21 August 2007

Life In The Dumb Lane...
Sometimes you just have to bow to the absurd. Other times, you just shake your head and wonder exactly WHAT kind of drugs some people are taking, the frequency of dosage, and in what quantities those doses happen to be.

The following story is just such an example:

(WARNING - the surgeon general has determined that reading this person's article could induce rapid heart beat, a rise in blood pressure, and a mounting anger because some people STILL do not get it)

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Anti-gang project a waste of resources
By Gwenn Burns
Special to Frost Illustrated (21 Aug 2007)

This comes in response to the recent announcement by Channel 15 and the Journal Gazette that Fort Wayne is establishing a Gang Task Force to handle the gangs in Fort Wayne. Well, someone posed the question: "What gangs?" (how about the Eden Green Thugs, 7 Figs, D-Boyz, along with elements of the Black Gangster Disciples, Black P Stones, Four Corner Hustlers, Gangster Disciples, Ku Klux Klan, Latin Kings, La Raza, Mexican Mafia, Vatos Locos, Skinheads, The new Bosnian gangs, and Vice Lords...is THAT enough gangs for you?)
So, I say this to you:

Fort Wayne police prey on poor people, middle class blacks, or should I say people of color (no, my poor misguided girl...the police prey on CRIMINALS and people with CRIMINAL INTENT...get YOUR FACTS straight). Instead of serving and protecting, their slogan should be "Hunt down, harness and kill." Don't get me wrong, as a mother of a police officer, I know police are good to have around when you really need them (like when YOU are wronged instead of you chronically WRONGING others?), but they have take it a step further (they only take things further because the law demands it in their job description - "hand slapping" and telling people "NO" doesn't work as well as it USED to.) They prey on the poor and underprivileged (don't pull out that old dog-eared poverty/race card - if people of ANY color weren't so damn stupid in the first place and commit crimes, we wouldn't be having this conversation...would we?).

As a matter of fact, Fort Wayne's whole judicial system stinks (when they keep turning perps back into our neighborhoods it stinks) and needs to be restructured from the street police to the sheriff's department to the Allen County courts ( I only agree "provisionally" with this basic assessment - resources need to be REALIGNED to better serve the law-abiding people of the city and come down a lot HARDER on the law-breaking ones). And, now they supposedly are coming up with a funded program to eradicate the gang problem in Fort Wayne (be happy they're not cutting off the welfare-laden gravy-train, sweetie..they're using FEDERAL FUNDS from REAL taxpaying people). This is another way to fund "white collar" folks -you know whom I'm talking about- (sure not talking about ME) to deal with the gangs of the city (who are predominantly BLACK or Hispanic, or are you blind as well as deaf & dumb?). A city resident said the gangs are not that bad here (they must live in Aboite, because they sure as hell didn't ask ME). Of course, they (which "they" are we taking about now?) justified this new program by saying, "we want to curtail it before it starts." (Now that's a damn good plan...we call it PROACTIVITY)
Yeah, right. You want to make an excuse to take out our babies (arresting infants isn't on any LEO's agenda, toots, and the lawbreakers aren't "babies" by ANY stretch of the imagination...they're WAY into the "age of accountability") instead of using those funds to back sport-related programs such as boxing, baseball, football, drill teams or some other sport to get kids off the street (like school, they have to SHOW UP for ANY "program" to ever be EFFECTIVE). No after school programs can be found anywhere on a large scale in the city (didn't know that PAL, the YMCA and the Boys & Girls Club of this city closed their doors, did you? What about all the black churches in town...they ALL run out of ideas and have NO youth programs whatsoever?).
Children need an outlet and need to be placed in a positive environment (start by taking them OUT of the drug houses and away from the "parent wannabes" they're currently living with then, dummy). But, the politicians are helping themselves to the money (don't see any of that...where are YOU looking?) and the police are harassing (no, they're doing what we PAY them to do...their JOBS), so what does a young person with the violence within and without do? (Well, if they commit crime, they can cool their heels in Wood or the AC lockup - if they're obeying the law, they might wind up with an education and maybe even curing cancer.)
We the people of Fort Wayne are outraged (maybe YOU are because you can't see the forest for the trees, but I'm happier than a clam with the anti-gang unit) and we are no longer going to roll over and play dead (unless some gangstas break into YOUR home at 2 AM and kill YOUR ass, right?). We are going to rise up and fight back-not with weapons of steel but with your own weapons-the law (gonna be a rude-awakening event for you then - the law is on the side of the law-abiding, unless someone changed that).
Gwenn Burns describes herself as an outspoken woman on issues concerning the unfair treatment of African Americans and people of color, including police harassment, housing policies and economic development. Born in the rural south, she relocated to Chicago at the age 16 where she tackled issues including fair housing, education, welfare reform and served on a taskforce to help give local power to parents and principals in the Chicago area. She also served of the Public Policy Committee, a Chicago think tank working to develop legislative remedies to various social problems
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WHEW...!
And I thought city leaders had a load of wind-blowing out their ass!
We see this time and again...EVERY time ANY agency comes along in an attempt to take back a neighborhood or part of any city, these nutcases surface, and unfortunately, counter-American groups like the ACLU side with them. It's no wonder the police have such a fight on their hands. They can barely perform their jobs without risking a lawsuit frivolously tossed at them by SOME moron that is part of the problem, and NOT part of any solution.
I'm not going to cast any aspersions at this woman, although she sure is ASKING me to. I'd much rather like to remove her BLINDERS, and allow her the chance to take a GOOD, LONG LOOK at the manner in which HER PEOPLE conduct themselves, poverty notwithstanding, and then ask her if SHE thinks such behavior is "normal". If she's as educated as she purports to be, she will (maybe) understand the truth of the situation. If not, then we'll but have one more example of why the black community is failing ITSELF.

Don't blame the white man when your black children roam the streets, skip or drop out of school, don't look for jobs, turn to crime, get pregnant, go on welfare, and start the cycle anew.

WE didn't do it to you...you're doing it to yourselves!

2 comments:

Dan Turkette said...

Oh my, what a twit. She must be Dowdell's neighbor.

Bob G. said...

I was thinking the EXACT same thing when I read it (several times)....

She's most likely part of the "HSB" - (Hana Stith Brigade) against law-enforcement.

I "should" break some stones & send in a reply...
But NAH...I've got a big enough target on MY back already (and I'm only 5'7"), JUST for being white & living here (paying taxes)...LOL!

;)

B.G.