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Ward F Councilwoman Viola Richardson blast JJ newspaper writer Political Insider Augie Torres... story below.
Jersey Journal IN THEIR OPINION Race aside, great leaders are hard to come by Tuesday, July 15, 2008 BY COUNCILWOMAN VIOLA RICHARDSON SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL Augie Torres, writer of the Political Insider column, if you had a conscience, you would be ashamed of yourself. Your recent column calling for "where is Jersey City's Barack Obama" was offensive, insulting and simply trite. You disguised your race-biased offensive as an effort to ridicule Mayor Jerramiah Healy's administration for having two deputy mayors that have been arrested. Point in fact, when Ador Equipado got arrested on charges of misconduct and shaking down newlyweds, was your paper indicting the Filipino community for their lack of leadership? No, not at all. However, quite to the contrary, when Kabili Tayari got arrested for returning his rental car too late - a civil, not a criminal, issue - you use it as a whipping board to go after black leadership. First, to answer your question, where is any other community's Barack Obama? The senator may be a once-in-a-lifetime leader, and the milestones he set already prove that. It's not the fault of the black community in Jersey City or any other community that such exceptional people do come about so often. He is a bright man with great potential who overcame many challenges to get where he is today. You don't see many like him in any ethnicity or race all too often. Great leaders, scientists, journalists or anything great just doesn't get mass-produced. We've been a country for 232 years, and how many truly exceptional leaders have we had from any race or political party? Not many. But your ridiculous stance gets even deeper when you attempt to determine who "black" leaders should be. Isn't that America's problem internationally, when a few select people try to determine who a particular country's leader should be? The people pick the leaders, not the politicians or the columnists. You try to support your question of black leadership by bringing up the point that there was no Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Four months ago when the parade was canceled, your paper showed no interest in that fact, but now it's convenient to hurl that reality into the question of black leadership and the reality of King's legacy with modern youth? What a shameful conclusion you are making. If that's your logic, I guess Christopher Columbus has no importance, because his parade ended years ago, the one that used to end outside The Jersey Journal's doors. Does this mean there is no white or Italian leadership? Jersey City has not had a Memorial Day parade in decades, but does that mean the people here don't support the troops? If you bothered to call the MLK Jr. Committee president to find out why the parade was pulled, would you have a different conclusion? Then you go on to say "ignored" black leaders. Again, ignored by whom? Perhaps they are ignored by The Jersey Journal when it comes to fair coverage and not their tokenism perspectives. Maybe they are ignored by the public because the public doesn't believe in them as much as The Jersey Journal does. As I recall, and press clippings prove, The Jersey Journal never embraced the black leadership that did rise to the top in this city. The Jersey Journal never embraced Mayor and State Sen. Glenn D. Cunningham; in fact, he was never endorsed by your paper. Your paper wrote he should have remained a U.S. Marshal. Perhaps psychologically, your paper is not prepared for the kind of change Barack Obama refers to. State Sen. Sandra Cunningham has never been embraced by your paper, either. Before she set foot in Trenton, your paper and your parent company, The Star-Ledger, made every effort to undermine her campaign for office and to minimize her potential by summing her up as virtually mentally incapacitated. In fact, the only black leader your paper ever endorsed in any race was that of L. Harvey Smith when he ran for mayor, and you begrudgingly did that, by your own words, because Healy refused to grant you pre-election interviews. Your tired, but typical establishment and imperial point of view about ethnic leadership, and your right to determine such, only worsened when you started to name possible future leaders. That's not your right to do, particularly when those people you named have not put themselves in that category. Perhaps The Jersey Journal will only come to grips with real issues in the community when its leadership, the editors, has one amongst them that actually lives in Jersey City or a city that is similar to it. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Political Insider column appears in the Journal tomorrow and touches upon the issue about which the Ward F councilwoman writes. ? 2008 The Jersey Journal ? 2008 NJ.com All Rights Reserved.
