A few years ago my old roommate, who works in Newark, NJ sent me a group portrait of the Newark City Council at that time. They were all posed for a group photo with a banner that read something like "Newark - A proud past. A shining future.
My friend's comment was, "Well, they got the shine part right".
In that group portrait there was not a single honkey in the mix. It was seriously Laugh Out Loud material... especially if you know all about the absolute graft and corruption in the City of Newark.
Oh yeah, Newark NJ is a Third World hole now. They are a low-rent imitation of Jersey City, which has a future because they don’t mind gentrifying the gibsmedats out of whole neighborhoods (to attract people with money & companies from NYC).
Years ago (in the eighties) I worked with a black woman who had a calendar on the wall; the theme was “Newark is on the move”. It had old black & white photos for each month, showing different sites from Newark’s heyday. One day I looked closely at the calendar, and it was from 1966.
I guess they’re still waiting; the artificial infusions of taxpayer money for various entertainment projects (including the Newark Bears stadium - the team already folded) haven’t fulfilled the goal of attracting Europeans to re-colonize the city. They’ll settle for Asians with money, but even they’ve seen Michael Brown smacking one around on the store security footage...