bessie
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I keep hearing now about how these kids are not given the same opportunities. It's making me so mad. Those who get ahead in life are rarely "given" opportunity, they create it and seize it. Those sitting around for opportunity to knock will grow old in the same place. I firmly believe where there is a will there is a way. Unless you are a trustfund baby, you have to make it happen yourself. There are winners and losers in life, and it all comes down to attitude and persistence.
I agree that she appears to be in over her head. But I disagree that the media distorted her message. I think she did mean to say that she allowed them 'space' for some civil unrest but I don't think she expected it to go sideways so fast and so far. JMO
Shimon Prokupecz ‏@ShimonPro 3m3 minutes ago
Residents on the streets here getting agitated that police are out in riot gear like this #baltimorepolice
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/593189445609852928
Shimon Prokupecz ‏@ShimonPro 3m3 minutes ago
People here now asking why is this necessary? Woman asked police captain to move cops back. #baltimoreriots
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/593189507744342016
I just want to say, I am from the area, and some of those kids are not given the same opportunities. That part of Baltimore, North Ave, is extremely poor. Most of the houses are boarded up and drugs run rampant through there. It is a place of broken homes, it is actually really sad. I think a lot of people are getting a good look at what the inner city is really like. Some of those kids never leave the neighborhood...all they see is drug dealers and violence. They don't have TVs and internet so that is how they think life is.
I used to keep an eye on a little boy and little girl there, they were 4 and 3. Their guardian would stand outside drinking on the corner while the kids did as they pleased. Noone fed them lunch, they got a bag of chips from the corner store if they were lucky. They knew the dope boys by name and it was the dealers and gangbangers who would give them attention and food. Those are who them kids looked up to; there was no other role models. That is real life for some of those kids.
I just want to say, I am from the area, and some of those kids are not given the same opportunities. That part of Baltimore, North Ave, is extremely poor. Most of the houses are boarded up and drugs run rampant through there. It is a place of broken homes, it is actually really sad. I think a lot of people are getting a good look at what the inner city is really like. Some of those kids never leave the neighborhood...all they see is drug dealers and violence. They don't have TVs and internet so that is how they think life is.
I used to keep an eye on a little boy and little girl there, they were 4 and 3. Their guardian would stand outside drinking on the corner while the kids did as they pleased. Noone fed them lunch, they got a bag of chips from the corner store if they were lucky. They knew the dope boys by name and it was the dealers and gangbangers who would give them attention and food. Those are who them kids looked up to; there was no other role models. That is real life for some of those kids.
Wow, that really is terrible, those poor kids, no wonder they just follow the path of the drug dealers, there would be hardly any other option.
I just want to say, I am from the area, and some of those kids are not given the same opportunities. That part of Baltimore, North Ave, is extremely poor. Most of the houses are boarded up and drugs run rampant through there. It is a place of broken homes, it is actually really sad. I think a lot of people are getting a good look at what the inner city is really like. Some of those kids never leave the neighborhood...all they see is drug dealers and violence. They don't have TVs and internet so that is how they think life is.
I used to keep an eye on a little boy and little girl there, they were 4 and 3. Their guardian would stand outside drinking on the corner while the kids did as they pleased. Noone fed them lunch, they got a bag of chips from the corner store if they were lucky. They knew the dope boys by name and it was the dealers and gangbangers who would give them attention and food. Those are who them kids looked up to; there was no other role models. That is real life for some of those kids.
A town hall meeting is starting in Baltimore in a few minutes organized by Rev. Bryant. He informs us that 500 religious leaders will be in attendance as well as other grass roots advocacy leaders whose work has been to engage youth in positive ways. Many other leaders are out on the streets in Baltimore and are urging people to be non-violent. I am hopeful for this meeting and the other strategies that other advocacy leaders are working on. Sending prayers to Baltimore tonight.
And whose fault is that? Isn't it the PARENTS fault for having kids and not caring for them? Why keep blaming it on everyone else.
Lots of kids end up with horrid childhoods. My uncle raped me for years starting when I was in kindergarten. It really messed me up for awhile. But eventually I had to DECIDE to overcome. My life was not all unicorns and strawberries either.
I see lots of college kids from middle class homes out in these protests, yelling EFF DA PIGS. And they aRE EDUCATED, and have plenty of opportunities. But dancing in the streets and setting fire to cars is just too much fun to resist I suppose.
SABBMi'm hearing on the news that this is an age-old problem . . . where have they been for the past several years? i have yet to hear any of the clergy call the looters criminals.
SABBM
Well maybe they ought to call them that; and say it like it is. Just my .02 and also marking my spot.
Thoughts and prayers go out to the innocents caught up in this, like store owners ,law enforcement, etc.
Wow, that really is terrible, those poor kids, no wonder they just follow the path of the drug dealers, there would be hardly any other option.
That is the story of my life as a youngster yet I can tell you with certainty there are other options.
Moo