Posted on: 2008/7/15 13:42
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Re: What's Happening at the Newport Tower Building on Washington Blvd.?
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Maybe it's an infestation problem they are having as in the other apartment complexes down there.
Posted on: 2008/7/14 22:49
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Re: **CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS IN JERSEY CITY ***
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But who was it that made him so ludacris ??
Posted on: 2008/7/14 17:54
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Re: high speed internet services?
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But you still need phone service with Verizon in order to have DSL internet service, which requires a landline. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Posted on: 2008/7/14 16:58
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Re: What's going on with all the white t-shirts?
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Yes but will you make it back to tell the world what you know ??
Posted on: 2008/7/14 16:43
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Go New Jersey !
Posted on: 2008/7/13 9:44
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Re: Parking in Hoboken
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Another words do NOT park on the resident ONLY side of the street. Read the signs.
Posted on: 2008/7/12 22:56
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Don't fake it that would be hypocritical on your part. Here is the Roman Catholic website for mass schedules of every parish in the world including the U.S.A. http://www.masstimes.org/dotnet/Default.aspx
Posted on: 2008/7/11 16:42
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It's nice to have money, I doubt they recycle in their homes. I wonder which they replace more their cell phones or tee shirts.
Posted on: 2008/7/11 14:14
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This is a inner city look specific to a certain demographic society. It's been around for quite some time and has spilled over to some suburban communities.
Posted on: 2008/7/11 1:34
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Re: This old factory: Buying in Downtown Jersey City's Dixon Mills
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Very impressive, now if we can only adapt this to the rest of Jersey City.
Posted on: 2008/7/10 18:10
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Re: Not liking certain tastes will have you branded
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At this rate the seperation of church will have adopt the Vatican way of life of a seperate community within.
Posted on: 2008/7/9 20:33
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Not liking certain tastes will have you branded
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Story from Telegraph News: UK
Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist' By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Last updated: 9:29 AM BST 08/07/2008 Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency. The National Children's Bureau, which receives ?12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care. This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food. The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age. It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives". The 366-page guide for staff in charge of pre-school children, called Young Children and Racial Justice, warns: "Racist incidents among children in early years settings tend to be around name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships." It advises nursery teachers to be on the alert for childish abuse such as: "blackie", "Pakis", "those people" or "they smell". The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'". Staff are told: "No racist incident should be ignored. When there is a clear racist incident, it is necessary to be specific in condemning the action." Warning that failing to pick children up on their racist attitudes could instil prejudice, the NCB adds that if children "reveal negative attitudes, the lack of censure may indicate to the child that there is nothing unacceptable about such attitudes". Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council. The guide added: "Some people think that if a large number of racist incidents are reported, this will reflect badly on the institution. In fact, the opposite is the case." Is disliking spicy food a sign of racism? Leave your comments below Story from Telegraph News: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newst ... racist%2C-say-report.html
Posted on: 2008/7/9 20:06
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Re: Photogaphy illegal in public places? PA didn't get the memo
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It doesn't mean that photography isn't a decadent medium. You have to think like an insurance company, you have to worry about the what if's..... liability, accountability, & responsibility. If you act in reverse of those words life will take care of itself.
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You can't take pictures in the train stations either. There are a lot of foreign people entering the country in droves I might add, staying for excessive amount of time. They are given the keys to the city and now they're worried about a few pictures !
Posted on: 2008/7/9 1:14
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Re: Man attacked outside Newport mall; 3 charged -- large group of teens and young men behaving disorder
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If we would have only 2 family rentals and convert the rest of the apartment buildings into condos this problem would be solved. Since the 70's when I was a kid as a Hudson County resident we would take a day trip to the Willowbrook Mall in Passaic County It was cool to be a Mall Rat, never a problem there. The patrons were NEVER hassled; the kids there were practically from the neighborhood, not from hoodlums. They were clean-cut or earthy looking wearing red tag Levis and Wallabies. I remember Smuggler's Attic, Zum Zum, Orbach's, Bamberger?s, Lorry's Restaurant, and various book Stores. I was never too keen on having a mall in an urban setting such as J.C. Going into Newport Mall sometimes feels like the forbidden zone. Oh those were the days.
