Showing posts with label locking door. Show all posts
Showing posts with label locking door. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America and the District B13 Solution

In the movie District B13 the ghettos of Paris, France have been walled off, sealed and quarantined. 24-hour patrols guard those left behind the wall from ever escaping, keeping the high-rates of crime and therapeutic car burning sessions contained and confined.


This is just a movie – though we have learned who the real Crazies are in America – but a new study showcasing the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America offer city planner’s prime candidates for areas in need of immediate walling-off:

For the second year in a row, using exclusive data developed by Dr. Andrew Schiller's team at NeighborhoodScout.com, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, WalletPop reveals the top 25 most dangerous neighborhoods with the highest predicted rates of violent crime in America.

This year, Chicago took the not-so coveted top spot from Cincinnati for the most dangerous neighborhood, while Atlanta has the highest number of neighborhoods making the list (four).
Atlanta, Kansas City, Memphis, Charleston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Chattanooga and Chicago offer neighborhoods that help bring the property value of adjoining “safe” neighborhoods down and drive Disingenuous White Liberals engaged in gentrification  to send their kids to private schools (lest they endure the travesty of having their children learn with those Waiting for “Superman”).
Whitopia’s exist for a reason and yet few dare point out the correlation to US News and World Reports best cities to live in and the demographic makeup found in them. The types of people who call Whitopia home aren’t featured often on Thug Report. 

Few people dare point out the obvious in regards to the inhabitants of these dangerous cities, and one writer questions the prejudicial reactions people might have when they read such statistics:

Cities with neighborhoods on the list include Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Philadelpiha, Charlotte and Memphis, among others.  It would be difficult not to note the obvious:  that the racial make up of many of the neighborhoods on  this list is predominantly Black and Hispanic.  It thus begs the question: what is the purpose behind this second annual survey in the first place?


What it seems to do more than anything else is rationalize preconceived misconceptions people already have about the race of people that make up high crime communities in America.   Perhaps,  the point was to warn anyone who may consider hosting a rally in any of these cities to be mindful not to use public transportation that pass through those neighborhoods, similar to what the organizers of Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore America did when they warned out-of-state rally participants to avoid the Green Line on the DC area metro system – the one that passes through mostly all black neighborhoods.
Watch the local nightly news for any of these cities and the telecast will be littered with the bodies of Black people who family members will claim “was a really good boy” or “was just trying to make it so he could graduate”…

No more excuses. In Buffalo, a city replete with Black crime, a newspaper that dared point out this obvious fact was bombarded by 700 law abiding Black citizens who took umbrage with the printed assault on their community. 

Never mind the pervasiveness of Black-on-Black crime, that’s not the real problem. White people who dare point out the problems plaguing the Black community present the real, palpable threat. 

Volunteering is an obvious casualty in the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods, where kids who Act White find themselves facing the reaper

A modest proposal: District B13 offers a solution to containing criminality. Curfew’s don’t work, snitching is frowned upon and not every citizen of the Most Dangerous Neighborhoods is named Michael Oher, so the obvious conclusion is to wall of these cities from humanity. 

Imagine how many barbershops would open!

People at least know which neighborhoods they need to automatically lock their doors in now.



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

#120. Martin Luther King Jr. Streets, Avenues and Lanes


“A Nightmare on Elm Street” has long thrilled audiences with its campy terror, disfigured gruesome villain and tawdry sexual innuendo. One of the most successful horror franchise, “Elm Street” has been the avenue that has led to ghastly nightmares for those who seen the films.

Black people love horror films, for they are frequently cast in minor roles that grant them the opportunity to show off their thespian skills by having the ignoble task of being the first character killed.

It is a well known fact that a Black person must be killed off first in a horror film, or else it cannot be classified in that particular film genre:

“Being a black person in a horror movie isn't easy. You're rarely the hero, hardly ever the villain, and more often than not you end up dead.”

“Elm Street” might be the origin of thousands of nightmares for people across the country, but this fictitious street is incapable of invoking the palpable fear that appears when people approach a real street that’s ubiquity across the nation rivals Starbuck’s.

