Sanitation is racist.
Gee, and I always thought it would be something nuclear. Now it’s going to be the black plague and hepatitis C. Probably even have a longer half-life.
To be sure, reports out of SanFran aren't good. I've never been to Denver, but, OK...maybe legalization hasn't been good for that city.
But many of the larger cities which I've visited recently, including Manhattan, Chicago, and Anaheim, don't look like war zones. Every city has it's bad area, and to be sure DeBlasio has overseen a general decline in NYC vs prior years. But NYC remains WAY better than it did in the 1970s/1980s.
I worked in Manhattan for a long time found it NOT to be the hellhole many outside of NYC consider it to be. To be sure, you have lots of radicals and statists and similar types who make MSNBC seems like Deplorables. And for every improvement you see on 42nd Street, Bryant Park, and even Hell's Kitchen, there remain nasty areas that NOBODY would want to frequent.
That said, I've found Deplorables in NYC to be very strong, good people. The Churches are fantastic (and very traditional if you know where to look), the food is great, businesses are innovative, the music scene is pretty strong, and the scenery can be breathtaking.
City living may not be a Deplorables' cup of tea, but to paint with a broad brush (thank you, mouske!) like this guy does toward the end of the article hurts his claim and his cause.
Perhaps this might one of the reasons
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparantly is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage colapse.
Burke’s ward ,14th, was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost 15 plus city blocks square area composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because of the construction, insurance rates varied and became known as the condemed as “redlining”. When the democrats also warily supported by the Bush 2 administration came up with the no 20% down mortgage removed. Areas in the ward dramatically changed in demographics. Many of those dwellings sold under those conditions went into disrepair or default.
Originally his ward headquarters and palace was on 51st street just west of Damen Avenue. Today’s palace is just off of Pulaski Road near the Madam Curie high school just off of Archer Avenue miles away.
His ward now consists of areas carved from the 12th and 23rd wards miles from the original 14th That has had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. In a former section of the 23rd ward now the 14th ward in the Midway airport area, 2 patrons in a local bar along Archer avenue were heard complaining about rats in their garbage. They felt it was because of the delay in garbage collection. Also heard the same beef about street snow removal. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over..
Still not bad enough to discourage invasion by illegals.
But CRIPES FREAKING SAKE!!!
Crapping on the sidewalks? And there is discussion beyond it stops now?
This is really f-ed up.
Sometimes it’s hard to not believe I’m not strapped to a bed in a psychiatric ward living some bizarro delusion in my head.
It is past time to clean up the cities. Lots of refuse and human waste. Put them to work.
once quite attractive cities now stink to high heaven and you have to watch your step lest you slip in a pile of sheit.
it is so sad...victims of DBP
(destruction by politicians)
The typical American DNC run city have ghettos that look post-apocalypse. Just think, these ghettos are the illegals dream compared to their sh*tholes that they came from.
Obama and his friends turned America into a 4th world ghetto.
When traveling in Western cities, be sure to remember your Democrap detector!
Third world shitholes. Only going to get worse.
When they got rid of the Vagrancy laws, 48 years ago, things began to spiral down the drain. When they closed the mental institutions on liberal demand, after movies like TITICUT FOLLIES and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUOKOO’S NEST were shown, the spiral down the drain picked up speed.
Being rich doesn’t protect you from being insane.
Obama’s dream fulfilled.
The comparison was a shock.
Sidney was clean, well run, the staff courteous and efficient.
Coming into LA was coming into a mediocre airport, hard to understand staff, not hostile, but not friendly. Unpainted concrete walls, meandering routes and slightly confusing directions.
I felt I was coming from the First World to a Former First World deteriorating into the Third World.
I could barely wait to get out of Los Angeles.
It was hard to be proud of the United States with that comparison.
For those paying attention, they know it’s not just cities on the west coast.
There are dozens more in the rust belt and on the eastern seaboard.
The only real difference is the winter weather.