New book, may be of interest

[Average American]

I just finished a recent release that might be of interest to CFers.. The Tragic City by Paul Kersey.
The author, is the guy who maintains the SBPDL site.. & the book is a collection of Kersey's essays on the city of Birmingham AL.
He highlights some of the stupidity that has helped wreck post Civil Rights Birmingham.. Inept & corrupt Black leadership, catastrophic White flight, assorted crimes & moronic public relations stunts.
Some of it funny, most of it sad..

For CFers, there's some pages on both Alabama football, and Birmingham's former place in college football relevance, before the 'hood surrounding Birmingham's premier stadium made it too dangerous to host meaningful games. Kersey also talks about the fact that Alabama was still winning national championships all the way up until the dawn of the 80s with predominately White teams, in a culture of rising 'Black Run America'.

My only complaint is that the book has a lot of editing errors, missing words.. pages with only a sentence or two on 'em (?).. but, I figure his books are self-published, and otherwise look really good. It's for sale on Amazon, B&Noble, some on e-bay, around $15.

anyone else read it, or other Kersey books (?)

 

[werewolf]

So very many once-great cities have been destroyed just like Birmingham. Detroit is the classic example, but there are so many others...and we are forbidden by the powers that be from even noticing why. We are ordered to mumble something about the economy, or maybe it's "white racism".

The first review by Atwood is very good:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tragic-City-Birmingham-1963-2013/dp/1481045954

Birmingham was the city where Schwarzenegger's first movie, "Stay Hungry", took place. I read the book too, by Gaines, and it was quite interesting. That's all gone now.

 

[jaxvid]

So very many many once-great cities have been destroyed just like Birmingham. Detroit is the classic example, but there are so many others...and we are forbidden by the powers that be from even noticing why. We are ordered to mumble something about the economy, or maybe it's "white racism".

The first review by Atwood is very good:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tragic-City-Birmingham-1963-2013/dp/1481045954

Birmingham was the city where Schwarzenegger's first movie, "Stay Hungry", took place. I read the book too, by Gaines, and it was quite interesting. That's all gone now.

Another ridiculous excuse used is that it is "Democrats" and the Democratic party that is responsible for the failure of the big cities in the US. Unfortunately for them the cities considered the best to live in are also led by Democrats, like Portland and Pittsburgh. The only difference is the racial composition of those cities as Kersey points out in his articles and books.

 

[Awake in America]

I lived just outside of Birmingham, in Homewood, AL, in the mid 1990s. We would watch the city council meetings on television for entertainment. There was one white guy on the council, and he was very much aware of what he was dealing with. It was comedy and tragedy all at once. The mayor was amazingly corrupt, and his hand-picked Congressman was pretty much illiterate. Downtown wasn't too bad during the day, but after 5:30, things got very dark, very quickly, no matter the time of year. The sad thing was that you could still see the signs that it was once a nice place, now in decay. The outer-lying suburbs were really starting to thrive back then.