Culture shock:
In October 2007, I did the tour bus thing in Washington, D.C. It was a lovely ride from the Cherry Hills trailer park to Mount Vernon. Arlington. Lincoln Memorial. the Mall. WW2, Korea, and Vietnam Memorials. Tour ended in the park south of the Whitehouse. All lovely and pristinely kept.
I've no idea why, but our route back to the trailer park took us through something I'd never seen out here in the Northwest. A "slum" that was not TWO miles from the Whitehouse. Boarded up shops, broken windows, trash littering the streets. Derelicts all over the area. I never saw any, but I've no doubt many carried guns.
This sure was an education in "class warfare." The separation of rich, and poor, never made clearer. There are no honored Monuments in this area. The scene itself may be a tribute to how we treat our least "desirable" people. Walt
--- In Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Majors <majors.bruce@...> wrote:
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
> My Visitors' Guide for Tea Partiers coming to Washington, DC for Glenn
> Beck's Restoring Honor was attacked in the Leftover blogosphere and on both
> Chris Matthews' and Rachel Maddow's shows. Neither called me but Maddow
> projecting my name on her backdrop and Matthews named me several times, both
> calling me a racist for telling visitors not to use the Green or yellow
> lines alone at night.
>
> Both discussed the gentrifying 13th and U Street area and the "historic"
> Ben's Chili Bowl that President Obama had just eaten at, which my guide
> would prevent visitors from going to (alone at night).
>
> Someone was just shot and killed today at lunch on this block.
>
> The story below if from DCist, one of the websites that ridiculed my
> Visitors Guide:
>
> Shots Fired, Vehicle Overturned at 11th and U Streets NW
>
> <http://dcist.com/2010/09/shots_fired_vehicle_overturned_at_1.php?gallery0Pic=2#gallery>
>
> *A silver car flipped over after shots were fired at along U Street around
> 12:30 this afternoon. (**Aaron Morrissey**)*
> *NEXT »*<http://dcist.com/2010/09/shots_fired_vehicle_overturned_at_1.php?gallery0Pic=2#gallery>
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> * *<http://dcist.com/2010/09/shots_fired_vehicle_overturned_at_1.php?gallery0Pic=5#gallery>
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> * *<http://dcist.com/2010/09/shots_fired_vehicle_overturned_at_1.php?gallery0Pic=7#gallery>
> *
> *
>
> *UPDATE (1:47 p.m.):** If the shooting does turn out to be related to the
> funeral procession -- and all indications currently point to that conclusion
> -- it's worth noting that this isn't the first time that funerals have been
> targeted for high-profile retaliation by D.C. gunmen. In the Post's
> **definitive
> report*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/31/AR2010033100707_3.html?sid=ST2010060200097>
> * about March's **South Capitol Street
> shootings*<http://dcist.com/2010/03/as_many_as_3_dead_in_massive_shooti.php>
> * which killed four, it was revealed that those gunmen originally planned a
> hit during a funeral at St. Augustine Church, which is located but blocks
> away from Walker Memorial. Also, DeOnté Rawlings' brother George was killed
> while trying to board a Metrobus **after leaving a funeral
> service*<http://dcist.com/2009/11/shooting_victim_was_brother_of_deon.php>
> * in November 2009.*
>
> *UPDATE:** NBCWashington is reporting that **one person has
> died*<http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Multiple-Shooting-Reported-in-U-Street-Corridor-103936729.html>
> * in the incident and two people were injured. TBD is reporting that the
> shooting was a drive-by that was related to the funeral procession. The
> funeral, held at Walker Memorial Baptist Church, was for Ashley McRae, who
> was killed near Bruce Place SE **last
> week*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/25/AR2010092500050.html>
> *. Bryan Weaver, who has worked with youth in Ward 1 for some time, tweets
> that police **covered the
> body*<http://twitter.com/weaverwardone/status/25801659299>
> * of an African-American male in his 20s, heartbreakingly adding "Might know
> him."*
>
> *Shots were fired along U Street NW this afternoon around 12:30 p.m. As you
> can imagine, with it being lunch time along U Street there were plenty of
> eyewitnesses and it is actually amazing that more people were not caught in
> a crossfire or injured by the flipping automobile. From DCist headquarters,
> located on U Street, it sounded as if eight or nine shots were fired in
> rapid succession -- eyewitness reports confirmed that number of rounds.*
>
> *Details about the actual gunfire are scant -- a Ben's Chili Bowl employee
> that we talked with on the scene said that he saw gunmen fleeing from the
> scene southbound. Other eyewitnesses also said that two men escaped from the
> overturned car after the crash and fled on foot. D.C. Fire and EMS are on
> the scene and evaluating injuries, but there is no word yet on specifics.
> The car was completely totaled.*
>
> *A funeral procession was also going down 13th Street at the time of the
> shooting.*
>
> *Several people were in hysterical tears by the entrance to Solly's at the
> intersection of 11th and U, and it took several authorities to calm them.
> Emotions were running very high at the scene; several people who were
> yelling at police had to forced to leave the scene as they investigated.
> Detectives with MPD were on their way to the scene when DCist came back to
> file this report.*
>
> *Obviously, this is a developing story and we will provide updates as soon
> as we get more information.*
> By Aaron Morrissey <http://dcist.com/profile/Aaron%20Morrissey> in
> News<http://dcist.com/news>
> on September 28, 2010 1:14 PM 9
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> Since the original attacks on me I have investigated to residential choices
> of Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Eugene Robinson and others who attacked me
> and found that they all live in lily white zip codes. The results of my
> investigation are here:
> http://teapartiers.blogspot.com/2010/09/they-dont-like-black-people.html
>
>
> Bruce Majors
> (202) 704-6401
>
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