Comments on: “Yet another warehouse of concentrated poverty” http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/#comment-218 Anonymous Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:29:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3144#comment-218 It's 2011. No one talks about "the man" keeping them down. (Believe me, I grew up in the Bronx). You can always tell the age of people who say that. That guy probably still thinks people say "groovy". It’s 2011. No one talks about “the man” keeping them down. (Believe me, I grew up in the Bronx). You can always tell the age of people who say that. That guy probably still thinks people say “groovy”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/#comment-217 Anonymous Sat, 08 Jan 2011 03:27:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3144#comment-217 Doesn't make them any less annoying. Doesn’t make them any less annoying.

]]> By: Jaleo2000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/#comment-203 Jaleo2000 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:04:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3144#comment-203 I think we are seeing here is the very real balkanization of urban society that stymies us. I commiserate with both sides, there needs to be affordable housing in the city, and yet it comes fraught with so many problems that makes it unpleasant for the neighbors. I recently saw a project about The Frederick Douglass Dwellings in Anacostia, that was public housing built in the WWII boom. There were many two parent families and a community center in which the ladies who ran it really took an interest in their charges. They didn't know they were "poor," and there was a strong sense of community and family. There are so many problems here: it's true that many urban blacks that I have encountered blame their problems on the system, "the plan", without seeking solutions, but I find this mimicked in modern society too, where many people blame "the media" without questioning their role in propagating a media more concerned with the upcoming royal nuptials than the minutae of the tax code. People do need to start taking responsibility for themselves, their knowledge base, their support of leadership, and their desires to meet and understand their neighbors. Start community watches. Volunteer with big brothers. Don't accept or make excuses. There will need to be a large attitude adjustment on both sides for anything to change. I think we are seeing here is the very real balkanization of urban society that stymies us. I commiserate with both sides, there needs to be affordable housing in the city, and yet it comes fraught with so many problems that makes it unpleasant for the neighbors.

I recently saw a project about The Frederick Douglass Dwellings in Anacostia, that was public housing built in the WWII boom. There were many two parent families and a community center in which the ladies who ran it really took an interest in their charges. They didn’t know they were “poor,” and there was a strong sense of community and family.

There are so many problems here: it’s true that many urban blacks that I have encountered blame their problems on the system, “the plan”, without seeking solutions, but I find this mimicked in modern society too, where many people blame “the media” without questioning their role in propagating a media more concerned with the upcoming royal nuptials than the minutae of the tax code. People do need to start taking responsibility for themselves, their knowledge base, their support of leadership, and their desires to meet and understand their neighbors. Start community watches. Volunteer with big brothers. Don’t accept or make excuses. There will need to be a large attitude adjustment on both sides for anything to change.

]]> By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/#comment-202 Anonymous Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:33:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3144#comment-202 True, but one did try to steal my puppy, three months ago; I wish I were kidding. On a more serious note, we don't know that the "drunks" referred to in the comment are mugging people either-- I was just responding to the very real annoyance of public drunkenness...and trying to point out that certain communities do not have a monopoly on it. p.s. Thank you for such a prompt comment! You set a commenting record! ;) True, but one did try to steal my puppy, three months ago; I wish I were kidding. On a more serious note, we don’t know that the “drunks” referred to in the comment are mugging people either– I was just responding to the very real annoyance of public drunkenness…and trying to point out that certain communities do not have a monopoly on it.

p.s. Thank you for such a prompt comment! You set a commenting record! ;)

]]> By: Dcarchitect10 http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/01/yet-another-warehouse-of-concentrated-poverty/#comment-201 Dcarchitect10 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:26:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=3144#comment-201 Drunken sorority girls don't mug you on the street. Drunken sorority girls don’t mug you on the street.

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