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Baltimore’s So Segregated, Even Strava Shows It. These Runners Want to Change That
Runner's World ^ | February 19, 2019 | Robbe Reddinger

Posted on 02/20/2019 7:15:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s a warm summer evening and Devan Clapp is standing outside his two-story brick row house in northeast Baltimore’s Ramblewood neighborhood. The streets are quiet, with postage-stamp lawns; a transition area between the city and the suburbs of Baltimore County just a couple miles north.

This neighborhood, like every other Baltimore neighborhood Clapp’s family has lived in the last hundred years, was predominantly white, before it wasn’t. He talks of how, in the 1980s, the skin color of his mother and father, godmother and brother, drove their white neighbors up and over to the “more-welcoming” side of the county line.

“When I was younger, the neighborhood was divided, pretty much 50 percent white and 50 percent black. As a youngster I didn’t know it was happening, but now I look back and they’re all gone,” says the 39-year-old Social Security teleservice rep.

There are a few other areas in Baltimore with the same low crime rate and housing stability as Clapp’s neighborhood. However, most of those areas have seen heavy development and investment—bike lanes, tidy parks, and running paths. Clapp’s neighborhood looks as it did 30, maybe even 50, years ago.

“I’m standing outside right now and looking at the alley, the streets, and the pavement. It just doesn’t scream I want to go for a run,” says Clapp. It’s not that he’s against running those streets—he often logs a few evening miles in the neighborhood. But in his part of the city, running paths are nonexistent and the closest runnable park is three miles away.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
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1 posted on 02/20/2019 7:15:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Some good news outta B-more for a change.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


2 posted on 02/20/2019 7:16:57 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Courtesy of the RATS...who cannot survive without their victim class...


3 posted on 02/20/2019 7:17:47 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So according to the author, and as best I can understand it - white people are needed for everyone to have places to run, and to keep black children fit.


4 posted on 02/20/2019 7:49:20 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Then the whites move back then cries of “Gentrification” will come.

You just can’t win.


5 posted on 02/20/2019 7:53:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PGR88

A few years ago there was a mini-demonstration at an NYC playground; non-white mothers held up signs saying “White People Wanted”. The gist of their protest was that if white people used the playground, the city would maintain it better.

Many of these people are not here to give - they are here to take. The most basic reason for segregation is that nobody wants to spend 360 monthly mortgage payments on a home/property that will have its value diminished by people who destroy areas - and with the current drive to spread the gibsmedat class around to taxpaying host communities with “affordable housing requirements” and Section 8 redistribution, NOBODY sees ANY neighborhood as safe.


6 posted on 02/20/2019 7:56:20 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dfwgator

So true; here in NJ cities are desperately trying to lure back whites (they target young ones because older ones know better), and they’ve had little success. They are being targeted as taxpayers and consumers for “minority-owned businesses” that minorities themselves can’t sustain, and they see no point in taking the bait.

Newark NJ ran a program a few years back where they offered many vacant lots for sale for $1,000; gibsmedats lined up in droves to grab them, but a couple of years later nothing was done with most of them. The price was offered with conditions, including building on the lots and living there for five years (like settling the prairie 150 years ago); when the gibsmedats realized this would convert them from takers into taxpayers, they promptly declined. They have no interest in paying for things like streets, running paths, etc., and they live in areas where NOBODY does.

Watch some of the YouTube clips where black Zimbabweans describe how things were better under white minority rule in Rhodesia; they are very sad (describing how people won’t use garbage cans or defecate only in certain areas).


7 posted on 02/20/2019 8:03:01 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I spent a lot of time in Baltimore in the mid 80’s, it seemed like the city was trying to re- vitalize into a place where people wanted to live and work. I’m guessing that all changed.


8 posted on 02/20/2019 8:16:18 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: wjcsux

When white hostages weren’t permitted to leave a major league baseball game until police could ensure their safe evacuation, the scales fell from everybody’s eyes - it is a dangerous place (especially for whites), like post-colonial Congo. In the day of cellphones, there was no way to sweep that incident under the carpet; masses of people basically held in the stadium after the game.


9 posted on 02/20/2019 8:21:55 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The problem with Baltimore is that too many “crackers” are running the city. /s


10 posted on 02/20/2019 8:29:12 PM PST by Parley Baer
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"When white hostages weren’t permitted to leave a major league baseball game until police could ensure their safe evacuation, the scales fell from everybody’s eyes"

When was that. I don't know anything about it?

11 posted on 02/20/2019 8:35:52 PM PST by blam
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The runner talked about going through neighborhoods unserved by good government, with alleys littered with trash and old appliances. It’s as if his point is the government goes into homes and randomly throws objects out into piles in alleys. Yet if he goes 3 miles north into the suburbs, their government doesn’t empty home possessions onto sidewalks - government there is good and helpful.

He wants his community to be integrated, but the photos of his running group shows nothing but black members.

12 posted on 02/20/2019 8:38:20 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: blam

Red Sox/Orioles (4/25/15?); the next game there was played without fans allowed in (4/29/15).

