Black Suburb So Broke They Can’t Even Afford to Have a Library

[theworldismine13]

http://www.blackbluedog.com/2013/08...broke-they-cant-even-afford-to-have-a-library

Could you imagine not having access to a library or any of its services they provide? The library is quietly one of America’s cornerstones if you believe that knowledge is power.

In Ford Heights, Illinois they do not have to wonder what it is like to not have a library, because there is no library or books to be checked out in one of the poorest suburbs (about 95% African-American) in the nation.

According to an August 4th Chicago Tribune article, “there has been no library service available to residents, even though the Ford Heights Public Library District has collected $61,000 (paltry) from taxpayers since 2010”.

The Cook County treasurer’s office also reveals:

The district was forced to close its free-standing library about 20 years ago when it couldn’t come up with the money to maintain the building, and it was eventually razed. A state-of-the-art library in neighboring Glenwood then offered services for a while.

Ford Heights residents still show up at the library in Glenwood, but librarians there have to turn them away — the Glenwood-Lynwood district ended the arrangement in 2009 after Ford Heights fell behind on payments.

For the last four years, Ford Heights residents have been unable to check out a library book, a fact longtime resident Darron Gray learned when his daughter was at the checkout desk in Glenwood last year.

“In my whole life, I’ve never known of kids being denied the ability to go to a freaking library,” said Gray, who was elected to the Library Board in April. “Imagine having a kid that has a school project and can’t get a book? It’s an embarrassment.”

Even if a Ford Heights family scraped together a few hundred dollars to pay the fees to get nonresident library cards in another district, they couldn’t be issued cards because they have their own district, state library officials said.

This problem didn’t just start. Ford Heights has been poor for a long time. Intergenerational poverty, high unemployment rate (40% unemployment in Ford Heights) and skyrocketing crime rates gouge this community and other communities across the country. Also, residents are impacted by the effects of predatory lending practices destroying local economies until there is no tax base left. Communities are left so poor that even the most basic of public services are abandoned and the people are left to fend for themselves.

Some of us take books for granted. A book is the most fundamental way to learn and be exposed to new ideas. The internet service not provided in communities only widens the technology gap as it continues to evolve and becomes more integrated into society. I guess it is more profitable to produce prisoners.

 

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[88m3]

is this the black excellence you speak of @theworldismine13 ?

 

[Crakface]

Probably too busy spending their money with cacs, instead of, blacks.

 

[Serious]

is this the black excellence you speak of @theworldismine13 ?

Nah this only further works as a catalyst to the "anti-academic" culture African Americans in this country have...

 

[88m3]

Nah this only further works as a catalyst to the "anti-academic" culture African Americans in this country have...

We have countries...

I gotta pm you later btw

 

[Crakface]

Nah this only further works as a catalyst to the "anti-academic" culture African Americans in this country have...

Why is black culture anti academic?

 

[88m3]

Probably too busy spending their money with cacs, instead of, blacks.

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why the resurgence of crackface ? things not going well at home, friend?

 

[Serious]

Why is black culture anti academic?

the "demons" who control hiphop, promote an anti academic culture, where it's not "hip" to read books and "be educated" -twism13

 

[Crakface]

word


why the resurgence of crackface ? things not going well at home, friend?

Dont act like you know me

the "demon" who control hiphop promote, an anti academic culture, where it's not "hip" to read books and "be educated" -twism13

Were black people spending money on books and or reading books before hiphop? Do we need whites to promote positive images of black people in order for black people to be positive. Is the destiny of black people controlled by how whites portray black people in the media along with the flunkies they pay to promote said negative portrayals?

 

[Serious]

Dont act like you know me

Were black people spending money on books and or reading books before hiphop?

I'd imagine sohh, a bit before my time...

But post civil rights african americans were making great strides at pushing for equality, and equal footing as anglo-saxon Americans, especially in regards to education. Due to the fact, many of the "separate facilities, were far from equal"

Even during this radical time period there was need for enlightenment as focal point of progressing forward, for instance, one could look at the black p anthers, as they tried to encourage a more enlightened youth through soup kitchens, breakfast clubs, and educational services

 

[88m3]

Dont act like you know me

 

[Crakface]

I'd imagine sohh, a bit before my time...

But post civil rights african americans were making great strides at pushing for equality, and equal footing as anglo-saxon Americans, especially in regards to education. Due to the fact, many of the "separate facilities, were far from equal"

Even during this radical time period there was need for enlightenment as focal point of progressing forward, for instance, one could look at the black p anthers, as they tried to encourage a more enlightened youth through soup kitchens, breakfast clubs, and educational services

LOL, keep dreaming. Nigroes didnt suddenly just stop reading books because of hiphop. Hiphop didnt even turn heel until the the end of the 80s-early 90s. Whites made strides to pacify black people but pretty much all of those strides had other groups using the laws to help black people to push their own agendas and eventually black people lost the benefits from said movements, like affirmative action.

The Anglo never and i mean ever intends to compete with black people on an equal playing field, ever. They ship in immigrants to America before they allow black people to work for the same wages the immigrant is willing to work for. They do not want black people competing with them or being basically the underboss of America.

The black buying power in America is in the high billions supposedly yet the money bounces from your pocket to a white man/asian. Take a group like the jews. Their money bounces close to 20 times within their people before it leaves. Why is that?

 

[Serious]

Yeah the black buying power exceeded a trillion this year...

Quite simply blacks don't like supporting other black ventures...
The black community also suffers from malpracticed financial literacy, but this isn't exclusive to just AA's, numerous American in recent years have struggled to balance their checkbooks and don't understand the meaning of sacrifice.(ie: Student Loan debt, Housing Crisis, Credit Card Debt in the 90s-early 20s)

 

[theworldismine13]

I just posted this to show what not to do

The fundemantal question is how do we develop prosperous black communities and this isn't how you do it