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
legion:”Please name a human society which stands above reproach?”
But if you will, I can be an equal-opportunity debunker 😉
No really, that’s beside the point. Just because there’s a level of hypocrisy and venality and what-have-you everywhere, it does not mean that Jefferson gets a pass. If anything, your claiming him to be such a paragon of virtue should make one more, not less, critical of him.
I guess I’m a complete cynic, and don’t hold many historical figures in high esteem. I’d take what’s good from them, and acknowledge it, but feel free to be critical when I don’t like what they say (or do.)
Did you hear any Norah Jones on your trip??
Something about windows????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dncQ3EBh8
Kylie Minogue had tons of hits. Her sister Dannii (sic) had a couple as well.
Natalie Imbruglia. She was in ‘Home and Away’. Think she may have had one other song but that was it.
I thought she was hot & she seemed to be a nice person as well.
ROFL dibs.
BSD, sorry, that was meant specifically for Biff. i didn’t mean to offend the entire diaspora.
ENY, I don’t get your point on that 4:07 post. Are you questioning their credentials???
Oh yeah, then there’s Kylie Minogue, another australian rack / pipes combo that popped out a one-hit wonder. And she was a soap actress too.
“The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.”
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ON THE AUTHORS:
Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics (PSE), Paris, France, and a Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, United Kingdom.
Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California, and
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From what I recall she has a nice rack.
Posted by: infinitejester at March 24, 2010 4:00 PM
If memory serves she was an Australian soap opera actor and auditioned for the song “torn” (which was already written, they just needed a set of pipes and a nice rack to front the song). She got the part and it ended up being a big hit. One hit wonder, right? Or did she do anything else? Sort of like Merrill Bainbridge, another aussie chick one hit wonder from the 90s.