Comments on: Nutritional Racism by Rambling Raven http://www.apooobooks.com/nutritional-racism-rambling-raven/ Celebrating African American Literature. Promoting Our Voices. Showcasing Our Stories. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:21:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dera Williams http://www.apooobooks.com/nutritional-racism-rambling-raven/comment-page-1/#comment-14687 Dera Williams Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:33:52 +0000 http://www.apooobooks.com/?p=3957#comment-14687 Great column. I have seen grocery chain stores like Lucky's close in communities of color here in Oakland. But trutfully, some of them needed to go because I can think of two that were raggedy, had old produce and unkempt. What needs to be done is advocacy for equal quality as the stores in the hills and suburbs. Brand new spanking merchandise and fresh foods and delis. They always think they can shortchange poorer communities citing crime, not enough people patronizing, etc. They did build a nice, grocery story that is not a chain in Eastmont Mall in East Oakland and that is getting lotsof patronage. .-= Dera Williams´s last blog ..<a href="http://derarwilliams.blogspot.com/2010/02/people-get-ready.html" rel="nofollow">People Get Ready</a> =-. Great column. I have seen grocery chain stores like Lucky’s close in communities of color here in Oakland. But trutfully, some of them needed to go because I can think of two that were raggedy, had old produce and unkempt. What needs to be done is advocacy for equal quality as the stores in the hills and suburbs. Brand new spanking merchandise and fresh foods and delis. They always think they can shortchange poorer communities citing crime, not enough people patronizing, etc. They did build a nice, grocery story that is not a chain in Eastmont Mall in East Oakland and that is getting lotsof patronage.
.-= Dera Williams´s last blog ..People Get Ready =-.

]]> By: Arlene Jones http://www.apooobooks.com/nutritional-racism-rambling-raven/comment-page-1/#comment-14679 Arlene Jones Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:03:03 +0000 http://www.apooobooks.com/?p=3957#comment-14679 There is something very wrong with the black psyche when insteading of focusing on opening up of our own grocery stores, we still lament about what the major grocery chains aren't doing for us. On the South Side of Chicago, there are numerous huge churches that have been built. Sadly not a one considered building a grocery store on the first floor and then a church on the second. Until we as a community pool our resources and open our own, the lament is just that...... a lament. No other ethnic groups harps on what they don't have. They supply it There is something very wrong with the black psyche when insteading of focusing on opening up of our own grocery stores, we still lament about what the major grocery chains aren’t doing for us.

On the South Side of Chicago, there are numerous huge churches that have been built. Sadly not a one considered building a grocery store on the first floor and then a church on the second.

Until we as a community pool our resources and open our own, the lament is just that…… a lament. No other ethnic groups harps on what they don’t have. They supply it

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