If the community is not improved, then the rest of the area will end up like Benton Harlem. Worry about cleaning up the rest of your crap hole community, just not a beach that you don't use.
i knew polly clock, daughter of jean klock. when they told the peoplethat the park was theirs, it was a different set of people. BH was a beautiful little lakeside town. now it is the biggest ghetto in michigan sans detroit. i owned several houses on terriorial, city fathers homes, historic. we were run out and the houses trashed. 1 woman actually came to my door and said 'white man what you doin here'? she didn't care that my family had helped make the town crackheads and welfare cheats hicrime
There was a study done in 2006 by a park study board revealed that there were an average of 47 cars per month in the parking lot..... Its unused, but valuable.
I was born in Benton Harbor on Broadway 1951. The rich try to take away from the poor to benifit their selfs.If you try to fill in some swamp on your property DNR won't let you but Whirlpool can do anything they want. This was planed when they closed their plant and put us out of work.If this go'es through you will see condos or the hotel they said they we're putting on the site where the factory was.Put in factory jobs in Benton Harbor instead of a play ground for the rich.
The park has been purposely mismanaged in order to justify the recent sales for luxury residential development and the current proposal to use it for a golf course. Odd that the state would approve yet another grant circa 2000 for the new pavilion and that it would be booked every weekend of the season if the park is such a forgotten, forlorn dump, eh? The City ultimately is to be dismembered, once every cent has been extracted for the benefit of people living anywhere but ...
Viewers should keep in mind that many residents of Benton Harbor call Jean Klock Park "the beach." They are referring to the threat to the entire park, not just the beach sand. The Harbor Shores proposal would put hundreds of cars onto the beach itself, in new parking lots and roads right in view of bathers, boaters and other park users. It would mar the beauty of the lakefront forever. In no way does the plan come close to restoring the original beautiful historic brick, tree-lined drive.
Wrtie your state rep and demand that this attempt to take this beach from the people of Benton Harbor end now! This is wrong. I grew up in South Bend, IN and have many memories of Jean Klock Park. Still today it is a beautiful place. Corporations and their jobs come and go (Studebakers?) but nature endures - if we take care!
I am sure that if everyone that watched this video on YouTube was to email or write Governor Grandholm or their other state representatives, it would make a difference.
From what I've learned, the Klock family said; "The beach is yours, the drive is yours, the dunes are yours, all yours. It is not so much a gift from my wife and myself, it's a gift from a little child. See to it, that the park is the children's."
Doesn't that say it all? It's obvious this park was intended to be preserved for future generations, FOREVER.
The citizens rights of Benton Harbor has been trumpled on for years due to their facial features, color of skin and most of all, economic circumstances. What every democratic person of this country should be asking is, "What are the presidential candidates going to do about this situation?" There should be a full-fledged movement around this situation with support for the Minister Pikney that the corporate powers (Whirlpool) etc. have prosecuted. Where is the outrage!
Don't count on either your governor or the pResident to help. It is they and their buddies in the corporate boardrooms who will benefit. My guess is that they picked this lovely spot because Benton Harbor is an African American community and thus has little power [at least so they think]. Your community is going to have to do some really interesting nonviolent civil disobedience or you will lose your parkland forever...
Wow, best of luck fighting a modern-day Enclosure of the Commons.
(this is an ancient scheme at the heart of almost all profit-making enterprises)
billhuston 10 months ago
If the community is not improved, then the rest of the area will end up like Benton Harlem. Worry about cleaning up the rest of your crap hole community, just not a beach that you don't use.
rjohn23 3 years ago
i knew polly clock, daughter of jean klock. when they told the peoplethat the park was theirs, it was a different set of people. BH was a beautiful little lakeside town. now it is the biggest ghetto in michigan sans detroit. i owned several houses on terriorial, city fathers homes, historic. we were run out and the houses trashed. 1 woman actually came to my door and said 'white man what you doin here'? she didn't care that my family had helped make the town crackheads and welfare cheats hicrime
foxolita 3 years ago 3
What study was that?
What park study board? There is no park study board in Benton Harbor, electraman.
savetheparks 3 years ago
There was a study done in 2006 by a park study board revealed that there were an average of 47 cars per month in the parking lot..... Its unused, but valuable.
electraman7 3 years ago
I was born in Benton Harbor on Broadway 1951. The rich try to take away from the poor to benifit their selfs.If you try to fill in some swamp on your property DNR won't let you but Whirlpool can do anything they want. This was planed when they closed their plant and put us out of work.If this go'es through you will see condos or the hotel they said they we're putting on the site where the factory was.Put in factory jobs in Benton Harbor instead of a play ground for the rich.
peepawcraig 3 years ago 6
The park has been purposely mismanaged in order to justify the recent sales for luxury residential development and the current proposal to use it for a golf course. Odd that the state would approve yet another grant circa 2000 for the new pavilion and that it would be booked every weekend of the season if the park is such a forgotten, forlorn dump, eh? The City ultimately is to be dismembered, once every cent has been extracted for the benefit of people living anywhere but ...
beatricekelsey 3 years ago 3
Viewers should keep in mind that many residents of Benton Harbor call Jean Klock Park "the beach." They are referring to the threat to the entire park, not just the beach sand. The Harbor Shores proposal would put hundreds of cars onto the beach itself, in new parking lots and roads right in view of bathers, boaters and other park users. It would mar the beauty of the lakefront forever. In no way does the plan come close to restoring the original beautiful historic brick, tree-lined drive.
savetheparks 3 years ago
Wrtie your state rep and demand that this attempt to take this beach from the people of Benton Harbor end now! This is wrong. I grew up in South Bend, IN and have many memories of Jean Klock Park. Still today it is a beautiful place. Corporations and their jobs come and go (Studebakers?) but nature endures - if we take care!
Stilnovisti
Stilnovisti 4 years ago
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, Michigan 48909
PHONE: (517) 373-3400
PHONE: (517) 335-7858 - Constituent Services
blightly 4 years ago
I am sure that if everyone that watched this video on YouTube was to email or write Governor Grandholm or their other state representatives, it would make a difference.
Write YOUR government.
blightly 4 years ago
From what I've learned, the Klock family said; "The beach is yours, the drive is yours, the dunes are yours, all yours. It is not so much a gift from my wife and myself, it's a gift from a little child. See to it, that the park is the children's."
Doesn't that say it all? It's obvious this park was intended to be preserved for future generations, FOREVER.
nightwatcher
cappyjr 4 years ago
The citizens rights of Benton Harbor has been trumpled on for years due to their facial features, color of skin and most of all, economic circumstances. What every democratic person of this country should be asking is, "What are the presidential candidates going to do about this situation?" There should be a full-fledged movement around this situation with support for the Minister Pikney that the corporate powers (Whirlpool) etc. have prosecuted. Where is the outrage!
lyndabrew 4 years ago
It's happening everywhere and it must be RESISTED in every case...even if it seems hopeless at times.
pugnax3 4 years ago
Great video. Clearly points out the corporate power in our country. Michael . Detroit, MI
comm97 4 years ago
Don't count on either your governor or the pResident to help. It is they and their buddies in the corporate boardrooms who will benefit. My guess is that they picked this lovely spot because Benton Harbor is an African American community and thus has little power [at least so they think]. Your community is going to have to do some really interesting nonviolent civil disobedience or you will lose your parkland forever...
peggyforpeace 4 years ago