[Coleus]

Times have changed, eh?

Now the school teaches its students to preach racism and to hate whites and Jews. The poem writer is a former member of the Black Panthers.

Newark, and many other cities, were nice places in which to live until the sociopaths pillaged them and burned them down. Now, what's that old saying about you don't **it in your own backyard? I guess they never learned that one and had to live in what they had made, so to speak. These cities will never rebound. And we, the State and Federal taxpayers, pay for most of Newark's budget in the form of State subsidies to the Municipality, School, AFDC, Medicaid, WIC, Energy subsidy for gas and electric, CDBG, SSBG, Title I, Title X. And that Sharpe James demanding a stadium, he's got a lot of nerve.

[OldFriend]

I grew up in Newark, lived through the riots, worked in downtown Newark and owned a business in Newark and have never even felt it would be safe to go back to see the old neighborhood.

After 25 years, the city of Newark got it's first supermarket......all brick front, with tiny windows up top.....to prevent vandalism, etc. how awful for the good people of Newark.....and with Sharpe James, there is no hope for a brighter future.