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Wednesday, 11 February 2009 |
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"Admitting Detroit students to one but not the other of Ferndale's public high schools amounts to racial segregation, says Donna Stern, an organizer with the civil rights group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). ".. University High School has 418 students, with nearly 98 percent being African-American. About 80 percent of the school's enrollment comes from Detroit, Hall says. Ferndale High School , which has students from Ferndale, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge and Royal Oak Township, has 1,055 students; about 60 percent are African-American. " Editors note: According to 2000 census figures , Ferndale's black population is 3.42%, but the black student population at Ferndale High School is 56.9%. Those numbers don't support BAMN's allegations.
Read the whole story at The Metro Times. |
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Friday, 06 February 2009 |
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This is a funny story about how a man stealing a pickup truck was caught when he stopped to buy breakfast at a McDonald's restaurant with money he found inside the vehicle. The not so funny part is it was my truck. |
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Wednesday, 04 February 2009 |
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“Sometime in December, they approached us and asked if they could put their sign up in our window,” Selvaggio explained. “We didn’t want to take sides and post people’s political views that could alienate some of our customers, so we told them no. “Then,” he continued, “they started boycotting the store. Sometimes there would be four or five people, sometimes as many as 20, and they’re out there, loud and belligerent, disrupting the flow of traffic, telling people that we’re racist and that we support segregation. They’re here almost every day for about two or three hours at a time, and they probably turn away 10 or 15 (customers) each time.” Please read the entire article at The Woodward Talk, and related blog articles by Thomas Gagne and Mayor Craig Covey. |
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