Save Public Housing Video

[Jennifer]

Okay, last one from me, I promise!!

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> From: bill quigley <dupre...@yahoo.com>
> Date: December 7, 2007 09:34:18 CST
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuQv4eAsvGE
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[Rhonda Browning]

Any time they say "mixed use development" it means getting rid of and dispersing the poor.  It happened a few years back in Atlanta.  When it was time for the poor people to come back there were not nearly as many units and the HOusing Authority was very picky about who they let back in.  As for Section 8 vouchers, the problem is a lack of landlords willing to accept voucher tenants partially but also the fact that some people are not capable of managing themselves in private housing.  Budgeting money, paying utilities and dealing with private landlords is just beyond what they are able to do.  Some of these people border on being disabled but are not quite bad off enough to get SSI.  Others are just illiterate or otherwise educationally bad off and some are simply overwhelmed. 
 
The Bible says the poor will always be with us and we are supposed to look after them if we love Jesus.  Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because they were haughty and proud and had much ease but they did not care for the poor and needy.  America is going to be in such trouble for mistreating the poor.

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To: phb...@aol.com
Subject: [JenaSixActionPlanning] Save Public Housing Video
From: dj...@riseup.net
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:08:05 -0600

[Maxine Crump]

Rhonda,   I hear your frustration and I recognized that you are seeing that the powers that be have no receptors for processing this very pertinent, realistic information about situation that people in the housing projects face.  In our society, it has always been the case that the decisions are made by those who decide by their standards and not what is actual; it is an institutional problem.    Like the time during the Reagan era we began to realize that many lawmakers were making their decisions based on a two parent home with a stay at home mom with two children living in a single dwelling....no thought of divorced situations, single parent home with the mom working two jobs and no day care, blended families, let along those you described who are poor and living in housing projects. Our institutions need to be overhauled to reflect the realities that affect all Americans not just the ones, reflected in the media as the real Americans.   I recall as a reporter going to a private elementary school and attempting to interview a student and being told by the principal that the student was not representative of their school.  I said "he attends this school doesn't he?" Then, I would like to interview him."  Can you believe a principal of a school would not recognize the damage to a child's self esteem by such a decision.  And that is from one of the elite schools.  Where then are the Housing Projects on their radar.   Sometimes we need to be reminded that Martin Luther King understood what needed to happen with institutions all too well.  He was not trying to get blacks and whites to get along...we were already getting along in the 50's..to the disadvantage of races of color, however but we were getting along.  He was trying to get America to overhaul it's institutions so that we could all have equal access as promised by the Constitution.  He was trying to get the barriers lifted that blocked races of color from enjoying all American privileges. We have lost sight of that thanks to those who have smooth him off at the edges to make him a "benign hero" instead of the "dangerous Negro" he really was.    Keep the good message going Rhonda. People thinking in the right direction always brings right change. Never believe America is too big, or too established to changed.  Anything that was build can be dismanteled...brick by brick...and not just  housing projects, but steel buildings and blocked attitudes...they can all be changed.  Don't despair let's keep flowing toward what is good and right about America because that is what we will be able to use to correct what is not right and good about America.   Maxine   -------Original Message-------

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