Negative Responses Given As Orlando City Council and Orlando City Soccer Ramp Up Public Relations Effort
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- Category: Lifestyle/People
- Published: Thursday, 28 November 2013 01:09
by Lawrence A. Robinson
A recent article in the Orlando Sentinel prompted outburst in the Black community as the Orlando City Soccer Club and the Orlando Mayor and City Council member took a step toward its goal of winning support from residents of Parramore this week. They figured by donating refrigerators and turkeys to a corner grocery in the community where the team's new stadium will soon be built will be enough to calm all residential complaints and concerns.
The Orlando City Council and the Orange County Board of Commissioners, voted to build a soccer stadium in the Parramore community to be used by the Orlando City Soccer Club. The two governments granted the club millions of dollars to build this facility and felt that they should at least give the residents a few frozen turkeys in return for ostracizing them and ruining the community.
Daisy Lynum, City Council member representative for the
Parramore community was on hand smiling and passing out turkeys along with Mayor Dyer, 'King of Parramore' Walter Hawkins and a soccer player who claimed to have originated the idea.
They decided that Parramore was a food desert and needed new refrigerators to sustain fruits and vegetables. So they decided to give the residents turkeys and a soccer stadium?
Most of the responses from residents in the area who will be affected by this were very negative.
Click here for the original article in the Orlando Sentinel...
Here are some representative comments and lastly a video clip from talhua Paladino.
Larry.... The last time they talked about a 'food desert' in the Black community was when they wanted to bring in a 40,000 square foot big box grocery store to make sure that residents had access to fresh fruits and vegetables. That was a sham and it looks like this is also. The soccer team wants to appear like they are supportive of the community, they are not. Mayor Dyer, Council Member Daisy Lynum and the 'King of Parramore,' Walter Hawkins was present for the ribbon cutting. What a circus they have.
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Tim..... While Driving Through the Neighbor HOOD, we also Noticed that MORE than Fifty Restaurants have been DESTROYED by the Dyer Administration's Negro Removal Project... On the Church Street Corridor; that No One Wants to Acknowledge as a Black Business District of the Thirties, Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, nineties and as late as 2003, when Buddy Gained his Foothold with Cameron Khun and others to Raid the City Treasury, and Build only Temples of Wealth and Power for Every Ethnic Group, Except those of us who Lived, Worked, Worshipped, Loved the Land in the Inner City Blocks between Orange Blossom Trail, Gore Avenue, West Colonial Drive, and Interstate Four for more than a century ! ...... The Great City Beautiful was Beautiful while African Americans Thrived in Businesses such as the Bird in the Bag Restaurant, John Frazier's Restaurant: Where Several of Dr. Martin Luther Kings' Friends Ate Breakfast Daily in My Presence.
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There was No Food Desert when Publix Market, Winn-Dixie Competed with SunLIGHT, Tip Top, Braceys Market: African American Owned Wrights' Grocery, Al's Grocery, And the Big Boy Market that we opened on Westmoreland and Conley, Not the Kelly's Grocery and Oneal Groceries in the two hundred Block of Westmoreland, Babe Landcaster's family, African American Owned Cigar Store, Lucas Ice Cream and Sundries, Beery's and NORMAN's Stores on Church Street in the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000, until Buddy Took Office and Ran African American Businesses out of the five Hundred Block of Church Street for White Owned Ventures at City of Orlando Tax payers' Expenses and Still Raiding our treasury!
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Tip Top for Sixty Years Sold Fresh Foods: Sunlight For Sixty Years Sold Meat and Vegetables and Winn-Dixie and PUBLIX were ALL there in the HOOD from the time that We Opened our Eyes on the Area Bounded by Orange Blossom Trail, Gore Avenue, West Colonial Drive and Interstate Four@ STOP the Hype: We did NOT have Food nor Vegetable Desert then, and what we have Now is Racially Disparate TREATMENT by City Officials that have Driven and are Driving ONLY AFRICAN AMERICANS from our Homeland.
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Let us also ADD:
Our Inner - City Neighbor HOOD supported Fresh Fruits and Vegetables with P. And D Grocery for more than Sixty Years on Robinson; Just West of the Coal Distillery that made us all have respiratory problems, and is now owned by Tampa Electric Gas Company. Please Stop Allowing the City of Orlando Rewrite History and Pretend that Dyer is Saving a Neighborhood that he Actually Destroyed!
P. S. We Also had Collard Greens, Cucumbers, Onions Galore, Squash, Tomatoes, Peas, of twenty varieties, Various types and tastes of FRESH Beans, Snap Beans, turnip Greens, Corn on the Cobb, Off the Hook and Any way that we wanted to Cook .
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