Thursday, July 13, 2006

Colorblind racism

This morning I was listening to a snippet of the Glenn Beck show. Beck was talking about raced whites being afraid or scared to offend "blacks" when speaking with "blacks." I had to chuckle, because it's obvious that raced whites have no problem freely talking about "black'' differently amongst themselves.

Mr. Beck, let me share this one with you. What could provoke such a strong response from someone?

This Bitch Needs to Move Back Africa
7 Jul 2006 by danturkette
00rich http://dowdellresearch.blogspot.com/2006/07/specialized-school-at-old-southtown. html.

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/13/2006

    Yep, pretty much sealed the deal that I would stop reading that blog and NEVER patronize his business.

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  2. I don't know why, I was surprised this was a business person, with several business.

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  3. She's the racist, which is the point I was attempting to make. Have you read the racist crap on her Blog?

    Apparently not.

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  4. AWB is the one with the hostility, and the racist material. Merely commenting on race and racial issues, isn't racist.

    Business people, yes, I am surprised sometimes too when they get this sophomoric, and I wonder, how do they make it in adult life? But they do--and have, for some time.

    Anyway, more interesting is this development. What do you think on it now, credo: is it a good, middling, or bad thing, and for whom? What would your suggestions for that neighborhood be?

    I am curious because I'm watching another neighborhood development fight, nearer where I live. It is getting nasty. I'm against that development. But from reading about the one there on
    AWB's website, it sounds sort of good (although he doesn't like it, and if I remember correctly, you had some doubts of a different kind). Am I wrong on this?

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  5. P.Z
    If the land was actually going to be used to build housing for low-income families, that would be a good thing but it's not. If the land was going to be developed for a mall to meet the current residents' marketing needs it would be good thing, but it won't.

    The land is being land banked, for future development. In the mean time, undeveloped vacant lots undeveloped, depressed the value homeowners' property who remain behind.
    The area become farther distressed, making the area ripe for seedy characters to conduct their illegal activities. When residents complain, they become the problem rather than the permissive crime that is allowed to continue in their communities. Residents become frustrated from police harassment, and stop complaining and not assisting the police. After awhile, each party becomes hostile to each other.

    Many of these are retired residents who are driven from their homes and their property is acquired cheap, through constructive condemnation. I have a huge problem with this, because local officials are active participants.

    Do the right thing, pay the people a fair value for their property, instead of taking property without proper compensation.

    But let public officials stop trying to sell the public on what they are trying to do to a situation, that they have no interest in remedying.

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