Radio Show About Skateparks

On the Kojo Nnamdi show from Thursday Kojo talked with Darren Harper (who Kojo called Darrell) and the local skate activist Sk8ter Mom about the fight for better skateparks in the area.

I was hoping they were going to talk about all the problems with the many many lame skateparks in the area. Mostly they just focused on how The new Silver Spring park is waayy too small and how the incredibly terrible Shaw park is the only skatepark in DC. Sk8ter Mom said "7 skaters can use this park at one time" about Silver Spring Park. That is awesome to think about when you roll up and there are like 35 kids skating. Another personal fav is when parents bring real young kids thinking this is a nice open community park, only for their kids to be terrified of the rippers that are at the park everyday.

A big part of the show was also dedicated to convincing listeners that skateboarding is a good way to keep teens from becoming criminals. They harped on that point more than 10 times. I enjoyed when super old listeners called in to complain about how much skaters damage the monuments in DC.

Here is a link if you want to listen- LINK TO SHOW