With all the hoopla surrounding the new Yankee stadium you would think it was being built in the heart of the city, namely Manhattan. Instead this new remarkable stadium is being built right across the street from the old one, on top of one of the few well maintained public parks/playgrounds in the city, in what happens to be the poorest congressional district in the United States.

“You don’t have progress unless you inconvenience a few people.” That was what New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say when he was asked to comment about the replacement parks promised by both the city of NewYork and Yankee organization. He was asked to comment due to the fact that some of the parks will not be finished until 2011, while

 Several years ago, when walking across Harlems 125th Street, a quote written on a wooden fence caused me to pause and take out my pad and pen. Attributed to the Dalai Lama, it said When you lose, dont lose the lesson. Michael Vick lost. Its important that he and his young black male peers dont lose the lessons. Lesson one is to realize that as you move along in life you have to, every now and then, do an inventory on your homeboys and find out who is really a friend and who is on a fast road to nowhere and trying to take you along. Lesson two is to recognize the difference between positive arrogance I am as good as anybody and can accomplish what I put my mind to and negative arrogance I got it all going on and dont have to listen to nobody. The latter will eventually jam you up. Lesson three is not to believe for a single moment that having