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May 16, 2008
This guy faults Bruce Ratner and Atlantic Yards foes
The Brooklyn Paper, Letters to the Editor
Though Bruce Ratner has managed to cynically divide the neighborhood among race lines, it appears that Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn has not bridged the gap.
I am black, born and bred in Brooklyn. I despise Bruce Ratner not only for the assaults he has made on the borough with Metrotech and the Atlantic Center and Terminal malls, but for his lies to people of color that accompanied each over-reaching project. ...
Yet, given all this background, I have not been involved in the fight to stop Ratner at Atlantic Yards. Why? Because the fight against Ratner has not jumped the inner-city cultural divide. Develop Don’t Destroy has failed to persuade their minority neighbors that Ratner is fooling them again, this time through surrogates.It is a pity that those fighting Atlantic Yards didn’t keep trying to find common ground with us people of color. Not everyone for Atlantic Yards is a bought-off loudmouth.
Leon de Augusto, Bushwick
Of course, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn would want to list diverse organizations and ethnicities under its aegis. My point is: where are the many different faces and voices of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn,?
Goldstein, exclusively, speaks for Develop Don’t Destroy, their 26 allied groups and 4,000 supporters. And the people in the pictures — take the Brooklyn Museum protest, for example — look like him, not me.
Thomasina Millet, Crown Heights
Posted by lumi at May 16, 2008 5:00 AM