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Alan Bond wrote:
Chicago is a total shithole since blacks have been in charge. Every
major big dollar corporation has moved out for employee safety.
Trump better be careful or he'll end up like Ghaddfi and be sodomized by a bayonette. Just let the crime soar in those rightist shitholes like
Memphis, the more dead rightists the better.
The Murders in Memphis Arent Stopping
Despite extraordinary funding, the citys police seem unable to control
crime.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Youll hear a few different stories about why they call Mary Wainwrights North Memphis neighborhood Smokey City, but she says its
because the old shotgun houses all had woodstoves and little chimney pipes
that pumped smoke into the sky. Wainwright would knowshe grew up in Smokey City, where her family moved from East Tennessee before she was born, and
shes lived there for many of her 62 years. When she was a child, a massive Firestone tire plant bordered the neighborhood, and the smell of rubber was also the smell of prosperity: Thousands of people had good jobs with good
pay there and at other nearby factories.
The Firestone smokestack still looms over the little neighborhood, but now
its surrounded by acres of empty concrete pads where the factory stood
before it closed almost 40 years ago. Some shotgun houses remain, though
many are on their last legs. As the population has dropped, the culture has changed, Wainwright says. She remembers when everyone left their doors
unlocked at night and kids ran freely through yards, knowing that any adult would watch out foror, if necessary, scoldthem.
Wainwright is the kind of person youd want as a neighbor: Shes quick with a joke, blunt and no-nonsense, and ready to help out. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, she canvassed the neighborhood handing out masks. When vaccines first became available, she knew that many of her neighbors didnt
have computers or internet access to make appointments, so she convinced officials to set up a pop-up clinic at her church. The line stretched
around the block.
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