Most discussed on The Stoop this week was the Post article about L.A.’s Fatburger coming the New York. Comments on the topic ran the gamut from not another fast food place to hooray.
Do we really need Fat Burger as well? We already got Jimbo’s! -Hugo
….eeer just what Harlem needs. Too this announcement was not accompanied by the facts of the consequences of dining at Fatburger.
Why spoil the hoopla with truth? Let’s bury our collective heads in the sand. -Tttoma
ive been to the fat burger in LA—jimbo’s better watch out. they’re about to get some tough competition. -AC
Fatburger has tried to conquer New York before. About twenty years ago they opened a store on Third Avenue at about 18th Street. I ate there a few times; it was nothing special. After a while the standards of service and cleanliness decreased and their sales plummeted. Nobody missed them when they high-tailed it back to the Left Coast. Better luck this time. -RonFrankl
alice
January 24, 2008
old harlem has been jumping on the clinton bandwagon since day one! it’s like chris rock said on the stage of the apollo…
i hope “young” and new harlem alike line up for obama and show old harlem what they cannot see with their own eyes which is that the world is passing them by.
narmer
January 24, 2008
Did he endorse her from the pulpit of the church? If he did! he violated the churches tax exempt status. The separation of church and state and he violate it, by endorsing from the pulpit and his capacity as head of the church.
harlemsoul
January 24, 2008
“Open Letter to Rev. Calvin Butts” on his recent endorsement of Sen. Hillary Clinton
Dear Dr. Butts,
I write you this open letter to express the disappointment and outrage of the African community you serve. Yesterday, on the hallowed holiday commemorating the memory of our prophetic leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., you chose to endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton for President of The United States. Most people in the African community feel you have done a grave disservice to everybody by cutting a deal and selling out.
All I could think of was “how could you do such a callous and insensitive thing on such an important day?” Even you would remember that Dr. King himself sacrificed his life “to remind America of the fierce urgency of NOW!” For more than forty years African Americans have had to fight for their rightful place of equality in society. So many people have struggled so long for so little and yet in this time of our history we have an amazing possibility for hope. So at best, your endorsement of Sen. Clinton was opportunistic and political. At worst, you used your pulpit to further your own selfish ambitions. The Abyssinian Baptist Church is much more than backroom deals on the cheap – especially by its pastor. It has a rich history of two hundred years that has now become blemished by you turning your back on your members and on every African American who dares to hope for change in this country.
I take no pleasure in telling you that we in the African community are tired of our leaders selling us out and being so insenstive to our pain. For too long we have been robbed of our dignity and denied respect. We have come too far to have someone like you try to push us back into the gutter. Your endorsement of Sen. Clinton on Sunday was a self-righteous stab in our backs. What we would really like to know is at what price did you sell us out? What did she promise you for publicly diminishing the stature of your own people?
How long, Dr. Butts, will we have to wait to break the manacles of oppression? How long will we have to stand on the warm threshold of the palace of justice and be denied entrance because pastors like you betray our trust? Maybe the answers are in the very words of Dr. King himself when he asked,
“How long will justice be crucified, and truth bear it?
How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever.
How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow.
How long, Not long.
Truth forever on the scaffold,/wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,/And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,/Keeping watch above His own.
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
How long, Not long because:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
O be swift my soul to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.”
And that is the glorious testimony of Scripture, Dr. Butts. Your evil shall not have the last word.
His truth is marching on. In a world filled with demons, African American people are still promised an abundant life because we have hope.
Harlemsoul