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AmeriCorps Volunteer Shot Down on New Orleans Street
nola.com ^ | 4/3/2013 | Mesarthim

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: americorps; bluezones; darwin; darwinaward; diversity; illinois; murder; neworleans; shooting; stupidisasstupiddoes; teen
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To: pepsionice

Its kind of like Detroit, some areas are just fine, others are suicide zones.


21 posted on 04/03/2013 1:58:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ClearBlueSky

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.


22 posted on 04/03/2013 2:02:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: ClearBlueSky

They probably thought he was an Uncle Tom and needed eradicating.


23 posted on 04/03/2013 2:09:00 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: ClearBlueSky
The really sad thing is that my tax dollars are what paid for the bureaucrats, the organizers and the slimeballs who send these young people on stupid and dangerous assignments. And our tax dollars pay for the expenses of moving the kids. I also believe the “volunteers” get paid.

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.

24 posted on 04/03/2013 2:11:17 PM PDT by detective
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To: ClearBlueSky
Join AmeriCoprse Now.

Visit lovely New Orleans.

25 posted on 04/03/2013 2:11:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: cripplecreek

Nailed it!


26 posted on 04/03/2013 2:11:57 PM PDT by beelzepug (Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
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To: ClearBlueSky
Remember Kirsten Brydum? The 25 year old idealistic community volunteer from San Francisco? She did not last 48 hours in NOLA.

Remembering Kirsten Brydum

27 posted on 04/03/2013 2:15:50 PM PDT by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: ClearBlueSky

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.


28 posted on 04/03/2013 2:20:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ClearBlueSky
Their family church is a Reconciliation Apostolic Ministries church. The decedent:

His mother's website:

http://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/SharonM

29 posted on 04/03/2013 2:28:50 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Joe 6-pack

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.


30 posted on 04/03/2013 2:29:49 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: BBell
Oh, man.

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 club’s doorman remembers her leaving alone on her bike at 1:30 am.

Kirsten’s 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, Kirsten’s murder, like Helen’s, 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]

31 posted on 04/03/2013 2:33:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: cripplecreek

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.


32 posted on 04/03/2013 2:38:52 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: ClearBlueSky

It is safer in Somalia.


33 posted on 04/03/2013 2:39:30 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: cripplecreek
I lived very rural. Very white. Very Wisconsin.

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.

34 posted on 04/03/2013 2:41:57 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: ClearBlueSky

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?


35 posted on 04/03/2013 2:46:32 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: blackdog
Bad parenting is not a franchaise exclusive to blacks.

No its not. I'm seeing an increasingly rabid strain of white kids in the news these days and the reasons are the same.
36 posted on 04/03/2013 2:49:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


37 posted on 04/03/2013 3:04:24 PM PDT by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: ClearBlueSky
A post on NOLA.com is probably correct:

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’.

38 posted on 04/03/2013 3:07:11 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: BBell

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.


39 posted on 04/03/2013 3:17:33 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: cripplecreek

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.


40 posted on 04/03/2013 3:39:04 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Go Galt!)
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