... Means Black Removal

I am greatly discomforted by this article. It saddens me to see authoritative powers control people’s lives and future without any way to stop them. The commonwealth project not only brought destruction to people’s everyday happiness but also has created a lonely, alienated space for its inhabitants today. After reading this, it all makes sense. When first coming to America in 2000 from my home country Greece, I was extremely shocked by the long distances and seclusion that Americans live in. There is no interaction with your next-door neighbor, no “knitted” communities to help one another out. This environment has a great psychological defect to anyone that lives in it. It promotes loneliness, depression, use of drugs, and an unhealthy way of communication and human interaction. America has always focused on money or the true wealth of a happy life? Is it the greatness of simple pleasures, or the greatness of showing off? Is it the progress towards a better life, or towards an unwanted future? Taxpayers are sadly blind to this because it is kept from them. People should be exposed to this information more than they have, and truly understand why their neighborhoods are designed the way they are.  Why do highways, huge malls and parking lots, constantly surround us? Why can’t we walk anywhere? Because it was once there, but taken away.

            The fact of the matter is, the Common wealth plan destructed Kimball and wiped out Gainsboro. Important landmarks were demolished; neighborhoods and families were completely destroyed. The African American race has always been an object and never taken seriously. The white man has always decided who they were, where they lived, how they behaved and what they did. I personally, thought this was abolished with slavery, apparently not. How dare the government still intervene? These people have an apparent identity crisis because the white man created it three hundred years ago. They should be free to hold on to what is there’s, what they have created to call home. These buildings and landmarks might seem to us as simple communities. Yet we fail to understand that these communities are their culture. This is their birthplace. They are African Americans, and they are thirsty for a place to call home, for a history to call theirs. These segregation plans do nothing but make matters worse. They do not accomplish happiness, only anger. How are we every going to live harmoniously when we tare away all the good that we want to hold on too? I am truly fearful for the changes that will come. I am fearful for the African American race. What comes around goes around, and our system has pushed the limits. Lets hope we become more aware, and speak up for the sake of all.