Comments on: Police Activity in Columbia Heights

By: am2o

am2o — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:37:42 +0000

To those who state that I am a racist, because I am assuming that public housing is *colour* – The ones next to me have no *white* people in them, and I rarely see white people in CHV.

Additionally, the manner that some of the comments are presented suggests that some assumptions are made, which are generally the tired old nasty generalizations about ‘po’ black folks.”

for example:
“bulldoze the projects. get them out of columbia heights…its fine when they are just killing each other.

“The shooter must have been smokin

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:34:00 +0000

START BY SAYING HELLO. We all need to walk around our neighborhood with our heads up, IPods out, Blackberries away. We need to smile at our neighbors. We need to say hi to the kids on the streets. We need to ask them how school/summer break is going. We need to tell the kids to pick up their trash when they drop it on the street a couple feet from a trash can. We need to build community and bridge the two very separate communities that live together in Columbia Heights. We need to say hello to each other. People won’t always return your hello or your smile but many will and that is the easiest and cheapest way to make a small change in CH. Feel free to rip this post apart, i’m not saying it’s the solution to our troubles; i’m simply saying it’s a step.
This has been my mission since I moved to the neighborhood last summer and I feel much more connected to the community and as a result safer. It’s surprised me though how many of my fellow gentrificationers don’t return the smile or hello or don’t even look at the people passing them on the street. Let’s be an example for a happy neighborhood.
Nothing will save us from stray bullets shot off by “lunatics” or incredibly angry kids but maybe we can make them less angry.

By: GSG

GSG — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:23:35 +0000

anon @ Juene 18th, 2009 at 4:43 pm said:

“I think the disturbing thing about the

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:19:34 +0000

CP – you are clearly worldly and well read. Impressive! Where did you go to school again?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:16:44 +0000

Bluto, most of your tax money is spent on destroying entire countries, “over and over again.” And you worry about the pennies spent on poor people in this country? Be ideologically consistent.

By: CP

CP — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:12:46 +0000

Yep, tons of white people loitering in front of those PJs on 14th and Harvard. Always throwing bricks at passersby and yelling ethnic slurs. And down across the Anacostia, honkies as far as the eye can see. Good call, Anonymous 12:06.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:06:37 +0000

In real numbers, most people on welfare and public housing are White.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:10:51 +0000

am20 — you call people racist if they say to tear down public housing. These people did not mention race. If anything, you’re the racist, since you are the one assuming that only a certain race lives in public housing.

You also call anonymous posters weenies. How is “am20″ any less anonymous than “anonymous”? Yeah, “am20″ is putting all your personal info right out there for everyone to see….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:25:40 +0000

Everyone, just get your friends to all move here and these death throes will be over a lot quicker. Appeal to all the people who glamorize NYC in the 1970s, 1980s, because it still had the “grit.” Come to CH! The faster they come the faster the rest of can enjoy them saying that they remember when CH had grit and there used to be shootings at the metro, and how the neighborhood got all quiet and boring after all the grit got moved out down the road.

By: ballslightning

ballslightning — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:32:54 +0000

@am2o: uh, is it not racist to assume that public housing resident = one type of pigmentation? which race do you assume we assume to make up the entire public housing buildings?

if you assume black and latino, which apparently YOU did, since you jumped to the ‘your a racist’ conclusion, shouldn’t you revisted the facts that led you to that conclusion?

i mean, who’s more at fault – they PoP poster who makes a generalization based on reality or the fukers who allow themselves to become generalized.

and its not just criminals ‘we’ want out. ask your self: if you hear loud, screeching, cursing, obnoxious female voices behind you near DCUSA, how many times out of 10 is it a group of overweight black chicks? the truth doesn’t depend on you acknowledging it.

does it necessisarily have to be a group like this? no. is it inherant in being a black female? absolutely not. but none of that is my problem. sociology and creating a decent place to live for the non-obnoxious are seperate issues.