Rashaad Austin January 30, 2008
"Indigenous Newarkers" are not just people living in a rainforest somewhere. They are real human beings.They can't be pushed over like we are nothing. That is just how the government is soon to do to us.They are soon to move us out to the streets. We will have to find new houses because of our home prices will rise and we will have to find something cheaper. i feel like this is not right. it is a savage act. We have to be treated as if we are people and not as a piece of trash. How do they expect their own people to grow if they keep on cutting them down by raising things out of their reach. I am a newark resident and I would not like to live a life like this because I am to young to handle it. You should put yourselves in our shoes. If you could see from our point of view, you would see that it is hard for us to live after you finish your plan to build fancy condo's and take down the homes people here right now. You are selfish to ruin the lives of the people who look just like you. It's like saying you hate your own kind. You can't do this. I believe that you should give out jobs that are high paying before you start to build up these nice and fancy condos that are notimportant.You talk about attracting other's here to Newark when you should be worried about. We are here now.You should have some cleaning programs where the streets get cleaned every day and garbage is taken out every night. This would make Newark look much better than just building up over the filthy loitering of people already here.Once you start to attract people here, they would just make Newark look worse than it already looks now. Your plan could backfire just like that. You would end up losing all of the people you want to attract.
I suggest that you plan out carefully of how you are going to stop the government but it won't be easy. just know that you have my opinion on the situation to back you up.