Martin Luther King, the man behind the MLK Brand, eponymously adorns hundreds of streets, avenues and lanes across the United States:

“Streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis in America. There are also a number of other countries that have honored King, including no fewer than ten cities in Italy. The number of streets named after King is increasing every year, and about 70% of these streets are in Southern states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. King's home state of Georgia had the most, with 75 streets as of 2001;[1] this had increased to 105 as of 2006.[2]

As of 2003, there were over 600 American cities that had named a street after King.[1] By 2004, this number had grown to 650, according to the NPR.[3] In 2006, Derek Alderman, a cultural geographer at East Carolina University, reported the number had increased to 730, with only 11 states in the country without a street named after King.[2]

Black people find these streets so desirable an address that they frequently have addresses that reflect their admiration for the MLK Brand, as the Martin Luther King streets have an overwhelming Blackness to them:

Black comedian Chris Rock tells a joke that goes something like this: When a white friend told Chris Rock that he was on a street called Martin Luther King and asked what he should do, Chris Rock answered, "Run!" At another time and on a more serious note, Rock said: "I don't care where you live in America, if you're on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's some violence going on."

He is right...

The black part of town that King Street passes through here in St. Petersburg, where I live and work, is a corridor of broad dilapidation, abandoned structures, vacant lots with junked vehicles and trash and debris, black-on-black violence, drug trafficking, public drinking, rudeness, indolence. Even worse, perhaps, most of the viable businesses on this stretch of MLK are owned by people other than blacks -- a testament to black powerlessness.

For many black communities, the streets named for King are their main streets. In some places, such as St. Petersburg, many white people use King street to travel to and from their homes each day, to and from work each day, to take their kids to and from school each day.

And what do these white people see?

In some parts of St. Petersburg, a wasteland.

Out of fear, they stop only when traffic lights or wrecks or other roadblocks stop them. Why else would they stop? For the same reason as whites -- fear -- many blacks also avoid the King streets in their cities.”

The businesses that are owned by individuals along MLK Drives, MLK BLVDs and MLK Avenues lack Black ownership for reasons that have nothing to do with Black powerlessness, but everything to do with saving money for the future (Black people know true Black feebleness is to be found in Haiti).

Take for instance this story from that Blackest of cities, Baltimore, where a Martin Luther King Parade near Martin Luther King Boulevard ended in a fitting tragedy that Shakespeare would have found difficult to properly write:

“A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the face and two men were arrested on drug charges after fleeing police in separate incidents that occurred near the route for Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, according to Baltimore police.

About 2:30 p.m., after the parade had finished but with roads still shut down, an off-duty officer near the 600 block of W. Hoffman St. said he heard gunshots. Officers found a man inside an apartment in the 1000 block of Pennsylvania Ave., about two blocks from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his face and chest.”

This sad demise of yet another Black person(happened yesterday) along the aptly named Martin Luther King Boulevard has been repeated so many times in different states, that the death toll rivals “Elm Street’s” combined body count.

Yet the immutable bond that holds the tragedies together can be traced to the MLK Brand, for these streets are to found in areas where Blackness is a foregone conclusion, and whiteness is but the state of the faces of those who drive past these streets fearing for their safety.

In some places, renaming streets for the MLK Brand is so important that millions must be spent, while crime rages on unimpeded in the process.

Black people can even procure a book that chronicles white people braving the plethora of MLK streets across the nation:

Jonathan Tilove, the Newhouse news service journalist whose coverage of race and immigration many consider the best and fairest in Big Media, has teamed up with photographer Michael Falco to create a small coffee-table book called Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Street. The two (white) men visited a sizable fraction of the 650 streets named after Dr. King—and returned with a valuable impressionistic portrait of the blackest streets in black America.

A dozen years ago, during the worst of the decade-long murder spree kicked off by the introduction of crack cocaine in the mid-1980s, undertaking this project would have been slightly nuts for a man like Tilove who has a wife and kids.”

It would be an enterprising endeavor if a camera-crew and an engaging interviewer would venture across the nation and produce a mini-series about the MLK streets that Google Maps can only show us:

“In 2002, on King’s birthday (and a few days before King’s national holiday), a teenager shot and wounded two students at – of all places – Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan. In 2004, in broad daylight, a hail of bullets left both dead and wounded victims on 125th Street (renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard) and Madison Avenue in Harlem.

