DGS49
Diamond Member
Not talking about Chicago - that would be too easy - but my little hamlet of a hometown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh's layout is a planner's nightmare, as the streets and avenues and highways have had to be laid out with allowances for three rivers, a couple of "mountains," and old neighborhoods that were settled early for a variety of reasons. Hence, getting around the city, particularly by mass transit (bus) is a pain in the neck. Basically if you need to go from, say, North to East, or West to North, or anywhere to the South, you must take a bus into the Central Business District, then transfer to your final destination.
Unfortunately, this also applies to high school kids, many of whom go to school on the north side of the rivers, but live between the two rivers. So they are deposited in the CBD area, hang around for a while, then catch the bus to their own neighborhoods.
And so we have hordes of Black Yoots "hanging around" for much of the middle of the day in the CBD. And inevitably, there is the occasional shooting, gang fight, or altercation at a bus stop. Interestingly, many of the Yoots don't even attend school anymore, but they still come downtown to hang around with those who do. Force of habit, I suppose.
ALL of this mayhem is Black-only. All of the combatants are Black, all of the shooters and intended victims are Black, and all of the "innocent bystanders" who have been injured thus far have been Black.
And of course the Mayor and the Police Chief are regularly seen and heard figuratively pulling their hair out whilst looking for a solution to this problem. Heaven forbid that someday a white businessman be shot in the crossfire of one of these constant skirmishes. It will make international news. Also, it is a concern because Downtown is increasingly becoming a residential area for upper-middle class ******'s who want to live within walking distance of their offices.
When, if ever, will these Black Yoots get the message? This constant stream of headline-grabbing criminality, and constant stream of Black shooting and assault victims makes a mockery of the demand by the Black community that "they" be treated more civilly and compassionately by police. If Black Lives Don't Matter to them, they why the hell would the nearby white people give a damn about them?
Pittsburgh's layout is a planner's nightmare, as the streets and avenues and highways have had to be laid out with allowances for three rivers, a couple of "mountains," and old neighborhoods that were settled early for a variety of reasons. Hence, getting around the city, particularly by mass transit (bus) is a pain in the neck. Basically if you need to go from, say, North to East, or West to North, or anywhere to the South, you must take a bus into the Central Business District, then transfer to your final destination.
Unfortunately, this also applies to high school kids, many of whom go to school on the north side of the rivers, but live between the two rivers. So they are deposited in the CBD area, hang around for a while, then catch the bus to their own neighborhoods.
And so we have hordes of Black Yoots "hanging around" for much of the middle of the day in the CBD. And inevitably, there is the occasional shooting, gang fight, or altercation at a bus stop. Interestingly, many of the Yoots don't even attend school anymore, but they still come downtown to hang around with those who do. Force of habit, I suppose.
ALL of this mayhem is Black-only. All of the combatants are Black, all of the shooters and intended victims are Black, and all of the "innocent bystanders" who have been injured thus far have been Black.
And of course the Mayor and the Police Chief are regularly seen and heard figuratively pulling their hair out whilst looking for a solution to this problem. Heaven forbid that someday a white businessman be shot in the crossfire of one of these constant skirmishes. It will make international news. Also, it is a concern because Downtown is increasingly becoming a residential area for upper-middle class ******'s who want to live within walking distance of their offices.
When, if ever, will these Black Yoots get the message? This constant stream of headline-grabbing criminality, and constant stream of Black shooting and assault victims makes a mockery of the demand by the Black community that "they" be treated more civilly and compassionately by police. If Black Lives Don't Matter to them, they why the hell would the nearby white people give a damn about them?