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Lincoln Conservation Land Off-Leash Dog Ban
(Philip Greenspun's Weblog)
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"People pay $2 million for the privilege of living in an environment free of Republicans, people of color (as the good liberals of Lincoln would call them), or generally anyone who can't afford a 1-5 acre chunk of property a 20-minute drive from Harvard Square."This is a very interesting post. You can take it or leave it, but the subject matter ranges over everything from economic class, to race, to breed of dog, all in the space of one paragraph. It seems honest enough. It's a personal blog, for goodness sake, so you should be able to write and speak your mind in that space, warts and all. Bravo for that. But I got to the post from Winer's blog, where he quoted it at this line: "People pay $2 million for the privilege of living in an environment free of Republicans." Period. I think it's a poor attempt to take someone else's statement and twist it out of context. It's dishonest. He conveniently leaves out the continuation of the line which includes the remarks about "people of color" and poor people ("anyone who can't afford a 1-5 acre chunk of property,") in effect making it seem like Greenspun is only making a diatribe against Republicans. It's very interesting to see how people frame their posts, yours truly included, but when I see this kind of thing, it really makes me question the sincerity of the blogger, which is just a goofy term for: writer. Obviously, Winer's frame is purely political ... the racial and economic dimensions of things are not apparently important to him, but that wasn't really the spirit of Greenspun's post, he wasn't busting on Republicans exclusively: he was fantasizing about living in some liberal's utopia somewhere on the outskirts of Boston, free of everyone except rich, white, dog-owning liberals. That's his wont. Go live there, please. On the other hand is probably why bruthas have more problems: it's impossible for us to just look at things from one angle. We don't have that liberty.
We want to be seen as "men" but as soon as we step out of our front door, we're seen as "black men." We want to pretend that, without playing the game, we can choose our political parties, as if it really matters whether we are liberals or conservatives. But the political parties which are available to us, and not of our making, only pay superficial lip service to our needs. We'd like to think that money doesn't matter, but, collectively, we seem to hold it like a cupped palm holding water, precariously.
And it's almost impossible for us to imagine a place, somewhere in America, where we could live free of everyone except other rich, Black people who shared our political views. And if you can't dream about it, you can't do it.
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