National Night Out. Tuesday, 5 Aug 03

[Al B. Sure!]

Sava acts like he knows about the urban 'poor' more than i do but he lives in the epitome of the burbs

[Sava]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Sava acts like he knows about the urban 'poor' more than i do but he lives in the epitome of the burbs

I act like it because I do. Sure, I live with my parents in the burbs now... that doesn't mean I'm a ****ing millionaire... but I grew up on the Northwest side of Chicago. And despite my lack of experience in utter poverty, I read and have learned a hell of a lot more than you. Sure, you may walk around in your neighborhood and observe things but you only created some sort of over-exagerrated generalization of urban poverty. There are poor people everywhere Speer, not just in the inner city. Poverty is a phenomenon, and I've spent years reading about the subject, and learning about it. While you have not... And nobody is saying your experiences aren't valid. It's just that they don't translate into all of America.

And while such a program "National Night Out" works for some communities, it certainly is not a one size fits all solution. If it works for some communities, fine, by all means do it. And I would support a program for communities that would benefit from it. But it hardly is a cure.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MrFun


But first you will have to get the layout of the minefield I set up around the apartment building I live in.

I figure the four-deuce mortars will trigger sympathetic detonation of any APM's you have emplaced.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Sava
Poverty is a phenomenon, and I've spent years reading about the subject, and learning about it.

What an utter waste of time. You'd be much better off reading about money and learning how to make and keep it.

[st_swithin]

Tick tock, tick tock.

[st_swithin]

Who else is planning on having a pint o' Guiness to celebrate Natl. Nite Out?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


I figure the four-deuce mortars will trigger sympathetic detonation of any APM's you have emplaced.

You don't realize what kind of advanced technology I have that can counter your detection and detonation techniques.

MWA HA HA HA!!!!

[Japher]

I think it's funny at how hard MrFun is trying to be funny...

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Japher
I think it's funny at how hard MrFun is trying to be funny...

This comes from someone who has laughed at one of my jokes before.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


What an utter waste of time. You'd be much better off reading about money and learning how to make and keep it.

This just nails it down tight.

[Dom Pedro II]

My mom's friend was talking about this... her town is making a big deal of it... our town... not so much. Big shock, a rich Jewish ghetto where everybody knows each other vs. a deportation jump-off point where nobody WANTS to know each other.

[Al B. Sure!]

i never heard of it til Slowwhand posted this... dont got no flyers or nothing nor did the local news say anything

[SlowwHand]

That's why I mentioned you in the initial post.
You've written numerous times of crime in your 'hood.
The program, to your knowledge, doesn't happen in Philly?
Fine. Become a leader, Albert.

Some, and no mention of names, prefer anarchy and crime in the street.
Well, that's just wrong.
I'm not saying you and your neighbors have to hang bad guys from a street light in vigilante fashion; I'll do that myself, for a fee.
But when the neighborhood turns into more or less an extended family, your first battle is won.

[lord of the mark]

neighborhood i grew up in wasnt rich or suburban - it was a lower middle class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn - where people DID tend to know each other, and retired folks sat in lawn chairs on the sidewalk in front of the building, chatting and being nosy. There were certain limits on privacy, but it was a fun and safe place to grow up.

So i'll certainly chat with the neighbors tonight. Theyre not my best friends, but they seem to be nice, and i wish there was more community bonding. My sense is there is less such bonding in suburbs than in working class urban neighborhoods.

[Dom Pedro II]

Hmmm... this may be true... I know it depends a lot on the demographic.

Where I live, we have a 12% turnover rate.... my town is called "the stepping stone to the suburbs". It wasn't always, but it has become this... so one stays particularly long, and the newest groups of people don't seem to want to have anything to do with the community. They just want to take what they can and run.