Segregation is about isolating people. Keeping some folks in and others out is essential to segregation. The court found intentional segregation at the Glenwood/Lyndale housing projects. Most couldn't see and didn't care what was going on behind those decorative walls. Most figured it was nothing nice. I have always felt that the cement "sound barriers" around the North housing projects were built to isolate the residents there. A wall is a wall, even if you paint a smiley face on it. The Demolition of those walls, in the new gentrified plan for the now cleared site, confirms my gut feeling. Won't the new gentry care about highway noise and need as much "protection" as the old subsidized occupants needed? Or was there another agenda, besides caring, when our civic leaders put up a wall around the ghetto? Was there another agenda, besides court ordered social justice, when they tore down the ghetto, and the wall? Keith Reitman, My family history includes an Old World ghetto, NearNorth _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
