Posted on 07/01/2017 5:14:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
If downtown is the heartbeat of Minneapolis, then its collective soul resides on Hennepin Avenue, the corridor that’s long served as its cultural, commercial, and entertainment epicenter. But these days, visitors aren’t seeing the intoxicating glimmer Schmidt beheld so long ago.
Talk to civic leaders, downtown workers, and couples descending from Burnsville, and they’ll tell you to drive down Hennepin with the windows open once the sun has called it day. If you watch and listen, the feeling isn’t one of good vibrations. It’s energy with a serrated edge, the vibe that comes from a city turning mean.
Apocalypse now
The harbinger that something was wrong came via letter in December. Among the four authors of the missive to Mayor Betsy Hodges was Steve Cramer, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Downtown Council, a business group with more than 400 members (including City Pages and its corporate parent, the Star Tribune).
The letter spoke of a new kind of peril threatening downtown. Unlike years past, when a spike in violent crime cast the city in an uncomfortable light, this cause for alarm was more elusive. The problem wasn’t necessarily crime in the technical sense. It was more of a belligerence, a creeping sense of depravity.
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Well, there ya go. Didn’t you read post #6?
Liberals are all about diversity and multiculturalism until it’s in their front yard and they have to look at it every day. It’s okay to them if someone else has to stare it in the face every day, but not them. The denial continues, however, because they’re never wrong, dontcha see.
An commentary that bemoans Minneapolis for its decline into incivility illustrates its own bad manners with coarse language including the f-word. Ironic.
You bet it isn't!
They asked for it. They got it. It's not as though they didn't know what they were going to get.
To paraphrase Dorothy Parker, commenting on another Minnesotan upon his demise: "The poor sons of bitches!"
Yup. Ain’t diversity grand?
There was a sort of downtown “park” of maybe two or three unimproved blocks of land (sans trees), there in Minneapolis. A theater (maybe for plays) and restaurants lined the area, but so did a lot of people milling around. I had to wait there for a connecting bus.
I eventually made it to her home and we talked for a while. When I left, I caught what would be the last set of buses back to St. Paul (around 1 AM). I had to wait again for the bus near the theater.
The area had become raucous and most all of the people looked “unsafe.” One or two others with me in the barely-covered bus waiting area looked like normal people who must have been going home after work. Their behavior further told me the danger of the occasion. When the bus to St. Paul appeared, I confirmed with the driver his was the bus I needed. He told me it was, and that this was not the place or time for someone obviously alone and seemingly unprepared for the situation.
The evening was both exciting and sad. It was the first time I'd visited a blind person in the evening. She was happy to hear from me, but her apartment was bleak and bare, with one or two harsh lights. She seemed desperate for companionship on this cold, early winter night.
When I got back to St. Paul, I entered the above-ground, environmentally-controlled “habitrail,” block-connecting maze and walked the rest of the way back to my hotel (a beautifully-inviting Embassy Suites).
I never ventured back to Minneapolis on subsequent visits.
Feral Swedes have taken over the downtown.
“What happened to downtown Minneapolis?”
Take a guess.
I’m just surprised the author did not use the well worn white villain trope as code word for vibrant people of color acting like asses.
btt
Doesn't need to be mentioned. Everyone already knows.
The article cleverly tosses in the following passage to clear it up to anyone still wondering: "But on one Thursday night before 9 p.m., a group of young men made lewd remarks as she and her hubby walked from a restaurant to a parking ramp. Their comments escalated from “you look nice” to “skinny bitch wanting some of this.”"
White people don't talk like this.
MN didn’t have enough crime, hate, and violence.... So they imported some. Sheer lunacy!
Liberalism.
Voters of Democrat city officials reap what they sow.
'a group of young men made lewd remarks as she and her hubby walked from a restaurant to a parking ramp. Their comments escalated from “you look nice” to “skinny bitch wanting some of this.”'The couple found themselves on a lonesome block, save for the four men now following them. Ignoring them didn’t work. The couple quickened their gait. Colleen’s husband finally stopped and spoke firmly, appealing to their sense of honor.
'“They laughed at him,” says Colleen, who was scared and veering toward panic. “They laughed like it was hysterical, and I mean they were sincere.”
'The men continued to follow until the couple turned a corner and two cops came into sight. The men evaporated into the night.
'“I didn’t know what to expect next. That’s what really scared me most,” she says. “It felt like they were enjoying making us feel fearful.”'
'a group of young men made lewd remarks as she and her hubby walked from a restaurant to a parking ramp. Their comments escalated from “you look nice” to “skinny bitch wanting some of this.”'The couple found themselves on a lonesome block, save for the four men now following them. Ignoring them didn’t work. The couple quickened their gait. Colleen’s husband finally stopped and spoke firmly, appealing to their sense of honor.
'“They laughed at him,” says Colleen, who was scared and veering toward panic. “They laughed like it was hysterical, and I mean they were sincere.”
'The men continued to follow until the couple turned a corner and two cops came into sight. The men evaporated into the night.
'“I didn’t know what to expect next. That’s what really scared me most,” she says. “It felt like they were enjoying making us feel fearful.”'
Get over yourself. They were quoting a guy who was mugged. Us adults understand that we don't live in a G-rated world.
muslims?
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