Ferals were rioting in the city, and there was concern they’d set upon the fans.


13 posted on 02/20/2019 8:40:47 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The real problem that goes unmentioned is that if the neighborhood has “fallen”, it isn’t safe to jog there anyway; he’d have to travel to a non-black area to run safely.

Newark NJ has painted bicycle lanes on streets where whites haven’t lived in decades; nobody uses them, but it maintains the illusion of a functioning city.


14 posted on 02/20/2019 8:42:57 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Baltimore is another once great American city that has been ruined by Democrats and savages.


15 posted on 02/20/2019 8:54:23 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Interesting.

Helps me to understand the gimmedat RATS that are invading southern Pennsylvania.


16 posted on 02/20/2019 9:06:09 PM PST by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Parley Baer
The problem with Baltimore is that too many “crackers” are running the city. /s

Running the city or ruining the city? Nancy Pelosi's hometown. Her brother was a mayor. She brought their liberal politics to San Francisco and ruined things there. Wish she would go back to Baltimore and stay there. SF used to be a Republican city before liberals from the northeast went west and infested the west coast.

17 posted on 02/20/2019 9:49:03 PM PST by roadcat
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To: kearnyirish2

Yes, I recall that the Orioles played a home game that was closed to the public, during the Freddie Gray riots. If I recall correctly, one or two games had been postponed, then it was decided to play an afternoon game, but closed to the public, so that the Orioles would have one less game to try to reschedule later in the season.


18 posted on 02/20/2019 10:08:20 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: wjcsux

I worked for a period of time with a guy who’d grown up in Baltimore in the 1960s and 1970s. He could talk for an entire hour about the ‘charm’ of the city, the Orioles, and local cuisine...in the OLD days. Then he’d come to the 1990s, when the city was starting to dissolve. It no longer functioned....drug use was escalating, and there weren’t enough cops to protect people. In some ways, it’s become a mini-Detroit.


19 posted on 02/20/2019 10:10:47 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

To all of the above who wrote about the Old Baltimore. I was born there and lived there thru 1964, worked their in a family business from 1975-87, and had a sister who lived their until she died a couple years ago.

I went to BCC (City) and it was ranked as one of the best high schools in the country with an award winning newspaper and Yearbook (my father worked on the YB in the mid-1930’s).

I was on the track & field team. It was a winning team with blacks and whites working together. Even at our 50 year reunion in 2012, when I showed some of the older black athletes a photo of our JV team from 1960, they recognized everyone and were proud of what they accomplished.

Crime in most od Baltimore in the 50’s and early 60’s was usually limited in type and scope/area, very few killings and mainly over drugs or robberies. My neighbor (Ashburton) has only one crime, the famous “Cat Burglar” of the mid-late 50’s. No drugs, no car thefts, no robberies, no drunks.

While there had been segregation until 1956 (esp. in the schools), it went off reasonably well for a basically southern city. even in Junior High (Garrison) black girls were highly respected for their excellent grades and just being very nice people.

One white gang ( called “drapes” a la Sal Mineo and James Dean)was wiped out by the police and the threat of a black gang never materialized.

The trouble began in 1968 when Mayor Tommy D’Alessandro II, caved in to black rioters (insiders and outsiders) and let them burn out the small Jewish businesses in East, Southern and possibly part of western Baltimore. That drove the older business owners out of the city, never to return.

However, in armed ethnic areas, such as Patterson Park (Polish, Ukrainian, Italian, Slavic) or Hamilton/Hampden (white crackers if there ever were some), there was very little violence. Guns and WW2 veterans had a great deterrent effect. So did the threat of Mafia retaliation (never spoken, but made known to the rioters).

After that, the city, which had been run by the Democrats, began its decline from which it has only partially recovered (and only in certain areas).

Mayor Schaefer was the city’s last great “white hope”, “Marxist O’Malley was basically a holding action but not very effective, and then a series of black mayors (one of whom is now in jail). You know the story of Freddy Gray’s accidental death in a police van and the riots that followed. No wonder Baltimore rapidly became “Harm City” with soring murder rates AND IT WASN’T BEING DONE BY WHITES, ASIANS, OR AMISH.

a total failure of Blacks to elect honest, hardworking and concerned non-political machine politicians is the KEY reason Baltimore is a shithole in many places.

If the black population starts singing and doing “The Man in the Mirror”, they won’t like what they see.

As for us old white Jewish guys, we started to built the city, along with the other immigrants in the early 1900’s into a nice, major industrial/business city. In 1968, it was destroyed (and other white businessmen also suffered as secondary targets). By the late 80’s, all the older white guys in business since the 30’s/postwar 40’s, were retired or dead and their kids too often abandoned their family homes for the safety of Baltimore County (which is getting worse), Howard County, etc.

We always left our house doors unlocked during the day. I’m sure now that NO ONE does that, anywhere in the city.

That is the tragedy of Baltimore and with the politically corrupt black machines running it now, it will stay that way.


20 posted on 02/20/2019 11:29:40 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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