Posted on 12/31/2008 5:18:07 AM PST by gjones77
ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) - As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.
In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.
Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.
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We plan on making our land purchase in 09’ and want nothing less than 20 acres.
And my house will be in the middle of the 20 acres!
I grew up in the city, my children will not.
Poverty of the soul cannot be solved by moving the person from the environment. You have change the person from the inside. BTW I was a victim of this Section 8 neighbor problem when I lived in Fremont, CA. What was really strange was the white kids who were attracted to the black kids moving in from Oakland. So the white kids completely emulated the blacks in speech, dress and talk. White kids were of course not allowed to say -- well you know the word.
I love this. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.
Jon Corzine and his Democrats want to do the same thing in New Jersey. The fight is on and the radio ads against it are on all the time.
Invest in some good fencing, I am told by my 40 acre owning friend - people seem to feel entitled to come on to open property for some reason.
Ya’ think? Nah, that couldn’t possibly be it.
Schadenfreude
Yea, I particularly liked: “Tensions like those afflicting Antioch have drawn scholars and law enforcement officials to debate whether crime follows subsidized renters out of the tenements to the suburbs.” Quickly followed by, “oh, no that can’t be the case”.
So.......how much are they paying scholars and LEO’s to study on the obvious?
Let’s hope it does not happen in New Jersey. That is the richest state in America. There are some very nice areas in New Jersey. I grew up in Pennsylvania and my brother lived in Princeton for awhile. New Jersey is a pretty nice state except for a few areas.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer city.
“So the rich white liberals moved ghetto residents into their gated communities and are now surprised that they brought the ghetto with them.”
They were thinking more in terms of those nasty middle-class suburbs. The people who live in them need to be exposed to diversity. So Section 8 is good for them. But Antioch is different . . .
I actually parked my motorcycle in the living room of my apartment one winter (many years ago). I did that because I was tired of coming outside and finding kids playing all over it while their worthless parents either watched, or were nowhere to be found.
LOL
“I grew up in Roslindale, a town in Boston that was mainly working middle class families.
“Then section 8 started moving into the 3 family homes on the street and things went down hill fast, this was in the early 90’s.”
This was the way Section 8 was supposed to work. It was supposed to affect lower-middle and middle class communities. It’s advocates actually believe it will help raise the consciousness of the middle class to be exposed to minorities. Of course it doesn’t work out that way.
Section 8 was NOT intended to move inner city folks out to really nice suburbs like Antioch that have enough money to hire police to deal with the problem.
I can understand that, especially if you don’t have a garage, but I am guessing you WHEELED the bike in. From what I undestand, this guy DROVE it in.
I should have put that sarcasm notice on the end.
Those interested in living peaceably should just do what everyone in every other community where this has happened have done:move.
You guess correctly. Onto sheets, no less!
.....my wife and I have lived on 24 acres since 1993...our county is 97% white....we have low crime, low taxes, good schools, honest government and a good hospital that’s solvent...we are the people that Saturday Night Live makes fun of.
Just so we’re clear here- Antioch has never been a gated-community Liberal enclave. I lived there for 15 years. When I was there, it was a moderate income bedroom community with a partially-contained gang problem. There were bad parts of town, but it was mostly a quiet community with a small-town feel. And, it was about as close to Conservative as the Bay Area gets- possibly excepting places like San Ramon. I used to enjoy going to Old Town for the Fourth of July parade- watching the fire-engine and scout troop displays while quaffing a beer at the Wallace Arms.
I left in 2003, and visited in 2007. I almost didn’t recognize the place. It has *exploded* with people and new construction.
I won’t join some people in dancing on Antioch’s grave. I know too many good people there, and I’m sorry to hear of what’s happening to the old place. I’m also glad I got out when I did.
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