For great justice
And we get accused of trading hyperbole for sales.
Pasadena Journal publisher Joe Hopkins this week blames Mayor Bill Bogaard for gang and interracial violence, awful public schools, blocking an African Sister City and fee hikes at PCC. The editorial, which exalts Pasadena as "a great city as long as all of the citizens, Black, White, Latino, Asian, and others, are included" laments the preponderance of Asians at our city college. (Guess who's to blame?)
Pasadena is a city of great things with the possibility of becoming a great city as long as all of the citizens, Black, White, Latino, Asian, and others, are included....
At the local Pasadena Community College there are a number of policies related to the ability to pay fees that the present Board members have implemented that has the effect of keeping Black, Brown and poor students out. There are no Blacks on that board and, therefore, few Black students at the college which has become known as "PCC, the PASADENA CHINESE COLLEGE."
The polemic is driven by the council's decision not to enter exclusive negotiations with the Bakewell Co. re: Heritage Square, which given its deep factual inaccuracies, must have occurred in the much-theorized about Bizarro Pasadena.



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