I agree the situation is serious. It will escalate if serious outreach is not done. The minnesota nice culture is not equipped to cope with this problem. We are, the Black community, however, until someone realizes that it's us who can make streets safe and not brute force we are heading into a serious and tragic wasteland. The excuse is always there are no funds because we spent them on building new prisons.
Kurt Ballantine
South Minneapolis
basia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
South Minneapolis
basia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "basia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:05 PM
Subject: Gentrification? Indeed!
> Megan, Megan, Megan..........
>
> You live in Bryn Mawr, that explains your idealism. Did you know the West
> Bank has a 46% poverty rate and only 10% of our housing is owner occupied
?
> Give me a break! The crimes are not being reported because the police are
> afraid of being sued for identifying the "immigrants" that are beating,
and
> robbing people weekly, stealing and breaking into cars at lightning speed.
> We had 7 auto break ins on 1 block over one weekend this month! Are you
> aware of the riot about 6 weeks ago with about 40 nice little immigrant
boys
> in front of Palmers' bar? They were armed with tire irons and 2 x 4's.
> They scattered to the high rises before the police arrived, but not before
> an employee of Palmers was hospitalized with head injuries. You can bet
if
> it had happened in Bryn Mawr it would have been on television! My
neighbors
> are too PC to report many of the crimes. The rest of the neighhood
doesn't
> speak English and don't trust the police, and/or don't want to offend
their
> neighbors who are committing the crimes!
> I wish we were just a little bit gentrified, nothing like a few long time
> homeowners to help keep crime down. You should spend a month in my "hood"
> instead of judging our crime rate as racist/anti-immigrant from your nice,
> little, low crime, mostly homestead, mostly white "in the city suburb"!
> Sending thousands of non-English speaking poor people to my little
> neighborhood was not a good idea. A concentration of poverty, combined
with
> major cul tural and languages differences was a foolish and perhaps
criminal
> thing to do, remember the Hollman Decree? Some of us are thinking a
Federal
> suit may be a solution to our problem.
>
> Barbara Murray
> Riverside Park
> section 8 property manager
> SAFE block leader for 10 years
> & my neighborhood has gone to hell in the last 5 years!
>
TEMPORARY REMINDER:
1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait.
2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.)
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