Dyna, please be a little less parochial in your outlook, and a little more considerate of a history which you have taken one small part of and extrapolated as if it were the whole. There are railyards in south Minneapolis. Much of the LRT is on one. The yards extended from the University of Minnesota to Lake Street. Much has been reclaimed for other uses but this was an industrial corridor with "Minneapolis Moline and the Grain elevators.
As for lakes and creeks, there are several buried ones in South Minneapolis also. One once ran just south of Franklin and Chicago. It is gone now. Where did it go. The cool Powderhorn pond you refer to was once a large lake. What you see is the last polluted remnant of it. Where did it go? You talk of the northside as if everything worthwhile has been taken away and every bad thing dumped there. Hey darlin, we have fought for twenty years because of "dumping" in the Phillips neighborhood. Where is your asbestos dump on the north side? We have a big one! Also show me anything on the Southside that rivals Theodore Worth Park. Dyna, I think you need to open your eyes and your mind to reality. Sure the "Impacted Neighborhoods" are dumped on, but all such neighborhoods are dumped on whether they are on the North side or the Southside. Poor neighborhoods and those of color are "Dumped On". The problem is that north and south neighborhoods look at their problems as just their problems. We need to start looking at the problems as both our problems and come together to demand change for both our communities. The separation has allowed the City to more easily engage in patterns of discrimination. United, the poor impacted neighborhoods might have the political power to change that. So stop thinking it's just "ME" its both of "US", whether its industrial pollution or "Criminal Pollution". Jim Graham, Ventura Village .org/mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
