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The JFX massively subsidized white flight from Baltimore (really???)
The Baltimore Sun ^
| December 22, 2011
| Paul R. Schlitz
Posted on 12/23/2011 11:20:27 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I wouldn't wax rhapsodic about the half centennial of the Jones Falls Expressway ("City's six-lane Main Street at 50," Dec. 16). It was the evacuation route for white flight at a time when the strictures of Jim Crow were in retreat under the Warren Court.
How else to explain that the planned "transit line" down the center of the road was never built? Coupled with the dismantling of commuter rail and streetcars around the same time, the JFX could guarantee in and out privileges to white suburbanites but left urban blacks without cars with no way out.
The irony is that the JFX half centennial observations are coming at a time when The Sun gets floridly paranoid letters deriding PlanMaryland as a socialist plot engendered by Saul Alinsky (who has been dead for almost 40 years) and his sycophantic minions in the O'Malley and Obama administrations.
Yet you may rest assured that the expense, dislocation and construction of the JFX was a bombastically socialistic venture whose effects dwarf Plan Maryland at its most sinister.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.baltimoresun.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; jfx; jonesfallsexpressway; martinomally; obama; planmaryland; socialism; whiteflight
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To: Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:21:57 AM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What’s the percentage of “Yo’s” in Baltimore now?
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:24:40 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Scotsman will be Free
Pretty much all of them except a little pocket around Fells Point and Canton. (Charming little oases of gentrification in an otherwise seething, fungating, metastatic mass.)
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:27:48 AM PST
by
SargeK
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yeah, it’s all the white people’s fault.
Face it Baltimore Sun, the blacks that wanted out worked and got out. I lived with them in Frederick County.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:29:00 AM PST
by
struggle
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If I lived in Baltimore I’d get out if I had to take a dirt road.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:32:12 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: struggle
Yep....and to the MSMers and pols, they’re always victims, never perps. Same ol song and dance for about 4 decades.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:36:15 AM PST
by
A_Former_Democrat
(There's nothing more hypocritical than a white liberal calling someone else a "bigot")
To: SargeK
Thanks. I figured the percentage of taxpayers was pretty low.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:39:31 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People do vote with their feet.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:40:52 AM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They’re not even making Natty Boh there any more.
To: Scotsman will be Free
L50 U50 Fz VT FFE
(Was 13E30, 13B40, 13Z50)
Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:49:30 AM PST
by
SargeK
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
half centennial of the Jones Falls Expressway Jubilee is a perfectly good word:
the completion of 50 years of existence, activity, or the like, or its celebration: Our college will celebrate its jubilee next year.
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posted on
12/23/2011 11:52:34 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
To: SargeK
Cannon cocker, eh? Merry Christmas to you too.
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12/23/2011 11:55:39 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"... How else to explain that the planned "transit line" down the center of the road was never built? Coupled with the dismantling of commuter rail and streetcars around the same time, the JFX could guarantee in and out privileges to white suburbanites but left urban blacks without cars with no way out." Not building or preserving underutilized and unneeded public transportation be racist, yo.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yep, but they got revenge decades later.
The public financed light rail moved hundreds of section 8 (rental) welfare cases out of the Baltimore city to northern Baltimore county where they brought crime and decay with them.
It showed me how you don’t want public transportation near your home unless you are absolutely stranded nor own a house near any apartments. They charge you taxes to ruin your neighborhood.
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12/23/2011 11:59:56 AM PST
by
sickoflibs
(You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; ...
Sorry for interrupting, but the thread brought this to mind...
Old, Old, Baltimore joke.
Q. What's the shortest route from Israel to Africa?
A. Park Heights Avenue...
Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:01:52 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:02:49 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Forward With Confidence!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How else to explain that the planned "transit line" down the center of the road was never built?
There's probably a million other possible reasons, you psychotic, leftist, POS.
Meanwhile, yesterday I watch a ghetto rapper holding his crotch walk down a tree lined neighborhood street next to mine. I should have stopped him and given him the authors address.
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:06:54 PM PST
by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Pffttt!!! The social engineers and their race pimping associates always have something to whine about.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“How else to explain that the planned “transit line” down the center of the road was never built?”
Um, hello? “Light rail”?
OK, it’s not in the CENTER of the road, but it parallels right next to it most of the way.
BTW, I highly doubt all those white people left on 83. That would only take them north. They aren’t all in Balto. Co.
Where does this oversensitive self-righteous race pimp live?
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:35:30 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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