges you can walk across. Like Steve Austin I feel sorry for kids growing up today.
three word answer…
Multimillion Dollar Lawsuits
*rob*
i dont think i said ALL people in public housing are leeches, but i can see how some people think they ARE ALL LEECHES because they get subsidies (health, food, and housing) that other people cant get but who are actually struggling MORE than them! of course i believe homeowners are leeches too considering that more money goes to tax breaks for homeowners than does actually go into public housing.
im sorry but i do not think people should be rewarded with food, health care, and subsidized housing just because they (most often!) found it easier to lay down with a man (who chances are will not help financially) and get pregnant. people should be PENALIZED for having kids they cant afford, NOT rewarded. we have it ass backwards in this country.
*rob*
What id like to know is do children actually enjoy playing on these things? There is never anything fun or semi-dangerous at these playgrounds anymore. No tire swings, no monkey bars, no tall slides or ladders. They consist usually of a wimpy slide and some bridges you can walk across. Like Steve Austin I feel sorry for kids growing up today.
Rob, I know you’re not a Republican, and the post was meant in jest for that very reason.
The real question I had in my head when I read some of your posts was, “where is this coming from?”
Don’t ever change Rob. Stay the same. Just when I thought I knew you, you go and change on me and start uttering these comments about how everyone who lives in public housing is a leech.
what is a libertarian? the middle party? im more apolitical / borderline anarchist than any specific party that’s fer sure.
*rob*
For the record, and then I’m outta here, as I have work to do.
Rob, you have legitimate street cred on living in the projects. However, you cannot speak for everyone in that system, no matter what those around you did. I would not take issue with your comments if you did not phrase them in ways that state that ALL people in the projects……..that’s what brings me to a boil. ALL people in any situation don’t operate as a single organism, most especially in negative behavior.
Although I have relatives who lived in the projects, I never did. I could generalize on that experience and knowlege and say that ALL people in the projects were hardworking working class people who just didn’t make enough money to afford to live anywhere else. They qualified for these programs, were accepted, and worked hard to make their apartments good places to raise families in complexes that were nice when they moved in, and had since become cesspools. That is the truth of it as I saw it.
Of course, the real truth is in the middle. There are those who scam, those who thieve and hurt people, and those who live ordinary, hard working lives that happen to take place in NYCHA houses. I pick on you because I feel their side should be as emphasized as much as the scammers and criminals. Because, like it or not, those are the majority of people in housing projects.