whelp i didn't talk to curtis black yet. he's probably busy doing investigative journalism, if that's what he does. maybe he just reports. i was thinking i wish i was an investigative journalist. i feel excitement for that work, but i'm a dreamer and not an organized thinker. i think by feeling rather than hard fact. i'm lazy but with a passion for natural justice. if there was such an investigative journalist there's a story here with the various factions all vying for a piece of the obomba fundation's attempt to confiscate jackson park, the rare and beautiful people's park. thinking about what i have been thinking about over time, about the back room secret deals struck, and the relentless propaganda about the public benefits of the confiscation, echoes of countless politicians' scams and treaties going back to the settlers and the theft of native land. it's not a precedent, this is just the latest land grab, private enterprisers manipulating the law by power and wealth to seize public land while spinning tales about economic growth and opportunity for the community. if they wanted to do those things they could, but this is simply a private institution taking public land and displacing people while drawing the real estate corporations and speculators in to break up and gentrify the neighborhood.
what got me started again was hairstone saying the nature sanctuary is a dead zone, provoking outrage from the environmentalists of color in defence of the sanctuary under threat by tiger woods. but we tend to break into factions and separate causes and issues when we need to coalesce. two sanctuaries are under threat here, as well as an entire neighborhood. 
i get exhausted. an investigative journalist would have to be tireless to elicit the whole story. but this scam is not so sensational, like police brutality, torture, or murder. it's just another land grab, another transfer of nature to private enterprise, another bulldozer erosion of the commons, another episode of the rich and powerful take what they want. but if obomba gets his private park, there will be no end to it: every green space will be a real estate scam just waiting for development by the next slick and stealthy enterprising thief.