dugwylor
11-04-2008, 08:08 AM
OK -- there's a house half a block down from mine with doors against the windows of the first floor. I know a guy who lives there, sort of the patriarch of the house, smoked a couple of joints with him on the street late at night, etc. He claims to keep night hours just because "that's how some people like to do it"... but it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on... Our neighborhood website has this much to say about this place. Those who know Providence should have a good idea of exactly where this is referring to:
"...a house on [...] Street home to notorious drug dealers who operate in broad daylight with the windows blocked with heavy doors and a garage around back where drugs are peddled and is the site of public drunkenness on a daily basis... I defy you to provide evidence of any other such properties in similar condition in any other [...] Neighborhood: any other open air drug markets on the East Side. It is just not tolerated in other East Side neighborhoods. Why? My best guess is that [...] is the only East Side neighborhood with a measurable African American demographic. Drug dealing and dilapidated housing, clearly in violation of criminal law and housing codes, simply is not tolerated in other East Side neighborhoods. Institutional racism? Call it what you will, the situation exists.
Is this the fault of the African American Community in [...]? I think not. The embedded drug trade in [...] is embedded in the political/social institutions in [...] who have enabled the drug trade to flourish. Those who are part and parcel of the drug trade who masquerade as community activists and so-called pastors. Preying on their own community, contributing to Black on Black violence. The larger African American community in [...] are victims of these entrepreneurs who prey on their own people with drugs and death."
Another article, same page:
"East Side Open Air Drug Market Back! Yes! The Open Air Drug Market is Back!
Just drive down [...] Street in the evening, and you will see at least 4 locations where drug dealers ply their trade right in front of their houses without fear of the police! After a relatively quiet summer on the drug front, a virtual explosion of drug dealing has taken place on the East Side in [...]."
Posted here before about this, but this is about as obvious as it gets, so I'm taking a second stab. I know who some of these guys are, and am in decent with a few of them... I don't want any advice... but I'm a West Coast boy and don't know what it's called out here. Just need to know what I'm asking for. I know he definitely has it from the walk (you know it) of more than a few mild-mannered individuals on the block... help me out.
"...a house on [...] Street home to notorious drug dealers who operate in broad daylight with the windows blocked with heavy doors and a garage around back where drugs are peddled and is the site of public drunkenness on a daily basis... I defy you to provide evidence of any other such properties in similar condition in any other [...] Neighborhood: any other open air drug markets on the East Side. It is just not tolerated in other East Side neighborhoods. Why? My best guess is that [...] is the only East Side neighborhood with a measurable African American demographic. Drug dealing and dilapidated housing, clearly in violation of criminal law and housing codes, simply is not tolerated in other East Side neighborhoods. Institutional racism? Call it what you will, the situation exists.
Is this the fault of the African American Community in [...]? I think not. The embedded drug trade in [...] is embedded in the political/social institutions in [...] who have enabled the drug trade to flourish. Those who are part and parcel of the drug trade who masquerade as community activists and so-called pastors. Preying on their own community, contributing to Black on Black violence. The larger African American community in [...] are victims of these entrepreneurs who prey on their own people with drugs and death."
Another article, same page:
"East Side Open Air Drug Market Back! Yes! The Open Air Drug Market is Back!
Just drive down [...] Street in the evening, and you will see at least 4 locations where drug dealers ply their trade right in front of their houses without fear of the police! After a relatively quiet summer on the drug front, a virtual explosion of drug dealing has taken place on the East Side in [...]."
Posted here before about this, but this is about as obvious as it gets, so I'm taking a second stab. I know who some of these guys are, and am in decent with a few of them... I don't want any advice... but I'm a West Coast boy and don't know what it's called out here. Just need to know what I'm asking for. I know he definitely has it from the walk (you know it) of more than a few mild-mannered individuals on the block... help me out.