People's Weekly World - Future for the Mon Valley? ?Hell doesn?t have to last forever!?
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This is one of several articles written about my hometown. The NYT recently called Braddock the worst town in America. The Liberal Bloggers came to our town for a convention and now we have this article that calls our town Hell.
I guess no one really thinks that using these types of terms to refer to a place people love and grew up in.
We need to make sure that Mayor John remembers that we do NOT want Gentrifation. He is allowing to many outsiders into our area. We may have accepted him but we will not allow them to take over our neighborhood. We learned a long time ago that when the middle class moves in they push the poor out.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Braddock Goes Internation Go Mayor John
Mayor John that is what we call the Mayor of Braddock. He came to Braddock in 2001 after getting his Master's degree from Harvard. He came to run an Youth Program and I guess he fell in love even if Braddock had seen better days.
He has a geniune love for the people he serves he dresses like the people who live in the town and wears our zip code on one of his arms. On the other arm he has the dates of everyone who was murdered since he was elected. One of those names belong to my cousin she was 18 months old.
I know they called us a broken down neighborhood but to me its just home. I was raised here and I couldn't picture living anywhere else.
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