Hello my wonderful Troublemakers! How y’all doing? I have family coming in to town this week, including my 90 year old grandmother! When I think about legends, she is at the tip-top of that list. She has traveled the world and held a sense of dignity for herself I have come to recognize as nothing short of miraculous.
Happy Birthday James Baldwin! My parents bookshelf contained a variety of books that just seemed to appear from nowhere - GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN appeared one day and carved through me when I read it back in the 70's.
Housing on racial lines: for an amazing sprawling read check out THE SELLOUT by Paul Beatty. It's a highly satirical novel about a black man trying to introduce segregation and slavery into his neighbourhood when he discovers that his neighbourhood has disappeared of the Los Angeles district.
In Australia we have a housing crisis of price made harder by rich people buying for their grand children and investors. Public housing is usually marginal - outer suburbs with poor transport systems. These areas are often run down and sit side by side with housing estates with "McMansions" giant houses for families desperate to own the Australian dream. In the 1960's there was a term in country towns - "fringe dwellers" that remains to this day- aboriginal housing that was once "a mish" (govt reserve). These shacks were eventually replaced by outer area run down public housing. Deeply segregated. And way back in the day when Australia had a white Australia Policy- Chinese people were also only allowed to live on the outskirts on settlements- where market gardens sprang up. During the depression a remarkable suburb was created called Happy Valley out near a givernment mission called La Perouse. White people who couldn't pay rent set up tents in the area, alongside war refugees from Europe and the First Natiins peoples. For a moment all were equal in poverty but never equal in discrimination.
Thanks for the article on Sugar Hill. I hope you have a great family gathering.
Happy Birthday James Baldwin! My parents bookshelf contained a variety of books that just seemed to appear from nowhere - GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN appeared one day and carved through me when I read it back in the 70's.
Housing on racial lines: for an amazing sprawling read check out THE SELLOUT by Paul Beatty. It's a highly satirical novel about a black man trying to introduce segregation and slavery into his neighbourhood when he discovers that his neighbourhood has disappeared of the Los Angeles district.
In Australia we have a housing crisis of price made harder by rich people buying for their grand children and investors. Public housing is usually marginal - outer suburbs with poor transport systems. These areas are often run down and sit side by side with housing estates with "McMansions" giant houses for families desperate to own the Australian dream. In the 1960's there was a term in country towns - "fringe dwellers" that remains to this day- aboriginal housing that was once "a mish" (govt reserve). These shacks were eventually replaced by outer area run down public housing. Deeply segregated. And way back in the day when Australia had a white Australia Policy- Chinese people were also only allowed to live on the outskirts on settlements- where market gardens sprang up. During the depression a remarkable suburb was created called Happy Valley out near a givernment mission called La Perouse. White people who couldn't pay rent set up tents in the area, alongside war refugees from Europe and the First Natiins peoples. For a moment all were equal in poverty but never equal in discrimination.
Thanks for the article on Sugar Hill. I hope you have a great family gathering.
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