"The War on Moms"

I cannot believe that I am actually recommending people go out and buy a friend of DitmasParkBlog's book but here I am. Several friends have read her book and thought very highly of the author for focusing on the plight of working class women and not those who are like elitist rich "urban planner" Liena. Speaking of, when will you paint your house? The old chipping blue is hideous. It is an eyesore.

I just started the book and have found myself nodding in agreement with the author's viewpoints. This white woman actually gets it. She apparently also lives in the neighborhood.

Go support her.

Racist Ben Smith calls NOI leader a liar

Ben Smith over at his white man's only job mocks prominent African-American Rev. Hunter of Detroit,Michigan. Rev. Hunter was called to help quell a brewing situation outside of Minister Farrakhan's home in Chicago. In writing up his hate-filled tirade, Ben claims that because he couldn't find any evidence of the Detroit Times existing it must not exist. He calls a prominent African-American man a liar. Maybe if Ben knew a few black people he would have gotten his facts right. The Metro Times of Detroit was formerly known as the Detroit Times in which Rev. Hunter wrote numerous articles. The Detroit Times was known among NOI members at one time as being sympathetic to black nationalist views.

Get your Detroit Times with your bean pie!

He is a racist.

Marta Z

I am in Puerto Rico until next week and I know Bev is out of town until the 10th but when I get back I will be posting about Marta Z. My sister has dealt with Marta Z at her son's school and like who I am assuming is her relative, Liena, has nothing but awful words to say. Marta also believes that children should be arrested apparently for nothing but being hispanic.

More when I return.

Have a safe holiday weekend.

Ben appears on racist show

He actually appeared in flesh on the Good Wife this evening. I gasped and yes, I saw the emails. If my husband didn't love the flat screen so much I would have probably have thrown a shoe at it.

Dear Lord, it is not enough that he spreads his hate in the neighborhood he now gets the chance to do it on television. Dangerous.

Vindication for Ben and Lena?

A commenter over at Ditmas Park Blog claims that everyone's favorite duo are the reason that crime has evidently dropped in the neighborhood. I haven't been around as I have been dealing with my daughter out in California but I really find it hard to believe that these two pasty white people are the reason why crime has stopped. Did they use their powers to round up all the black and hispanics in the neighborhood and then said, "crime has stopped!" I am so sick and tired of white people thinking that they can save everyone. You can't. In many ways you are the problem.

As The Real Flatbush points out, they supposedly "moderate" their comments. The only moderation they do is purging blacks from the comment section.

"The latent racism of the Ditmaspark blog can be very dangerous to this community."

Just go read the rest. It is too good to just post quotes.

http://realflatbush.blogspot.com/2010/05/dangers-of-ditmas-park-blog.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRealFlatbush+%28The+Real+Flatbush%29

One of Ben Smith's people gets SC court nod

What a waste. Don't we already have enough Ginsburgs, Steins, Cohens, in positions of power? It's not as if they use their power to help us minority folks out. As Ben has stated in emails to me, "I'm one of the chosen people." Ms. Kagan couldn't even find not one black or latino to hire at Harvard but I guess she supports diversity by hiring conservative white men.

Obama is becoming more and more of a disappointment every day.


I'll be back to my normal writing by the end of the week when I return to Brooklyn.

Noted without comment continued

Actually I will comment.

Save Ditmas Park Blog's email box had several request asking to unblock the names in the emails that I am publishing. The blog from which these emails are originating from is run by three women who were apparently wronged( I say apparently because I cannot completely confirm whether or not they were wronged) but the emails do seem to suggest so by a couple of journalists at Politico. One of the women on the website posted her own emails and made it clear that she did not mind the author's name appearing. I am not going to post his full name as it is up to the readers to do their on research.

Also, someone asked if these were "hookers who didn't get paid well." What a sexist question. Does anyone really think that(according to their bios), an epidemiologist, a chemical engineer, and a lawyer are all "hookers who didn't get paid well?"

UPDATE: I removed one email after getting a harsh email from "Lisa" about claims that her man was cheating on her. I will repost it if others become available that seem to back up claims. I think that is a fair request.

Noted without comment

Not racists, just gentrification boosters.

via UStreetBlues

A little late

I had a blog post ready but it disappeared. You may have heard about the case where a jerk of a cop, which should surpise no one, got into an altercation with a bicyclist who was using his right to free speech and then lied about it claiming that the guy was resisting arrest among other things. Lucky for him, the incident was caught on tape and the cop was found guilty. This should be a reminder to all minorities and the public in general that you should always be armed with a still or video camera as you never know when the cops will decide that it is your day to get a beat down and then lie about it.

via the NY Times

Not your grandmother's "letter to the editor"

This is a bit off topic here at Save Ditmas Park but I was just over at another blog and they have posted email exchanges from the alleged journalists(including Ditmas Park Blog's own co-founder) and I just have to ask why would a journalist be emailing a "reader" at 12:30am on a Sunday, "where are you?" and "you looking mighty cute in that picture" from their work address? For whatever reason I am unable to copy and paste the email as it was posted on the site but to say the least, those were a couple of the mild quotes from an email. I think it is safe to say that many of the emails would definitely fall out of the realm of your average banter between journalists and readers. Talk about scandalous.

via UStreetBlues

ETA: Eloise may disagree with me, but after reading through some emails, I am not quite sure that one of the co-founders of Ditmas Park Blog doesn't like black people. Sure he is into harmful gentrification practices but from the emails that I read, I don't think he or his colleague minds if African-American women were around.