Posted on 04/03/2013 1:26:41 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky
A recent high school graduate from the Midwest who moved to New Orleans in hopes of making a difference in the lives of others, was gunned down on a New Orleans street corner Monday night. Joseph Massenburg, 18, had been eager to embark on his first project in New Orleans as an AmeriCorps member, friends and family said.
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Its kind of like Detroit, some areas are just fine, others are suicide zones.
See “Noble Savage” syndrome. Liberals REALLY think they can do good by “helping” feral savages. They go to Africa or middle eastern countries to “help” the people, and come back raped or dead.
They probably thought he was an Uncle Tom and needed eradicating.
We are paying to send kids to do useless and stupid exercises and possibly get attacked and even murdered.
This is America in the age of Obama.
Visit lovely New Orleans.
Nailed it!
Reminds me of the scene from Vacation,as they are driving through East St Louis:
Ellen: This is so dangerous, we have no business being in an area like this.
Clark: Well look at it this way honey, this is a part of America we never get to see.
Ellen: That’s good.
Clark: No, that’s bad. I mean we can’t close our eyes to the plight of the cities. Kids, you noticing all this plight? This will just make us appreciate what we have. (gun shot and scream) Roll em up.
His mother's website:
http://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/SharonM
other than a few who came here for religious purposes I’ve heard that is how most came to America and Australia to begin with.
Kirsten, 25, was radiant, altruistic, and wise. [Wise? Who is this guy kidding?]
On her second night in town... she rode with a feather in her hair to see the Rebirth Brass Band perform ...The clubs doorman remembers her leaving alone on her bike at 1:30 am.
Kirstens murder recalls the unsolved murder in January 2007 of Helen Hill, a community activist...[Why didn't the flower children learn their lesson?]
For a time, Kirstens murder, like Helens, generated news. At first I fretted that Kirsten was receiving preferential treatment because she is white. [I'm sorry, but this guy brings moronic to a whole new level]
There aren’t any truly ‘safe’ areas in N.O. anymore. Before Katrina Lakeview was nice and rarely saw crime. Now it’s riddled with break-in’s, car thefts and robberies. The east is simply no-man’s-land. Metairie is about the only semi-decent area and there are pockets here of ‘ghetto-ization’ since Katrina that are just as bad as in the city. Criminals in cars have access to EVERY area. There is a young, black schoolteacher from California who has been missing almost a month. She was last seen in a popular bar in Lakeview, drove into City Park and vanished.
Locals know its not safe anywhere- its the naive tourists and newcomers who walk around thinking they are in a ‘funky’ scene from ‘Treme’. And the tourists aren’t safe in the Quarter either- despite the concentration of police there. You only hear about the killings- the assaults, beating, robberies, etc are never in the news. Too negative.
It is safer in Somalia.
I attended a school board meeting where ways to improve on ACT and SAT were being discussed. I suggested that the four bars serving a town of 1,100 souls should close from 4:00PM until 7:00PM so parents would be home to help kids with homework and have dinner. You might have thought I committed a felony! My crime was to ask people to do for themselves what is their responsibility. I was not very popular after that.
I was however moved up in the ranking by the good teachers in the district. So I had that going for me................
Bad parenting is not a franchaise exclusive to blacks.
I know several people who have had friends murdered in New Orleans.
Why don’t Obama and his Marxist friends go after the gang bangers?
She definitely falls in the stupid white girl category. The guy who wrote the article is a civil rights lawyer so that will tell you something. I feel sorry for the poor girl but being a bleeding heart libtard can be fatal.
IMO this young man was targeted because he (more the likely) talked different, walked a little different, and looked different than the usual (residents) of the Leonidas area.
Being a young black male and an ‘outsider’ is a good way to find all the trouble you could ever want in may places in NOLA. While black on white crime is pretty common white people can move around in many of the black ‘villages’ in New Orleans without expecting to be set upon as ‘an outsider’.
Maybe the writer of that article ought to just give up everything he has in SF and move to NOLA, experience the love first hand.
My daughter went to Tulane, pre-Katrina. Still, I was ever so happy the day she left that town. Every student in her small off-campus building had had their car broken into, a couple had been mugged. A friend who lived nearby said the very day they reopened Whole Food there was a purse snatching in the parking lot and another inside the store. Bad place to be.
Too late for that....its at least 3 generations deep...
Wall off the Inner City and let them rebuild a “society”.
Call it Australia the second.
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