http://bostonist.com/2007/12/20/councilor_turne.php All comments for Councilor Turner Won't Shovel His Sidewalk en-us 2009 rickbang Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:29:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rick@bostonist.com rick@bostonist.com 60 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/20/councilor_turne.php#comment-1255794 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/20/councilor_turne.php#comment-1255794 Comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:32:50 -0500 <p>This is sad. His neighbors might want to get some of our "Thank you for shoveling" cards at thankyouforshoveling.org. We're a non-profit, and this is all free. And designed to ease tensions among neighbors about this very issue -- unshoveled sidewalks.</p> http://bostonist.com/2007/12/20/councilor_turne.php#comment-1255770 http://bostonist.com/2007/12/20/councilor_turne.php#comment-1255770 Comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:18:37 -0500 <p>Citing "cultural practice" has to be one of the lamest excuses I've ever heard from an elected official. He should have just admitted he was being lazy and left it at that. I generally think that accusations of "playing the race card" are overdone, but it definitely applies in this instance. I love the response to Turner quoted by WBZ from a Jamal Crawford, who said, "I'm a 20 year student of African Culture both all through the Diaspora and particularly here in America. I've never heard of any kind of cultural significance that I know of myself. If the inference is that somehow black people, if that's what he meant by it, don't use the sidewalk, that's definitely not true in my experience."</p>