Midnight Basketball? There's a 94' flashback.
Posted on 06/05/2015 9:57:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There were two killed and at least other shootings in Baltimore on Tuesday. May was essentially a record breaker for Baltimore when it comes to murders. What to do?
(Baltimore Sun) Pastors and other community organizers plan to walk some of Baltimore’s most violent blocks on weekend nights from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. this summer.
Midnight basketball tournaments and a new community center for children named for Freddie Gray not far from Gilmor Homes, where he was arrested, are aimed at uniting the city. Gray, 25, died from an injury sustained in police custody prompting protests and rioting.
On Father’s Day, the Rev. Jamal H. Bryant wants to lead a rally through the streets — clergy, gang members and children alike — bearing coffins, a solemn “visual reminder” of the violence. Baltimore recorded 43 homicides in May, the worst month Baltimore has seen in 40 years.
And right there it breaks down. Gang members? How in the heck are they supposed to be a part of the solution? They are part of the problem.
Clergy invited to Baltimore on Tuesday the Rev. Jeffrey Brown, who led the Boston TenPoint Coalition, a faith-based crime-fighting effort that helped drop that city’s homicides from 152 in 1990 to 31 in 1999, in what many called the “Boston Miracle.” Brown led a “street training” in Baltimore on how to best engage young people.
Brown said clergy must take their roles in the community to heart to change the culture on the streets.
While I applaud the initiative, the Boston one is the outlier. These usually fail (see Detroit, Camden, Birmingham, Atlanta, Baltimore, etc), hence the reason to try them again and again and again and again, etc and so on. Why the need to continuously have marches and demonstrations and programs and such in these liberal/Democratic Black areas? As the comments point out, “where were they 43 murders ago?” Why is it that, even with heavy policing, Baltimore is a violent city? Why is there no need for all these programs and demonstrations and marches and such in Conservative areas?
Of course, even mentioning this is surely raaaaacist, as is discussing the real issues and real solutions.
Midnight Basketball, whoda thunk it ?
Something tells me it’s not “shoot the thugs.”
Well who wouldn’t give the whores and dealers a few hours off to play a good game of hoops? It’s only money and afterall, this is for a good cause.
Midnight Basketball? There's a 94' flashback.
Well these godless bastards have to do SOMETHING to cover for their complicity is selling their neighborhoods to the Dems for votes and welfare. They preached victimhood just as da massa commanded. Now they get the glory of, pardon the term, “White knighting’ the situation. Win Win.
I saw an episode on The First 48 where they had a little league football game to stop the violence.
[slaps forehead] But of course! Why didn't I think of that?
Tried in the 90s, didn’t work, just set up a large number of targets to shoot.
Whew. For a minute there, I thought James Taylor had added a Baltimore venue to the North American leg of his tour.
nobody’s doing anything in Baltimore on Father’s Day anyway
Any solution proposed will be met with a barrage of excuses for why they can’t do it. It’s an endless loop. Someone will eventually have to cure the problem with force, most likely as soon as the democrats get the socialist government they’re working on now.
Are these gangs anything you know about?
Black clergy is Al Sharpton, Louis Farakhon and Jeremiah Wright.
Boy, just how many children named Freddie Gray are there in Baltimore?
Encouraging any midnight activity in a city that needs a curfew to stop the breakdown of civilized behavior is insane.
Definition of mass confusion? Father’s Day in Baltimore.
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