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January 5, 2007
Roger Green’s race card
The Brooklyn Papers, Editorial
Roger Green, at long last, have you no sense of decency?
The disgraced former Assemblyman — who once had to resign after being convicted of stealing state funds — hit a new low just before leaving office last month with a vendetta-filled move to block funding for an independent review of the massive Atlantic Yards project.
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Green, a consistent ally of Ratner’s mega-development, used Ratner’s race-card-filled playbook to claim that opposition to the project came mostly from white Brooklynites who wanted to deny blacks the “jobs, hoops and housing” that Ratner says he’ll lavish on Brooklyn’s underprivileged.But it was Green, not the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, who played the race card repeatedly during the public approval process for Atlantic Yards.
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Sadly, it is the poor and less-fortunate who actually will suffer from Green’s pettiness.Because he blocked the CBN grant, the group won’t be able to pay the outside experts who did such a good job pointing out genuine flaws in the Atlantic Yards project. If such experts don’t get paid for their work, they’ll be far less likely to review future developments — and that will only play into the hands of the very developers whom Roger Green complains typically leave the black community behind.
Posted by lumi at January 5, 2007 8:09 AM