Posted on 03/25/2005 5:30:27 AM PST by OXENinFLA
DELRAY BEACH -- Amid the sound of blaring car stereos, more than 350 black people packed the sidewalks of West Atlantic Avenue Sunday night to demand the city create more entertainment and allow them to gather there on a regular basis.
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"We came here because there's nothing social for us to do," said Crystal Carter, 32, who stood with her son, Crystopher, 11. "We're all enjoying this. We even brought our kids out."
The avenue started filling up in front of the gas stations between Eighth and 10th avenues about 7:30 p.m. after a coordinated football game and a cookout ended several blocks away at Pompey Park.
The event took on the atmosphere of a street party. Someone was selling food from a van. Cars clogged the roads, crowded a gas station and parked in front of homes in residential areas and lots with no-parking signs.
Eight police officers stood in the median and on the side streets, watching over the crowd and the traffic. Officers didn't plan to make arrests or issue citations concerning open drinking of alcohol and what appeared to be people smoking marijuana, said Lt. Marc Woods. Although officers were concerned about the illegal activities, they wanted to "allow the community to grieve" for Miller, Woods said.
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Of course not ...
We wouldn't wanna be racist so ... Appease, Appease, Appease
MIDNITE BBALL! MN BB!
Please read the rest of my posts, it wasn't about just a park.
I wonder how many actually have jobs at which they LABOR and GET TIRED so they'll need to REST instead of hanging out all night?
I understand that. If the black citizens of Delray beach want a facility to "hang" out to party and have fun. They can build it or buy themselves.
As for the parks, if kids need a place to play, I say build it and if the drug pushers and pimps take it over, that's a community problem that the citizens themselves should handle. if they can't control they own neighborhood, shut the park down.
Then they can burn it down for a good reason
bread and circuses,provided to you by the government and elites; keep the mindless rabble preoccupied while their rights continue to be absconded
Thanks for clearing that up and I agree with you.
In my area they just put up a Jewish Community Center. West Bloomfield is one of the richest communities in the country so the Real Estate couldn't be cheap. Yet, they bought & paid for everything on there own ... no handouts or government grants. This is a minority that helps each other out instead of selling drugs or killing each other.
I could have said several remarks that might be considered as racist, but I'll figure everybody else was doing such a fine job.
Damn, I thought we could get thru one thread like this without someone pulling out the race card ... oh well, better luck next time.
"You have the right to sing the blues. You have the right to cable T.V." - Police Academy
The Tigers took to the streets in their uniforms to calm people down.
This is the new direction that affirmative action is taking. Check out the thread here about a story from the Austin newspaper where the City Council is going to fund a black nightclub for the same reason.
That is disgusting, and makes solid sense.
I wasn't talking about moving people, I was referring to a statement that there was nothing to do.
Sounds like they should set up a couple of festivities for these folks.
#1 A Christian revival tent.
#2 A jobs fair / education seminar.
very good to remedy the spiritual bankruptness that is accompanied by laziness.
There is a massive gap in their life if they actually have to complain about the need for being entertained.
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