Offending someone is not my intention. But considering how many people said ouch to bill cosby, I’m ready to take my lumps. This weekend I was in atl. I road past MLK right off of I-20. now the place was just dark, hardly any streetlights. The residents have no control over that. But I am wondering about the “city council” leaders of that district. It’s obvious that that is beyond their control. HOWEVER. As I rode over some tracks, and under some MARTA tracks (station is less than a mile away) I saw PILES upon piles upon piles of litter in the streets and sideways.

This is something I saw and thought, “I’ve been to other neighborhoods and it’s so much cleaner” why do we do this to ourselves? That’s something we do have control over for example. Something as small as “not littering” I mean Jesus, we don’t need a conspiracy form the government to kill us off, cause we are gonna do it ourselves by disease, with the amount of trash I saw.

The apt complex that I moved into, slowly but surely got more and black people in it. And sure enough, the dumpster is a mess. People can’t even place their trash inside. Music is always blaring. Etc…negroes outside cursing and dranking at all hours of the night making noise. Mothafuckas can’t even speak to each other like neighbors. Little simple shit that we can control on our own, we refuse to. Back to litter, and I’m using litter as just an example. My folks never taught me to litter. Why? Cause basically it’s wrong, it’s lazy, and all it’s selfish. Kinda like pissing on the toilet seat and leaving it and not flushing. The tissue is less that 12 inches away, u can’t wipe your piss? This community had years and years of accumulated trash where the vacant lots didn’t look brown and green anymore. Yet we wanna talk about how sleezy the neighborhoods look. that’s like that sloppy pisser complaining about the bathrooms. Or his friend complaining to the people in charge. Negro, complain to your friend. He’s the one pissing all over shit.

Another thing I noticed at our hotel. All our housekeepers are black. The maintenance guy and I were talking one day about how we were getting some complaints about rooms. (example, some kid left a box of pokemon cards in a room after they checked out. Housekeeping said they went and looked and found no cards. Somebody else checked in the room. A few days later, the family came back and asked to check the room, I took them to the room, looked under the bed and there were the cards) the maintenance guy said (he said it, I didn’t) if I had my way, I’d fire them all and go find some Mexican ladies. I stayed at a hotel and they had 3 Mexican ladies cleaning my room.
Now he said it as a joke..i think, and I’m sure he would have offended some Latinos had they heard him. But then I thought. Whenever I’ve stayed at a hotel, and they had Latina housekeepers, they were polite and took pride in their work. That’s a part of business, even when u have a bad day. Of course there are blacks that take pride in their work too, so the housekeepers here I’m speaking of are not a good representation. But I mean, should doing the job u were hired to do, be asking too much? That box of cards could have been a pair of dirty drawls.

Do better, black folk. Whether u like it or not, whether you think it’s wrong or right, your ass, to a vast majority of our population, is representing your entire race.

And black folk know it too. On this very site people pigeon hole an entire greek letter org, based on a few chapters on a few campuses. So what am I saying here? I’m saying “please dispose of trash in it’s proper receptacle” lol. Some people may think I don’t like black folk. Wrong. I LOVE black folk. Hell I love my daughter, but when I think she’s doing something wrong or harmful, I’m gonna speak on it and tell her….and not blame another kid.

I was gonna talk about my experiences and black mcdonald’s vs white ones but …nah lol

Ok the shit I wrote could be written better and the like, but I had to get that outta my head. Rant over.


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I seen all kinds of people litter. Everywhere I been. And I done located and relocated quite a bit.

I think the whole planet as a whole should do better.

And all that other stuff you were talking about. Iono. I temped at a hospital, sometimes housekeeping is lazy. They get tired. These were people of many descents, and we got madd phone calls. So, this post is kind of mute to me.

Everyone should do better.

