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4/4 "The [black] kids here have no hope. They have nothing to aspire to
other that being a rapper or an athlete, and that's a million-to-one
shot. In my neighborhood the only people recruiting are the gangs."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060404/od_nm/crime_newjersey_dc
\_ http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dead-kennedys/38151.html
"Empty plastic
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere"
\_ Everything I know came from a lyrics site on the net, too.
\_ after centuries of oppression, what do you expect?
"here is your freedom from slavery, not get the fuck out
"here is your freedom from slavery, now get the fuck out
of here"
\_ Yeah, right.
\_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
We gained so much valuable medical information from
these experiments.
And don't forget all blacks love that guy Jim Crow!!
\_ And up above you can see anonymous people arguing like idiots! -dans
\_ why are you not hanging out with your hot gf instead of
nuking the motd?
\_ UCSC is back in session. She has school, I have work to do
for clients. -dans
\_ You work for a think tank that studies the crazy political
positions of computer industry professionals? That's cool.
Are they hiring?
positions of computer industry professionals? That's
cool. Are they hiring?
\_ Get in line, buddy! I've been here way longer than
you! There's a seniority system in place.
\_ I totally agree that black kids have no hope. I mean until ROTJ
black kids could hope to become a Dark Lord of the Sith w/
unrivaled force powers and other 1337 mad skillz, but then Lucas
screws it all up by revealing that the badest black man in the
history of the universe was really a pastey old white geezer. That
is the real crime. Now all black kids have to hope for is to become
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Sec. of State or a Justice of the
Supreme Court. Not one lightsaber amongst them, talk about a total
let down. -stmg
\_ But they can be like Lando Calrissian and drink Colt 45!
\_ Lando sold out to a pastey old white guy. =(
\_ "I'm altering our deal. Pray I don't alter it any futher."
\_ Uh, so until then you thought Luke might be part black?
\_ "You don't know the power of the Dark Side."
Besides in a galaxy, far far awy, Black + White could
equal whiny, long haired blond luser. -stmg |
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| news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060404/od_nm/crime_newjersey_dc Reuters Big Brother cleans up crime By Mark Egan Tue Apr 4, 8:48 AM ET EAST ORANGE, New Jersey (Reuters) - Lenox Avenue in suburban East Orange was long a hotbed of drugs and gun mayhem and one of New Jersey's toughest streets. Click here Police here say that thanks to new technology there has not been a single violent crime in almost a year on a street where the notorious Bloods gang sold $10 hits of crack cocaine and drive-by shootings were once commonplace. Now high-tech cameras and gunshot sensors are mounted at each end of Lenox Avenue, and on many other East Orange streets. The residential avenue of mainly multifamily homes is blocked from traffic and, with the exception of the 24-hour police presence, it looks as tranquil as most New Jersey suburbs. They all left," said Andre Davis, 15, riding his scooter on Lenox. The effort is part of a push to reverse a trend which saw the town -- once a middle-class suburb of executives who took a 30-minute train ride to Manhattan -- reverse a decline sparked by the deadly 1967 race riots in neighboring Newark, which gradually transformed the town into a slum populated almost entirely by lower-income blacks. "This was once a very prominent city and a very safe place to live," said East Orange Police Director Jose Cordero of the town of about 70,000 people, whose Central Avenue was once called "the Fifth Avenue of New Jersey." More recently, Cordero said, "People were fearful of not being able to walk their streets." The veteran New York City police officer took the top job here in 2004 and says homicides dropped to a 25-year low of 14 in 2005, down from 22 in 2003. Last summer, police installed cameras in crime-ridden neighborhoods and on the city's commercial center, each equipped with sensors that can detect the sound of gunfire. Police use the cameras to zoom in on certain streets and virtually "walk" down the pavements looking for crime. DONATED TECHNOLOGY In what local cops call "The Brain Room," a half-a-dozen officers monitor large flat-screen televisions showing street activity. And a "Virtual Community Patrol" allows residents to view panoramic still pictures of their block and report crimes to police using their home computers. essentially hands over to community residents the ability to place the eyes of the police on a criminal problem with the click of a mouse," Cordero said. East Orange spent about $300,000 on the system, but the Internet technology that brings it all together was donated by a Manhattan-based company that provides broadband networks for law enforcement. Police here say the equipment was free because the firm that makes it hopes to use East Orange as a model to convince other towns to buy such systems. East Orange police believe their overall crime technology is superior to that of any similar-sized US city. Chris Anagnostis said as he drove around the town he has policed for 19 years, pointing to just-built commercial developments still awaiting tenants and new apartment buildings and townhomes. But for now Central Avenue, once home to upscale department stores, fashionable boutiques and elegant restaurants, is a parade of fast-food joints and discount stores. The Hollywood Theater, a plush movie palace where Spencer Tracy once attended a movie premiere, has recently reopened as a five-screen multiplex. Realtors in nearby West Orange said a slew of new developments are selling well and, with homes in nearby towns such as Montclair regularly fetching over $1 million, he believes it is only a matter of time before commuters return to a town they long ago abandoned. HOPING FOR RESURGENCE Mayor Robert Bowser wants to transform East Orange into an arts center that could attract New Yorkers tired of exorbitant rents, noting spacious, newly refurbished, pre-war apartments here rent for a fraction of Manhattan prices. Bowser is in talks with big-name retailers and galleries, plans to open a school for the performing arts and hopes to attract a jazz club. "The problem with every major retailer we speak to is that none of them want to be the pioneer who is the first one to come to the city," Bowser said in an interview. We need a balance," he said of his city, where more than 90 percent of the population is black and less than 4 percent is white. Baris said more and more white people, or "urban pioneers," have begun looking at East Orange again as a place to live. Businessman Nafis Rajaun, 32, plans to move away because he says gangs still operate here despite the police effort. "They have nothing to aspire to other that being a rapper or an athlete, and that's a million-to-one shot. In my neighborhood the only people recruiting are the gangs." A flat-screen television shows street activity as an East Orange officer works inside the police communications command center at police headquarters in East Orange, New Jersey March 28, 2006. