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2015-04-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

Residents of Baltimore fume over shuttered recreation centers

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-04-30 02:29|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 ....fearing the closures make it more likely that young people get in trouble with the law.

So, what you're saying is that they, the youths, are predisposed to destructive criminal behavior and must be diverted like a dog with games of 'fetch'? Why isn't this predisposition found in youths of other communities that already lack recreation centers?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-30 07:25|| 2015-04-30 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Dat's a ROG! If not for my neighborhood recreation center, free koffee and oudfok bingo, I'd be robbing passenger trains this week.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-04-30 07:28|| 2015-04-30 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 How's that abolishing the Ten Commandments working for you America?

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-04-30 08:20|| 2015-04-30 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Whatever happened to pre-recreation center activities like street/stick ball and Cosby's "Buck Buck Game?"

Posted by Glenmore 2015-04-30 08:49|| 2015-04-30 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 And shutting down the crowds at Orioles games likely cut paychecks for lower class blacks/whites working concessions and security.

We didn't have great afterschool programs when I was growing up. That's why we rioted and burned down our businesses and residences. Oh...wait. We didn't

Posted by Frank G 2015-04-30 08:52|| 2015-04-30 08:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Let it burn, let it burn
Gotta give room to destroy
Let it burn, let it burn
Turn my back and slam the LEO
And here I stand
And here I'll say
Let it burn, let it burn
You just didn't hear me right anyways

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-30 09:18|| 2015-04-30 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 "These folks need to change their venue and spread their venomous wrath all over the land." <- Motto of the BHO Administration

Me I'd rather "fume" where the fuming is good - FumeBistro & Bar

Posted by Black Charlie Bonaparte8627 2015-04-30 09:43|| 2015-04-30 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 IMO that a great number of these protesters bring a screwed up life and a lot of ancillary issues to the protests. What they are protesting is the screwed up life and has little to do with whatever happened or didn't happen.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-04-30 10:24|| 2015-04-30 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 First I had heard Thug as racist - as I grew up with rappers touting thug life as romantic - was The Thug Cycle incident. Looking it up, that was January-ish 2014.

Great synopsis here:

BTW - so not safe for work or kids or grandma, etc.

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/01/08/the-thug-cycle-continues-controversy-erupts-after-omaha-police-show-video-of-young-black-child-being-taught-to-act-like-a-thug/

Be sure to watch the second video. In fact, the second video includes the first, so.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-30 12:04|| 2015-04-30 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Etymology experts have traced the word thug to the Hindi word meaning a cheat or a swindler. Colonial accounts speak of groups of Thugs who practiced Thuggee and would rob and kill travelers. Some accounts describe these Thugs as belonging to a religious cult that worshipped the goddess of death and destruction and killed in order to please her.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-04-30 13:01|| 2015-04-30 13:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Glenmore, I believe that description is the one that was generally used at least since the Victorians. I certainly remember it from my youth in the 50's & 60's especially related to Sherlock Holmes.

Posted by AlanC 2015-04-30 13:19|| 2015-04-30 13:19|| Front Page Top

#12 This says it all:

Posted by Hupavitle Cleasing9829 2015-04-30 14:50|| 2015-04-30 14:50|| Front Page Top

#13 Procopius2k, Foster City, a very white upper middle class San Francisco suburb had huge problems with the teenagers back in the 70s until they built parks and a recreation area.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-04-30 15:00|| 2015-04-30 15:00|| Front Page Top

#14 I've been watching the riots in Ferguson, Baltimore, and NYC. Other places as well. The murders of the LOE officers in NYC who were sitting in their car was a terrible thing.

I've noticed the black violence in American cities is not so much different than the Islamic thug violence in the mideast. Both thug factions demean and devalue life.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-04-30 15:57|| 2015-04-30 15:57|| Front Page Top

#15 The Thuggees worshipped Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction and renewal. See here. The British Empire disapproved, and Took Steps. There weren't any Thuggees after that.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-30 21:57|| 2015-04-30 21:57|| Front Page Top

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