COTW: Being Mad...
With so many well thought out comments this week it, it was difficult to find just one comment of the week. Yes, we really wanted to link Crenshaw Sepulveda’s butt to global warming, but several posts regarding the protests seemed to carry a bit more weight. In the end, we went with a rather lengthy post by Jenyum. It wasn’t the length of the post that won us. It was the stretch in the middle about her feelings…
I’m mad that there’s no more middle class and I barely had a chance to wave hello to it as it passed me by. I’m mad that I don’t have health insurance. I’m mad that Tacoma’s high schools are drop out factories, or at least labeled that way.
I’m so mad, I listen to liberal talk radio 8 hours out of every day just to keep myself from participating in fruitless online flame wars, like this one.
I’m so mad, I’ve written 340 something positive blog entries in the past year just to think about something other than how *ing pissed off I am.
Wow.
Filed under: Comment-of-the-Week
15 comments
E Erik Hanberg November 10, 2007
I really liked all of Jenyum’s contributions to that discussion. Thanks, TacomaMama!
A anonymous November 10, 2007
I’m confused by this pick, unless it’s to subtly point out its irony.
She listens to liberal radio 8 hours a day to keep herself off online conversations (though she was just in one) and writes blogs about anything besides what she’s pissed off about instead of doing something changing them.
Some of her other comments were much more deserving to be recognized, like suggesting better communication (than protests and blogs) for important issues.
Perhaps she needs to switch radio stations to one that covers issues like the Northwest Detention Center.
M Mofo from the Hood November 11, 2007
Jenyum, you’re not mad.
People that are mad don’t know it.
K kc November 11, 2007
sometimes “mad” is what it takes for change. great catalyst! I for one am glad when people finally get beyond resignation and apathy. Go Jen! Go our community!
C Crenshaw Sepulveda November 11, 2007
Derek said, “but several posts regarding the protests seemed to carry a bit more weigh”
I’m just glad that no one has said that my butt carries a lot of weight.
B Bell Capt: November 11, 2007
Thank you Tacoma Police Dept. and others for keeping us “open for business” the past #2 days. That has enabled myself and many others to ‘earn a living” in this great City called TACOMA- “Peace” :
T tacomachickadee November 11, 2007
Thank you, Jen, for distracting yourself so productively and unselfishly. TacomaMama.com is a great community asset … and just one of many ways I know you work hard to make Tacoma a great place to live.
T Tacoma (A)roma November 12, 2007
Im pretty sure business as usual would have happened regardless of the Tacoma 5-0.
Now that the big bad anarchists are gone, what will you business owners blame for your lack of customers?
L Laura Hanan November 12, 2007
I don’t know …maybe negative energy like No. 9 … number 9…number 9?
C CA November 12, 2007
Tacoma Aroma, are you suggesting anarchists are good for downtown business??
J jenyum November 13, 2007
I tried to say thank you before, but I think I forgot to hit Submit.
Anyway, thank you, I just saw this today. I was feeling a little embarrassed about letting go like that.
C Crenshaw Sepulveda November 13, 2007
Don’t be embarrassed. At least no one is linking your butt to global warming.
T Tacoma (A)roma November 14, 2007
Ive just read so much about store owners being in such a delicate financial situation that they are “1 chair thrown through a window” away from losing their business.
I guess I didnt realize how reactionary people are. Next time theres a protest I wonder if these people will all cry wolf again. Hopefully most of these stores dont even exist by then; and maybe in their place we could get some businesses that we would all actually shop at.
You know what would be good for downtown business? Less focus on students from SOTA & UWT, hippes, and expensive vintage clothing.
C Crenshaw Sepulveda November 15, 2007
I would take exception to the notion of less focus on students from SOTA and UWT. In any city where they have any common sense at all they make certain that they attract and retain the student types. They are the foundations upon which great cities are built.
Take a look at Atlanta, they do a sterling job of attracting educated young people. Cities that lose the young tend to die off, cities that increase the numbers of young people in their communities tend to prosper. Sorry, but we should focus on the students, they are the future that Tacoma needs.It was Tacoma (A)roma’s kind of thinking that got Tacoma into the mess she is in and will keep her from being the great city she can be.
T Tacoma (A)roma November 15, 2007
I wasnt trying to take away focus on creating an educated populace. I just have high hopes for the city and certain aspects of it drive me crazy.