PH Rep. Major Owens part of Inquiry

anonymous

this is the beginning of the inquiry into the Bush administration. Rep. Owens will be one of 122 representatives present. Watch it at 2.30pm on http://www.c-span.org/watch/
it could be historical...crossing fingers!

there are 4 British memos now...and 3 military documents revealing that the administration had begun building detention centers, including Gitmo before 9/11 even happened...

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_fracas_Conyers_heads_back_to_Capitol_with_Downing_S_0615.html

anonymous

Wonderful, thanks for the info.

anonymous

I can't find a record of this, but I think I saw Major Owens during the NFL testimony on steroid use scolding Paul Tagliabue. Tagliabue was speaking of athletes going back to the ghetto, and Owens(?) interrupted him saying "don't talk to me about the ghetto, I live in the ghetto". Can anyone confirm that it was him?

anonymous

not really relevant in this context...but the definition of "ghetto' is a quarter of a city where member of a minority group live because of social, economic and legal pressure. I'd say PH meets those requirments...plus his district stretches though all of northern Brooklyn...Ft. Greene, Crown Heights etc.

anonymous

So your assertion is that PH is a ghetto? What is the social, economic and/or legal pressure forcing people to live here? When did the ghetto get so expensive?

anonymous

my take is that the expensivness comes from the push of gentrification. i've been in my apartment for 7 years, i was the only white woman in a 26 apartment building...i pay 897.oo for a one and half bedroom...rent stabalized.

there are thousands of haitian refugees that have come here in the past two decades because it was an affordable neighborhood...the last 5 years have found us...the liberal, mostly white yuppie type hippersters moving in...walk three blocks north of washington. the term ghetto is not derogatory in the context...there are thousands of people who can't afford to move from their home they have had for years...but landlords are continually kicking them out to double, sometimes triple the rent that many newbies would pay...i'm proud to say i live in the ghetto...for i too am not able to afford a move.

anonymous

I can understand that there are parts around PH that can be considered ghetto, however, I still have a hard time believing that PH falls in that category. It may be tough for one to move out of PH (especially if one has a rent stabilized apt), however, could you move here now if you had to? I guess my point is that the neighborhood is changing and it is no longer accurate to call this the ghetto. I'm proud to say I live in Prospect Heights, ghetto or otherwise.