The flower child writes:
"My '60s ideology is about
retaining sensitivity to the voices of change. In other words: the music
didn't die, so listen to it now! Think like a festival coordinator."
I called Lewis and asked him to book Tony at the 2008 love-in, the party for
the park. Remember his classic and listen to the music!
Come gather round anointed
Wherever you roam
And admit that the billions
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be sucked to the bone
If your district to you
Is worth saving
Then you better kiss ass
And you'll stink like a turd
For the times they are a changin
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From: "Anthony West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "UnivCity listserv" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 1:54 AM
Subject: [UC] Re: GREAT ARTICLE
I'm sorry, Glenn, but you did miss my point.
I owe nothing to Penn. You owe your millions to Penn.
You do have a '60s ideology and so do I. But your '60s ideology is buried
in the past and wastes everybody's reading time. Your "gentrification"
analysis is 30 years out of date and doesn't help any of us understand the
challenges of 2008. My '60s ideology is about retaining sensitivity to the
voices of change. In other words: the music didn't die, so listen to it
now! Think like a festival coordinator.
The real question before University City is what kind of economic change
is likeliest to improve urban education. You have shown the major
difference between Philadelphia education and suburban education is
economic: more suburban taxpayers are prosperous, so they can afford to
spend more, so they buy better schools for their kids and everyone else's.
You've published the best argument for gentrification I've read in 30
years. Inner-city school systems, you say, are suffering because they lack
higher-income taxpayers. It's a top priority, then, for Philadelphians who
care about the education of their poor pupils to tempt more prosperous
residents to Philadelphia. There aren't enough of them now to help the
poor kids, so we need to entice more of them to move into town and help
this terribly important project. How should we go about this?
Some UC-list people have written it would be very bad for any prosperous
people to move into West Philadelphia ever, because their mere presence
constitutes a permanent, terrible wound to poor people. Supposedly the
poor suffer agonies because of a change in local housing prices if, over a
15-year period, they wind up shifting from 36th & Chestnut to 36th &
Haverford, less than a mile away.
As I see it, this is no big deal. The Black Bottom may or may not have
been justly handled, but it was a far cry from Darfur.
New York City does have major gentrification issues right now which I take
seriously. Philadelphia's worst gentrification woes are to New York's, as
a pimple is to skin cancer. We can't take any of these UC-list
gentrification ruminations seriously until the ruminators get a
perspective on urban life ... which is always about change. Then the
community at large, including all of us, can have a real, useful
discussion about class and education and neighborhood and how it all works
out Until then.....
I don't think prosperity has been as big a threat to the local poor as you
say it is. Those I talk to do complain about it at times; but their larger
gripe is with poverty itself, rather than with non-poverty. Most of the
truly poor don't want to kill any goose that might lay a golden egg to get
them out of poverty. They like the idea of economic development, because
they really and truly want to get developed. They just don't want to get
left out.
-- Tony West
Glenn wrote:
For the rest ... I read tedious, pompous opinions by childless experts,
wannabee-teacher experts and Penn-is-bad experts. The usual suspects.
West, am I getting your point correctly? "Shut up, shut up, shut up!
I'm ready to defend my master's backroom dealings with my usual tactics!"
Melani and I posted the link to the research driven opinion of the
president of the teacher's union. Is he a wannabee wanker with a
sixities ideology like me?
Also, do Ms Nachmias and Ms Goldman know that you are using their names
to support your listserv bullying?
West, the tactics you used as leader of the Fiends of Clark Park gang
don't work as well on a public list. People can read your efforts to
silence, mislead, and bully. They can read the opinioins and questions
posted by your targets.
As ruler of FOCP and servant of UCD, you had a free pass to silence and
bully anyone you wished. It must burn you up to know that people
increasingly realize the truth!
After years of attacking my character, you failed to shut me up. Now,
when people say, "I didn't believe Glenn's stories about the FOCP because
I heard all about his bad character. But now it seems that the wanker
tells the truth and the leaders at FOCP and SHCA really do conduct
themselves shamefully."
This must make you furious! I won't condone your conduct, but West, you
have my pity.
The wanker
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