The scary thing about Memphis is this - the people in the burbs want it. They want the Guard to come. Memphis has a crime problem - that’s for certain. The Guard would exacerbate the tensions in the city like fire to gasoline.
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Yep. Half the people around here welcome it. It’s disgusting.
aug 31, 2025, 12:52 pm • 7 0 • view
They turn on WREG, WMC, or Fox13 and the first headline is a murder in Frayser. The second is a robbery at the Avenue in Collierville. The third is how someone on the school board/city council/public utility got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. It’s sad, but unsurprising.
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 7 0 • view
That's just people being people. Even, maybe especially, white people. We are all murder apes who won the Ice Age sweepstakes. There's no "solving" that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 pm • 7 1 • view
Yes. My point is they’re inundated with information about crime at the local level. And crime is a problem. But Memphis is also following the Baltimore model, and will probably see similar results. It just takes time to fix.
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 11 1 • view
Getting more factories or other main industries might not solve everything, but it will be better than it has been in 45 years. That's a fucking promise.
aug 31, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
We are getting factories and industries?
aug 31, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
That we don't is why shit stays sour, rotten. It was the New Deal that pulled us out of the Great Depression and enabled us to win WWII w/ that fabulous post WWII Middle Class. That ended 45 years ago. By contrast, Germany got bombed to shit but is the economic powerhouse of Europe.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
Why? The Marshall Plan which inculcated the ethos of the New Deal. Germany kept it's manufacturing sector and maintained a strong Labor movement. Further never had a Reagan or a Maggot Thatcher. Instead we had Reaganomic Social Darwinism, the death of unions and flight of manufacturing.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
Additionally, Reagan owed Iran so he flooded the inner cities w/ Central American cocaine. When that blossomed in to a Crack and Gang epidemic, he convinced the whites that that's just how Black folks are. Which is why we still have Random Summary Executions of Black men women and children.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
What Americans need is money in their pockets. That creates job, raises tax revenue, allows communities to afford quality education. Food deserts, on the other hand, increase violence because we become violent when we are hungry.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
And factories and industries won’t change the problem, either.
aug 31, 2025, 11:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Your age please?
sep 1, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view
And I’ll say this: most of the folks in the burbs don’t want the Guard there because they don’t like Memphis. They want the Guard there because they believe that’s the only option left to control crime in Memphis. They’re afraid to leave their homes and go into the city.
aug 31, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
When they get hungry enough from this regime, they'll venture out and get the best BBQ the world has to offer.
aug 31, 2025, 7:21 pm • 2 0 • view
bbq is a waste of good meat
aug 31, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Blasphemy
aug 31, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re free to have your wrong opinion, lol.
aug 31, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I dont have to shove meat with too much ketchup in my pie hole either
aug 31, 2025, 10:25 pm • 0 0 • view
That's not BBQ. You're doing it wrong. That's meatloaf.
aug 31, 2025, 11:36 pm • 2 0 • view
You sure don’t. But neither do Memphians. We do bbq right.
aug 31, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
So many of them are convinced the places in the burbs have the best now (Commissary - which is good - is a great example). I get it. I wouldn’t want to be afraid to leave my home either. The difference is I don’t consume media that’s fear-based 24/7. I pity Memphis burbanites. I really do.
aug 31, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view