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Rochester tops upstate NY in mass shootings
Democrat and Chronicle
Jon Hand, Will Cleveland
Dec. 3, 2015; updated Feb. 7, 2016
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A search on the above will link one to another instance of Rochester's history of racial conflict.
There was a massive riot that shut down the inner city for days in 1964 (click here), calling out police and city fire companies, and I was active member of a volunteer fire company of those responding to the riots.
The race issues at stake were supposed to have been passivated by city government and business response to those issues at the time. It is my belief that the precipitous growth of the black segment in the northern cities in the 1950s-60s can be attributed to the wisdom of cany southern administraors shelling out for a one-timebus ticket north for their disgruntled aggrieved troublesome agitators and their families to the northern cities where they could immediately enroll in the liberal welfare free-lunch-and-housing programs conceived by the more citified do-gooder Democrats, a situation where these permanently displaced migrants could concentrate in numbers, not being prone to take themselves out into the surrounding more conservative suburb/rural communities that demanded a work ethic to obtain food and shelter.
I myself was born and raised in semi-rural viilages of Western New York State, a Methodist preacher's kid who had to get used to pulling up roots and moving every few years, sort of like a military brat. Actually of those years I spent eleven of them living in or very near Rochester. Another six years involved living in Syracuse or Buffalo.
I spent a lot of time visiting my grandparents, who sere dairy farmers in the Southern Tier, along the border with Pennsylvania. So I am well acquainted with both the rural and urban facet of life in New York.
The dynamic of the BLM/Antifa is based on an unwillingness of citified to disperse out of the abnormal urban free-lunch environment and be diluted into the general small-town or rural northern predominantly Caucasian areas where the dynamic is to work for living and save for the future, a necessarily conservative approach that is the only sane rule for living without friction with the community.
That's the way I see it, after some eighty years of personal observation.
Forgot to ping you before posting, sorry; had you in mind all along.
You are spot on. We have a spate of shootings now in Downtown Binghamton. Broad daylight on Court Street just a couple of days ago. Binghamton’s Mayor is a Republican and now President of the Council of Mayors..