Wizard Marks wrote: >I've watched white males who >semi-privately refer to their neighbors as "good niggers and bad >niggers, breeders, cunts", take over a neighborhood organization with a >clearly articulated goal of getting control of any money coming into the >neighborhood from whatever public sources to drive out the people of >color and take over the real estate goldmine this neighborhood has >become due to growth of the city. I've seen rude on a grand scale and >I'm still seeing it. > >================================= > Eva Young asks:
>Wizard, I'm curious about this one. Are you talking about the struggles >with CNIA here? While at the Central Summit the day before, I observed >both blacks and whites talking about the need for more of a focus on >improving the neighborhood -- and that includes improving property values. >There was also discussion about those who claim to speak for the poor >really being out there for themselves. > You've never participated in the neighborhood meeting cycles either before or after the onset of NRP. I have. I've sat in meetings monthly and twice monthly for years on end. Those who claim to speak for the poor are virtually always labeled as being out for themselves. Those who speak for the poor are most often also black and poor themselves. But no one mentions, for example, that the whole Healy block routine (which went on for years) was about a very, very few people speaking only for themselves and getting the city, NRP, and whoever else to pay for it. There have been other initiatives requiring meeting cycles as well and there, too, the poor and the black, particularly, are labeled and accused of wanting to control all the money and of being in it only for themselves. That was the accusations for the so called Blue Crew. Were they are more larcenous at heart? Nope. Were they any less larcenous? Probably not, but they had seen the most vocal whites get everything they asked for and felt secure in their belief that black people, who have lived in Central for generations, didn't appear to be getting the same deal. >Maybe you live in a different neighborhood than me -- but I have not heard >this type of language at neighborhood meetings of any sort. And there are >neighborhood meetings that have gotten heated. > It's not said TO the meeting, but off to the sides AT the meetings. It's off to the sides where you overhear the real agendas of various folks as they rally votes to their point of view. It's also said at the private get-togethers of some neighborhood folks where they feel they are among their own and can, therefore, let down their hair, so to speak. It's not during the heated meetings when these things come out, but between those times and around those venues and off to the sides. WizardMarks, Central > > > > > >Eva >Eva Young >Central Neighborhood >Minneapolis >_______________________________________ >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 > _______________________________________ 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
