You can read this story about a dirty drug infested neighborhood in Atlanta, where the community is taking back their streets via cleaning them up. There is also a video report at this link, courtesy of Atlanta’s CBS 46 news.

The effort is funded by the US Department of Justice (the primary funder), the City of Atlanta and Spelman College. Community residents and students from Spelman College did the clean-up work.

Now I’m just wondering which one of our Black representatives in Congress will thank the Bush Administration for funding this effort to clean up a Black community? I’m sure Bush will not be getting any thanks from Cynthia (punch a cop) McKinney!

I think it’s good that this neighborhood is working to clean things up. And although a Federal hand out was used, it was used in a way that requires the people in the community to roll up their own sleeves to improve their community.