I hate the suburbs (and all those white people who live there)

ArtVoice (Buffalo, New York) ^ | 03/14/2002 | Michael I. Niman

[Hacksaw]

Does this Klansman with a Tan have an email?

[MoJoWork_n]

"...Does this Klansman with a Tan have an email?"

Klansman with a Tan? I'm sorry, that sounds like one of the worst verbal constructions I've ever heard. On a par with those Muslims who keep calling Israelis "nazis".

What's the crime? I've lived in Minnesota and Wisconsin and all I've ever seen are "SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTE" signs. You guys are reading way too much into this.

[tinybadger]

"We, as a nation, are stupider..."
**Hey, stupid, at least all the Black Communists I know realize that "stupider" is not a word. Hah!!

[detsaoT]

realize that "stupider" is not a word. Hah!!

Pfft. Stupid is as stupid does, I s'pose. I am just as much a graduate of our failed education industry as the next guy. I must've missed that one in my haste to make a point. (I'll go buy Marshall Law a drink to make up for it.)

;) ttt

[detsaoT]

realize that "stupider" is not a word. Hah!!

Pfft. Stupid is as stupid does, I s'pose. I am just as much a graduate of our failed education industry as the next guy. I must've missed that one in my haste to make a point. (I'll go buy Marshall Law a drink to make up for it.)

;) ttt

[detsaoT]

(And, of course, I seem to have problems with button-pushin' right now, too. Methinks it's time to put the computer down...)

:) ttt

[Howlin]

I hate the suburbs (and all those white people who live there)

Works for me, how about you?

[Euro-American Scum]

So, whatcher trying to say is, he's a Black Communist? Not terribly surprising - There're a lot of them out there. There are also plenty of school administrators too afraid to fire 'em.

Then maybe we should fire the administrators. Either way, the tenure system should be abolished and there should be a loyalty litmus test for all faculty in the humanities and liberal arts.

[ez]

The author is too dense to realize the multiple possible meanings of "evacuate." He assumes it means "people leaving their homes" but in this case it means "snow trapped people leaving the city and heading home."

I work in Buffalo 4 days a week and just visited the International Institute on Delaware Ave yesterday. Funny, I felt like a foreigner...

[ez]

Are there THAT many people still living in METRO (city and suburbs) Buffalo? Are there any non-government jobs there, aside from the HSBC operations center?

There are A LOT of government jobs in Buffalo...IRS, Federal Reserve, and DEC to name a few, but there are plenty of regular jobs too. I just learned the national phone center for Citibank is located in Amherst.

[Lancey Howard]

If you want to contact ArtVoice and let them know what you think of Mr. Niman, here is the address:....

May I recommend not contacting this guy?
There really wouldn't be any point to it, and he might suddenly get an inflated sense of importance if he got a half dozen emails. Let the guy just bumble his life away in relative anonymity.

[jude24]

I looked at the classes he taught. All "journalism" classes. (I pulled up the listing for all UB student's and faculty's website accounts, and clicked to his "mediastudy.com" website (http://mediastudy.com/syllabi.html)

Here's what he teaches:

Comn 251 - Mass Communication and Society - Syllabus
Com 210 - Writing for the Media - Syllabus
Comn 261 - Radio and TV Writing - Syllabus
Comn 301 - Topics in Journalism: Investigative Reporting/Ethnographic Fieldwork
Comn 362 - International Mass Communication - Syllabus
Comn 364 - Issues and Problems in Broadcasting - Syllabus
Comn 368 - Critical Studies in Mass Media
AMS 162 - New World Imaginations - Syllabus
AMS 459 - Mass Media & Social Roles - Syllabus

Judge for yourselves....

[jude24]

Also, what in the heck were you thinking reading ArtVoice? That is a definatively liberal publication :-)....

[GregoryFul]

Actually, about the signs, maybe he has stumbled onto something. It seems that here in PA signs are popping up like weeds on highways and byways. It seems that the bureaucrats have way too much money to spend on the most trivial garbage.

Like the Burma Shave placards (methinks proven to be uneconomic for advertising the product), we now have series of "informative" brief messages along the roads; telling us things like "Beware of Aggressive Drivers", or "Don't tailgate", or "Turn on Headlights for Safety", or some other nostrum that passes as a brief (gag) amusement for the bored driver or passenger.

I wonder how much those signs cost, or who's brother-in-law pushed the funding bill through the legislature, or whatever bureaucratic cesspool of corruption having the authority to dispense with taxpayer's money for such a waste of words.

[Map Kernow]

I hate the suburbs (and all those white people who live there)

Works for me, how about you?

It would work for me if people like him didn't have a bug up their behind about coming out and "messin' with" all the people in all the places they hate so much and so loudly, like those WTC attackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan Shehi. I'd have given anything if those two had kept their hatred for America in their mosques on the other side of the world. But no---they got a hankerin' for houris that they thought they could only satisfy by barbecuing themselves over here.

Same way with people like this guy who wax rhapsodic about those picturesque Victorian crack-houses in the inner city that folks have abandoned for sterilely safe suburban homes and neighborhoods---don't take any comfort from his posturing. I sure don't.