----- 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 cultural 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.) ________________________________ 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
