Posted on 09/28/2015 3:14:30 PM PDT by TroutStalker
ST. LOUIS • For 17 years, Karen Bryant has watched her beloved neighborhood along Martin Luther King Drive deteriorate.
Bryant, who does alterations from a storefront along King, can recite a long list of flourishing businesses that used to line the street. They all left. Now she’s left sandwiched between two vacant buildings.
Despite her location on a desolate and run-down area of Martin Luther King, she’s determined to stay. She and her husband even moved in above her shop to ward off thieves who have stolen her air conditioning unit and removed copper pipes from her store, which is full of clothes needing alterations.
A similar story has unraveled across the country along streets named for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., according to Melvin White, of St. Louis nonprofit Beloved Streets of America. Now a team of Harvard graduate students is working with White to turn St. Louis into a template on how to revitalize streets honoring the civil rights champion.
White began the nonprofit Beloved Streets of America to find ways to redevelop America’s Martin Luther King Drives, starting with St. Louis.
“I want it to be a beautiful and vibrant place,” White said of the neighborhood. In its current states, “it’s kind of a slap in the face” to King, he added.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of Harvard graduate students studying urban planning and architectural design arrived in St. Louis ready to interview community members and gather input on redevelopment ideas. Later this week, the group will travel to Washington, D.C., to examine the issues there. At the end of the 15-week course, the students will present to White ideas on ways the street can be improved.
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I think Eli Roth nailed these sort of college students in his movie “The Green Inferno.” (It’s a horror movie not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, but it sure does portray liberals like they really are.)
My hearing must be going...I could barely understand 20% of his schtick.
Why don’t these pukes get on the red line to Mattapan and start there.
I'll transcribe the key part for you:
"I'm lost, I'm on Martin Luther King""RUN!"
"RUN!"
"RUN!"
Harvard people are pretty stupid.
I just finished reading a book on Mattapan.
“The Death of an American Jewish Community”-Levine/Harmon
An overnight ghetto.
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Reverend King would crap his pants to see the deeds committed by his black brothers.
Please people on FR...quite being so silly...He would be all up in that shit....Why do people think he would be any different than the people he surrounded himself with...white bitches not included.
You got that right
It’s a white weakness that pervades 99%
ROFL
its not arresting and incarcerating the criminals there....its not demanding the locals start acting like citizens.
I like your “SWP”.....hope you don’t mind if I use it once in a while.
Step #1 - Change the name of the street!
Cities everywhere have suffered a similar deterioration of an area’s businesses and housing as a result of re-naming streets years ago to MLK, so that’s a common cause.
MLK blvd in Hot Springs AR is pretty nice.
It’s an anomaly.
Wow.
The Green Inferno added to the Netflix queue. Thanks!
Go ahead. I was also thinking of SWIP (stupid white impaired people).
“Please people on FR...quite being so silly..”
A lot of freepers get their ideas about MLK from Hannity and Beck, and those two dimwits constantly spout nonsense about King that has little relation to the real man.
It’s a decidedly fact-optional universe that they inhabit. Evidently his two long time advisers, Levison and O’Dell, who were part of Joe Stalin’s international fan club, don’t count against him. JFK decided otherwise and approved wiretaps on King.
Translation - “We gots ideas to make things nice for the locals and we need other people’s money so those who enjoy the improvements don’t gots to pays for dem. Since we wants sum college credits fo our ideers, it will be very nice and needs lots of other peeples munies”.
Yes, the truth to leftists is “racism.”
Sorry, I forgot my < /sarc > tag too!
8^)
Truth- It's the new HATE SPEECH!
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