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Originally Posted by Kevin
For some reason, these threads always end up with you bashing me personally for whatever reason. As if my excellent financial security, good job, great wife, nice yard, meager trust fund, well behaved dog, etc. have a damn thing to do with anything here.
Tell me this, o relative of a victim of gentrification, what did your mother do to help stave off the criminal element in her neighborhood? No doubt she raised good kids, , but aside from that, Anything?
What have you done?
You did nothing, then blamed the development companies for taking advantage of a strong demand for urban housing and depressed property values... As if you couldn't or shouldn't have seen that coming thirty years ago.
I guess it boils down to this -- the same folks who you apparently think of as victims are folks I think are deserving of their situations. They should have fought the conditions which led to the blight or they should have moved out before their property values were dramatically affected. That's the reality of "white flight," a nasty term which is easier to say than "middle class exodus" or "non-criminals not wishing to live near criminals." In most cases, you're talking about homeowners who in retrospect have made excellent decisions to get out while the gettin' was good.
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You. have. no. clue.
You have no idea what my people went through trying to maintain a property in that area that Johns Hopkins was all too happy to buy up.
You need to stay in your lane on this because you don't have any idea at all how things work in Baltimore and larger cities in general, about how Baltimore is ill prepared in handling criminal elements and moreso how they play the shell game with people.
I laugh at you hollering about "well, common citizens should band together to fight crime...that'll fix it."
Yes people SHOULD but for more than painfully obvious reasons (one being police ineptitude along with apathy and the other being FEAR of the criminal element) regular citizens don't have the luxury of expecting the police to help.
Why do I keep fucking with you? Because you are clueless. And you are content to live in your blindness because as you say "It will never happen."
And yes, I wish for bad things to happen to you because maybe it will open your eyes to show you that LIFE isn't as cut and dry as you make it especially when you get to benefit off of someone else's work to see to your blindness.
As they say, pride comes before the fall
I guess
these people should have moved too huh?