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October 18, 2007
American Idiot

You mean to tell me there are people at Harvard University who actually believe Gov. Patrick can do a goddamn thing to stop bloodshed in the 'hood? I can't believe this!

Holding lit candles while wearing black suits and dresses, members of the Harvard Black Students Association visited Boston last night to add their voices to the chorus of those challenging Governor Deval Patrick to combat black-on-black youth violence.


About 25 members of the group stood before a small crowd of community members and news media representatives at Washington Park in Roxbury, where Pop Warner football coach Myron Stovell was shot Saturday afternoon. After speaking to the crowd, the students visited the family of Steven Odom, a 13-year-old who was fatally shot Oct. 4 near his home in Dorchester.


"It is a sad day in our community when a football field becomes a danger zone," said Sarah Lockridge-Steckel, the student association's president, who hails from Detroit.


"As lives are tragically taken and dreams are deferred, we are concerned about the violence that is occurring in communities across the state," she said.


Last week, the group sent a letter to Patrick expressing concern about violence in the state. The letter challenged the governor to create a comprehensive strategy to combat youth and gang violence in Massachusetts.


"Why are the streets of some major cities in a Third World country safer than those" [in Boston]?" asked Malcolm Rivers of Dorchester, the group's political action chairman and son of the Rev. Eugene Rivers.

UPDATE: More from the Globe and the Boston Herald.

SECOND UPDATE: More from Squaring the Globe, the Globe and Adam Reilly.

Posted by D. R. Tucker at 04:40 AM | Comments (2)  | Track



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""Why are the streets of some major cities in a Third World country safer than those" [in Boston]?" asked Malcolm Rivers of Dorchester, the group's political action chairman and son of the Rev. Eugene Rivers."

Or better: Why are all the cities in the liberal meccas of the Northeast such crime spawning sewers? Shouldn't they be showing the red states how it should be done (or what will happen if they take over....)?

Posted by: Dimsdale at October 18, 2007 03:59 PM


I know why they are safe in Cambridge, its called selective segregation. Think about it, these people who claim to be the diversity police all tend to come from money and congregate in the same towns (Cambridge, Brookline, Newton). Sad reality is that these towns though culturally diverse aren't very economically diverse.

Yeah these people say they care about affordable housing, just not rent control. They also would be the first ones to move out the second more then one or two "Token" poor people moves in their hood. They instead will move into a neighborhood, change the face of it, raise the cost of living and those of lower economic means are forced out. These people are hippocrites and don't seem to realize that half the problem with violence is this economic segregation.

What do you think happens when you put a larger number of poor people in own area. I for one want to see these people put their mouth where their money is and move to these neighborhoods without brining the bank and luxuries with them, oh yeah no police or bodyguards either.

They will see how short sighted the policies like the welfare state, war on guns, and all of the social programs have created neighborhoods full of wards of the state without any discipline, family structure or goals due to the government trying to do it for them.

Posted by: TokenPoorGuy at October 21, 2007 01:53 PM