Ain't it just like "The Man" to make Black History Month, the shortest month of the year?
Smart blacks got the hell out of the ghettos that liberalism created. Hence the boarded storefronts and drug dealing homies.
To me it sounds like a yearning for black neighborhhods that are free from the self-serving political shenannigans of progressive, so-called "civil rights leaders" who sap black communities of resources, opportunities, freedom and incentives to work.
"Juicy-hipped"?
Yeccch!
Democrats and Liberal Left-Wingers at work keeping Black folks pegged to the bottom of the economic and opportunity totem pole forever. Good news is that Black Americans are waking up to the fact they have been had big time by the Democrat "Slavery" Party. Blacks only need to ask themselves one simple question. How many high paying decent jobs has Bill Clinton brought to Harlem, New York. Answer, Zero. End of story!!!
Needs. Spell-Check. Now.
Freepers--I need quick advice:
My son's first grade teacher (private Christian school, BTW, so no public school rants!) announced Fri she would start teaching "Black History Month" today. I called her and left a message telling her I had some concerns about it I'd like to discuss. She's going to call me back at 3 pm today.
My stomach turns at the thought of my 6-yr old being taught about segregation and slavery in a first grade curriculum that includes NO history.
Please help! How would you address your concerns to this teacher? Thanks.
When society finally turns a blind eye to the celebration of difference it will only be because they are too busy to notice.
I used to live in Hyde Park at the edge of 47th Street. It was a complete ghetto but things are changing slowly with gentrification. I think the areas east of Cottage Grove will be annexed by the university at some point, but west of Stoney will remain ghetto even in the long term. As you walk down 47th St, you will see the effects of socialism all around you. This article talks about the 47th St marketplace? Is it the one where the Hyde Park Co-op used to be? That aint glamorous at all, and furthermore the Co-op there shut down some time ago. Now it has a Citibank, which I hear is also planning to shut down. There is a J&J fish down the street where someone got shot my first year in college. But, it was the only place that was open late.
47th Street is not in the pits because people left. The population density is likely greater than ever but 47th has been a disaster for decades because of the crime which is rampant.
Another liberal semi-Marxist Democrat tyranically acting as the gatekeeper of her constituent's economic and social prospects. So what else is new? Nothing to see here, let's move on.
I think it's more a yearning for a once-thriving, once close-knit neighborhood that never recovered from LBJ's "Great Society" and its beneficiaries like Ald. Tillman.