“This is an opportunity to increase public safety in our community. This millage could pay for the equivalent of 50 officers and add – yes, add – to our police and fire departments.
Mayor of Flint
Once upon a time there was this idea that children in Flint had no value, so they would go to school and come home without back pack or homework…there were be no expectations for them to be or do anything of value in their day to day life and for their future. There were be not a solid plan of what would happen when they graduate, and if they graduate, for the curriculum at school is useless at best, and the opportunities in the city thanks to the present leaders equal to zero. So these children would wonder the streets of Flint with no direction and a lot of anger.
And there were be election time and the Mayor of Flint would plead for more money from fearful residents of Flint to put more of those angry children in jail with a mileage, that if it pass will bring more police officers and fire fighters in the streets. The Mayor presenting his argument that incarceration is the brilliant Rhode Scholar solution to control the unruly, the angry, the ignorant, the adolescent that has lost any direction and hope, nor the desire to belong to a city that reject him or her because she is poor and uneducated.
Like Ansel and Greatel, the set up is to make them to waste their time while tempting them with easy money from drug dealing jobs, stealing for pawnshops or taking siding for metal scraping sites, to end up as criminals that feed the Flint industry of crime- the official one of lawyers, parole officers, and all the insular industry of food, clothing that support the functioning of jails, or in the official language “Law enforcement and Public Safety, and the untrue name of correctional facilities…”
This system starts in the neighborhoods of Flint creepily ends up at the door steps of the City Hall building which houses the Flint Police Department and in front of the City Hall, the Jail…and how creepy it is that the most important buildings that surrounds the executive branch of government in the city of Flint are related to crime….
It is so, so scary for children of limited resources to live in Flint that a father (a neighbor on one of the properties I bought in MP) abandoned his home which has been paying for more than seventeen years to move and start a new life (as a renter) for his younger daughter in Grand Blanc. Having seen enough of the demise of lives of children in Flint, this father’s hope is that something better could happen to his younger daughter. After so much despair, cool selfishness from adults toward children, he had the courage to say no thanks to the city of Flint, not thanks to the schools in Flint, not thanks to the politician in Flint. He knew that by moving to Grand Blanc, his daughter would be out of danger of being killed not only physically but mentally and emotionally.
In Grand Blanc, she would encounter another type of people, people that would expect great things from her- she would have a future. The same child that in Flint, as African American of limited resources, was founded incapable of reading, and was giving an exercise class instead of extra help in reading, is considered in Grand Blanc intelligent and full of potential.
And like a great story, this child that had problems reading and that was receiving poor education in Flint schools moved to the Grand Blanc district and she has special classes and teachers that care and a backpack full of homework to do at home. Of course, she does not want to come back ever again to Flint, the city where the Mayor and all the other officials eat the children’s future. She knows better that Flint is a very scary place for poor children…UHHHHHHH
If you already connected in the neighborhood..
You already know who will be willing to make a little money
On the side dealing dope. You know in the ghetto there always be a whole bunch of young guys without work and without much to do looking for opportunities like this. They see the fancy clothes, fast cars, new sneaker and all that, and they want it. Many of them ain’t got much going on for them at home. If the police rolls up on them they face little penalties because they minors..
Interviewed with Cash Money Pockets of Crime by Peter K. B. St. Jean
So when people in Flint tell you that Devil nights is dangerous and that houses are burning…you will know why… It is because angry adults one time were children in Flint and, nobody, nobody cared for them, nor the teachers, nor the Mayor of Flint, nor their parents. And now they are burning deteriorated houses to take revenge, to burn their frustrations…
So, it is not Halloween that is scary in Flint. It is the Mayor and his political allies who are the scariest of them all! And from the children of limited resources with no parental supervision.. Flint is a very, very dark hole…a dungeon of not return…
“If you see a bunch of young kids hanging out on the corner when they
should be in school or when it is too late for them to be out anyway, you know that they done gone wild. You know that they up to no good. At least that is how many drug dealers think. You need bodies to peddle the stuff so here is your opportunity. Sometimes you see them hanging on the corner like in front of a liquor store, a vacant lot or a house, and you already know that they be dealing there. But you see not all of them already be involved. Some of them are looking for that chance….In the same way, a drug dealer can pick young guys on the street corners because they be standing there waiting for something to happen, waiting for an opportunity. So that is how you get them….”
Interviewed with Cash Money for Pockets of Crime by Peter K. B. St. Jean
UHHHHH, Halloween is not scary, what it is truly scary, it to be poor in Flint..UHHHH…and with no place to go than the liquor stores, dangerous parks, broken sidewalks, slam rental owners, police in big cars that patrolled the streets and find you a suspect…UH HHH Halloween is not scary, it is the politicians that blame your poverty for not making their job and so it goes…. You end up in jail and they end up in Washington feeling very proud of themselves….UHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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