The Corridor Of Pain: Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia
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You know I see that as more of a product of the failure the so called Black community. You neglected your own to flee and live amongst the white supremacist in the suburbs, and now you spend your money and time hopping around the world, giving it to foreigners in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, instead of taking that dough and time and investing it in yourself and your people. Then after the property values continue to plummet and white people move in and pool their resources to "gentrify" the neighborhoods and increase their wealth, we'll have some intellectual jet setter writing papers and giving you lip service about gentrification. This is the opportunity cost of denying your own identity and heritage to integrate.
And then there's the church which is a true failure. All that money flowing into the coffers of white banks to invest, and not a single dime is re-invested in the community the church is supposed to serve. We being pimped by the religion and not using it right. GTFOH!
I read recently about how the Presbytyrian Church of the USA was going to divest in companies that Israel was using in the west bank. I said damn, they actually take their money and flip it via the church, and im sure they use that to buy property and all types of other charitable causes. Probably also to lobby for laws and politicians and people who promote their causes and beliefs. And yeh the Catholic Church (the old Latin mafia) is the largest landholder in the whole world, and they are operating at a higher level than the Presbyterians. But they are employing their religion, and using it as a means to an end. They have a vision and ideology they follow.
All we got are a bunch of black white supremacist (whether they know it or not). They're only good for offering us lip service on the problems, and hold a bunch of forums to have intellectual circle-jerks. We dont even need reparations if we were operating right.
And then there's the church which is a true failure. All that money flowing into the coffers of white banks to invest, and not a single dime is re-invested in the community the church is supposed to serve. We being pimped by the religion and not using it right. GTFOH!
I read recently about how the Presbytyrian Church of the USA was going to divest in companies that Israel was using in the west bank. I said damn, they actually take their money and flip it via the church, and im sure they use that to buy property and all types of other charitable causes. Probably also to lobby for laws and politicians and people who promote their causes and beliefs. And yeh the Catholic Church (the old Latin mafia) is the largest landholder in the whole world, and they are operating at a higher level than the Presbyterians. But they are employing their religion, and using it as a means to an end. They have a vision and ideology they follow.
All we got are a bunch of black white supremacist (whether they know it or not). They're only good for offering us lip service on the problems, and hold a bunch of forums to have intellectual circle-jerks. We dont even need reparations if we were operating right.
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Yeah this is a national story.
I gotta put you ignore. Your always an annoying bitxh
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I'm furious!!!!!!!!!!
Arrogance.
King Novak of Melbourne, the First of His Name
I never realized how fukked up Wilmington looks to outsiders until about a year ago. I was in a training course for IT and the building it's situated in is about 6 blocks down from the "business district", which itself is about 3 blocks away from the hood. I had no issues walking to most places around there because I know the area, but there were a few people in my course who were legit shook about it and always wanted to travel in packs. And it's literally like, "walk 2 blocks from the big bank building and into a den of hustling and poverty" out here.
To the everyday residents of East Side, North Side, some parts of West Side, and Southbridge, it's just how shyt is. I laugh when my coworkers in the "business district" talk about how dangerous the city is, but I have to take a step back and remember I know these streets a lot better than they do. And there's still areas of the city I don't fukk with at all.
Reading this thread has me a little teared up. It's also making me remember my mission: do well so I can show some of these young brothers and sisters that WE can do well too. Help them get some knowledge of more than the fast money that comes from hustling. As much as I want to get away from here, I'm starting to come around to the fact that maybe I'm still here in Delaware for a reason.
Even with all of that, I still see the city getting gentrified within the next 10 years. Businesses are making their decisions right now to either reclaim the inner city or run down to Newark, but Newark has expanded so much in the last 10 years that some of the mess of Wilmington is being exported down there. It's still a shock to me when I see white folk in the middle of Wilmington. But they stick to the small area where shyt doesn't pop off, like the Riverfront area and a couple of blocks northwest of that, the so called business district, and Trolley Square, which has always been nice compared to the majority of the city.
To the everyday residents of East Side, North Side, some parts of West Side, and Southbridge, it's just how shyt is. I laugh when my coworkers in the "business district" talk about how dangerous the city is, but I have to take a step back and remember I know these streets a lot better than they do. And there's still areas of the city I don't fukk with at all.
