Ferguson MO -- Closed thread
Be thankful that AC is not Fergusion!
The folks here by the sea have always been "good" to AC and have NOT rioted, nor looted, nor broken laws like those folks in Newark, LA, Fergusion, etc...
So please give credit where credit is due.
Quote: dave12038457Make no bones about it Atlantic City is a challenged community. Call it a hood, ghetto etc. and you will get no disagreement from me.
The thing that irks me to no end is the potential. The opportunities that were squandered.
If you drive down a few miles you enter Margate. A clean safe town. A small 3 bedroom Cape Cod 4 blocks from the beach might sell for over $400,000.
Margate has no casinos, heck Margate doesn't even have a boardwalk. Atlantic City has some nice casinos and restaurants, miles of boardwalk and a free beach. And a ghetto. One of those things is holding the city back. The government on the local and state level have made one bad decision after another.
The John Brooks Recovery Center is located right on Pacific Ave. not far from the casinos. http://jbrcnj.org/
The Atlantic City rescue mission is located behind the new convention center. It is the largest homeless shelter in the state. Some counties in N.J. don't maintain a homeless shelter for their less fortunate people. Instead they buy them a bus ticket to Atlantic City. It's called "Greyhound Therapy." N.J. state prisoners who don't have a family /friends to greet them upon release are given a small sum and a choice of a bus ticket to Camden or Atlantic City and told to check in at the homeless shelter. Atlantic City rescue Mission has a capacity of over 250, and is very often full.http://www.acrescuemission.org/
Also on Pacific Ave you have Sister Jeans soup kitchen. It serves many meals a day to those down on their luck.
http://www.sjworks.org/view/group/713 Look, I am all for helping people who are down on their luck. Many of these people have psychiatric issues or suffer from substance abuse. But these types of facilities are just a little too close to the tourist areas. It is estimated that Atlantic City has on average about 250 homeless people at any given time. This causes problems with panhandling petty crimes etc. Once I saw a man who I assume was homeless pull something out of a trashcan and take a bite. You also had many homeless living under the boardwalk. There even was a name for it. It was called The Underwood Hotel.
Make no mistake about it Atlantic City isn't for everyone. Outside the casinos it can be a dirty dangerous place. Here is a 20/20 special from a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6PPH3xmqw
Quote: 7star4now"Greyhound Therapy" - How the homeless, mentally ill land in Atlantic City
http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-25/news/31839355_1_inlet-section-atlantic-city-rescue-mission-bader-field
Quote: BozAnd you didnt even touch on the Stanley Holmes Village projects. Not safe in that area 24/7/365.
Quote: dave12038457Oh yes good old Stanley Holmes Village. Has a rather charming name doesn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGflmO9gUVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4F18PMeN6A
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/crime/atlantic-city-police-investigating-shooting-in-stanley-holmes-village/article_786818ba-ef8b-11e3-9fd9-0019bb2963f4.html
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/article_9f7ff7ee-106c-11e0-a066-001cc4c03286.html?mode=image
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/communities/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine/man-shot-in-the-head-at-stanley-holmes-village-in/article_d1cfacd6-93e0-11e2-bcc3-0019bb2963f4.html
You open with A.C. isn't that bad then advise to carry a weapon, look out for crooks etc. Just what is bad then?
Quote: dave12038457Outside the casinos it can be a dirty dangerous place. Here is a 20/20 special from a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6PPH3xmqw
What a racist video. All the crooks are black,
ABC edited out all the white criminals. Blatant
racism. Good thing Eric Holder wasn't AG then,
he would have closed ABC down for lying to
the public.
Mind you he has received all kinds of death threats and is in hiding.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/death-wish-media-draws-map-to-home-of-ferguson-police-officer-who-shot-mike-brown/
Quote: dave12038457Oh I agree 100%. What we need is a good honest news media such as this report showing the home of the cop who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson.
The media is reporting that in 1985 Ferguson
was 85% white and now it's 75% black. More
blatant racism by the media and Eric Holder
has ordered a 3rd autopsy. But now there is
an eye witness tape that completely backs up
the cops version. Holder will keep ordering
autopsies until the 'real' truth comes out.
Remember the 6'4" nearly 300 lb. "Teen" or "Youth" had just committed a strong arm robbery of a store minutes before.
This is a video with two guys talking just after the shooting. Seems The "Youth" charged at the Police.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAaJMBxKA4
This is a video of Brown robbing the store. Notice how large he is. He pushes the clerk aside THEN CHARGES AT HIM.
He is used to using his size to intimidate people. The video taken just after the shooting you can hear the witness say he "doubled back on the police." Sounds like he was hoping the cop would run away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z5-H8NSGA
Then watch these guys talk about the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAaJMBxKA4
Sounds like he charged at the police just like he did the store clerk.
How does a group that represent only 10% of US population have so much influence? Whites are afraid about talking about race without being called a racist.
I mentioned to a casino manager that baccarat is an Asian game. No problem. I said that craps is a black game and she got defensive. Go figure. She wanted nothing to do with a topic that may come back to bite her by another person who is as narrow minded as her.
Quote: AceCrAAckersIn America, you will notice commercials where the white guy is the idiot and the black men/women have all the answers. When the black girl claimed she was raped by the Duke's lacrosse players, what did they do. Fire the Duke's coach, and got rid of the lacrosse team. Later we found out she lied.
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Just because we have a war vet rotting in a Mexican
jail because he made a wrong turn, and Eric Holder
won't even talk about it, and a black thug gets shot
and he's all over it with both feet, that doesn't mean
racism is involved. Just because he's said he's not into
prosecuting black on white crime, just white on black.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/22/3396116/jury-in-mangum-murder-trial-continue.html
Perhaps they should have realized early on, White men very rarely rape Black woman.
http://humanevents.com/2013/07/19/black-americas-real-problem-isnt-white-racism/
In 2007 14,000 White woman were the victims of sexual assault by Black perpetrators.
In 2007 not one case of a White man committing sexual assault against a Black female was found by the F.B.I.
Quote: dave12038457
In 2007 14,000 White woman were the victims of sexual assault by Black perpetrators.
In 2007 not one case of a White man committing sexual assault against a Black female was found by the F.B.I.
Even if true, you are a racist for posting this
to some people.
And how can numbers and facts i.e. the truth be racist?
Quote: dave12038457
And how can numbers and facts i.e. the truth be racist?
Because some people interpret giving facts
that don't support minorities means you're
a racist. Like if somebody carjacks you and
you mention it was a black guy, you're a racist.
Quote: onenickelmiracleOff topic and diversity tomorrow material. Please stop. I don't want to have to see the whining.
Absolutely. I just split off these posts from the Atlantic City thread and am now closing the thread.
Fortalezo is given a three-day suspension for thread hijacking.
Take it to diversitytomorrow.com
