Posted on 04/30/2006 7:30:16 PM PDT by Altair333
I've lived in Missisippi my entire life and go up to Memphis about once a year or so. Today I saw something which I have NEVER seen in my life.
I was at the Hickory Ridge Mall on Winchester Road in Memphis around 4 pm today. I hadn't been there in about 2 years and I was absolutely stunned to see that half of the people in the mall were hispanics. Spanish was heard everywhere. I saw a lot of attractive and decent looking families towards whom I had sympathetic feelings on a personal level. They just looked like nice people living their lives. But the fact is that I was at the same mall 2 years ago and I hardly saw any hispanics. What is going on with our border security? This isn't a gradual expansion, this is an explosion. We're not talking Houston or LA- this is Memphis!
When I got to the food court I saw a group of about 15 teenage hispanics walking towards me who looked like they just came out of Hollywood Central casting. They were the scariest looking group of guys I've ever seen. Truly ridiculous baggy pants and they had a swagger like this was THEIR mall. You could tell they enjoyed the fear they were causing everyone around them to have. I had to look at them out of the corner of my eye to avoid offending them by staring at them.
Now, Memphis is about 75% black and poor, and I've been going there a long time. The Hickory Ridge Mall has long since become known as a mostly black mall, but I never felt unsafe in going there until today.
Just as the gang members were walking past me a group of about 8 Memphis police officers and a similar number of mall security guards stormed the food court and the gang members started running in all directions. The gang members were yelling angrily like someone was fixing to start shooting, and for the first time in my life I was kneeling down in a mall to avoid potential gunfire.
Most of the gang members escaped but a few were detained. I don't know if they had been seen shoplifting or if this was just a move to keep them out of the mall.
I've been posting a lot about illegal immigration on this board, but I didn't realize until today how much worse the situation is in some areas that I'm fortunate enough not to live in. I also realized how it's the younger generation- the children of illegal immigrants- who are the greatest danger for this society. They are largely Americans citizens not subject to deportation and many of them have no desire to do backbreaking work when they can steal and intimidate for money.
I can't tell you how angry it made me to be kneeling down to avoid potential gunfire in a MALL in MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE! They say a frog can be boiled to death if you just put him in water and gradually heat it up. Well, today I saw the water truly bubbling around me for the first time and it was scary.
what can I say - start shopping online.
They're kids. You have no idea if their parents are immigrants or 5th generation Americans.
Of course, maybe those hispanic macho boys were doing the gang intimidation work that American gang members won't do...
"They're kids. You have no idea if their parents are immigrants or 5th generation Americans."
I seriously doubt they would have been speaking Spanish if they were 5th generation Americans. And where were these 5th generation Americans 2 years ago? Did they all decide to start going to the mall just recently?
WOW!
Great post...
I didn't notice a problem until about 18 months ago- when across the street we had stabbings, drug running gun shots, and parked cars smashed from the fleeing cars.....
the local plice cleaned it up when we gathered as a nieghborhood and had a list of the things going on.....
they checked the files and realized that they had been called to this ONE BLOCK over 40 times in 6 months...(this is a SMALL town).....
they cleaned it up REAL quick....
so I understand exactly what you mean about the frog and not noticing the water heating up til it is boiling....
Thank you for expressing yourself so well......I hope it wakes some folks up....
Simply a probe by the advanced guard. Tomorrow should be an eye opener. Be prepared to defend yourselves while in the act of breaking the boycott at your favorite shopping mall.
It ain't only the teenage kids of illegals, the children of the legals are drawn to these ggamgs as well.
ggamgs = gangs
SHEEESH!
Side note, Memphis has been growing a lot over the past couple of years economically and population wise. So I wouldn't be surprised if the population demographics have changed to that degree whether they are legal or illegal.
One thing I think funny about your mention of the amount of Hispanics in Memphis is that I have a friend who just moved there. His one complaint (coming from Arizona) is that there are no good Mexican food places in Memphis.
Will American Shoppers be treated as "scabs" tomorrow?
Are you near Iuka?
No, other end of North MS.
Okay -- you're right -- I definitely was NOT thinking clearly.
Just think what might happen if the Mall of Memphis was still open! :)
On a more serious note.....your post is a sad reminder of a country in decline.
Stock up on lock and load fodder, we are in for a rough ride before this is over.
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