Comments on: The truth of Memory http://joytripproject.org/blog/2009/09/25/the-truth-of-memory/ Reporting on the business, art and culture of the sustainable active lifestyle Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3491 By: DNLee http://joytripproject.org/blog/2009/09/25/the-truth-of-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-90 DNLee Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:05:57 +0000 http://joytripproject.org/blog/?p=1314#comment-90 Profound and correct. I worked for a while on a project to get more inner-city folks (Blacks) to enjoy public lands and this matter of historical interference kept coming up. People believed they weren't welcomed, knew of no one directly that visited and therefore they didn't visit and had no interest in visiting. But the truth is, urban black folks do enjoy parks - ususally on warm summer evenings, riding in cars crusing and then it happens....the police come and break things up, tell the group to disband or keep the noise down and that too shapes this collective perception of public areas not belonging to "everyone" Profound and correct. I worked for a while on a project to get more inner-city folks (Blacks) to enjoy public lands and this matter of historical interference kept coming up. People believed they weren't welcomed, knew of no one directly that visited and therefore they didn't visit and had no interest in visiting.

But the truth is, urban black folks do enjoy parks – ususally on warm summer evenings, riding in cars crusing and then it happens….the police come and break things up, tell the group to disband or keep the noise down and that too shapes this collective perception of public areas not belonging to "everyone"

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