Posted on 02/16/2014 7:04:47 AM PST by Anila
Letter upsets city's Black History Month
Black History Month in Baltimore is a busy, busy time. Every aspect of black life in this city is remembered and celebrated: Black schools. Black music. Black movies. Black churches. Black literature. Black clothing. Black politicians. Even black trains.
Then Tracey Halvorsen had to go and spoil it all: She wrote an article about crime in Baltimore. How she and her mostly white neighbors live in fear. And no one seems to care. Or worse, lots of people think it is normal. Baltimore City,You Are Breaking My Heart, is going viral for an on-line magazine called Medium.com. A few quotes:
Im tired of being looked at like prey.
Im tired of thinking about the horrifying final moments for 51 year old neighbor, Kim Leto, stabbed to death in her own home by two teenagers.
Im tired of wondering why city leaders havent said s*** about recent horrific murders committed by children in supposedly safe neighborhoods.
Im tired of living next to a beautiful park that Im scared to walk into at any time of day, thanks to regular stories of day-time muggings, drug dealing and gang violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The political class animals in DC are directly responsible for the carnage in our cities.
For too long, the Washingtonians have been able to escape the consquences of their degenerate acts.
Their luck won't hold forever.
I'd recommend any place that recognizes a citizen's right to concealed carry.
Yep. Nice middle-class black family moves in. Teenage child decides the people there are boring, and decides to hang out with "authentic" black people from "da hood", inviting them over to hang out.
But in real world we are humans. We’re not like lions and tigers who eat and kill their own kind. We are humans that has the ability to think of what is right or wrong. And that is what most of us is missing..
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I stopped going in that City a decade ago or so.
Lordy, where did you stay, the Harrington?
My wife and our two daughters were with us from SF, and my cousin and her husband joined us from Philly. Next day we went to Georgetown and the difference was startling, like day and night (all whites well to do and students). Very pleasant there and nice restaurants and stores. We took the subway from there and could see the change of passenger types when we got to the DC downtown area to visit attractions.
There's one at 15th and Rhode Island Avenue, about 3 blocks from the White House. Wow. So sorry. When I was growing up in DC in the 50s-60s, well-brought-up teenagers could walk all around the downtown alone until dark in safety. There were police on the streets and discreet Secret Service in all the museums. You could park everywhere, too.
Then in the 70s-80s the dotcoms and big lobbying and law firms started taking over; the downtown became skyscrapers instead of small proprietor shops and restaurants, the gubmit exploded with thousand of entitled workers (and their parking needs) who had little to offer except political correctness, and the population in the nation at large doubled. Real estate speculation and prices multiplied, sending all the low-info's to ruin the surrounding Prince George's county, which at one time had the best schools in the state. A recent fund-raiser for one of the biggest PG County schools stated that the graduating class of '11 did not send a single student on to college (the student body is now about 99% black and Hispanic).
A beautiful metropolis that was built to be an inspiration to the civil order under the rule of law became the site of some of the worst commuter traffic and street crime in the nation. And by the way, DC didn't allow guns even for self-protection until a recent SCOTUS case. So it just got worse and worse until they overturned that prohibition. The results of liberalism in all Democrat-ruled cities have made them no-go zones for all but thugs.
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