Point Breeze Rebel

**RainboTeabagger** · 10-09-2012, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by JasonMcElroy

And if you can't understand all that proper use of the language, here's a paraphrase:

Go f uck yourself.

Jason

Dork.

**ArcticSplash** · 10-09-2012, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by jezebel

I am definitely going to bike on the weekends, but it may be difficult to bike to work because I have to wear a suit and carry stuff to and from work. I'm sure there is a way around this, I just need to ask around.

Totally getting pepper spray! Thanks for the info. That was beyond expectation. I understand it is hard to avoid crime in any city, but I don't want to be naive. I was mugged in Baltimore in front of several people in the business section of the city, so I know how quickly and easily it can happen.

Thanks for the tips!

Ahh ok you came from B-more, then Philly is nothing different.

Just remember when you buy OC spray, it goes bad after a couple of years and you have to buy new cans. Usually when I get a new can I'll dump the old one out on a target in the back yard just to practice spraying it and seeing how it disperses the fluid/gel. In a real situation where you have to use it if you're in a crowd, you want to at least make some sort of attempt to not hit innocents with it, since that's a surefire way to generate fun lawsuits.

Since we're in a city and garden hoses aren't really that readily accessible--getting hit with pepper spray and not having access to a whole bunch of cold running water to soothe the burn==getting exposed to it will be excruciating until you can shower it off.

**Jayfar** · 10-10-2012, 07:47 AM

Developers call city's Point Breeze eminent domain move a land grab | Philadelphia Daily News

**ArcticSplash** · 10-10-2012, 08:42 AM

Johnson speaks out: Details of Point Breeze 'Land Grab' Released - Gentrification Watch - Curbed Philly

Notice that he doesn't answer the question---why can't the City just build on the lots it already owns outright. If you look at the map:
Johnson Response to Media Requests Over Land Grab | Philadelinquency

The City already owns lots of land in the area of PB that has the scary 3 story homes with roofdecks.

**bjennerfu** · 10-10-2012, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by JakeL

Being a Point Breeze resident that lives and enjoys the community here, your ignorant stereotypes of my African-American neighbors does not even come close to those who abhor the violence and have been working for years to try to make systemic change against violence in this community. You have naive and undeveloped notions of what this community is and do not speak for myself, other residents of Point Breeze, or the Philadelphia Speaks community at large.

#1Hey dope I am AA so I am your AA neighbor, you don't have to stick up for me, I am not referring to MY AA neighbors, #2 I hear the ghetto thug drug dealers (white and black) talk like "tis" all "da" time, there are plenty of "dem" in PB, they ask me for a light everyday of "da" week! #3 I am a resident of PB! #4 Explain to me what my notion is of the community since you are trying to act like an expert of my thoughts? #5 Go back to #1 and reread where you are a dope and reread what I wrote in the prior post! Since you say your AA neighbors I sterotype was it your neighbor that did the shooting, speak up and turn him in then! I said the "shooter", nowhere did I say the AA population of PB which would include me, did you reread #1 again dope! If the shooter is an upstanding citizen who don't talk like tis dem I stand corrected, I highly doubt it!

**JakeL** · 10-10-2012, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by bjennerfu

#1Hey dope I am AA so I am your AA neighbor, you don't have to stick up for me, I am not referring to MY AA neighbors, #2 I hear the ghetto thug drug dealers (white and black) talk like "tis" all "da" time, there are plenty of "dem" in PB, they ask me for a light everyday of "da" week! #3 I am a resident of PB! #4 Explain to me what my notion is of the community since you are trying to act like an expert of my thoughts? #5 Go back to #1 and reread where you are a dope and reread what I wrote in the prior post! Since you say your AA neighbors I sterotype was it your neighbor that did the shooting, speak up and turn him in then! I said the "shooter", nowhere did I say the AA population of PB which would include me, did you reread #1 again dope! If the shooter is an upstanding citizen who don't talk like tis dem I stand corrected, I highly doubt it!

In a previous post, you said that you showed up to the Support OCF Garden Party. Being the organizer for this event, I was there during the whole time and made an effort to meet everyone there, and did not meet any African Americans who post on Philadelphia Speaks. So tell me, are you lying about being African American or lying about showing up to the OCF Garden Party?

**senorsanchez** · 10-10-2012, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by JasonMcElroy

And if you can't understand all that proper use of the language, here's a paraphrase:

Go f uck yourself.

Jason

U sound like the biggest tool in the shed.

