Things have gotten way out of control in Baltimore County following the death of Freddie Gray, but at least one mother is doing her best to make sure her son doesnt get caught up in the rioting. Look what one CNN news crew caught live on camera:
If you just decided not to make your welfare check bigger by getting knocked up by another unknown "baby daddy", 16 years ago... and now that the cute little animal has grown up... she put a little parenting in to her investment. A little too late. Now your spawn has been unleashed on the rest of us to support and be victimized for our finacial support.
I saw another video where they interviewed a (black) city council member on the street. He said it was frustration due to the lack of education, jobs, and businesses fleeing the urban areas of the city.
Note that all of these are the fault of the black community itself.
32% reported high school dropout rate (I bet it's closer to 50%). And who's going to hire someone who can't read or do simple math? Plus, businesses have moved out because of the violence.
I would have said to the councilman, "Look around you. Would you locate a business here and hire these people to work for you?"
Then I would have asked, "How is robbing that liquor store over there a protest?"
I saw another video where they interviewed a (black) city council member on the street. He said it was frustration due to the lack of education, jobs, and businesses fleeing the urban areas of the city.
What a mystery that businesses would flee demon "customers" like these.
Sounds like urban justice has given way to "just-us". As in "That's just us looting our local businesses".
#45. To: TooConservative, liberator, GarySpFc, CZ82 (#8)
Still amazes me. Not the anger at the police killing Gray, but that Blacks burn down and loot their own neighborhoods and businesses when rioting. And the Baltimore mayor sits back and says 'give them space.' And the police are more than willing to let cede the Black neighborhoods and let them burn it and loot it.
#47. To: Liberator, GarySpFc, sneakypete, TooConservative (#46)
The trend under 0bola is to "LET IT BURN." Whether here or in the ME. This guy, this regime, his "people" have a death wish. FOR AMERICA.
It took some cities 20-25 years to recover from the race riots of the late 60s and early 70s. My dad said one summer it seemed a city burned every week.
It took some cities 20-25 years to recover from the race riots of the late 60s and early 70s. My dad said one summer it seemed a city burned every week.
Some of these ghettos never recovered at all.
Must have been the summer of 1967. Dad was right (what did he do, how did he know?) That was the very summer mine and my brother's new sting-ray bicycles were stolen right off our front porch (guess by whom? Caught by the BPD cops.)
From the front of my grandmother's house in Bloomfield, NJ, I vividly remember armor rolling down Bloomfield Ave (which ran directly into the bowels of Newark.) "No prisoners-taken" tactics were utilized before the RIOTS (not "protests") got totally out of hand. Detroit erupted that same summer as well. That riot killed Detroit.
Before then, Newark was a shopping hub. Afterward, the white exodus was brisk (except for one Portuguese-Italian precinct.) On a related note, recently an arena was built in Newark to accommodate the Brooklyn Nets BB team. Attendance is understandably underwhelming. And now the NY Islanders are scheduled to play there as well. For SOME dumb reason, professional stadiums and arenas are entrenched right in the middle of hostile territory. Camden, NJ is THE worst.
Early spring of 1969 - after the inner-city riots of the late '60s - that's when my parents hauled my little 4-year-old butt right out of that Camden hell-hole - without a moment's hesitation - even though they took a loss on the row home.
But once I got used to the new house in the suburban woods - I realized - "Oh yeah - this is MUCH better...".
Early spring of 1969 - after the inner-city riots of the late '60s - that's when my parents hauled my little 4-year-old butt right out of that Camden hell-hole - without a moment's hesitation - even though they took a loss on the row home.
Man...YOU actually lived as a small child in Camden back then? You got out of Dodge just in the nick. Your folks were very wise (they *had* to take a hit on their home.)
Some Italians (Americans) in Newark tried to weather that storm from the summer of '67. By '69 it was clear that strongholds were caving. FAST.