Posted on: 2008/7/8 17:36
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Re: Path Alerts
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I didn't get any alert this time around, sometimes I do sometimes I don't.
Posted on: 2008/7/7 16:59
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Re: General Questions About the Heights
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Tell her to walk south on Ogden towards the foot or dead end near the little playground in Janet Moore Park, turn up the last intersecting block which is Cuneo Pl. then cross Palisade Ave and walk up Booraem Ave. to Central Ave. You will be on the far south end of Central Ave. near St. Nick's church and Pershing Field park. Not knowing where on Ogden your girlfriend is walking from this is probably the safest way allowing you to avoid the characters that lurk within Franklin to Congress Streets leading up to Central Ave.
Posted on: 2008/7/7 14:13
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Re: Bergen Lafayette: DEEJAY HERO SAVES LOST 2-YEAR OLD - naked, wandering along King Drive
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The kind that is careful about accountability, and liability thats who. No one wants to get involved. An inch is as good as a mile. The people there were as close to that toddler as people across the country.
Posted on: 2008/7/7 13:58
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Re: Jersey City's 'Live Where You Work' Program -- 30 or 40 year ( 6 1/8% ) fixed-rate mortgages
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I already looked into this program you also get a grant worth 5% of your mortgage which you don't have to pay back. You could go for the 4% program which is anywhere in N.J. with the low interest rate. It's only for a 30 year mortgage though.
Posted on: 2008/7/5 3:13
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Re: Feeling more cramped on the PATH????
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The population is exploding here in Hudson County PATH can only go so far as the tunnels allow. Perhaps when they dig one tunnel they should dig another for an additional PATH train. You can only fit so much in a space. Keep building J.C. !
Posted on: 2008/7/4 21:56
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A few years back up in the Heights they were only sweeping twice a week once per side.
Posted on: 2008/7/2 23:22
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I didn't get a ticket but just want to play it safe. Usually in all of J.C. once the sweeper has long passed within the 2 hour period then you can put your car back. But I hear that in some parts of J.C. people are recieving tickets after the sweeper has passed still within the 2 hours. So far it is selective in certain areas.
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Has anyone ever got a ticket after the sweeper left ? If the sign states no parking 8am to 10 am and the sweeper comes at 8:05 am and you get a ticket at 9:30 am. Technicaly you are violating the street sweeping sign this is how they do it in Manhattan but the parking authority in Manhattan does not follow the sweeper as they do here in J.C.
Posted on: 2008/7/2 14:31
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12 years old, 10:15 pm on a weeknight, riding in a transit parking lot. I'd say $110 was a cheap curfew lesson...for both child and parents.
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Re: Heights/Washington Park: Laptop taken from student
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I guess with the teenagers involved and the use of the term student it made me think of a non adult. As far as the teens they could have been age 18. Whether they were students or not doesn't change the situation. In today's world it doesn't make any difference who you are affliated with. Also at that hour being out one should have their guard up........at all times.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 11:56
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Which one of the students got hurt ? At 1:15 in the morning the student should have been home isn't there a curfew ? How did the 28 year old adult get involved in the altercation ?
Posted on: 2008/6/30 10:59
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There wasn't anything on the J.C. website regarding what you can and cannot do in the local parks. Is there a sign posted in the park stating what is not permitted ? I noticed that parks with playgrounds have signs posted with restrictions such as Janet Moore Park located on the south end of Ogden Ave. up in the Heights.
Posted on: 2008/6/30 1:12
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Re: 2008 Street paving - Councilman Steven Fulop
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Only the courts and lawyers will make out in the end. Don't expect a payout.
Posted on: 2008/6/27 14:49
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