12-31-2008, 01:40 AM | #1 | |
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Are they just making something out of nothing?
Black renters raise tensions in Bay Area
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12-31-2008, 07:24 AM | #2 |
Jack Burton
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Re: Are they just making something out of nothing?
Who can really comment, unless they have experienced it?
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12-31-2008, 08:11 AM | #3 |
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Re: Are they just making something out of nothing?
I've experienced something similar here on my street. When we moved here, it was mostly white older folks and what blacks lived on the street were decent. When those old folks started dying off, they were replaced by renters or those that bought the old (50's) homes cheap (like we did). Those that moved in brought bad neighborly manners and all their poverty-stricken foolishness with them and now we want nothing more than to get away.
What do I mean by foolishness? Screaming and cussing one another in the driveway for my children to see and hear, drug using, drunk parties, people I've never seen before sitting in their car for an hour in the driveway with the music blasting so much I can hear it clearly inside my own home with lyrics that torment us, and constant vandalism of my property and cars such as break-ins (I leave the door unlocked for them so I can at least save my window), and other stuff. Yes, the dogs are here too, walking around on my property so I cannot trust my kids to play in their own yard. And their stories are similar...they moved here to get away from the very dang thing they brought to my door!
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12-31-2008, 10:34 AM | #4 |
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Re: Are they just making something out of nothing?
My own thoughts are that the poorer groups (be they black, hispanic, white, whatever) live in some delusion that by moving to a "better" neighborhood, life will improve. It doesn't matter so much where you live as how you live. So yes, if they move to a "nice" neighborhood but continue the lifestyle they had in the old one things will not improve.
So, based on whats I've read in the article, I don't think the minority group has a case. The police seem to be responding to complaints from the community as well as a rise in the crime rate that corresponds with the change in demographics of the comunity.
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