via Bryan SirMarxalot Newman YOU MENTIONED to me before that when your youngest son was initially attacked by gang members, the police were present, but did nothing. Now, theyre charging your son for having a conversation that theyve doctored to look like a plot to kill someone. What do you think these raids are really about? THEYRE ABOUT a few things. Were talking about a neighborhood thats been gentrifying since as early as the 1970s. Were talking about a neighborhood that the wealthy are trying to come in and take. We have landmarks and beautiful brownstones--who wouldnt want to live in Harlem? After September 11, when all those folks in the lower Manhattan area wanted to migrate further uptown, Harlem became a bigger target. They said: Lets buy up all the buildings and jack the rents up so high they cant afford to live here. Lets not pour our resources into the low-income housing developments. Lets not give them resources they need for their kids to go to school, graduate, come back and be productive enough to stay here. Lets not do that. AND THIS is continuing despite the fact that New York City just elected the tale of two cities mayor, who says he recognizes inequality and wants to do something to fix it. I CALL that the icing on the cake. This whole thing is about how to break down the New York City public housing system. Manhattanville housing complex sits in Columbia Universitys crossway. What happened was a lot of developments became available for purchase up Broadway. Columbia bought all of that property. Our development sits in the way of their expanding. So they bought us out in 2008-09. If this were still New York City Housing Authority housing, then they would have to include us in what they build. Now that they own us, we have no say in what goes up. So now theyve been tearing everything down. I dont know what theyre going to do--our lease agreements are in question, too. They own our buildings, but because we still sit on city property, they have to treat us as city housing. Theyre still trying to figure out how to purchase the land from the city. My apartment is technically paid for, and Ive already earned enough credit to probably carry me three to five years on maintenance fees. So they cant touch me or anyone who has been paying rent with money earned from their jobs. I dont have to be bought out, because technically, Ive already purchased in. But the people who are on public assistance--Section 8, Social Security and things like that--cant use that to apply for a purchase, because technically, thats state and city money. Unless theyre paying their own portion of the rent, they have no say. So what will happen to those tenants? They do this to urban neighborhoods because they know half the people arent educated enough, or dont have the means to fight back. A lot of people are already saying, Oh my god, Im going to have to go to a shelter! No you dont! Just calm down. Ive been having a lot of tenants ask me for help. Right now theres nothing to do, but just be easy, trust and believe. Nobodys getting put out, nobodys going to be on the streets, nobody has to go to shelters. Never, back in the day, did you hear that Grant and Manhattanville were going to start a fight--never. We always got along. If things were as bad as theyre making them out to be, we would have left already. There are kids whove been fighting for a couple of years now--we have two kids dead. The police are using these murders to figure out how to implement gang laws in New York. Los Angeles was the first place where they implemented gang laws. Once the Bloods and the Crips started to form in New York, the police were putting them in jail on assault charges for one to three years. But with gang assault charges, you get five to 10 years. See the difference? New York is attempting to implement gang laws, but they want to use gang laws to go after neighborhood children. Thats wrong.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:24:49 +0000
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