Posted on 04/06/2006 7:23:09 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
It was inevitable that someone would describe the 21-year-old suspect in last weekend's street killing in the Warehouse District as "a good kid." But good kids don't bring guns to movies. And groups of good kids don't storm into cinemas shouting, cursing, flashing gang signs and picking fights with rivals, all of which apparently led to a melee, then gunfire, outside of Block E and the shocking death of an innocent pedestrian. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and police officials insist that the tragedy was an aberration and that the district is safe.
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If only these kids had read one of Tookie's books!
/sarc
If only these kids had read one of Tookie's books!
/sarc
local MPLS dims are blaming the governor and Bush for(what else) not enough money. meanwhile they tout light rail and building gardens on the roof of city hall.
If only guns weren't so prolific!!!!! /sarc
I hit Gluek's (across from Block E from time to time and I will admit that you won't find me down there very often anymore. That whole area just doesn't "feel" right now. The younger bar goers (I'm 32) just seem more agressive (whether black or white) and I just am always waiting for confrontations to start down there.
The city can say all they want about it being safe, but this summer they will have to face reality. Mpls has done a pretty good job of stifling the news past summers, but you couldn't catch me down in that area at 2AM EVER! Buddy's car got shot up last year in a parking lot and there have been plenty of issues on the streets after the clubs let out in that area.
Don't forget leafblower reform!
They can make it look as pretty as they want.
Alot of us will NEVER go back.... EVER.
Stick to Nicolett bars downtown and St. Anthony Main. Otherwise stay on the home turf in the SLP! ;)
It's only going to get worse with unlimited immigration and the rise of low class, trashy Mexican culture. Maybe America will be run by the Chinese someday. At least they make the kids go to school and learn and they're smarter than the Mexicans.
--I am astounded at this rag blaming on a culture rather than guns, concealed carry, the NRA, etc.,--
None of these measures, however needed, can attack the real culprit: the sad, self-destructive subculture that's especially attractive to African-American boys. It's heartbreaking to see so many of them working so hard to validate a stereotype. Orlando Patterson, the Harvard sociologist, recently scolded his fellow researchers for continuing to find excuses for why this group, almost alone, shows no upward trajectory in American life. In a courageous essay (New York Times, March 26), he rejected racism, poverty, the economy and public schools as sole causes, focusing instead on a hip-hop culture that celebrates nihilistic behavior. What other youth see as entertainment, black youth sees as life, he said. Ironically, the pride and self-respect gained by being "bad" turns out to be the very thing that most prevents success.
This realization is becoming more and more evident, even to Liberals. Better late than never, I say. Once the black community stops resisting the idea that they are self-destructing and not the victims of intractible, institutional racism, only then will they be able to claim the "respect" their youth claim to desire. It will happen, there are plenty of people within the black community who already see this. They just have to overcome the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's and Louis Farrakahn's of the world. Then, and only then, will they be truly free.
We have a collapse of civilization in the core of our cities. I see it fist hand and have for years. Each successive generation is lesss civilized than the preceding.
This is just a fact for those of us who live in the major cities. I merely speak the truth of this.
As quoted in yesterdays Red Star Tribune, the shooting was "a random act of unkindness".
These liberals are something else, I tell ya.
They media jackals won't even give out a description of the assailants if they are a minority...When someone is shot dead in the street, I need to know what the shooter looks like so I can turn his ass in if I see him. As it stands, the media types don;t want to be considered intolerant, at the cost of my safety.
that's why I posted it. I thought maybe it was a sign of the end days.
I got mugged at 2AM in my own backyard last June...and my backyard is in DINKYTOWN.
OK now that just sucks.
The irony is, I spent two years commuting to DETROIT every day, and NO ONE bothered me-not even a panhandler! But I move to Minneapolis, and....
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