Deadly violence on MLK Day

[Tom]

The city came to sponsor an event on MLK Day known as "After the Parade". While not in the budget and not publicized, this street party on MLK Street South has built a following in the tens of thousands.

For a few hours after the parade traffic slows to a crawl as people on the way home mix and mingle, enjoy lunch and socialize. Others come just for the street party.

Residents of surrounding neighborhoods are tired of the noise, traffic gridlock, public drinking and the possibility of violence. Somehow the celebration seems to get out of hand and contribute to violence. For two years in a row a homicide occurred near MLK Street on the King holiday. Whether related to the party or coincidental, this violence is unwelcome.

This year there were two shooting incidents in Tampa as well. Tribune columnist Joe Brown wrote this piece calling for nonviolence. http://tbo.com/list/columns-jbrown/n...nity-20150122/ He notes "The folks who have been marching and protesting that “black lives matter” are silent" on violence during this annual event.

SPPD officers have done a remarkable job of keeping traffic moving and closing it down at night. There are still dangerous conditions and a need to make this safe. City council seems to operate on wishful thinking, funding this every year but taking no responsibility if things go wrong.

Resident leaders have asked that all permits for sales of food and souvenirs require the vendor to clean up their space and be out of the area by 5pm. There could be a similar provision in leases for parking spaces. It's worth a try.

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The city came to sponsor an event on MLK Day known as "After the Parade". While not in the budget and not publicized, this street party on MLK Street South has built a following in the tens of thousands.

For a few hours after the parade traffic slows to a crawl as people on the way home mix and mingle, enjoy lunch and socialize. Others come just for the street party.

Residents of surrounding neighborhoods are tired of the noise, traffic gridlock, public drinking and the possibility of violence. Somehow the celebration seems to get out of hand and contribute to violence. For two years in a row a homicide occurred near MLK Street on the King holiday. Whether related to the party or coincidental, this violence is unwelcome.

This year there were two shooting incidents in Tampa as well. Tribune columnist Joe Brown wrote this piece calling for nonviolence. http://tbo.com/list/columns-jbrown/n...nity-20150122/ He notes "The folks who have been marching and protesting that “black lives matter” are silent" on violence during this annual event.

SPPD officers have done a remarkable job of keeping traffic moving and closing it down at night. There are still dangerous conditions and a need to make this safe. City council seems to operate on wishful thinking, funding this every year but taking no responsibility if things go wrong.

Resident leaders have asked that all permits for sales of food and souvenirs require the vendor to clean up their space and be out of the area by 5pm. There could be a similar provision in leases for parking spaces. It's worth a try.

Here we go with the racists complaining because they don't understand and WON'T understand a culture that's not centered around country music and being boring.

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Here we go with the racists complaining because they don't understand and WON'T understand a culture that's not centered around country music and being boring.

Well who's the racist now? Stupid mandrills think all white people listen to country music and fly rebel flags? There is nothing cultural about smoking weed, being unemployed, having ten kids, and selling drugs. That is criminal, lazy and shameful. But this ****ed up city celebrates these pieces of shit all the same. White people listened to your crap in the 60's and 70's. They are tired of you complaining about the same ole shit fifty years later. Get a job and say no to drugs ignorant ****s

[Unregistered]

Here we go with the racists complaining because they don't understand and WON'T understand a culture that's not centered around country music and being boring.

”The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the Ancient Roman orator Cicero in his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi",[6] using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development.Samuel Pufendorf took over this metaphor in a modern context, meaning something similar, but no longer assuming that philosophy was man's natural perfection. His use, and that of many writers after him "refers to all the ways in which human beings overcome their original barbarism, and through artifice, become fully human".[7]
As described by philosopher Edward S. Casey (1996): "The very word culture meant "place tilled" in Middle English, and the same word goes back to Latin colere, "to inhabit, care for, till, worship." To be cultural, to have a culture, is to inhabit a place sufficiently intensely to cultivate it - to be responsible for it, to respond to it, to attend to it caringly."


How do you see this behavior as part of a culture?
Are you developing your philosophical soul? (Do you even know what that means?)
Do you understand teleogically and know what it means?
Here is the best one; have you overcome your original barbarism? (Oh, Hell NO!)
What you so loosely refer to your “Culture” is nothing more than your animal barbarism manifesting itself upon your own and others who want no part of you and only desire distance.
200 years in this country and you still amount to nothing while every other ethnic group that has migrated to this great country has flourished and made contributions.
My sympathy for you lies in the dictionary somewhere between the words Shit and Syphilis.

[Unregistered]

“African American”

Well, let’s see what the legacy of the African part is on the American part.
Historically African tribes are warring tribes that fight and kill members of other tribes; take their women as sex slaves, take the men prisoners as slaves to be used or sold, or in some cases eat them (Cannibalism). Be aware that no whites took slaves in Africa; they purchased them from other Black Africans.

There have been NO intellectual, scientific, medical contributions from any African ran country to the rest of the world. Hell, there is not even a common language. They are violent corrupt and conduct mass tribal genocide on a regular basis. The American media has ceased to cover these atrocities because it does not fit their political agenda; not because it is not happening.

The only successful African countries; Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)and South Africa were created by whites and later stolen by the Black Africans through the Communist movements in Africa and with the help of Jimmy Carter.

Black on black crime and unspeakable acts of violence are the real legacy of the “Black Culture” as is the lack of a family nucleus, any sort of self control and intellectual maturity.

So when the politicians start pissing on your head and tell you is raining; well, you should know better this next “Black History Month”.