Posted on 09/10/2015 4:02:09 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The annual West Indian American Day Parade is no cause for celebration among some residents along its Crown Heights route.
“I don’t leave my home that weekend,” said Yolanda Cox, 62, who lives near the spot where Gov. Cuomo’s aide Carey Gabay was shot in the head. “I stay inside. Back in the day it was better. It was safer.
“The people, they drink, they get high, things escalate,” she continued. “I always say, ‘Bullets have no eyes.’ And that’s how innocent people get hurt.”
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Some Crown Heights residents say West Indian Day Parade is no cause for celebration:'I don't leave my home'
RACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh wait, she's a black immigrant from Panama. Never mind.
Remember the old days when parades used to be fun????????
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What is this, some kind of Rasta Ganja fest?
It was never better or safer. It's an annual street shooting festival.
How can people get shot in New York City? They have strict gun control laws there.
I really don’t understand parades for other nations. Maybe our militarily allied nations for thanks. I am half Hungarian and half Brit. I like things about each nation, but hey, couldn’t have been all that great if my ancestors booked.
There’ll be the grabbin’and the stabbing’ and the looting’ and the shooting’..yeah mon!
Isn’t it very telling that tourists flock to Little Italies, Chinatowns, Japantowns, little Saigons, French Quarters, Dutchtowns (Solvang) etc. but are there any black neighborhoods that attract tourists??
Why is that?
Sad but then I don’t go to Olathe for Old Settlers’ Days. No place to park and really junkie food.
It’s a disgusting, imported, lascivious “parade,” replete with yearly vandalism and violence. It’s like Carnaval in Brazil. But it’s a celebration of diversity too. What a paradox. The religious Jews also stay indoors or flee for the event. Literal filth for the eyes and spirit.
Yep good point.
Tourists go to Little Saigon, Little Tokyo, Little Italy, Chinatown, but not the black ghetto.
Theoretically the ghetto could draw tourists coming for soul food and to hear the blues. But it doesn’t work that way in real life.
“The people get so excited when the floats go by they have to fire their weapons in the air.” Actual quote from the head of the parade twenty plus years ago. Back when the parade was good. He did seem like a very nice man.
Just another parade to stay as far as you can away from. This one usually tops the Puerto Rican Day Parade in that regard.
Is it because black neighborhoods are correctly associated with crime, violence, litter, and indolence?
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