“I don’t like it here,” he said, his eyes welling with tears as he remembered his family that he left behind years ago in another city, another state.
Epoch Times:
Residents talk about the culture of danger and crime, as well as slivers of hope.
BALTIMORE—It could hardly feel more hip in downtown Baltimore, with the pedestrian bridges arching from pier to pier of the Inner Harbor, strewn with millennial mainstays such as Whole Foods, Shake Shack, and The Cheesecake Factory, overseen by the giant neon lights of the Hard Rock Cafe and traversed by sharp-dressed young men and women on app-rented electric scooters.
However, it’s only a 10-minute bus ride westward to one of the most depressed areas in America. There’s no buzz here. No scooters. In fact, on some blocks, there’s barely a living soul.
“You got to be really strong here,” said Danny (not his real name), an owner of a small grocery store in one of the most notorious West Baltimore neighborhoods.
Some blocks away, in the middle of the day, a man is sitting on the stairs in front of one of the row houses, thousands of which stand empty and neglected, as the city bleeds residents. He said if somebody stands there and talks to him, police think he’s selling drugs.
A man several blocks away intimated that he used to be a drug dealer. He said youth in the area are going ”crazy” because the government shut down recreation facilities long ago. Everybody used to comingle at those places, he said, and people had to behave themselves if they didn’t want to be kicked out. That actually helped people get along.
Now, he said, people are just depressed. Youth with nothing to do are killing each other. It was also a bad idea, he said, to combine elementary and middle schools, exposing younger children to bad influences from teenagers.
The government is more interested in giving opportunities to new immigrants than helping the people already here, he said. A few other locals expressed a similar sentiment.
Several blocks away, two young men, perhaps 18 years old, stood on a street corner with a younger boy, perhaps 13. It wasn’t clear what they were talking about, but it seemed one of the older ones was chastising the boy, telling him to work harder. A bunch of cash in the young man’s hand offered a clue. Danny explained that some young adults are making younger boys sell drugs for them, since the young ones are likely to get more lenient treatment when busted. He didn’t want his name published for fear of retaliation.
Three times somebody has tried to break into his store. Once, he punched a man who was trying to steal from him. The man left, called the police, and Danny was almost arrested himself.
“The city, they don’t do nothing. Not even the cops. Instead of helping you, they’re against you,” he said.
He showed a trash-strewn area behind his store used by drug addicts. Pointing to the debris on the ground, he explained that the small pieces of glass are crack cocaine vials. The small ones go for $10 each, the larger ones for $20—apparently common knowledge for a small business owner in the area. more
Baltimore in the light of day via Trump.
democRATs and cockroaches scampering and skittering from the sunlight of the Truth!! Good times!
The debate I would pay money to attend would be the one between Jeremiah Wright and Ben Carson on the subject of black children’s ability to learn.
This is a post from Van Der Luen over at American Digest following Wright’s big splash on the national stage in 2008, when the average American was first introduced to Wright and this thing called “Black Liberation Theology”.
Shortly following his “G-d damn America!” sermon, another video emerged of his scholarly treatise on black children’s brains.
If you’re black in America and you subscribe to racist theories, like Wright’s, you are doomed to a dingy and violent existence which offers zero hope. Not even dumb luck will visit you.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.” – Booker T. Washington
Very hard to believe it’s been over ten years since Wright hit the national scene with his revelations regarding race. And until enough people challenge them, there is no hope for West Baltimore and places in America like it.
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/bad_americans/the_difference.php
Note to Jeramiah Wright:
Yer chickenzzzzzzzzzzzz have come hooooooooome to rrrroooooooooost!
“he government is more interested in giving opportunities to new immigrants than helping the people already here, he said.That’s because you’ve proven that, no matter what, the government officials have your vote.
“The government is more interested in giving opportunities to new immigrants than helping the people already here, he said. A few other locals expressed a similar sentiment.”
Do they hear every single democrat Presidential candidate competing to give the most free shit to non-citizens??
If this keeps up there will be no district for him to represent!
It occurs to me that there must be Republican-run cities in the same boat, but I can’t find them…..
Zero sympathy for the Police in this article. When POlice unions stop supporting democrats I’ll change my mind.