Graph of Baltimore City real estate prices.
Posted on 05/03/2015 1:11:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During a large rally in front of Baltimore’s City Hall, a young man introduced as “Brother Rose,” in winding and sometimes incoherent speech, praised the burning of a CVS store at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues. “America didn’t care until we started affecting things they profit from… What we saying, ‘Let’s get you out of our communities.’”
He also said, “Without us running (unintelligible) Mondawmin Mall [the site of mass looting on Monday], taking back from the stores that have taken our dollars for how long, and not giving back to the community in any type of way. We made a statement. The world heard us then. They heard that the youth of Baltimore are going to get justice by any means necessary.”(continued)
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I have to say that that graph is confusing. Something seems to be missing. Want to give it a shot?
Sometimes the only way to teach that lesson is to grant their wish.
The don’t call them Baltimorons for nuthin’.
I wonder how long it will take the girl in the bottom photo to realize she’s just a party favor?
They wouldn’t care if they did know. They don’t care when they burn out their communities. Somehow somewhere taxpayers will be forced to pony up for yet more “community investment”. They won’t care one solitary single second when the taxpayers can’t be squeezed anymore and everyone’s “equal”, dragged down to the lowest common denominator. They can’t rise, they’ve proven that, on the backs of trillions of dollars and decades of unequal government advantages, so everyone will have to be “equal” on the only level they can reach, the lowest one.
From what the local newsies were saying when the CVS was burning, the CVS was a new store and was part of recent community development. It was put in because locals had complained for years about not having stores in the area. It was also the most convenient place for general food items.
Similar was the case in Ferguson, IIRC. It had recently been redeveloped. Now, it has shells of burned out stores.
Of course, burning down stores gives community organizers new excusing to call for more money for infrastructure spending and business development in deprived communities.
Graph of Baltimore City real estate prices.
There might even be a tad of truth at the heart of all this foolishness. These lefties have put their health care on the altar of their juggernaut and, yes, most major drug chains were lured by Democrats into ballyhooing this. Now these shocked lefties are finding that “distant entities” are gaining as a result. Silly lefties, had they supported capitalism the business WOULD be staying local. And they can still reverse the trend.
Maybe an adept politician like Cruz can appeal to them on this basis.
In the seventies I used to take the Amtrak from Newark to Philadelphia. I looked out the window at the North Philadelphia station and thought I was looking at a city that was just bombed during WW2.
CVS brings in a store, a few jobs, food items, 40oz beers, pet supplies, beauty supplies, pharmaceuticals, a clean driveway and is also shook down for system development charges to improve local city services.
WTF has ANY of these thugs ever given to the community? NOTHING. They burn it down. The locals who didn’t burn the stores down know who the thugs are. They won’t do anything about it or say anything about it. Maybe if the good people of Baltimore starve they might have an appreciation of everything those big mean corporations, like CVS, bring in to their fetid neighborhoods. My sympathy reservoir is completely drained.
They’ll blame Whitey even if Whitey is now all poor rednecks.
Don’t give them a dime in tax dollars to rebuild. Businesses, get out of these communities before you are destroyed.
he’s right
Let them buy from a black owned drug store
We know the black owned convenience stores have bullet resistant partitions and product doors that protect the seller from the buyer.
Don’t worry. ValJar will come in and buy at the bottom, develop, then price Obie’s homies out of the neighborhood.
While in Minnesota I had to move because a SJW neighbor thought he would protest the Evil George W Bush by burning the apartment building. Same building where he lived as well. BTW the SJW was a pasty white hipster type.
So, Obama and his Community Organizers are Detroitinizing Baltimore. We know how that ends. Well done Democrats, you gave birth to this war.
...and they have no problems really marking up to stick it to their “brothers and sisters”.
God’s “sympathy reservoir” is higher, BUT they need to change their attitude if they would take advantage of it.
They can’t keep pretending they know what makes “prosperity” and “justice” tick, with Marx as their profit. Does not work, never has, never will.
prosecutor Mosby is famous for her slogan “It’s our turn now!”
Yes, it’s racist.
Ya know.
I’m convinced that the one thing that would end this kind of crap would be to take these people (those who aren’t criminals) in these areas, and get them interested in firearms and the second amendment.
Teach those boys and girls, men and women, fathers, daughters, brothers and sisters gun safety, proper handling, and history of the constitutional right and recreational sport.
THAT would terrify the leftists -who are quite content with leaving them completely defenseless, and too ignorant to do anything about it.
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