Crime Scene KC reports some dangerous developments at Kansas City's very first mall where white people used to shop: "KCMO police were called to the Landing Mall (Meyer and Paseo) in regard to a shooting. Upon arrival a victim was located inside the mall suffering from a gunshot wound to his left leg . . ."
If this story were not true, it could be a Sat Night Live skit. I guess it still could be.
ReplyDeleteWhile cruising the aisles of their favorite clothing store (Shouldn't take much time for the pants, just get the same size Glen fuckin Dorsey wears and tell the cashier you won't need a belt.) shots ring out!
There is a man down!!
A fuckin man down!! Are you shittin me?
"Hey hand me that cardigan." BLAM!! BLAM!! POP!! POP!!
WTF????
Me personally, I never shop for clothes without my Mossberg.
"Hey honey, the kids are in the car for chrissakes, just grab the Glock, I have some clips here in the glove compartment, lets go!!"
"Hey babe, lay down some suppressing fire while I get the little one out of the car seat."
"Ok hon, watch your firing angles, I will get little Tommy on point and take evasive action with the baby. See ya inside, hope they still have that pink top!"
WTF.
Another mall killed by the ghetto.
ReplyDeleteThis is a probing question that needs to be answered: Why does crime flourish when an area becomes predominantly minority?
ReplyDeletePeople in the ghetto destroy everything they have, then complain they have nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe ghetto, where people are too lazy to pick up their trash, cover all their buildings with graffiti and solve their disputes with a gun.
ReplyDeleteThe ghetto, where people are too lazy to pick up their trash, cover all their buildings with graffiti and solve their disputes with a gun.
ReplyDeleteI think Alonzo needs to read this particular thread. And then realize when he writes in THIS room, he's pretty much writing to deaf ears.
ReplyDeleteMLK didn't deserve to be murdered any more than Shirley Sherrod deserved to be fired.
But they had lifted themselves OUT of the ignorance. Many of those shot would have been spared had they changed their playgrounds and playmates. But they didn't.
Even white people. Did you see that pix of that KSHB assignment editor, all covered with tattoos? I don't know what the cops know, but I suspect he had some fairly rough playmates and that might have been what did him in.
This is why people of all colors flee the ghetto where the crime is and move to the suburbs. Call the black ones Unka Tom if you want.
But they want the American dream for themselves and their kids; and sadly, its not often found in the ghetto.
Every time I see a black or hispanic family in my neighborhood, cutting their grass, driving fairly late model cars, making their house payments, I am inspired that we ARE making progress. Their kids are going to the same schools MY kids did, and my kids turned out very well, thank you very much. No hassles about the AFT or stupid board members. Or troubled superintendents.
And people wonder why the suburbs are doing so well? It's to get away from the anarchy and the murder count. Not a color issue. Its about people's hopes and dreams.
And it spills over to the alien issue as well. Who wants to live where there are gangs and drug lords? Leave them down there to solve their OWN problems.
I'm glad the Obama is president of all of us... but it really is too bad he can't use the bully pulpit more to raise black people up. Maybe Cosby did HIS share and my black neighbors were inspired by him and his cast. So who will pick it up now that he has passed his prime?
As to the Faux white paranoia? Well, that has nothing to do with blacks making more of themselves, escaping the toxic culture of rap and urban crime.
Screw the white bigots who are addicted to Fox News. Most of them are getting long in the tooth anyway and will die off, hopefully sooner, not later.
My dad never saw 'Driving Miss Daisy' but he softened his views when he got to the nursing home and realized they were more enlightened than he was most of his life--as they took care of him for pretty small wages!
I still don't think of the Landing or Troost as "ghetto."
ReplyDeleteWould've never guessed it would outlive Bannister Mall.
The Landing just needs a Best Buy.
I am 10:27, and I agree with Radioman (for the most part). There are good people in all neighborhoods, it's just that some neighborhoods are completely overrun by the bad elements.
ReplyDeleteBut Radioman, I am a white conservative Christian who watches Fox News, and I am not a bigot. My friends who feel as I do aren't bigots either.
P.S. "Driving Miss Daisy" is one of my favorite movies. Also on my top list: "Glory," "Glory Road" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Quaint photo, huh? Man, woman in a nice dress and child, at a KC mall. I'm slightly embarrassed that this was when I was becoming an adult.
ReplyDeleteSadly our parents, like mine in the AD business, actually wrote that quaint kinda stuff!
And here, we boomers, coming of age, actually thought we were modern thinkers! And today, that thinking looks so quaint by today's standards.
Maybe we boomers, despite our landing on the moon, invention of color TV and such great TV shoes, just weren't so, er, MODERN!
NO wonder kids today think we were so stupid. After all, today's icons are Lady Gaga and that 14 yr old kid, what's his name, who is on Mix93 willing to play a video game with some contest winner?
I am so glad I raised my kids better than to care bout this shit!
So glad my kids are grown and gone! Trust me, you parents today will have your kids living at home forever! Not smart enough to afford an apt of their own!
The Landing is in the ghetto? Do some of you bigots ever leave Johnson County? I'm a white guy and I drive down Troost and 63rd st all the time.
