Last Sunday I read an article and viewed the accompanying video of a Baltimore police Sergeant being kicked by “bystanders” as he attempted to arrest a person who, allegedly, spit in his face.
As a native Baltimorean, this incident was much more saddening to me, than shocking.
Before I continue, permit me to “cherry-pick” some personal history with the City:
Upon obtaining my Masters Degree in City & Regional Planning in 1973, I was offered and accepted a position with the City’s Planning Department. A directive from then Mayor William Donald Schaefer to develop off-street parking in the City’s “Corned Beef Row” area proved to be the pilot project of what would become a multi-agency program of Neighborhood Commercial Revitalization … that I had the good fortune of directing. Working partnerships including local businesses, neighborhood representatives and City agencies were established in a dozen neighborhoods; revitalization plans, where the City would match private investments by making coordinated public improvements, were prepared; and their implementation were visible signs of a city continuing to “heal” after the 1968 riots.
In 1980, with the Baltimore Economic Development (BEDCO), I worked on numerous projects, most notable among them was spearheading Baltimore’s efforts to attract the NAACP national headquarters. I had the pleasure of working with then NAACP President, Dr. Ben Hooks, and his staff, as I facilitated the donation of an historic building to the group, and secured a $1.1 million State grant for renovations … and the association still occupies that building in the Seton Business Park.
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Big difference since Donald Schafer ran it.
ReplyDeleteI remember some years ago visiting the Inner Harbor with awe. I was there on business and asked where to take my family for a nice meal and was told Phillips at the Inner Harbor. We had sticker shock at prices but agreed we only go around once. I'm sorry there has been so much decline and degradation but this is not indigenous to Baltimore alone. What is common is who is at the helm...I rest my case.
ReplyDeleteCummin' is looking up from below and smiling !!!
ReplyDeleteWake up Jake it's time there is #1 CRIME IN SALISBURY!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBaltimore was such a nice place to visit with so many things to do, it's a shame and disgrace that liberal and criminal politicians have allowed this to happen.
ReplyDeleteAnother stellar Soros achievement.
ReplyDeleteIt's under dumbocrat control - corrupt and infested! Get rid of the corruption and infestations and it could become a really nice place again!
ReplyDeleteI had the pleasure of talking to a 96 year old man who used to travel as a young man 8-11 years old from Crisfield by steamer which would leave at night sailing to Baltimore where they would arrive in the morning . He would stay with an aunt and uncle in downtown Baltimore.He said it was a beautiful place and that his family didnt have to lock the door at night and also kept a flower bed in between the road way across from their town house as did all the other neighbors.He went on to describe seeing a man come at dusk and light the gas lamps. Its a shame what we have lost. Its not the city or the govt programs its the caliber of human being which has depreciated due to demographics of the population and of the leadership of the city.
ReplyDeleteSchmoke was the same Mayor who took the business away from the Harrison family and gave it to a minority who knew nothing about running a crab house. Schmoke even allowed the new manager use Harrison name without compensation.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't liberal politicians who allowed it to happen.
ReplyDeleteThey don't have the power to do this to a major city.
They are all just puppets for the real masters who finance the campaigns.
You guys know it, but try to hide yourselves from it. For some reason.
What destroyed Baltimore?
Drugs. And the gangs that sell the drugs.
From where do the drugs come? Who controls the drug production and transportation into the US? How difficult is it for YOU to smuggle a joint onto an airplane? You won't even try will you? Almost certain to get caught. Now think about how much of it is being consumed just in Baltimore alone.
Use your brains. The corruption and organized crime is in Washington DC
Just a look during daylight at Elija Cummings' own neighborhood will tell you how all the degradation and drug use in Baltimore came to be.
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ReplyDeleteSchmoke was the same Mayor who took the business away from the Harrison family and gave it to a minority who knew nothing about running a crab house. Schmoke even allowed the new manager use Harrison name without compensation.
January 25, 2020 at 9:55 AM
This is the first I have heard of this and I don't believe it. Do you have any evidence? A mare just can't take a privately owned business away from a private owner. I know that is what Obama, "You didn't build that," wanted but I am pretty sure it didn't happen as you imply.
Do you have evidence of your allegations?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteIt isn't liberal politicians who allowed it to happen.
They don't have the power to do this to a major city.
They are all just puppets for the real masters who finance the campaigns.
You guys know it, but try to hide yourselves from it. For some reason.
What destroyed Baltimore?
Drugs. And the gangs that sell the drugs.
From where do the drugs come? Who controls the drug production and transportation into the US? How difficult is it for YOU to smuggle a joint onto an airplane? You won't even try will you? Almost certain to get caught. Now think about how much of it is being consumed just in Baltimore alone.
Use your brains. The corruption and organized crime is in Washington DC
January 25, 2020 at 11:06 AM
This Libtard that wrote this is on some serious drugs himself.
Look what he says:"Use your brains. The corruption and organized crime is in Washington DC"
This Libtard clown is trying to blame President Trump for Baltimore's crime and drug infested city! No Libtard it is the damn Democrats you vote for. Everytime an idiot votes for a Democrat he is voting for crime and has blood on their hands.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteIt isn't liberal politicians who allowed it to happen.
They don't have the power to do this to a major city.
They are all just puppets for the real masters who finance the campaigns.
You guys know it, but try to hide yourselves from it. For some reason.
What destroyed Baltimore?
Drugs. And the gangs that sell the drugs.
From where do the drugs come? Who controls the drug production and transportation into the US? How difficult is it for YOU to smuggle a joint onto an airplane? You won't even try will you? Almost certain to get caught. Now think about how much of it is being consumed just in Baltimore alone.
Use your brains. The corruption and organized crime is in Washington DC
January 25, 2020 at 11:06 AM
Typical Libtard Bernie Sanders supporter.
Maryland's Justice Reinvestment Act is a definite culprit in this as well... piece of garbage law is killing people...
ReplyDeleteDude is calling the libtards puppets the way I read it. You guys might want to take a 2nd look. He is saying the Feds are the problem. Drugs were here a long time before a Trump.
ReplyDeleteSome of you are so full of worship for this POTUS that you can’t see the truth when it slaps you in the face.
Libtards are puppets.
Truth
Nobody believes president has power to stop drug running in Bsltimore. It is the problem tho
ReplyDeleteWhat year did it become less than a great city, anyway. 1960?
ReplyDeleteLies. Baltimore has never been great. Most families in South Baltimore suffer from severe alcoholism and the other parts are ghetto shitholes. Baltimore county is nice though.
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