“His streets are only in ghettos,” said Tisa McNeil, a hairstylist at the Harlem Berry Beauty Lounge, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Harlem. “It’s a racial thing. It all boils down to racism.”

There is no way to win this argument with Black people. It is racist if you name a street for the MLK Brand, and it is even worse if you fail to name a street for him.

Thankfully, some Disingenuous White Liberals are working hard to overcome the stereotype that even Chris Rock fell for regarding MLK streets, by gentrifying the houses along Martin Luther King Way in Seattle and pricing out the Blackness by making mortgages inaccessible to Black people’s pocket books:

“Fifteen years ago, when the time came for Seattle to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Karen Yoshihara had doubts about the chosen road: a no-nonsense eight-mile stretch that offered a straight shot through impoverished neighborhoods, a fading business district and a warehouse-lined industrial area.

Unlike the merchants who complained about the cost of changing their addresses, Yoshihara had another objection: She thought the road wasn't good enough for the man being honored.

"At the time I thought there might have been a more appropriate stretch of road," said Yoshihara, 55, who has lived near King Way since 1972. "It's not exactly the most beautiful street. It just didn't seem a fitting memorial."

Today, Yoshihara says she was wrong.

Over the years, as she has seen the street transformed, she has had a change of heart.

"Maybe Dr. King would have been proud," said Yoshihara while stopping at a doughnut shop near the Martin Luther King Jr. Market, where she works as a checker. "Now, I can't imagine it being called anything but Martin Luther King Way."

Named after a man whose primary legacy was his vision for a better future, the street itself seemed for years to have no future. Its houses were dilapidated, businesses were closing, and fear of crime - real and perceived - kept many people away…

George Noble, owner of Green Stone Properties, a real-estate agency based on King Way, said that when he started his business in 1984, the area was roughly 70 percent black, 20 percent white and 10 percent Asian. Now Asians make up about 30 to 40 percent of property owners, and blacks just 50 percent.

"I don't sell that many properties on this street to African Americans now," said Noble, who is black. "Most of my clients are Asians."

As Martin Luther King Jr. Way has been revitalized, so have property values. Many African Americans are leaving, moving to southern suburbs like Renton or Kent, where they can buy bigger houses for less money, Noble said.”

The Seattle Times – a major DWL paper – did an incredible of chronicling MLK Brand streets, and we at SBPDL encourage you to read all these stories of hope.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like will include Martin Luther King Jr. Streets, Avenues and Lanes, for these thoroughfares offer an insight into the state of Black America that might open more white eyes than the events unfolding in Haiti.

Not even Freddie Krueger offers as many frights as a drive down MLK Lane. Just be sure to lock your doors.





Wednesday, July 8, 2009

#287. People Locking Their Car Doors When They Approach


Black people know that white people look on them with suspicious eyes. Black people know that when they enter a store, the employees and owner cast numerous glances in their direction, in fear they might abscond with something since Black peoples favorite percentage off is 100 %.

Each day, Black people are faced with cautious indifference at shopping malls, grocery stores and other venues that do business, largely due to the perceived rate of crime that Black people commit. This ingrained attitude and prejudicial thoughts among white people have left them vulnerable to one of the most debilitating acts that can be done in front of a Black person: locking the car door when they approach.

Whenever a peddler, vagrant, vagabond or window washer approaches an idle car of white people at a stop light or stop sign, the first move that is made is to ensure that they are properly ensconced in said vehicle by checking the locks.

Black people who approach a car of white people will be rebuked seemingly effortless and with a "click" of the power locks, denied entry and access to those white people.

Black people hate this and many have wondered if it had been a Black actor in those early 1990s Grey Poupon commercials if they would have even had the chance to ask "Pardon me?"

Worse though, is that many Black people perform the exact same locking of the door when they see other Black people approach, for precautionary measures.

Black people do not enjoy having the car door locked on them when they approach an occupied vehicle and view this practice as demeaning, dehumanizing and superfluous. Yet this practice will continue and will be done by suburban and urban dwelling white people and Black people who feel unsafe when they see a Black person approaching their car.