ReplyDeleteKansas City has poverty and violence because it is a city built on racism and bigotry. White flight to Johnson County put a big hit on KCMO, so it's fucking ridiculous to hear white people post here about how folks in poor KCMO need to get their act together. Yes, they need to be more responsible for things in their communities, but they've been hit hard by systemic racism. It's pretty damn hard to pick yourself up if you have no capital or other resources.
I'd love to help fix up Troost and other parts of KCMO. I have the motivation, but not the capital. I'm sure there are many more like me around this city.
12:59: For the sake of argument, let's say there are a few white bigots in Johnson County. Let's even go so far as to say they own some of the substandard housing in KCMO. How does that make people in the inner city unable to pick up the trash blowing around their streets? How does it cause people to go get paint and spray messages on the sides of buildings? How does it compel people to get into their cars and spray bullets on people walking down the street or sitting on their front porches? These things take no "capital" to correct. They take personal responsibility.
ReplyDeleteIt may be hard, but it can be done. People are doing it every day, even in the inner city.
Talk about racism, I think it is racist to believe that black people and other minorities are unable to get educated and lead productive lives.
ReplyDeleteThe racism of low expectations makes excuses for the failure of minority students in school and the failure of minority people to get employment. Employment may not come to your neighborhood. Sometimes you have to go find it.
Currently, I am driving 30+ miles one way to my job.
I know, I know. I have a car, some people don't.
There's always an excuse, isn't there?
I was 9 in 1959, and the second to the last family on the block of 37th and Chestnut. We had friends and a good life there and my dad said he wasn't moving, my mom was cool with it too. Then there was trouble down the block and my mom was harrased. My dad was no one to fuck with, 1937 to 1945 in WWII and would seriously go to GQ for very little cause. My mom was scared then, and then Mr. Hammond on the NE Corner of 34th and Chestnut got pretty near beat to death.
ReplyDeleteWe moved a month later.
It is what it is. All those fancy phrases about freedom and brotherhood ring pretty fuckin hollow when your neighbor is in critical condition for being white.
Now truthfully, he was being robbed in his house, so I don't think they kicked his ass JUST because he was white.
Bussing killed off black neighborhoods for good in my opinion. JMO, but the results in many of these social engineering schemes are rarely looked at with a jaundiced eye. That eye, after all these efforts, shoule indeed be jaundiced, if not totally glassed the fuck over.
Another thing that fucked up the city---eminent domain. The 71 HWY we all travel on these days, was ALL houses. The city kicked those folks to the curb, then didn't build the fucking high way for 40 years.
I was in Hawthorne and Inglewood and a few other places that are supposed to be "Really Bad" (So my California friends told me, this is LA by the way) working for a year in 2001. Clean as heck!! Mowed lawns, no trash, I kept thinking---what fuckin ghetto??? This is where the film Boys in the Hood I think, took place. What ghetto? I didn't even know I was in a dangerous part of town. I didn't get to South Central, but all those Ca. ghettos are NOT ghettos at all!
You can clean your own neighborhood and paint your house and mow your lawn.
But, ya gotta get off of your ass.
Screwed up--NE corner of 36th and chestnut.
ReplyDeleteI posted most of the following on a thread a few days ago regarding the Golden Ghetto. (I was late to that party so thought I'd submit for your consideration here.)
ReplyDeleteRe:"White Flight." If the neighborhoods/cities fall apart when the white folks leave, then what does that say about the ones who stay? That they are incapable of creating and sustaining an economy without the largess of the white folks? That they value education less and don't demand excellence of their schools? That they have a higher tolerance for criminal activity?
Methinks none of this is true of the vast majority of people of all colors who choose to live in the inner city, but be careful laying the blame on whitey because it suggests that those who are not white can't survive well without him. I think that's bullshit, but please think about the argument.
To be clear- methinks the "white flight caused all this" response is actually demeaning to the minority community.
Just an observer, here are my thoughts. (25+ yrs ago I used to own property and live at about 55th/Paseo and was at The Landing often.)
ReplyDelete1. Go to Landing shopping center - FAIL - I still get to that area several times a month; there's just too much intimidating and suspicions activity in the parking lot to feel safe, even during daytime hours.
2. Shop at a Payless shoe store, anywhere - well, OK - but not my cup of tea
3. Carry a gun into a shoe store - FAIL - looking for trouble
4. Get in an argument in a shoe store rather than just walking away - FAIL - looking for trouble
5. Open fire in a shoe store to resolve an argument - FAIL - found the trouble they were looking for and caused
I just don't go places where - people hide their faces; set low in their seats; hang out in parking lots; look for arguments; are loud and confrontive; hand out trash talk to strangers; look to get into loud arguments; and carry guns.
One cause of the problem is well documented by urban criminologists and sociologists - It only takes about 1 percent of the population in a community misbehaving like this set the tone for an entire community. Career criminals, troublemakers, no-goods. A few can do a world of damage. Especially if there are 2%, 3%, or more doing it.
I feel bad that these people ruin things for all the good, hard working, nice people that try to make a life in the urban core.
This specific incident - like many - could be the start of an Elmore Leonard novel.
Great post 2:06
ReplyDeletecarrying a gun is not looking for trouble. i have my CCW and daily carry. you would never know it to look at me though. I'm white middle aged and pretty nerdy. the people looking for trouble are the REASON i carry. Don't equate carrying a tool to irresponsible behavior 2:06.
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