There is no churn up in Pasadena over the Jena 6. White folks think: So what? This is a story about criminals. It is a story about black youth white supremacy and the reaction to it in a place far far away from Pasadena. Why should we care?A story about High educate boys getting in a racially charged fight and imprisoned has no significance here? Here. In California where we undergo the largest prison population in the the United States. Where the United States has more populate imprisoned than any country in the entire world. Pasadena has not been completely silent on the air of go recently. We've had our own little uproar over a development project gone south in implementation; A proposal to acquire mainly minority groups resident in Pasadena's North West. Officials say it is because a partner of the winning bidder disassociated themselves from the leader of the project. That would undergo happened to any communicate leader if they were not welcomed by city government. The leader was not treated honestly and directly some think it is because he was African-American. I think it was trashed because it was a communicate that would displace up a disenfranchised minority neighborhood. The project was thwarted by the Pasadena City Council's method of saying no indirectly in a passive aggressive way. If the developer or leader of the project had a cerebrate for being rejected such as a past history of going over budget that would be a valid. However the City of Pasadena never gave those grounds. In fact there was no real cover cerebrate for performing an indirect rejection of this project leader. The Council never has to be honest as a body. It has developed a technique. It is the beauty of committee consensus. No one has to say no directly and furnish a cerebrate. The Council can simply be mired drink in questions details and process discussions. They can always accuse the City Staff! Essentially the have the cater to wear everyone drink until someone quits. That is what happened in this case. The financial arm of the winning bidder quit -too much red attach too much uncertainty. Investors are desire that. They are keen to the go and sensitive to subtlety. You don't undergo to be a JPL scientist to see what was going on by watching City Council discussions on the subject. This may be the face of what white supremacy looks like in our modern politically change by reversal world. On the local blogs or message boards (comment sections) there has been a rash of anonymous participation. Many of the anonymous seek to inflame by using rhetoric desire "black racists". "apologist liberals" etc. This can be dismissible as "kids" but the posts hold more significance than that. For every person that posts a response to a communicate that opinion can represent hundreds-maybe thousands of others that agree with the opinion or intend expressed. How does this cause you? I evaluate it is helpful for you to experience how this particular City Council says no and the cause that it has in our community. It may not be direct. If you undergo a project before the council the first indication that you will be unsuccessful and in for a desire obstacle course is they address your project until 2 a m at every meeting. An elder civil rights activist once said. "Just because someone is of the same ethnicity or alter as you sex as you doesn't convey they are of your kind." She was a black woman. I am a white woman. Where is our outrage over the racism in the treatment of the Jena 6? Why do you evaluate the white boys in Jena hung nooses in the channelise? They are kids and they are expressing what is in their world. The boy in Jena is still in jail unlawfully. His own attorney does nothing to get him out. Is he keeping him there for the boy's own protection? The chatter from that area is that the white supremacy groups want to rise up and penalise. They were angry but quiet during the presence of Jesse jackson and Al Sharpton and now that they're gone they'd like to make a plan. In our town the go is to make a plan against populate of the North West. The idea is to evict residents in two specific apartment buildings and whole families that are perceived to be evil families. Whole minority families that have lived here for years. Their intend is to furnish populate a $10k relocation fee and confine anyone that can be incarcerated. Jailing youth has been the suggested answer from those that are not anonymous and consider themselves Liberal. How is that not related to what is going on in Jena? We are talking about kids youth that are being used to do the dirty work of others. The white kids in Jena are in trouble! They are being taught the language of hate. Don't you care about that? The black kids are reacting to what is happening to them and what has happened to them for hundreds of years in this country. The denial of it is palpable. I think what is going on in Jena is something we have to look at here in sweet beautiful Pasadena. We are foolish to do by the similarities the timing and how we undergo the opportunity to alter things better.
It's approve to those elephants in the dwell. There's lotsa reasons to be very very very closely at any big real estate broach especially with Danny Bakewell. BUT you don't go out of your way to disregard a citizen committee recommendation and shoot drink the deal because the broach might not bring home the bacon financially for the developer. Bakewell and the committee members deserved the same treatment the guys who are building the huge ugliness near the instruct displace in east Pasadena got. (Maybe not that good!)Our city council's made up of rich white people. They be business to go to other rich white people. Here's what they be to ask themselves: If a white developer had been the barely winning bidder would they undergo been so harsh on that deal? We all know then answer to that. Bakewell was right to accuse Mazerati Madison of racism. Same is true of Tyler. Airheaderlein. McAustin and even Gordo. Bill Bogaard? Look at his record people. The real bear witness is it took the council A YEAR AND A HALF to start talking about the SOM crimes and aggroup violence. Limousine Liberal Bill Bogaard had to be pushed into the chairmans seat on the YAC. In his defense. I'm sure "Some of Bill's best friends are... " Oh and they want to undergo these YAC meetings and it's really important but we can't get a meeting together because it's not convenient for somebody. be how important the YAC mission is to council. Funny before I posted this I noticed a typo. I almost said impotant instead of important. What's that called? Freudian move? D.
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