NYC gives green light to the building of apartments with ‘poor door’

 

‘No one ever said that the goal was full integration of these populations,’ David Von Spreckelsen…’

 

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Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

 

The persistence of segregation.

 

Race Basics: The Trouble With White People

 

The whole article is worth reading, but if you don’t have time, here are some highlights:

 

“In this struggle we can’t give up on white people. I know this will disappoint some more militant (or maybe just sick and tired) readers, but unless we can move more whites onto our side, we will never end racism.

But, whites’ relative proximity to power doesn’t make them evil, just more influential.

The white middle class in the U.S. rose from the rubble of the Great Depression as a result of an economic stimulus package of programs and policies that was won by the Roosevelt administration. But winning that package of programs required cutting a deal with racially conservative Southern legislators that made Roosevelt’s stimulus isotretinoin on line racially exclusive.

Those government programs that http://landmarkinn.com/project/the-board-room/ created the white middle class were paid for by every worker, including workers of color.

Race is a cage that keeps all but the most powerful among us trapped in perpetual insecurity, fighting against one another for privileges rather than with one another for power. But the bars of that cage are tempered not just by privilege but by fear.

We need to approach the project of winning racial justice as a struggle against fear.

In order to win against racism, we need more than criticism of those who appear to be hoarding the goods. We need solutions that make room in our still far from complete democracy for all of us so that none of us need fear exclusion, exploitation, and the humiliation of being denied basic human dignity. And isn’t that what justice is all about anyway?”

 
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Spike Lee rips NYC gentrification

Filmmaker Spike Lee talks to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about his harsh comments on gentrification.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

And the second video is good by they guy who asked the question.

 

He speaks about wealth creation due to gentrification.

 

PS – Calling the cops on a person is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Don’t call the cops on someone for playing music. Just put in ear plugs or something reasonable.

 

See on www.cnn.com

Bayer CEO: ‘We don’t make medicine for poor Indians’

In a crass yet frank admission, Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers said the company’s new cancer drug, Nexavar, is not “for Indians,” but “for western patients who can afford it.” The statement came in the w…

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