Open Thread Wednesday

Black Lives Matter : )

Brooklyn Heights in Bugs Bunny cartoons:
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I see, so the southernmost of the three residential buildings (with the elect freedman sign) was taken down so they could erect the
small square building which once housed a smaller Daniel Reeves food market. Interesting…..(look at the great chain-drive Mack Truck on the corner)

That corner building has been empty since I moved to the neighborhood over 2 years ago.

You think someone would get Landmarks to approve the reconstruction of the original building. They certainly have a good model to follow in the neighboring buildings.

That row is the remnant of even more buildings. At least one was torn down when the large building on the next corner was built (click to enlarge):
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Maybe this will help you. https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinternews.com/the-next-time-someone-says-all-lives-matter-show-them-1793849332/amp

It’s been empty since at least 2008, in fact, and probably longer. Once or twice a year someone will come and clean up the sidewalk and pull the weeds from the front “garden,” but otherwise, it’s an empty blight on the block. I like Banet’s idea but am guessing the owner is happy to take a tax break and leave it as is. :-(

Actually I never been to D.C. nor am I a Trump supporter.

Alas, those “weeds” are actually Milkweed. If they allowed them to flower, you’d likely have a bunch of Monarch butterflies congregating there.

But nope, let’s have some bare earth instead, sigh…

Interesting. Didn’t realize that. They are very much preferable to the dirt and dead leaves that are left when they’re pulled up every time.

There is a big difference between their rights and how they are actually treated. That’s the problem.

A conspirator in the failed coup of the bandana republic.

I quite like that little building. It has some nifty Art Deco detail and is quite beautiful. It’s too bad there isn’t a productive use. It would be a super cool home except for the lack of windows.

Let me do my best to settle this. Yes, all lives matter, are important. But we live in a time and country in which, because of widespread racism, black lives are often undervalued, particularly by law enforcement. This is a social evil that must be addressed. By asserting the sanctity of black lives, black people (and others) are attempting to call attention to that evil so that it can be corrected, as it must be. No claim is being made for special privilege or standing. This fact is misunderstood by those who resent or are prjudiced against black people.

Calling someone racist is low hanging fruit and so easy to do without much behind it. Don’t agree with someone or have a different take, then that person is racist. That’s a problem.