1) Rent a big-city home to a rural family with the promise of plenty of job and education opportunities. 2) Promptly move the jobs and the good schools further and further away from the home. 3) When the family seeks to relocate closer to the jobs and schools, deny them new housing opportunities. 4) Offer to help the mother make ends meet on the stipulation that if the family is to keep the home or receive your help, the father must not live with or even visit the family. 5) After they agree to the stipulations of step 4, give the mother just enough aid that she can afford food and nothing more -- not school supplies, no new clothes, no utilities. 6) Shut off the utilities when the mother cannot pay the bills. 7) Refuse to pay for any repairs which the rented property may need. 8) Increase rent, but do not increase aid. 7) At this point, when the family is thoroughly impoverished and bitter, assign blame: Blame the family for the dilapidation of the home. Blame the father for the fact that he cannot find work and that he is never home with his children. Blame the children for their errantry and anger. This is The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, a documentary which outlines the decline of the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects of St. Louis, Missouri during the post-war years. Pruitt-Igoe was seen as a microcosm for the nationwide failures of public housing, and urban renewal projects, or as they were called behind the closed doors of the postwar politicians, policies to prevent Negro Deconcentration. Another name for the piece could be How to create a Black Ghetto. Pruitt-Igoe was in Missouri, but similar experiments came to similar ends all across America. This was not that long ago. This the generation of our parents and our grandparents. Pay attention; this explains a lot. https://youtube/watch?v=H4-ezSZhaJs #blacklivesmatter, #ferguson
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:57:12 +0000
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