--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "2fine4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
Wasn't there a post that said he was the AP Little pres. for 7 years
and BOE Member for 9 years and 5 years on council. That's 21 years of
volunteering. What else do you want. Can anyone of us in this group
match that.
. Don't you have to take a Civil Service test to be a Fire Fighter?
I do, too. No disrespect to anyone's dead parents, but what has Jim
> Bruno done on his own? I don't live off the the accomplishments of
my
> parents, so what does that make him? What has he ever done for
anyone?
> When the Italians ran everything here, it was for Italians and no
one
> else! The Jews or Italians owned everything, on the West Side,
which
> is why the West Side and Main St., burned down back in 1970. If you
> ask 10 Black people that lived here about what happened, you get 10
> different stories. I was asked many times, why did the Blacks burn
> everything down and I had to remind them, that not only was I not
> living here, but didn't know the body politics, at the time. Some
of
> the causes was police brutality, lack of jobs, lack of education,
lack
> of suitable, affordable housing and many of the buildings that were
> burned, were roach and rat infested. When I lived in Neptune, "on
the
> hill", as they called it, we were envied, like you wouldn't
believe!
> I didn't know that "living on the hill", meant we had "made it"! I
> was shocked, because even though the home we owned was modest, to
say
> the least, it wasn't what I was used to! It was decent, well kept
and
> maintained, but no big deal! So call me "bourgie"; what do I
care? I
> had never lived in, or been to, a "ghetto", whatever that was. All
> Blacks don't live in the projects or substandard homes. Didn't know
> where NJ Blacks, were coming from, either! So back to Jim. What
has
> he ever done, on his own. Did he get his firemen job because of his
> Mom and Dad's reputations? Did he get it on merit? Old boy
network?
> What? I had to work for mine. Just asking.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > I do.
> >
>
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