Reading this thread has me a little teared up. It's also making me remember my mission: do well so I can show some of these young brothers and sisters that WE can do well too. Help them get some knowledge of more than the fast money that comes from hustling. As much as I want to get away from here, I'm starting to come around to the fact that maybe I'm still here in Delaware for a reason.
Even with all of that, I still see the city getting gentrified within the next 10 years. Businesses are making their decisions right now to either reclaim the inner city or run down to Newark, but Newark has expanded so much in the last 10 years that some of the mess of Wilmington is being exported down there. It's still a shock to me when I see white folk in the middle of Wilmington. But they stick to the small area where shyt doesn't pop off, like the Riverfront area and a couple of blocks northwest of that, the so called business district, and Trolley Square, which has always been nice compared to the majority of the city.
I remember the first time my friend took me over by "the bucket" as it was crumbling to the ground before it got demolished over 10 years ago.
That area was like folklore in the 90's just like the riverside projects were twice the size they are now.
Only area i don't like to be around is a few parts of North around 22nd & Lamontte because i don't know anyone over there.
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Wilmington Most Dangerous Small City In Country
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/03/27/report-wilmington-dangerous-small-city-country/
Murder Town USA (aka Wilmington, Delaware)
BY ABIGAIL JONES / DECEMBER 9, 2014 6:35 AM EST
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/19/wilmington-delaware-murder-crime-290232.html
The first thing that happens when I arrive at the Wilmington, Delaware, train station is that the newsstand cashier hands me counterfeit money as change when I buy an umbrella. Next, I walk outside and look for Sergeant Andrea Janvier. She’s just over five feet tall, weighs about 100 pounds and has 18 years on the force, including 13 undercover in the drug unit. This fall she became Wilmington’s public information officer, which means it’s now her job to be nice to journalists like me. When I get into her cherry-red police car and tell her the location for an interview I have later that day, she lowers her Ray-Ban aviators, looks me in the eye and says, “I wouldn’t go to that block without a gun.”
During my four days in Wilmington last month, there were four shootings, allinvolving male victims between 17 and 19. None occurred while I was driving around with Janvier, 41, or when I did a ride-along with two cops. But as Janvier texted me the morning after I went home, “I just left a homicide scene, wouldn’t it figure!” A few hours later, another text: “And a shooting just came in on Hilltop. It’s usually always busy, it was just slow when you were here.”
most dangerous small cities in America. This year, there have been 27 homicides in Wilmington, tying its record 27 murders in 2010, and 135 people have been shot. Twenty-two of them died. With a population of just over 71,000, Wilmington had a violent-crime rate of 1,625 per 100,000 people last year, according to the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report (that crime rate measures murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault). The national average was 368 per 100,000 people. Wilmington ranks third for violence among 450 cities of comparable size, behind the Michigan towns of Saginaw and Flint, according to a Wilmington News Journal report. For a city mired in violence, the most stunning fact of all may be that Wilmington just got its first homicide unit.
When you ask people in Wilmington about the root causes of the city’s crime epidemic, their answers read like the devil’s Christmas list: poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunities, drug and alcohol abuse, gun violence, high dropout rates, teenage pregnancy, stressed families and more. In the U.S.,homicide is the leading cause of death for black men between 15 and 34. In Wilmington, where 58 percent of residents are African-American, crime and violence disproportionately affect poor black families, especially boys and young men. Exacerbating tensions between residents and law enforcement is the fact that the police department is 70 percent white and 21 percent black.
That disparity is reminiscent of Ferguson, Missouri, which was thrust into the national spotlight this summer when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen. Protests erupted across the city as police poured into the streets dressed in camouflage and armed with tanks, tear gas and military-grade weapons.
With a population of 21,000, Ferguson is much smaller than Wilmington, though it, too, has a predominantly black community (67 percent) and an almost entirely white police force (4 out of 53 commissioned police officers are black, according to The New York Times). As events unfolded in Ferguson,many news organizations called the city a “war zone.” In Wilmington, where there is neither tear gas nor armored vehicles rolling down the streets, it’s been that way for years, with nary a mention in the national press.
“This isn’t Camden, New Jersey,” says Cris Barrish, a News Journalinvestigative reporter who has chronicled Wilmington’s escalating crime for more than two decades. “It still has a solid corporate and residential core, with ritzy and trendy areas…. The shootings have devastated parts of the city but are generally confined to four or five poor neighborhoods that circle downtown, and they’ve turned into war zones.”
