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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Brooklyn Heats Up
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 02:21:09 -0400 (EDT)
Brooklyn Heats Up http://www.alansondheim.org/bigotry.jpg Lots of ways to read this, but combined with the assault against me, general anger on the streets, a crime-wave in our neighborhood, homelessness and despair on the rise, the local cops refusal to do their duty - the message is clear. I just don't know whose side anyone is on. There was a boosterism article in USA Today about the area - and again some of the comments hinted at violence to come. NY State has the greatest disparity of any, between rich and poor, and this is one of the results. Meanwhile the arena, which is creating all this tension, seems to be somewhat on schedule - lots of money to be made from the "Brooklyn Nets" to Jay-Z and Dylan and Streisand, Come and trash us; the police don't give a damn.
