jilla82
Superstar
ye I heard the Chinese are going crazy in STLPlease timestamp the video where you saw black shooters, I must have missed that part
Live In St. Louis, Breh's
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ass Chicago (where you reside).
I live less than 2 hrs from st louis, so it's a pretty common trip. My wife and kids absolutely love st louis, but I be damned if I drive through any hoods there where a have to stop at lights/stop signs. Not with my family with me, at least.
ucanthandlethetruth
Failure is not a option
Hurry up and buy is an army better yet a navy
What causes issues like this? Keep the pressure on them CACs.
There's a myriad of reasons why, but a big reason is lackluster public transportation (because of racism.)
(NOTE: I don't have any sources for this; mostly this is firsthand experience with public transportation in STL, some original research, and anecdotes from older Black and White folks. Take with a grain of salt and feel free to fact-check.)
St. Louis had the opportunity in the 50s-90s to build up their infrastructure and establish a robust public transit system. Several large corporations are/were headquartered there (Anheuser-Busch, Ralston-Purina, Emerson Electric, McDonnell-Douglas [now Boeing]) and several auto manufacturers had plants there (Ford, Chrysler, etc.). It would have made sense to invest to ensure employees could move about the city easily, similar to public transportation in Chicago or even New York City.
But alas--as always--racist cacs got in the way.
St. Louis Metro (the public transit company in STL) tried many times to pass resolutions to expand bus routes and light rail lines to cover the entire metro area. However, many White suburbanites--especially in South and West St. Louis County--voted those initiatives down citing lack of safety. Many said that they didn't want to facilitate "criminal elements" funneled into their nice communities (i.e. we don't want nïggers to have easy access to our side of town.) Though many of those communities have bus routes through them now, the routes are sparse and loosely connected. Traveling from Calverton Park to Clayton could easily be a 1-2+ hour trip and they're only 13 miles apart. Additionally, the entirety of St. Charles County--a large part of the metro STL area--is inaccessible by public transportation.
This cut off huge swaths of the Black community from higher-earning jobs--especially union jobs with health insurance and retirement benefits--that would have significantly improved the lives of generations of Black families. When there is poverty and a lack of economic opportunity, there is crime. And Black people didn't just lack opportunity-- many Black people were essentially economically isolated.
TL;DR: STL cacs tried to shoot the people below them and shot themselves in the foot. Also, poverty/no economic opportunity is the cause of crime, not the effect (like cacs want you to think.)