Delaware is in the middle of New York, Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore and DC. Our city...Wilmington is smaller....but, regardless all the drug activity passes right through. My brother, before he died, used to cop from dominican dealers in Wash Heights in the 90s, and come back home to hustle.
The Corridor Of Pain: Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia
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Delaware is in the middle of New York, Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore and DC. Our city...Wilmington is smaller....but, regardless all the drug activity passes right through. My brother, before he died, used to cop from dominican dealers in Wash Heights in the 90s, and come back home to hustle.
My city. I know every single one of these neighborhoodsI lost so many friends and relatives. I have a job and am a functioning member of society but, I seriously have PTSD from the things I've seen. Demons I can't get rid of
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why do white people • who dont care about blacks people
are alwayz concern with Sharpton Farrakhan & Jackson
Sorry to hear about your brother breh...
I played basketball in college in DE and coached summer leagues for High School kids at the Hicks Center & Bancroft many years.
I worked with kids from Ferris also and know many teens personally who have been shot from Wilmington it makes no sense.
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How do you know what I care about?
why do white people • who dont care about blacks people
are alwayz concern with Sharpton Farrakhan & Jackson
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Yeah this is a national story.say the cameras aren't in there in a thread about a video showing other people videoing brehs
I gotta put you ignore. Your always an annoying bitxh
i dont !
but ur post is straight FOXNEWS material -which makes me believe u dont !
I grew up around the corner from the Hicks Center
My brother was in Ferris, as was my older cousin, if you're old enough you might've known them (they were there in the mid to late 90s)
You know Parish Johnson aka P-Dogg who got killed he was my friend.
I was at his funeral over Riverside.
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Have family in all 3. Most are doing just fine. With that said, it sucks the conditions of these cities in a lot of these black neighborhoods.......but then again its not the only place where you find this in the U.S.
Personally, I think these are actually great places to live in the sense that they already have infrastructure available, and they could be viable communities. Those boarded up homes could turn into great looking housing, and those vacant lots be something special.......................................................basically what I'm saying is all these cities are on the gentrification watch list. New York papers even cally Philly the "6th Borough" http://gothamist.com/2010/10/06/sixth_borough_stealing_nyc_resident.php .....Heavy gentrification is mainly happening in Philly, but Baltimore too Its gradually happening. Again it has the potential to be a welcome thing, but unfortunately for the natives regular folks it just means its time to pack up and leave instead, of lets get on this wave and revitalize our communities. Not saying in 10 years there won't be any black people in Philly or Bmore, cause there is plenty of land before it gets on DC level of removing the Chocolate City factor, but its ....... moving in.
That's the sickening part to me that other folks come in black neighborhoods that were seen as the worst place to be and turn them into the most viable places to be.........it makes me sick cause we have/have had the chance to do the same.......but for multitude of reasons it never seems to happen.
:sigh:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=769512&page=1784 Baltimore
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=250515&page=46 Philly
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=193487&page=74 Wilmington
Personally, I think these are actually great places to live in the sense that they already have infrastructure available, and they could be viable communities. Those boarded up homes could turn into great looking housing, and those vacant lots be something special.......................................................basically what I'm saying is all these cities are on the gentrification watch list. New York papers even cally Philly the "6th Borough" http://gothamist.com/2010/10/06/sixth_borough_stealing_nyc_resident.php .....Heavy gentrification is mainly happening in Philly, but Baltimore too Its gradually happening. Again it has the potential to be a welcome thing, but unfortunately for the natives regular folks it just means its time to pack up and leave instead, of lets get on this wave and revitalize our communities. Not saying in 10 years there won't be any black people in Philly or Bmore, cause there is plenty of land before it gets on DC level of removing the Chocolate City factor, but its ....... moving in.
That's the sickening part to me that other folks come in black neighborhoods that were seen as the worst place to be and turn them into the most viable places to be.........it makes me sick cause we have/have had the chance to do the same.......but for multitude of reasons it never seems to happen.
