Posted on 06/16/2017 5:16:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
You aced it!!!
Been watching Utica for a long time.
Every time it was in the news, it was because of some liberal agenda policy or process and it was never good.
Utica has been going down for a long time and now it seems it is a symbol of what happens when liberals run the show.
This has happened in Michigan cities and other places but it is clearly apparent in Utica.
Is the entire state of California next?
Chicago?
Pay attention to what happens next to see where the lib’s want to take us and it is not a good place.
Doubt it. much of upstate ny and beyond are red areas (Metro Buffalo and Albany being the exceptions). But politics for the sate are controlled from NYC, just like Chicago for IL, Seattle for WA, etc.
Former Western New Yorker.
Was around 1978 thru 1980 dad was stationed at what was once Griffiss AFB. That was in Rome NY. They had B52’s on full alert status in those days. I used to watch them perform minimum interval takeoffs. Beyond amazing.
I commuted to Utica to attend Mohawk Valley Community College. I’d made a lot of friends. I remember the local breweries. Utica Club? 7 oz Matts splits were three for $1.00 :) The winters were brutal.
I can only imagine it’s an entirely different city now. Glad I passed through there when I did.
“Both the Germans and the democrat party have gone self destructively Muslim. Can anyone come up with a plausible explanation for this?”
They’re willing to trade the future for power because they think the Muslims will kill them last. And they don’t give a crap about their grandchildren.
Yep! I read yesterday that the German Government is concerned the German people will inbreed without the large influx of muslim “refugees” (read that: INVADERS) to prevent that ......
That’s so fantastically stupid its hard to look at. Its the freaking Moslems how have problems with inbreeding—NOT the Germans.
Freeport, L.I., After the Influx of MinoritiesML/NJ
[Edited OCR Scan NYT Sept 28, 1979]
To the Editor:One does not have to approve of "Burning Crosses" to be disturbed by your Sept. 13 editorial. Freeport was one of the first communities on Long Island to offer "the hospitable atmosphere of the 1960's, when white groups welcomed minority families. . ." May I suggest you take your head out of the clouds and examine what happened to a once-lovely town and those of us who believed in your liberal principles.
As a starter you might glance through the classified pages of your own publication, where you will find Freeport houses selling for at one-third to one-half of those in neighboring communities. My own house (on a pretty middle-class block and now next to a welfare rental), which any-where else would sell for $70,000 to $75,000, would hardly fetch $45,000.
Take a walk some evening (if you dare) on glass-littered Main Street or Grand Avenue, where you will see business establishments and house after house boarded up or burned out.
Pass by [the] 711 on Grove any warm night and note the "quiet, intellectual environment."
Drop in on our L.I.R.R. station and, if you can stand the smell, look at the upstairs, urine-soaked waiting room.
May I add that all the loud-mouthed liberals who invited in minority families and welcomed them to Freeport in the 1960's have long since fled, opting for Anyplace but Freeport. They left behind people like me, who are stuck with high taxes ($3,100), diminishing values, two extinct movie houses and a dreary, depressed shopping center.
It would be nice to know where your editorial staff lives and if your children were ever robbed of lunch money or assaulted, in their schools. While they were learning all the "right" values, most likely in private school, mine barely missed being brained by a brick tossed by some of our rioting young people.
The residents of Valley Stream have a right to be concerned, although I am the first to say nobody has the right to intimidate another. But having watched the steady deterioration of my town, friends elsewhere are now fearful for their own. Contrary to popular rhetoric, the quality of life and property do not go up when the trickle of minorities turns into the inevitable flood - with all its attendant problems. If that makes me a racist, it's a label I share with members of the black middle class now moving from Freeport because it is "too black."
There is a blatant hypocrisy in people like yourselves and Senator Kennedy who while loudly espousing lower enrollment standards for minorities always manage to provide the best medical care for members of their own families.
As a further footnote, a local friend, a certified liberal (pro-civil rights; anti-Vietnam marches) who, noting my proximity to bottle-strewn Main Street and the run-down rental next door (12 people sharing three bedrooms and one bath), haughtily announced, "I wouldn't live where you live!" But somebody has to live here, and if it isn't good enough for her and it isn't good enough for me, who is it good enough for? "Them?" Why?
You never yet squarely or honestly attacked this problem. In lieu of castigating those of us locked in the trenches fighting your battles, I suggest you explore ways of assisting people like myself, who, close to retirement, are stuck with depressed real estate in a rising market. Cross burnings, of course, are no answer, and it would be nice if everyone practiced Love Thy Neighbor. But this is not never-never-land.
NAME WITHHELD
Freeport, L. I., Sept. 14, 1979
Actually, Utica has little to do with New York City. It is, or was, very much Middle America.
ML/NJ
My wife and I called that area Appalachia North. The people there also tended to be clannish and mistrusting of new arrivals (such as us). We lived in Clinton (which was very nice), not in Utica proper.
People who say this about a neighborhood that used to be a place to live are usually the people who set it up to be an unlivable place.
Problem is it's not about race, it's culture.
During the depression, most families were brought together and supported on another. The culture has changed, and not for the better. When you had to rely on your family and neighbor's willing support, they pulled together and assistance was provided based on character.
The welfare state has negated those values and now, you can be an a$$hole with no morals and get more money from the state based on your ability to qualify instead of your character or ability to recover.
During the 0bama years, anybody and everybody who wanted it, got support. Now that they may be losing it and the power over people who need it, they will get violent, as we have seen.
lol you go texas girl!
sharia on the way soon to you too.
That is disheartening. Utica had one of the first textile mills. The company, so proud, named their cotton sheets “UTICA” Like the company itself (J. P. Stevens) the city has crumbled.
My uncle was dean at SUNY Utical and i spent some time there it was a lovely place. You can take a canoe trip from there to washington DC. I think Zogby is from there.
Tell that to the #BLM idiots and those that support them.
15-year-old boy is Utica's first shooting death victim of 2024
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