"little Mexico II"
"SWAT" team on the roof of a PR building on the ave. last week told me they are looking into drug sales and gang activity.
Gang leaders are actually charging some day laborers to stand on the corner & seek work. It's "their turf"...
Look, I've met MANY good, god-fearing, business-owning, hard-working mexes. The difference between them and the majority of others is- they can read and write. Most "corner" immigrants cannot even read spanish-nor even write/spell their own names....and are content with it.
Fact.
Just in case, one may think I am insensitive to the beaner plight, I DO think they are way better for port richmond than what it was like 20 years ago.
The absolute bottom line, which sums everything up in a nutshell is this:
I (and most people) have no problem walking through a group of 15 mexicans standing on the corner.
I (and most people) used to cross the street, instead of walking through a group of blacks on the same corner.
Fact.
Gang leaders are actually charging some day laborers to stand on the corner & seek work. It's "their turf"...
Look, I've met MANY good, god-fearing, business-owning, hard-working mexes. The difference between them and the majority of others is- they can read and write. Most "corner" immigrants cannot even read spanish-nor even write/spell their own names....and are content with it.
Fact.
Just in case, one may think I am insensitive to the beaner plight, I DO think they are way better for port richmond than what it was like 20 years ago.
The absolute bottom line, which sums everything up in a nutshell is this:
I (and most people) have no problem walking through a group of 15 mexicans standing on the corner.
I (and most people) used to cross the street, instead of walking through a group of blacks on the same corner.
Fact.
posted by edroogie at 5:30 AM
11 Comments:
What is it? You live in South Beach? Or maybe somewhere down around the Great Kills shores...or Todt Hill South...y'know, where those dirty Mex "beaners" only can get by bus.
for the last 9 years, I have been doing my part to make SI a better place...
But I read you claimed 35 years here? That's a lot of time dicking around, skippy, before you joined the program. And even if we put that aside, how do you work "make a better place" into ripping an entire ethnic group and neighborhood along the lines of someone like Archie Bunker's bastard son...like you just done?
""SWAT" team on the roof of a PR building on the ave. last week told me they are looking into drug sales and gang activity."
Yeah, right...you're a bloody warrior priest to whom cops confess their daily events. My dog looks at you and says to himself "lunch."
I live in Port Richmond, smack dab in the middle of it. I also have a boatload of friends at the 120. You know shit, and talk as much. Talk smack at the Cargo, skippy. You couldn't even figure out how to keep your flicks running; you gonna try and sell this kind of spill?
Idiots off the Rock might buy it, but don't try to sell it local.
I'm figuring you failed Spanish in high school, and never got over it. Or you're a stone dumbassed racist.
first off, sir, I applaud you for being the fist dissenter to actually post a comment without being "anonymous"...
As you seem to be "cherry-picking" statements from my post,...guess you missed the part about knowing MANY fine, upstanding, valuable-to-the-community mexes?
and perhaps the part about how I think they are (overall) BETTER for PR?
The show has only been on 9 years, that's the only thing I have done to make SI a "better" place.
Now, if you don't believe that the show does that, fine. You (thankfully) are in the minority.
OK, it may not have been a swat team, but there were 2 cops in full tactical gear on the roof observing people with binocs for over 3 hours.
the rest of your comments are mere flamebait, and I won't address them...
see? I can pick only the issues I am interested in too!
You're no fun, droggie.
Perfectly good flame bait...perfectly good! Gone to waste.
And let not the avatat fool you; even at this late date, my hair is great!
"anonymous" is for pussies and trolls...hell, I've sent directions to my front door to some folks I've battled with on this here IntarWab thingie. I even offered to pay one guy's air fare to Newark when he said, "If I wasn't in Cleveland...."
But your friend still don't have a clue about what goes on in my slice of town. Sure, there's some nasty business surrounding the shape-up guys, but that stuff ain't exactly new...it would look quite familiar to a member of the Gambino crew.
Hey, suspected gang activity in Port Richmond (go figure):
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1126185446203500.xml&coll=1
http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1126185446203500.xml&coll=1
Sorry about the multiple posts but I can't seem to post the entire link, so here's the story from today's Advance:
ARTICLE
A 22-year-old Port Richmond man was stabbed fatally near his home last night in a dispute over his bicycle, and authorities are investigating whether the five suspects who were detained have ties to the Latin Kings street gang.
Leonardo Rojas was pronounced dead at 11:50 p.m. in St. Vincent's Hospital, West Brighton, after being stabbed numerous times in the neck and back of his head, police said.
Multiple weapons apparently were used, including a steak knife, according to a police source.
No arrests had been made as of early this morning.
At 10:36 p.m., Rojas was walking with his bicycle on Port Richmond Avenue near Harrison Avenue when he apparently was approached by five suspected members of the Latin Kings, police said.
A dispute over the victim's bicycle ensued and Rojas was stabbed "numerous times by unknown assailants" as he tried to flee down Port Richmond Avenue, a police spokesman said.
Last night, detectives piecing together the homicide found bloodstains on the sidewalk on Harrison, New Street and across from Grove Avenue, where the victim eventually collapsed, next to a sign pole in front of 131 Port Richmond Ave.
The five suspects were immediately taken into custody by arriving police officers and brought to the North Shore's 120th Precinct stationhouse in St. George for questioning, said a police source.
Cops closed Port Richmond Avenue between Bennett and Harrison avenues during the hours-long investigation.
...and just tonight (thur.) I am coming down PR ave, and there's the cops with at least 50-60 mexes huddling around...dunno what happened, but it looked like someone was on the ground.
The plot thickens...
Never a dull moment, huh?
We had some trouble around my neighborhood this summer -- some kids decided to ring and run one night. It was so quaint I found myself laughing that I was the "adult" being tricked by this classic.
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