:sigh:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=769512&page=1784 Baltimore
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=250515&page=46 Philly
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=193487&page=74 Wilmington
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Just alot of people I know are dead. I've seen dead bodies up close. I think I lost my soul or whatever innocence I had the day I saw my brother in the morgue and I was in there alone with his corpse. I was 15. I could see the bullet hole in his head. Just shook my entire world up seeing that. Kids I grew up with getting killed. My older cousin got shot in his car last year. Execution style as well. He was "out there". My sister just saw someone get murdered a month ago. The driver of the car she was in was talking to these girls from the window. They leave to walk up the street not knowing two neighborhood boys were fighting earlier. One came back with a gun started shooting and the two girls ended up getting hit in crossfire and one of them died. My sister was one block down. I had a gun pulled on me. Half of my old friends are in jail (armed robbery, murder) or dead. I made it but, there's things my girl will never get about me because she grew up rich and privileged, and I grew up seeing fukked up shyt.
For people reading who don't know this is regular life in Wilmington for people over West Side, East, South Bridge, Riverside & North side.
I got friends all over the city and know your being honest, you think it's the Culture? Drug game? Poverty? Mindstate?
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Have family in all 3. Most are doing just fine. With that said, it sucks the conditions of these cities in a lot of these black neighborhoods.......but then again its not the only place where you find this in the U.S.
Personally, I think these are actually great places to live in the sense that they already have infrastructure available, and they could be viable communities. Those boarded up homes could turn into great looking housing, and those vacant lots be something special.......................................................basically what I'm saying is all these cities are on the gentrification watch list. New York papers even cally Philly the "6th Borough" http://gothamist.com/2010/10/06/sixth_borough_stealing_nyc_resident.php .....Heavy gentrification is mainly happening in Philly, but Baltimore too Its gradually happening. Again it has the potential to be a welcome thing, but unfortunately for the natives regular folks it just means its time to pack up and leave instead, of lets get on this wave and revitalize our communities. Not saying in 10 years there won't be any black people in Philly or Bmore, cause there is plenty of land before it gets on DC level of removing the Chocolate City factor, but its ....... moving in.
That's the sickening part to me that other folks come in black neighborhoods that were seen as the worst place to be and turn them into the most viable places to be.........it makes me sick cause we have/have had the chance to do the same.......but for multitude of reasons it never seems to happen.
:sigh:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=769512&page=1784 Baltimore
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=250515&page=46 Philly
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=193487&page=74 Wilmington
Their going to go hard on them cities. Too close to DC and NYC... so it is just a matter of time.
Maybe 10 years I guess? Things happen so fast nowadays...
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Oh ok
All of it.
No black fathers in the household mixed with a lack of education/opportunity + the allure of fast money via illegal means makes a perpetual violence cocktail. The fastest way to stop a bullet is a job. If we had the same factory jobs our grandparents and great-grandparents did, alot of problems would stop overnight. If you notice, when you look at hood nikkas that are 25 and older, they calmed down and matured. They realize now it was all bullshyt and they just want to become stable and take care of their families. The problem is he's just 1/10. The other 9 nikkas he grew up with didn't make it to 30.
It's mindstate too. I know people who have lived and died without leaving Wilmington (or Philadelphia). It's hard to see past your neighborhood. I know I went through culture shock when I went to college. See, I went to an HBCU. But my godbrother went to the wealthy private university across town. So I went over there alot and met alot of people. People who came from real money. One guy's father ran a hedge fund in Greenwich, CT. Another guy's father was a Diplomat and they stayed in an Embassy. Another guy's father was a Hollywood agent and represented alot of people we talk about on here. Seeing all that money up close and personal, especially the guy who's father ran a hedge fund because I spent the most time with him, was crazy to me because two hours up the road in my hometown, they're killing each other over $100. Just let me know there's a much larger world out here. We just don't make it to that point because we're getting killed before we even graduate high school.