News Journal), blames the city’s school system. “We have a 60 percent dropout rate. It should have never got to that point—and the state has been running the school districts here since 1975.” Geography is another issue. Halfway between Philadelphia and Baltimore, Wilmington has become a way station for drug traffickers. When I-95 was built in the 1960s, it bisected established neighborhoods, pushing out “roughly 4,000 to 5,000 good, strong, working families,” says City Council President Theopalis Gregory Sr. The highway made it easy for anyone looking to buy drugs to get off at the nearest exit. Today, some of Wilmington’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are in I-95’s shadow, including Hilltop and Browntown.
This fall, the Department of Justice named Wilmington as one of six cities—along with Chicago; Detroit; Oakland and Richmond, California; and Camden, New Jersey—selected for the Violence Reduction Network. The program will support and train communities on how to develop long-term solutions for addressing violence and crime. The situation in Wilmington is so dire that, earlier this year, the state brought in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the cycle of lethal violence and trauma in the city. The CDC is supposed to present its findings by the end of the year.
In the meantime, Wilmington’s homicide unit—five detectives, one supervisor, one retired detective (paid by a grant) handling cold cases and two agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—started combing through the year’s unsolved murders. In mid-November, one month after assuming their new roles, they solved their first case, bringing this year’s tally for cleared murder cases up to four.
Brother Lamotte X of the Wilmington Peace Keepers, which works to reduce crime and violence in the city, says he started campaigning for a homicide unit six years ago. “Mathematics don’t lie,” he says. “If I were a criminal and I wanted to kill somebody and I knew Wilmington didn’t have a homicide unit, this would be one of the places I would come to do it.”
‘They all have guns’
“You might wanna buckle up,” Corporal Cannon tells me. I’m sitting in the back seat of a black SWAT team Tahoe. Cannon, who’s 32, and Corporal Geiser, 34, police the northeast sector of Wilmington, and they’re letting me join them for a Saturday night ride-along. (Both requested only their last names be used.) Moments before, our car suddenly smelled as if it had been hot-boxed. The Cadillac in front of us is clearly the source of the marijuana smoke, Cannon says, and we could be seconds away from a car chase.
Geiser, who’s driving, flashes the police lights, and the car pulls over. Inside are two black men in their mid- to late 20s. Geiser and Cannon handcuff and search them, then tell them to sit on the ground while they look up their information. The passenger, who’s wearing a white T-shirt and Nike warm-ups, limps to the sidewalk. Cannon asks him what happened. Last year, the man says, he was shot seven times. “Who shot you?” Cannon says. The young man stares at the ground and shrugs his shoulders. “Were you locked up?” Another shrug.
I watch all of this from inside the Tahoe, which smells so much like marijuana that I wonder if I’m getting a contact high. Across the street, a few people gather on the corner to watch Geiser search the car. He finds a blunt and a bottle of prescription Tylenol with codeine. Despite this, he and Cannon let both men go. “They were honest. For us, honesty goes a long way,” Geiser says.
Geiser has been on the job for eight years, Cannon for five. As a two-man car, they’re often sent to “hot calls.” I ask what that means. “A domestic violence complaint,” says Cannon. “A shooting. Shots fired. Robberies.”
They say they’ve seen an increase in broad daylight shootings over the past year and a half, and the incidents can erupt over just about anything. “A Facebook beef,” says Geiser. “Or a beef from school. A family beef. ‘You didn’t give me my drug money you owed me.’ Or, ‘Hey, you looked at me the wrong way.’”
And to think i hung out with my boy and his people in wilmington in 06...tge entire block stopped to see who the fukk i was.
6'3 230 plus indian looking nikka hahaha
I watch myself when im taking the china bus in wilmington
The china bus?
Arrogance.
King Novak of Melbourne, the First of His Name
The china bus station on 4th street http://www.gotobus.com/busstation/89484.html
I've never used it, I either take Mega/Bolt out of Philly or somebody hooks me up with Amtrak tickets.
I'm surprised some people in here are surprised. What they hell do y'all think the majority of the I95 looks like - Manhattan?
shyt was the go to cheap bus before megabus and bolt blew it out the water. Cats going from Pittsburgh to State College to Harrisburg to NY used to cop tickets all the time.
According to some posters in TLR it's all because of rap.
nomoreneveragain
Superstar
Good thing I never took any of those exits off I-95
Hip Hop is certainly the dominant culture of art & music in inner city Wilmington.