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. |
| www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dead-kennedys/38151.html print Cold concrete apartments Rise up from wet black asphalt Below them a few carcasses Of the long gone age of privacy It takes a scary kind of illness To design a place like this for pay Downtowns an endless generic mall Of video games and fast food chains One by one The little houses are bricked up and condemned A subtle hint to move Before the rats move in This could be anywhere This could be everywhere Those new kids at school seem cool But dad says not to talk to them Stick to your old friends Theyre not our kind So now theres lots of fights So many people I know Come of age tense and bitter-eyed Cant create so they just destroy Cmon! |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study Prior to this discovery syphilis frequently led to a chronic, painful and fatal multisystem disease. Rather than treat all syphilitic subjects with penicillin and close the study, the Tuskegee scientists withheld penicillin or information about penicillin purely to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. Participants were also prevented from accesing Syphilis treatment programs that were available to other people in the area. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is often cited as one of the greatest ethical breaches of trust between physician and patients in the setting of a clinical study in the United States. His initial aim was to follow untreated syphilis in a group of black men for only 6-8 months and then follow up with a treatment phase. Clark agreed with the deceptive practices suggested by other study members. Clark retired the year after the beginning of the study. He was an enthusiastic supporter of mass screening for syphilis and mass treatment programs in the black community. At various stages of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Wenger was attached to the Macon County activities, and he played a critical role in developing early study protocols. Wenger continued to advise and assist the Tuskegee Study when it turned into a long term, no-treatment observational study, and he consistently supported a policy of concealing the aims of the study from the subjects as he feared that full disclosure would lead to their non-cooperation. neurosyphilis) by depicting the diagnostic tests as a "special free treatment." Wenger subsequently congratulated him for his "flair for framing letters to negros." Vonderlehr retired as head of the venereal disease section in 1943. Vonderlehr's assistant, succeeded Vonderlehr as director of the venereal disease section of PHS. As the study became a constant fixture within the PHS, Nurse Rivers became the chief continuity person and was the only staff person to work with the study for all 40 years of its existence. By the 1950s, Nurse Rivers had become pivotal to the study--her personal knowledge of all the subjects allowed the very long follow up to be maintained. Stock Market Crash of 1929 led the Rosenwald Fund to withdraw its funding. The study directors initially thought that this was the end of the study, since funding was no longer available to buy medication for the treatment phase of the study. since there was nothing the investigators could do therapeutically, as long as they did not harm their subjects, they could study the natural history of the disease. The invesigators however, became fixated on this scientific goal to the exclusion of reasonable judgement, harming their subjects, with the study eventually became "the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history". public health programs were implemented to form "rapid treatment centers" to eradicate the disease. When several nationwide campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, study experimenters prevented the men from participating. draft and were consequently diagnosed and ordered to obtain treatment for syphilis, however then the PHS exempted them. The PHS representative at the time is quoted: "So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment." By the end of the study, only 74 of the test subjects were still alive. NAACP, 9 million dollars and the promise of free medical treatment was given to surviving participants and surviving family members who had been infected as a consequence of the study. edit Ethical implications The early ethics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study may be considered in isolation at study inception. In 1932, treatments for syphilis were relatively ineffective and had severe side effects. It was known that syphilis was particularly prevalent in poor, black communities. The intention of the Study was in part to measure the prevalence of the disease, to study its natural history and the real effectiveness of treatment. clinical study to try find the effectiveness of treatment of this then terrible disease was not inherently wrong. However, this study exploited a vulnerable sub-population to answer a question which would have been of benefit to the whole population. However, with the development of an effective, simple treatment for syphilis (ie penicillin), and changing ethical standards, the ethical and moral judgements became absolutely indefensible. Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) at institutions receiving federal grants. Special consideration must be given to ethnic minorities and vulnerable groups in the design of clinical studies. |