CM PRESS # 745

BLACK PASTORS PROTEST AGAINST SPLC
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THREE WESTSIDE PLANS ARE NOW EASIER TO FIND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE

These plans are a great road map for improving the Westside.

If you don't have the time or desire to read them all, here's the most important thing to remember: The Westside Plans make it far easier for the private sector to make changes on the Westside and they offer attractive incentives to those who take the financial risk to pioneer such changes.

In addition to the above, there are things discussed in the plans, or which flow from things discussed in the plans, that the City can do relatively inexpensively--right now, today--to improve the vibes on the Westside to make it more attractive for upwardly mobile people to buy homes and start businesses there.

Hopefully, developers, upwardly mobile people looking for homes, and various business people will take the time to read the plans. 

And, even more hopefully, City Hall will assign an agressive person to act as an ombudsman who knows his or her way around City Hall and who can grease the rails of those wanting to invest money or their future on the Westside.
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REMINDER: CMTax meeting TONIGHT, Thursday January 19th at 6:00 p.m. at the Neighborhood Community Center (adjacent to Lion’s Park). The meeting is free and open to the public.
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WHITE VIETNAM VET ATTACKED AND BEATEN BY SIX NON-WHITES (FIVE BLACKS AND ONE POSSIBLY LATINO) IN PHILADELPHIA

[LATEST: Here's the same story as told on THE BLAZE. This one has a photo of the White vet.]

With video.

Because the race/ethnicity of the attackers is shown, the major news outlets are hiding the race of the victim, but the CM PRESS did a google search and there's a photo of the White victim lying in a hospital bed.

Will there be hate crime charges filed against the attackers when they're caught?  Of course not.  Don't understand why?  Reread the above.  The victim was White and the attackers non-White.  Now do you understand?
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AVOID THE GHETTO APP CAUSING SOME BLACK GROUPS TO WHINE


They claim it perpetuates "stereotypes." 

The fact is that stereotypes are often based on facts and are true.

Non-White areas are generally less safe than White areas.  It's a simple truth.  Know it and you may avoid becoming a victim.  Ignore it and you increase your risks of being a victim.
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REBRANDING THE WESTSIDE AND SELF CLEANING OVENS

We've gotten assurances from those in the know that we should soon see proper signage at 19th and Harbor indicating that one is entering "19 WEST."

This will be a small but significant step toward rebranding the Westside as an area that is open for business.

As you may recall, the CM PRESS reminded the City Council about putting up such a sign a couple  of City Council meetings ago and then we went back to the most recent meeting to remind them again.  If there is no sign up before the next meeting, we'll be back. 

Actually, we may be back anyway with some more suggestions for low cost things that can be done right now to spur improvement on the Westside.

Forget about waiting for the economy to turn around to do anything.  That's like saying I like steak but I can only afford hamburger so I'm not going to eat until the price of steak comes down.

We also suggested that the Council start a standing committee to oversee improvements on the Westside and to help remind the Council of things that can be done.  However, so far, this seems to have fallen on deaf ears.  So, if the City doesn't do this, you may see the CM PRESS trying to wake up all the Westside activists who were so active a few year ago.

Here's the thing about the CM PRESS's actions on the Westside.  We don't live there.  We have no financial interest in anything that happens there.  This means our actions, as they have been since 1999, can't be challenged by those who will say that we have some financial interest or motive in the area and that's the only reason we're trying to get it improved.

So, what is our motive?  It's simple.  We believe that the Westside is the key to improving all of Costa Mesa. Period.  Fix the Westside and you fix all of Costa Mesa.  Leave the Westside to rot, and you harm all of Costa Mesa.

Most other neighborhoods in Costa Mesa don't need the special care that the Westside needs.  These other neighborhoods pretty much work like self cleaning ovens, but the Westside needs some hands on help until we get the self cleaning oven installed over there.
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