WizardMarks, Central
Constance Nompelis wrote:
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mr. or Ms Marks sure makes a lot of unsubstantiated assertions in this message. Where does Wizard Marks get all of this information? Tom WellingUptown---CN: I imagine that much of it comes from her everyday experiences... like looking out the window or taking out the trash. At least that's where I get MY information of this nature. Connie Nompelis Ventura Village (one block off Franklin)On Tue 12/10, WizardMarks < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: There could very likely be drug dealers among all those people trying to get by and trying to transfer buses or stop into the businesses there. At various times there have been pick-pockets, petty thieves, prostitutes, income tax cheaters, embezzlers and whatever else people can do to get themselves in trouble. In the midst of that knee jerk racism, there are also drug dealers who get on the Chicago bus at Lake and deal on the bus, getting off at Franklin. There are drug dealers who lurk and deal to passing cars and passing pedestrians. There have been young moms with babies in strollers, and some of those babies had drugs in their diapers. There have been kids on bicycles who traded bicycles with other kids, the drugs being carried in the frames of the bicycles. Some have carried drugs in their boom boxes. I doubt there's one trick that hasn't been tried. In among all that are the folks who live in the area, take the bus, stop at the shoe store, go to the Workforce office, etc.It forces African American males into an awful position. It is assumed by many that if they recognize, by a nod or a word, another AA male, they are, by definition, one of the drug dealers. In my estimation, having had an office at Lake and Chicago for three years, that it is a dizzying prospect to sort folks out even when you're watching every day, all day.At the same time, I know Jim Graham isn't blowing smoke when he says there are drug dealers under his windows in his side yard. I have had those incidents myself. Prostitutes have hunkered in behind my trash bins to do business, or leaned into cars parked in front of my house to do business. People have used my recycle boxes to defecate--in the middle of a brightly lighted area, mind you.Concurrently, three young girls who are at the stage of raging hormones, can be standing on the corner cat-calling passing males--for whatever reason. They're just playing, even though I think it's a dangerous game. There can be 4 or 5 kids on bikes ripping around the corners cause it's a summer night and they don't have to get up for school the next day, a whole family coming back from the grocery or laundromat. It's busy on main drags and on the areas they abut 24/7.WizardMarks, Central> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!__________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
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