Currently and for as long as the Crack and Herion epedemic has been going on in Baltimore city! The sister neighborhoods of Charles Village and the Greenmount ave. have been caught up in a viscious cycle of Crime, Violence & Murder! Inside of the Charles Village ly's the prestigious John Hopkins University and six blocks away ly's the Enfamous Greenmount Ave. area! One a thriving, growing, education, cultural and art hub, while the other is a combination of every bad, violent, drug infested, broken dream hood movie you've ever seen! The conflict with these two areas being so close is over the past ten years it's enveloped into a rash of violent crimes and murders being perpetrated against the students of the John Hopkins University! I've become fustrated over the years, because of the indivual reason no one wants to connect the dots! I admit in a 85% African American city it's a touchy subject to talk about but how many children have to die before this can become a dialoge!
Ok we have Greenmount Avenue, a empoverished crime riden community with a notorious reputation for drugs! Crack and Heroin being sold all night and all day! An when the users are broke, desperate and are not ready for the party to end, right across the way, only six blocks is arguably one of the best Colleges in America! Full of students with nice things and money to take, steal and pawn to support your drug habit! The shame is becoming that alot of these confrontations are ending taking the lives of alot of undeserving young adults who are just trying to make something of their lives with school! All these murders are being looked at as coincidental! Being attributed to the over all violent nature assosiated with Baltimore Md! No this is different, it's intentional! The desperate and underlife of the greenmount ave area are consciously aware that the students of the John Hopkins area have disposable income and when its time to scramble up some money to get high, this has become a popular opinion in this neiborhood as the place to go for money and their coming to get ya'll! I know no one wants to appear racist but the junkies are in majority black and the students are white, asian and brown! The Minorities doing bad, with the other races on their way up! I believe this is where the lack of sympathy comes from! Just as bad as the stereo type is that everyone from Greenmount is a desperate, hungry, junky murderer, so is the veiw that the students should know better than to go to a nice school right in the middle of the hood or because they have something in excess its OK to take it from them! All the same it needs to be addressed! No one wants to throw the first punch! Not the John Hopkins Univerity, Not the Baltimore City Police,Not the Baltimore Media or Community organizations, Not the City Hall! An everyone gets touchy when its brought up! School doesn't want to lose money or enrollment, real estate owners don't want to take a loss on property value and the Mayor's office nor the media dosen't want to alienate any aspects of either community! A Potential and untouched powder cage, not to be lit first, but in the mean time these poor students are getting the fur tore off them!
1 comment:
ey man, this blog is cray yo. good writing hope you get yourself some help man. but the insight from the streets is some real shit
Post a Comment