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Ten wounded in shootings during Black Expo
Indianapolis Business Journal ^ | 18 July, '10 | AP

Posted on 07/18/2010 11:22:08 AM PDT by 4buttons

Associated Press; no quote.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: keepingitreal; shootings
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To: 4buttons

This kinda gives the event a black eye, so to speak.


41 posted on 07/18/2010 2:24:38 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (A "tea bagger"? Say it to my face. ><BCC>)
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To: skepsel

Wayne, Wayne Newtron...crickets chirping...


42 posted on 07/18/2010 2:26:11 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: skepsel

Oops, make that Bobby Vint-ron!


43 posted on 07/18/2010 2:40:16 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: DManA
What is a “black expo”?

Have no idea. We had a Home Depot Expo somewhere around these parts till the recession hit.

44 posted on 07/18/2010 2:45:49 PM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: muawiyah

I admire your courage and persistance!

I won’t disgree about Indy being worse over the decades. Maybe I’m just more aware than I was back then. I’m getting older and wiser(maybe not so to some people).


45 posted on 07/18/2010 3:15:05 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
You talk about authenticity, it was the "Black Expo" in Indianapolis that revealed Mike Tyson's interest in rape!

Indiana sent him to prison for his efforts, so just because there are "outsiders" who show up to "do stuff" at "Black Expo" doesn't mean they get away with it.

46 posted on 07/18/2010 4:08:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: caver
Part of the Indianapolis "difference" is that the African-American community has not always, or even today, held on tight to the bottom of the socio-economic-education rungs on life's ladder.

White immigrants from the South have vied for that spot repeatedly and for the most part successfully.

Or, to put it another way, you think it was tough up on Indiana Avenue (the classical black neighborhood) you wouldn't believe what it was like in Brightwood (and that's way back then), and that was a darned near middle-class community with people who had real jobs.

For the most part the AA crowd is a tad more sophisticated, certainly more educated, and undoubtedly more a fixture of the community at large than any other AA community in any Northern state. Doesn't mean it's any more integrated than anywhere else, but the crime rate doesn't lie ~ it's usually way down from what you'd expect in Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Gary/Hammond/East Chicago/Mishawaka/South Bend, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, etc.

They've been doing the "Black Expo" thing for a number of years with far less disruption than you'd find almost anywhere else. I hope it hasn't been ruined otherwise, although a couple of posts here suggests the 50,000 summer-time visitors fail to spend enough downtown (and may attract too much rowdiness).

The Mid-Atlantic AA community had traditionally visited Virginia Beach over Labor Day weekend ~ FOR DECADES ~ and in recent years that's had to be severely toned down due to narcotics, murder, theft, beatings, mayhem and all sorts of nonsense that simply did not go on in the past.

47 posted on 07/18/2010 4:20:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Good.


48 posted on 07/18/2010 4:32:33 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: dynachrome

Move it somewhere safe where guns aren’t allowed, like maybe D.C, Chicago, or Oakland.


49 posted on 07/18/2010 8:39:10 PM PDT by whatisthetruth
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To: DManA
"What is a “black expo”?"

Andre Dawson was a black Expo...


50 posted on 07/18/2010 8:45:55 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: dps.inspect
It was an “expo” on black life in the inner city...

Ah. So it was an interactive exhibit.

51 posted on 07/18/2010 8:49:00 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: badpacifist
Oh crap... I heard there was an Amish expo coming up /ducks

And some darned good bacon.

52 posted on 07/18/2010 8:52:27 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: 4buttons
DuH! What would a black expo be without some shootings?
There is usually some truth to all stereotypes.

That is how they become stereotypes.

53 posted on 07/18/2010 8:55:11 PM PDT by right way right
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To: Texas Eagle

It was an “expo” on black life in the inner city...

Ah. So it was an interactive exhibit.
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ROFL!!!! Quote of the day for me!


54 posted on 07/18/2010 8:58:40 PM PDT by MWestMom (Tread carefully, truth lies here.)
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To: muawiyah

It is the gangs and typically youth that roam around downtown that cause the trouble. They have just about run most people out of the Circle Center Mall, defintely after dark.

A funny story, at least it is now: The wife and I have our anniversary third week of July. Last year, I made plans to go to the Slippery Noodle and stay at the Hampton Inn, two blocks away. Little did I know, the Expo was being heldat the same time. It was an experience to say the least, that will not be repeated.


55 posted on 07/19/2010 2:49:09 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: skepsel

Obviously a bomb made by someone who cannot type!


56 posted on 07/19/2010 3:50:30 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: caver
After 40 years in POD/USPS I found myself out on the streets downtown in hundreds of cities ~ after dark ~ only criminals around ~ and you pretty quickly figure out what is or is not safe.

Always arrange any cab rides before you step outside.

Now, about your strange experience, I was in the Philadelphia GPO one evening and a white man walked up to me and said "you're the first white man I've seen here at this time of night in 20 years".

I'm sure I wasn't the first who'd been there. After all, there are postal inspectors who actually go up in the lookout galleries at night ~ so it was more like he hadn't seen one, not that it hadn't happened.

BTW, that was during a period of time when all the Philadelphia supervisors wore white shirts and ties ~ virtually all of them were college graduates and a large percentage had had military service.

Traveling around the country over many years I think I've seen about everything that goes on after Midnight ~ or at 4 AM!

I'll guess here that after this shooting the city will react the way it's done in the past ~ with beatdowns. Somebody knows these guys.

57 posted on 07/19/2010 4:12:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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