tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3268830435894061464.post9106204075832685497..comments2023-08-04T09:51:02.528-04:00Comments on Hip Hop Flavas Blog: Suspect Confesses To Killing Derrion AlbertKazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07062420313637414283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3268830435894061464.post-69776850441272648622009-10-01T13:58:31.368-04:002009-10-01T13:58:31.368-04:00Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from t...Pittsburgh’s G-20 story: Take an expressway from town and disappear into desolate ‘hoods and encounter the civilization of menace. Pittsburgh, a dual city! The glass wonder of PPG Place and/or the G-20 Summit is a faded memory. Here in the ‘hood lives lie abandoned as far as the eye can see. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEukcWW5dM0<br /><br />That is: For the most part, African-American Pittsburgh seems to be invisible, not only to the public relations hucksters who tout Pittsburgh’s successes, but we are equally invisible to the protesters. <br /><br />Certainly, black Pittsburgh is as proud as anybody in that the black President we worked so hard to elect has selected Pittsburgh as the host of the G-20 Summit. We even enjoy the re-invention of Pittsburgh from a dirty, smoky steel-churning history to the bright, clean, green financial success that the business leaders and politicians boast about so loudly. Nobody is more proud of the Super Bowl winning African-American coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin. But none of that feel-good stuff erases the pain of the stubbornly high unemployment among African American young adults and the staggering dropout rate for young black males from the public school system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com