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March 23, 2003
Ye Olde Double Standard
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
- "The city [Euclid] hemorrhages white people, while African-Americans increasingly find Euclid an accessible refuge from Cleveland and other places. The city has lost 25 percent of its white population in the past decade. If another 25 percent flee in this decade, the city will go to seed within a generation."
Does this even need further explanation? Clearly, the author implies that an all-black community has no future.
Dictionary.com says:
Idiom: go/run to seed
1. To pass into the seed-bearing stage.
2. To become weak or devitalized; deteriorate: The old neighborhood has gone to seed.
So, is this the rambling of a racist lunatic? Should we call Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and stage a protest or a sit in? Does someone need to be Trent-Lottified?
Nope. The author, Phillip Morris, is an African-American.
And for the record, I find it insulting and dehumanizing to imply that any community would "go to seed", because of nothing more than its racial diversity, or lack thereof.
Posted by crandal at March 23, 2003 11:16 PM