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I may not be saying anything that hasn't been said before, but I may be saying something that someone's never heard before.

they have litter in other (read:white) areas too, the rub is that the city cleans it up faster so as not to tarnish the image of the "good areas"

they care less about where y'all darkies live, hence the trash builds up

now, why do folks tear up their own neighborhoods? couldn't answer that (although a big part of it has to do with lack of ownership sand not REALLY feelign liek the neighborhood is something you should invest in...at even that small a level)

just don't act like poor folks, minorities, or whichever "they" you wanna choose, got a market on litter

>they care less about where y'all darkies live, hence the trash
>builds up



>now, why do folks tear up their own neighborhoods? couldn't
>answer that (although a big part of it has to do with lack of
>ownership sand not REALLY feelign liek the neighborhood is
>something you should invest in...at even that small a level)

~G.D.

>they have litter in other (read:white) areas too, the rub is
>that the city cleans it up faster so as not to tarnish the
>image of the "good areas"
>
>they care less about where y'all darkies live, hence the trash
>builds up
>

on this next thing though:
it's amazing how attitudes change when a neighborhood is cleaned or spruced-up
sometimes pple have to see stuff clean to appreciate it and keep it clean

>now, why do folks tear up their own neighborhoods? couldn't
>answer that (although a big part of it has to do with lack of
>ownership sand not REALLY feelign liek the neighborhood is
>something you should invest in...at even that small a level)

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not THAT much litter. that's why i made the "piss" comparison. u gonna worry about what the "links" company is doing with their bathroom when you work for the "lox" company?



>
>now, why do folks tear up their own neighborhoods? couldn't
>answer that (although a big part of it has to do with lack of
>ownership sand not REALLY feelign liek the neighborhood is
>something you should invest in...at even that small a level)

nah negroes are just lazy. it's the i don't care what happens to it, as long as i ain't gotta deal with it.

+>just don't act like poor folks, minorities, or whichever
>"they" you wanna choose, got a market on litter

of course not. but much like athletes, the shorter, slower, bench etc... has to work harder than the multi million dollar star. dig? just the way it is.


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summa y'all just amaze me

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years and years of accumilation and more and more getting addes to it, vs litter that gets cleaned up quickly,then get soem glasses. at some point u gotta realize. oh shit they ain't cleaning this shit up maybe i need to stop leaving shit here.

in gary we've cleaned up shit and a week later, shit is right back headed in the same direction it was before. somebdoy abandoned and old fuckin boat in a neighorhood. now. of course i'm upset at the city for not coming to get it, but i'm also pissed at the ass that left it there.

why did he do it? he was too lazy to dispose of it the proper way.

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at some point u gotta realize. oh shit they
>ain't cleaning this shit up maybe i need to stop leaving shit
>here.

do these pple not pay taxes too?

>
>in gary we've cleaned up shit and a week later, shit is right
>back headed in the same direction it was before.

did you go clean it up again?
did you organize a group to make sure it stays clean?
did you involve the people in the community you cleaned?
did you actually do this or are you just talking?
if so, how many times and in how many places


of
>course i'm upset at the city for not coming to get it,

#1 issue

>
>why did he do it? he was too lazy to dispose of it the proper
>way.

maybe he called and the city still never picked it up?
I've seen that happen
but a few pple do not make me color a whole group of pple one way

you are just plain ridiculous

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>
>do these pple not pay taxes too?

meaning what? some do. and? i pay taxes so i need to leave my old couch and mcdonald's bag here?

>
>>
>>in gary we've cleaned up shit and a week later, shit is
>right
>>back headed in the same direction it was before.
>
>did you go clean it up again?

i dont' live there anymore. u all on me, instead of the people that leave all their shit there. how much sense does that make?

>did you organize a group to make sure it stays clean?

mothafuckas taking some pride in their surroundings and not being lazy would make sure it stayed cleaned.


>did you actually do this or are you just talking?
>if so, how many times and in how many places

i siad i did it. and u asked me if i did it. as if my answer is gonna change. ha ha



>
>
> of
>>course i'm upset at the city for not coming to get it,
>
>#1 issue
>
>>
>>why did he do it? he was too lazy to dispose of it the
>proper
>>way.
>
>maybe he called and the city still never picked it up?

ha ha so tow that shit to a neighborhood and leave it in a vacant lot. yeah leave it for the neighborhood to deal with. clean your glasses, bon.


