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
-A play liquor store with the bulletfproof pass through windows!
I wouldn’t be talking about mental states, if I were you BSD. Your first post was such a model of common sense and logic, without a whiff of racism. Uh huh.
Wow. I usually crap all over people who get offended by stuff (especially upper middle class white people who get offended on behalf of others, those people usually piss me off), but this is astonishingly offensive. It’s so obvious that I dont even have to explain why. It needs to come down. How about another few installations by the rocket scientists at the NYCHA:
– Janitor tools for the kids to play with (look mommy, I’m working!)
– Mock service windows for state services (look mommy, I’m spending all day standing in line just to be told I need to go to the other window to get help!)
– A play graveyard where they can play bury young kids who got caught up doing bad shit.
– A recruiting station.
Unbefuckinglievable.
Do people really think that if a child plays in a playground with a ‘jail’ that he/she is going to end up in jail? If it was that simply, we should just label all the playground stuff “library”, “school”, “college” and any other PC buzz words..
“My guess is some high income earning white guy from the UES thought this would be humorous.”
proving your mental state yet again
This whole argument is just silly…
Right, MM. I think that forgetting for a moment about the spectacular stupidity for a city agency to buy such a piece of crap, it is an inferior form of play for kids whose soaring imaginations create their own play spaces with forts, hiding spaces, towers, whatever.
Colonel, there’s a huge difference between a board game and this. I don’t think anyone with a brain is going to think that the existence of a jail in Monopoly is the same as a “jail” in a NYCHA playground. No one is advocating that degree of political correctness, that’s absurd.
Jail is a playground? Great message to give a kid. Nothing like trying to inspire children to the finer things in life. My guess is some high income earning white guy from the UES thought this would be humorous.