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Some or All Fears: “Breaking My Heart” post sparks debate (Baltimore)
City Paper ^ | 2/7/2014

Posted on 02/10/2014 4:22:34 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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1 posted on 02/10/2014 4:22:34 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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<[>Proof positive that Jefferson was right, urban living leads to degeneration and squalor of the spirit. Read all the people who defend crime and destruction and have only scorn for the writer who stands up for civilization.


2 posted on 02/10/2014 4:30:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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So let's abolish cities. Let's make suburbs as big as they need to be so that everyone can afford a one-story ranch style home with a decent sized backyard.
3 posted on 02/10/2014 4:35:17 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Altura Ct.

Wow. What a collection of ten cent farts of opinions there.

The only one that made any kind of sense at all was Mr. Ericson.

But if you want something really valuable out of that turd-in-a-can of discussion, pay attention to what liberals are saying.

That is what they REALLY feel. All the rest is rubbish and fluff.


4 posted on 02/10/2014 4:40:23 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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The debate has been going on at City Paper all day too, and a few staffers had responses of their own

Thus illustrating the reason for the MSM newspapers' ever declining circulation and march toward fiscal bankruptcy.

They have already achieved moral bankruptcy.

5 posted on 02/10/2014 4:41:18 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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Like: Crabcakes. Dislike: Being murdered and robbed.
Like: Lots of fun on the bay. Dislike: Being murdered and robbed.
Like: Professional sports and lots of lacrosse. Dislike: being raped and beaten.
Like: John Hopkins and arts. Dislike: Kids beaten by gangsters on way to school.

Hmmm. Decisions, decisions....

6 posted on 02/10/2014 4:41:56 PM PST by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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its true that the ghetto people and white trash MAY be trapped from leaving....

but they are the same folks that don't want vigorous policing, or profiling, or punishing HS young men for anything it seems....

they want the crime gone, but not really....they aren't ready to do what needs to be done to get rid of it....one simple thing....report crimes...so simple...

7 posted on 02/10/2014 4:47:52 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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The story reminds me somehow of Gram Parsons' "Streets of Baltimore" when it was considerably safer in days gone by to indulge in the nightlife of Baltimore.
8 posted on 02/10/2014 5:02:29 PM PST by Perseverando (Obamanation: It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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The Wire?


9 posted on 02/10/2014 5:02:40 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Not accepting “black culture” isn’t a privilege- it’s a choice.
Adults of any race can make that choice.


10 posted on 02/10/2014 5:15:49 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Three words: Coleman. Young. Detroit.

Three more: Get. Out. Now.


11 posted on 02/10/2014 5:57:30 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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Oh my goodness, is that that awful song where the guy’s wife leaves him “to walk the streets of Baltimore”?

I hate that song with a ludicrous passion.

One is well rid of any dame that is leaving you to be a whore in Bmore.


12 posted on 02/10/2014 5:58:01 PM PST by jocon307
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I’d like to make every liberal squish, black or white, who prates about “white privilege” be made to walk unarmed one mile, after midnight, down one of those wonderful diverse, inner city streets.


13 posted on 02/10/2014 7:11:16 PM PST by driftless2
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There’s a saying that some conservatives were liberal until they were mugged?

Well, I bet that some of these people who want to make a political statement, by living in the city, are liberal. But they find that their liberalism doesn’t protect them from being targeted by the feral savages in the city. Who can blame anyone for moving as far away as they can get from the feral youth gangs and other problems of city living????


14 posted on 02/10/2014 7:13:16 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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I would like to know: is it really a privilege, in a First World country, to expect not to be attacked with a brick on the street? Is it really privilege that demands one’s teeth not all be knocked out for no fucking reason at all?

Liberal ideas and delusions are turning many of our major cities into hellholes.

For those who think this is a dog whistle - it's not. The reason people need to GET OUT NOW is because of out-of-control black male violence.

15 posted on 02/10/2014 7:17:47 PM PST by GOPJ ("Hillary Clinton says (the) press has big egos and no brains". - Tony Blair - May 19, 1993)
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My mother lived in a suburb of Philadelphia. She hired a very nice black woman with a home in the city to live with and care for her on weekdays.

I had many, many conversions with the woman and she told me she felt safer in my Mom's neighborhood than in her own.

16 posted on 02/10/2014 9:47:22 PM PST by IIntense
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I’d like to make every liberal squish, black or white, who prates about “white privilege” be made to walk unarmed one mile, after midnight, down one of those wonderful diverse, inner city streets.
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Around the late ‘80s-early ‘90s, I attended an international convention in my professional discipline in Baltimore. My hotel was just a short block away from the Inner Harbor where the convention was held.

The first morning, the Mayor welcomed us and warned everyone NOT to walk on any streets beyond two blocks from the Inner Harbor, even in the daytime or lunchtime.

I DID enjoy the shops at the Inner Harbor and took a walk one afternoon down the way to the National Aquarium, which was an awesome place!


17 posted on 02/11/2014 12:00:54 AM PST by octex
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What's New In Baltimore
18 posted on 02/11/2014 3:43:41 AM PST by Rodamala
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I heard the same thing from a black co-worker, then living in a city with a tiny black population, who told me his old inner-city, virtually all-black neighborhood was like living in a shooting gallery.


19 posted on 02/11/2014 4:39:30 AM PST by driftless2
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Baltimore does not make me think of “The Wire” (which bored me to tears) but, rather, when I hear “Baltimore” I think “John Waters.”

Now, there is a man who LOVED the city. No joke, he really did.


20 posted on 02/11/2014 9:41:52 AM PST by Peet (Oderint dum metuant)
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