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let me know how the cleanup goes though

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some shit they can help to fix, but don't, no i'm not gonna rub their back and console them. u shouldn't either. it's harmful/

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but you keep flapping
note that you said "help fix" not fix totally themselves

also remember tough love doesnt work for everyone

>some shit they can help to fix, but don't, no i'm not gonna
>rub their back and console them. u shouldn't either. it's
>harmful/
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plug the hole, it's not as effective

u seem to want to ignore the hole

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which is the bottom line



>>do these pple not pay taxes too?
>
>meaning what? some do. and? i pay taxes so i need to leave
>my old couch and mcdonald's bag here?
>
>>

you need to clean your mind

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Some people come from out of town , just to dump their trash in Gary. Many a pick-up truck piled with trash have been stopped on the back roads leadin into, i.e.Clark Road, Chase Street...










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all them negroes ont he cirty payroll out there to see mike jackson. hand them all one trashbag. lol

facetious

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>not THAT much litter.

buildup.

>u gonna worry about what the "links" company is
>doing with their bathroom when you work for the "lox" company?

but that's exactly what you did. you compared how things are at lox, compared to how they are at links

beyond that though, the point is that you more often than not really to imply (by the nature of how you pose the questions/accusations) that only the lox do it

otherwise you'd say "why don't we ALL do something about this problem?" not just "do better porchmonkies...." (or however you put it)

>nah negroes are just lazy. it's the i don't care what happens
>to it, as long as i ain't gotta deal with it.

don't be so quick to scuttle that. in an area where you feel like "this is MY street/block/whatever" because you OWN somethign there, you feel more invested than someone who is just there until they move to the next place. this is the same reason folks junk up public bathrooms, and freeways and rest areas....they don't necessarily have to STAY in the mess they create...liek the person who has put money into that spot

>of course not. but much like athletes, the shorter, slower,
>bench etc... has to work harder than the multi million dollar
>star. dig? just the way it is.

perhaps. but just like the player who is just there to get his check and only does what he has to do maintain that, if the person doesn't feel like part of (or have a sense of) team...then only their comfort at any moment is key. they only do what they do with no care abotu the greater unit...be that unit the team or the neighborhood

unless they were coming out at 2 A.M.

y'all just let it collect in the gullys (those ditches y'all have instead of sidewalks) and wait for the rain/floodwater to wash it away

before rita, as my almost-last act before i left, my brother and i spent 3 hours digging all the trash/crud/sticks/mud/etc that had dammed up his drain

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Seriously.

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it was just understood.

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do they NOT see it as a "us/them" kinda thing?

they sure did when i was there

people who don't OWN shyt tend to litter...
transient people typically don't care, cause they're not invested.

I've lived in both --affluent suburbs and city--and
the fact of the matter is that people who OWN their
properties take a certain pride in their neighborhoods.

The litter tends to be minimal at best.

apologists make me sick. Lazyboi has a valid point.


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"now, why do folks tear up their own neighborhoods? couldn't answer that (although a big part of it has to do with lack of ownership sand not REALLY feeling like the neighborhood is something you should invest in...at even that small a level)"

what are you rambling about again?

cause you admit that you don't know why people "tear up their neighborhood"...which implies that the people WITHIN the torn neighborhoods are the source of the problem...yet you steady making excuses to blame white people who won't subsidize the costs for their clean-up.

And why should they? Isn't it YOUR responsibility to maintain YOUR shyt?

Am I missing something here?






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in all i've typed please show me what qualifies as "steady making excuses" and "blaming white people"

in my apologist whatever-ness i guess i missed all that

>>they have litter in other (read:white) areas too, the rub is that the city cleans it up faster so as not to tarnish the image of the "good areas"

they care less about where y'all darkies live, hence the trash builds up<<<


^^ AMNESIA much?




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we still cool tho. i can admit that our generation has a LOT to learn when it comes to simple things like responsibility...but at the same time that has to be something you're TAUGHT by your forebears.

in other words, i blame bill cosby.

Love me some Black folk though...just love'em.

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