Andre Dawson was a black Expo...
Posted on 07/18/2010 11:22:08 AM PDT by 4buttons
This kinda gives the event a black eye, so to speak.
Wayne, Wayne Newtron...crickets chirping...
Oops, make that Bobby Vint-ron!
Have no idea. We had a Home Depot Expo somewhere around these parts till the recession hit.
I admire your courage and persistance!
I won’t disgree about Indy being worse over the decades. Maybe I’m just more aware than I was back then. I’m getting older and wiser(maybe not so to some people).
Indiana sent him to prison for his efforts, so just because there are "outsiders" who show up to "do stuff" at "Black Expo" doesn't mean they get away with it.
White immigrants from the South have vied for that spot repeatedly and for the most part successfully.
Or, to put it another way, you think it was tough up on Indiana Avenue (the classical black neighborhood) you wouldn't believe what it was like in Brightwood (and that's way back then), and that was a darned near middle-class community with people who had real jobs.
For the most part the AA crowd is a tad more sophisticated, certainly more educated, and undoubtedly more a fixture of the community at large than any other AA community in any Northern state. Doesn't mean it's any more integrated than anywhere else, but the crime rate doesn't lie ~ it's usually way down from what you'd expect in Chicago, Detroit, East St. Louis, Gary/Hammond/East Chicago/Mishawaka/South Bend, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, etc.
They've been doing the "Black Expo" thing for a number of years with far less disruption than you'd find almost anywhere else. I hope it hasn't been ruined otherwise, although a couple of posts here suggests the 50,000 summer-time visitors fail to spend enough downtown (and may attract too much rowdiness).
The Mid-Atlantic AA community had traditionally visited Virginia Beach over Labor Day weekend ~ FOR DECADES ~ and in recent years that's had to be severely toned down due to narcotics, murder, theft, beatings, mayhem and all sorts of nonsense that simply did not go on in the past.
Good.
Move it somewhere safe where guns aren’t allowed, like maybe D.C, Chicago, or Oakland.
Andre Dawson was a black Expo...
Ah. So it was an interactive exhibit.
And some darned good bacon.
That is how they become stereotypes.
It was an “expo” on black life in the inner city...
Ah. So it was an interactive exhibit.
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ROFL!!!! Quote of the day for me!
It is the gangs and typically youth that roam around downtown that cause the trouble. They have just about run most people out of the Circle Center Mall, defintely after dark.
A funny story, at least it is now: The wife and I have our anniversary third week of July. Last year, I made plans to go to the Slippery Noodle and stay at the Hampton Inn, two blocks away. Little did I know, the Expo was being heldat the same time. It was an experience to say the least, that will not be repeated.
Obviously a bomb made by someone who cannot type!
Always arrange any cab rides before you step outside.
Now, about your strange experience, I was in the Philadelphia GPO one evening and a white man walked up to me and said "you're the first white man I've seen here at this time of night in 20 years".
I'm sure I wasn't the first who'd been there. After all, there are postal inspectors who actually go up in the lookout galleries at night ~ so it was more like he hadn't seen one, not that it hadn't happened.
BTW, that was during a period of time when all the Philadelphia supervisors wore white shirts and ties ~ virtually all of them were college graduates and a large percentage had had military service.
Traveling around the country over many years I think I've seen about everything that goes on after Midnight ~ or at 4 AM!
I'll guess here that after this shooting the city will react the way it's done in the past ~ with beatdowns. Somebody knows these guys.
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