**bjennerfu** · 10-10-2012, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by JakeL

In a previous post, you said that you showed up to the Support OCF Garden Party. Being the organizer for this event, I was there during the whole time and made an effort to meet everyone there, and did not meet any African Americans who post on Philadelphia Speaks. So tell me, are you lying about being African American or lying about showing up to the OCF Garden Party?

Neither-I was there(by the way you did a great job organizing that) and NOONE asked me if I post on here. Next time I'll wear a sign saying post on this site, especially for Magnum PI. I support OCF coffee shop plenty and extremely grateful to have them in our community.

**senorsanchez** · 10-10-2012, 04:10 PM

Pardon my french but yall sound like dorks. I started this thread talking about the great things Ori has done. Can we please keep it on topic? Thank you.

**ArcticSplash** · 10-11-2012, 12:43 AM

Originally Posted by senorsanchez

Pardon my french but yall sound like dorks. I started this thread talking about the great things Ori has done. Can we please keep it on topic? Thank you.

Hmm

Ang87 - Why is Chris Sawyer so concerned about Point Breeze when he live in Kensington? You don't have enough causes to fight in Kensington IDIOT? !!!!!!!! Or did they kick you out

To wit:

Ang87: Funny you mention "idiot" because Concerned Citizens, which you're a part of, routinely demonstrates the IQ Limbo dance that's just comical. There's only ONE neighborhood in Philadelphia where there's activists that protest "Yes we want to keep our neighborhood a crime-infested ****hole like it's been because that's the way we like it here" and that is Concerned Citizens of Point Breeze.

We all knew you were bonkers the second the Sidecar flyer surfaced and almost everyone in Philly went: "what tha fuuuuu". And it just gets better and better and better with CCPB.

See dear, in Kensington, we Kenzos... the new and the born-and-raised, don't go protesting in the streets to keep our neighborhood a crime-infested sh*thole and to keep out development. Kensington used to be the Workshop of the World--we were the economic engine and Philadelphia used to revolve around US. It doesn't anymore, not for 60 years.

So... when developers come to Kensington (when they're past the fear of being shot because of all the stories they've heard), we welcome them, except for Norris Square who is kinda like you in some ways, but nowhere near as nuts.

And we have racial diversity in Kensington. From a LONG time ago. And now because of the newcomers, we have income diversity too. In fact, Kensington is THE most diverse neighborhood in all of Philadelphia. Yeah we have some condos, and we got drug dealers, but we got whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans, asians, and what-zits. And we have gay, straight, and the rest of the alphabet soup.

We have old grandmas who inherited their houses for a dollar back before the neighborhood went to ****. And they still live here. And they haven't been taxed out. They don't got a mortgage to pay or they are very careful about taking out credit, if they can even get it. Being a Kenzo isn't a plus when you go to the bank.

So what's the thing about Point Breeze, WHY am I covering it? IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE NUTS IS WHY AND EVERYONE READS THESE STORIES BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU ARE NUTS BUT YOU WON'T RECOGNIZE.

And you never will. So what can I say? Keep calling Kenyatta and ask for this and ask for that, and I'm sure he'll deliver. All those 300 lots I'm sure the City will get right to work and get those affordable homes started---you know, like what the City said it would do last year, and the year before, and the year before that. Keep believing the empty promises.

Oh and keep trying to tell the world that OCF Realty wants to evict your grandma out of your house because he wants to put in a 3 story house 5 blocks away from her. We love to hear your leaps of logic on that one, too.

Details of Point Breeze 'Land Grab' Released [Updated] - Gentrification Watch - Curbed Philly

**PBSusan** · 10-12-2012, 10:51 AM

That's awesome.

**PBResident** · 10-12-2012, 04:01 PM

**PBResident** · 10-12-2012, 04:19 PM

**seand** · 10-12-2012, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by PBResident

Bring your anonymous clip art.

**PBResident** · 10-12-2012, 04:32 PM

Unity in the Community

We promise we didn't google "Black Family" to find this picture.

We also promise we didn't google "Happy Family" and then skip the first 20 pics to find this picture.

Originally Posted by seand

Bring your anonymous clip art.

**John Goodman** · 10-12-2012, 04:37 PM

Anyone going?

I don't know if I can make it that early in the morning

**Lolly** · 10-12-2012, 04:59 PM

I hope someone can go to photo-document the event and post here at least.

**seand** · 10-12-2012, 05:06 PM

I'm sure it will be a million err 5 person march.

Who goes to an area thats barely in the are being renamed to protest some people using a different neighborhood name, to stand around in a parking lot, on Washington Ave. on a Saturday morning? I'm sure it will be um, inspiring.