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
Rob was just accused of being like Sarah Palin (as if that were a meaningful or complete argument)? That’s my exit cue. I’ll let you kids stay here and tell fart jokes or whatever follows the use of that kind of rhetoric.
I don’t have a chip on my shoulder for the rich. Anyone looking at your posts would see you envy and complain about everyone and everything. Everyday. Its what you do.
And yes, dave. I did say 100%- because when someone generalizes as much as rob, that’s what’s implied. If he wants me to be specific, he has to be specific.
bkhabitant- rob knows about the projects. He can see them from his kitchen window.
According to rob, 100% of the people in projects are scamming. But considering the state of the economy and financial industry, I think we should focus on the fact that the real issue is not the subsidies to poor people, but the irresponsibility of those much higher up and making far more money. Poor people didn’t trash the economy, after all.
Posted by: bxgrl at March 24, 2010 12:47 PM
Like I said above, rob didn’t say 100%, you did.
Secondly, you are making the exact same mistake by broadly indicting all people that make money for trashing the economy. I suspect that of the top 2% of the moneyearners in this country, less than 2% of those are decision-makers on Wall Street and banks that may be held accountable.
Well, scamming the system to live in the projects is clearly a failure of imagination. And that is exactly the problem with the Jail marked Jail.
im GLAD dave can at least look at my viewpoint as legit (because it is) and you are saying the percent of people ripping off the system is in the single digits? LOL x 5000! no WAY! why? i view getting knocked up at 16 and dropping out of high school and relying on government assistance for the REST OF YOUR LIFE as cheating the system, whether intentional or not. it’s cheating the system. so throw in that little scneario and youre looking at at LEAST 77% of the projects.
*rob*
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he gets the Republican of the Day Award. 🙂
GACK! lol. i guess if being a republican means having no sympathy for people who dont better their lot in life on their own accord, then so be it.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at March 24, 2010 12:47 PM
Rob,
Two questions for you:
1. Are you secretly posting from your lakeside home in Wasilla, AK?
2. Are you contemplating an ill-advised run for the Presidency in 2012?
Let’s ask rob what % he thinks it is, or at least was in the PJs he lived in. He clearly admitted that grandmama was an offender!!!!
Yes, I demand Coochie Caverns to be erected at every Public School in Brooklyn…starting with P.S. 321. Children need to know where they come from. It’s public money, right?…and Beggars Can’t Be Choosers!
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Poor people didn’t trash the economy, after all.
no, but they do like to trash their buildings and neighborhoods. the chip you have on your shouldar for the rich is just as big as the chip my shouldar against the faux poor and faux rich.
*rob*