tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post2012107957896821857..comments2023-08-15T13:35:42.180-05:00Comments on Sylvester Brown, Jr.-Writer: The Long Fuse to Ferguson: How the City of St. Louis Sparked the Explosionhttp://sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.com/http://www.blogger.com/profile/05844535952864244272noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-74168976711301894772014-09-30T12:33:48.114-05:002014-09-30T12:33:48.114-05:00Thank you for your comments, Cynthia. I agree on a...Thank you for your comments, Cynthia. I agree on all fronts. The only addition I;d add is that, along with education, we have to do the necessary work to build businesses and opportunities within these communities that we've long-neglected. Thanks again.http://sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/05844535952864244272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-17574048884139213732014-09-30T09:45:02.321-05:002014-09-30T09:45:02.321-05:00Reading your article just reminded me of what I ha...Reading your article just reminded me of what I have been saying for years as to the treatment of Black people in the city of St. Louis. The history we were taught is not our history even though we helped shape it. <br /><br />We as a people need to take control of our destiny and rise above all of the nay-sayers. It is sad that it has taken this long for people to understand the underlying cause for what our youth today are going through. My son left St. Louis for this very reason. He never felt that he would make it to his 25th birthday. <br /><br />We still need to promote education as a means to an end and re-establish respect for self and our elders. Let us turn this negative into a positive in all ways.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02663522907226256155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-58010610558424763072014-09-27T16:12:30.407-05:002014-09-27T16:12:30.407-05:00I have mad respect for you, Sharon. always admired...I have mad respect for you, Sharon. always admired your analytic mind. Looking forward to receiving the info you mentioned. - Respectfully, Sylvester http://sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.com/https://www.blogger.com/profile/05844535952864244272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-8039361419788779702014-09-27T15:58:27.867-05:002014-09-27T15:58:27.867-05:00The Post Dispatch did some pretty good articles on...The Post Dispatch did some pretty good articles on Redlinning and the misuse and sometimes illegal use of the Block Grant money by the City of St. Louis. The money should have been used to rebulid North St. Louis but was used for gentrification and displacement of African American in the Central Corrodor and Downtown. The Post documented their articles with data. It is pretty black and white. (Pun intended on multiple layers) <br /><br />The articles were from 1991-1993 and covered a prior 10 year period. The data would be even more daming if we go back and cover 1991-2011. Which by the way I am working on. I just recently provided the syllabus of those articles to Aldermen French and Carter in the City and will email you a copy Sylvester.<br /><br />With the syllabus you can go online to the Public Library with your library card and download for free all of the articles listed. I am also downloading the articles to a zip drive and will soon be able to share the information that way. Unfortunately the pictures that accompany the articles can only be seen if you go to the library and copy them from microfiche. I have most of the original articles so I can have my secretary make copies.<br /><br />I am also looking for my copy of the Team Four Plan that although NOT OFFICIALLY ADOPTED, has been used effectively against North St. Louis. (In one of the Post articles former Mayor Schomechl states, you do not have to adopt a plan to carry it out.) When one puruses the Team Four Plan all will be clear as to the plight of North St. Louis, and the implementation of the Plan that has never been FORMALLY ADOPTED.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210358464692212293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-43530958733095386262014-09-27T10:25:23.787-05:002014-09-27T10:25:23.787-05:00In regard to documentation, I heard first hand fro...In regard to documentation, I heard first hand from the author of the benign neglect strategy who also happened to be one of the authors of the "urban renewal" legislation, say unequivocally, that "benign neglect" a officially sanctioned strategy designed to depopulate north St. Louis. The goal was to repopulate it with working class and middle-class whites. "Benign neglect" is not a myth. It is deliberate "pernicious neglect" that has left the city of St. Louis in the position of having more than half of it human and physical capital as nonperforming assets on the region's balance sheet. There is no question that the continuation of of this failure to invest in its assets has brought the region to the brink of irreversible ruin. #4RealAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076983037963344622.post-30563116694811896302014-09-22T21:15:44.100-05:002014-09-22T21:15:44.100-05:00I've heard some of the "myth" or &qu...I've heard some of the "myth" or "legend" of the redlining of St. Louis, with the line drawn down Delmar. I haven't seen much in terms of documentation but it has anecdotal value in my opinion.Glennnoreply@blogger.com