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I want to add on to this post....
> Several years ago, I listened to a group of older, financially
> well-to-do white men talk about how much safer the world had
> become since the Cold War and Nuclear Winter threats were over.
> I found it hard to accept, since I daily listened to tales of
> low-income young adults - african americans, latinos, caucasians
> and more - as they spoke of the fear they felt every night as
> they stepped past drug addicts on their way home.
I am a Black/Puerto Rican/mixed blood young adult with a working class
background who also feels no more comfortable now than when I did during the
Cold War. And it has little to do with drug addicts on the street. As a
matter of fact, drug addicts on the street add to my fear, but I don't fear
them. They are a syptom of a system that has continued to provide safety for
well-to-do white folks and has continually failed to meet the needs of the
working class, the working poor, and people of color.
I want to hear the real strategic plans that SSB and RT Rybak have for
ending racial profiling. (I've heard another jibberjabber and seen no
reduction in profiling). I want to know what sort of state initiatives the
candidates will support/push for in an effort to curb an ever widening
income gap/skills gap/and education gap between the poor and rich, people of
color and white folks. I want to hear what kind "war" on drugs the
candidates plan to wage, and if that war will continue a cycle of
victimization of those who have already been victimized by our beloved
political system and has made it that much to turn to be overcome by
hopelessness and drug use.
I also want to know what the candidates plan to do in terms of
renewable/reusable energy sources. I want to know how the mayor/candidate
are going to react to the article published today in the STRIB concerning
the computer system and the injustices it is creating at the new "improved"
jail in downtown.
These are my issues/concerns. Sharon has in the past answered some of these
questions. RT has been silent. I want to see/hear more than RT in pajamas at
an inconsequencial protest, and I want to see/hear more from the mayor other
than condolences for the tragedy in New York. As Atherton and others pointed
out before, I want to hear about what the candidates plan to DO and enough
of what they didn't do right or aren't doing right or supposedly did that no
one can really agree upon.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Powderhorn Park
9-4
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