NUBIAN KNIGHTS NETWORK: Bob Law's Seafood Cafe Needs Your Help(BLACK OWNED BUSINESS)

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"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."

- Fred Wilson

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Bob Law's Seafood Cafe Needs Your Help
(BLACK OWNED BUSINESS)

As you know gentrification is sweeping through Black communities rapidly displacing Black cultural traditions, businesses, and institutions. The Wall Street Journal reports that as whites move back into the city "Beloved institutions in traditionally Black communities are losing customers who supported them for decades" The Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn is going through the same process, while long time residents and business owners watch what back in 2004 New York magazine called the Manhattanization of Brooklyn.

In Prospect Heights Bob Law stepped up to make sure that long time residents, most of whom are Black, are organized and included in the decision making that is changing the nature and character of their community.

This effort has angered new residents who felt they had a free hand to do as they please, assuming that whatever they did was in the best interest of all To retaliate against Bob, a whisper campaign has begun to charge Bob with being too Black, and to discourage people from eating at Bob's Seafood Cafe on Vanderbilt Avenue.

To offset this anti-Bob law campaign were asking friends and supporters to make a point to eat at Bob Law's Seafood Cafe. In this political climate your support is of great value, Hope to see you at the Cafe. The National Leadership Alliance and Friends Of Bob Law

P.S. > The address is 637 Vanderbilt Avenue (between Prospect Place and St. Marks Avenue) in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Major trains stop in the area.