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“MLB.com has a good story on Kenichi Zenimura, popularly known as “The Father of Japanese Baseball” for his efforts to keep baseball alive and thriving for Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II”
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“no one thought to question why a social service agency would place a white child with a black foster mother?…Is the NYC literary scene THAT whitewashed and politically correct that they were blinded to this race issue?”
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“Now, if Ms. Conway’s back of the bus comment truly had no racial context, why then, does she proceed to bring up race — twice? “
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“Since the problem allegedly was with Michael’s mother’s visa, couldn’t they just release Michael and the nurse? They couldn’t. And now he is dead. P.S. The mother’s travel documents were found to be in order.”
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“A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building.”
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“Officials say the changes will revive a cultural identity that had been threatened by unregulated development. But many longtime residents fear a rezoned 125th Street will price them out of their homes and erode even more of their community.”
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From blog Jezebel: “Especially because Fatima probably takes it in the back because the front is sewn up. Awww snap! Sorry, that was mean.”
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“Margaret Cho is getting her own reality show on VH1.”
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“every single one of the boarding institutions 40 black students received in their mailboxes a death threat reading, “Bang, bang, get out of here.” “
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
David wrote:
That incident at St. Paul’s is so disturbing, especially when reminded how class stratified schools like this one are.
Posted 11 Mar 2008 at 6:54 am ¶
Celeste wrote:
I can’t believe someone seriously wouldn’t let the baby go to the hospital while telling the mother and nurse to relax and stay calm as the baby dies in a locked room. Someone should do some time for that (in addition to the millions of dollars that still won’t bring her son back), that goes beyond negligence to immoral.
Posted 11 Mar 2008 at 9:22 am ¶
Gregory A. Butler wrote:
Their seems to be a problem in the publishing world with the truth. There appear to be many decision makers in the upper echelons of that industry who, it would seem, don’t care if a memoir has any relationship to the truth.
See Frey, James.
But this case with Margaret Setzer takes the cake – the editors spent THREE YEARS working with this woman, and apparently they were so ignorant of inner city life and even of common sense that they believed her story, despite it’s obvious bogusness!!!
I mean come on, she claims that when she became a 13 year old drug dealer, the first thing she brought with her drug money income was a funeral plot???
I know grown men who are drug dealers who still haven’t even brought a funeral plot! Why would a teenager spend their drug money on that?
Anybody who’s ever had a conversation with a teen – or is capable of remembering how they thought when they were that age – knows that adolescents think they are immortal, and therefore do high risk stuff with no fear of death.
If you’ve ever read Nicholas Pileggi’s Wise Guy – the biography of White Long Island gangster Henry Hill that was the basis for the screenplay of Goodfellas – there is a section where Pileggi talks about how Hill, who began his life as a mafioso at age 12, spent his first racketeer money.
Hill took a bunch of kids from the middle school he dropped out of on a trip to Coney Island.
Later, with his next big “score”, Hill went to a clothing store on Pitkin Av in East New York, Brooklyn (this is the ’50s we’re talking about – so ENY was still White back then) where a lot of Italian gangsters used to buy their clothes, and brought himself some nice outfits and shoes to match.
Now that actually makes sense – a teenager suddenly is making a lot of money, so he spends it on his friends and on clothes.
Setzer’s story, on the other hand, is asenine – buying a funeral plot at 13?
And the publishers actually believed that???
Posted 11 Mar 2008 at 11:03 am ¶
ExpatJane wrote:
“And the publishers actually believed that???”
Yep…
Posted 12 Mar 2008 at 3:47 am ¶