You really can’t make this shit up. The black people in West Philly throw a peace concert to stop the violence in the city and a dude gets shot to death at the concert. Would it be racist of me to mention there were no white people at this concert for peace? I think someone needs to explain the difference between peace and violence to these fine upstanding citizens of West Philly. Maybe they should scrap the concerts, get jobs, not have kids out of wedlock, stop dealing and taking drugs, and start acting like civilized human beings.
Man shot outside peace concert at Dell Music Center dies
The man shot outside a peace concert at the Dell Music Center on Wednesday has died.
The 20-year-old man died overnight after having been shot in the Strawberry Mansion center’s parking lot at about 8:30 p.m., according to the Philadelphia police homicide unit.
Police say an argument sparked the shooting near the anti-violence concert, called “Philly Support Philly: Peace on the Streets.” The victim was shot in his abdomen and thigh and taken to Temple University Hospital.
No arrests have been made.
The gunman was described last night as being in his teens and fleeing in a white vehicle, thought to be a Chevrolet Impala. Police said they had no additional information this morning about the suspect.
It wasn’t immediately known what the argument was about.
About 600 people were attending Wednesday night’s concert at the Fairmount Park center, located near 33rd and Huntingdon streets.
This St Louis rioting….
How many white men are shot to death by cops? Some of the cops must be of another race.
Where are the protests? Where are the riots?
In his teens? Well that eliminates George Zimmerman as a suspect. No news here.
I hated living there. but at least the weather was nice.
BAHHH-HAHAHAHA!!
You just can’t make this shit up… the jokes write themselves, folks! 🙂
Look at it this way – that’s one less our beloved Admin has to worry about down the road…
Shooter should get a Crimestoppers Award…
The USA bombs countries to bring them freedom, the USA is broke & trying to police the world yet all the people I meet cheer the country right over the cliff.
Why would U expect people on the lower economic rung to be smart when the “educated” in the USA are also fucking idiots?
“The gunman was described last night as being in his teens and fleeing in a white vehicle, thought to be a Chevrolet Impala.”
Isn’t that a white Impala in the accompanying photo? Do the Police hire teenagers?
African town planning: The way forward
http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2008/08/african-town-planning-way-forward.html
Kevin Myers, in a notorious article, asked, ‘what has Africa given us apart from AIDS and poverty?’. The Victim Industry sought to have him jailed for this, and rightly so. Not least because Africa has brought us more than he claims. I have in mind here their architecture and town planning principles and standards. Having designed Chateau Savant as a callow youth in the early seventies, I have an interest in this subject.
Now it’s been almost universally agreed that the typical western decentralised, auto-oriented suburban model has been a failure, especially with the soaring cost of oil. This model has lead to the sundering of traditional neighbour and family relationships, as well as bearing a terrible environmental cost.
The alternative calls for pedestrian-centred neighbourhoods with primary social and economic facilities within a five-minute walk, with a commitment to re-establishing the relationship between the art of building and the remaking of community. This should be accompanied by the elimination of large-scale commuter travelling, which in turn calls for locating work within the community. However, the solution cannot be by way of the massive neo-Stalinist tower blocks that disfigure so much of the ‘advanced’ world’s landscape.
Exhibit I, Kibera Garden City
One glance at Exhibit 1, Kibera Garden City in Kenya shows how the Africans have mastered and resolved the full range of competing interests.
Consider:
Reintroduction of the traditional neighbourhood: Here there are no gated communities, high walls separating neighbours, long private driveways to hide behind, no motorways tearing the communities apart. No. Here everyone is together, a neighbour at hand, a friend available, a wife (yours or somebody else’s) on immediate call.
Affordable housing and sustainable development: Note the imaginative and innovative use of everyday materials such as corrugated iron, bedsteads, chicken-wire and milk crates, acquired at minimal cost to provide housing for even the most economically-disadvantaged citizens in the neo-traditional style. And of course, these provide a tremendously effective method of recycling such material.
Environmentally friendly. Note the complete absence of unsightly and oil-guzzling water treatment plants. Here, everything is done according to the strictest environmental standards. You simply relieve yourself outside your front door, and the shit will be gratefully lapped up by the pigs, birds, rats, insects, and yes, even microbes that all swarm in abundance throughout the neighbourhood. This is an almost perfectly natural and eco-friendly way of recycling the material back into the food chain. Where else would you get that?
Exhibit II: Kumi Model Village
Social cohesion: The close proximity of the houses and the absence of barriers means that everyone’s a friend with everyone else! Note in Exhibit II how they all fraternise in such a jolly way, overseen by their friendly neighbourhood policeman! The complete absence of doors and windows underlines how safe and trusting the environment is.
Work is localized: In line with the latest environmental and social thinking, work is located right in the neighbourhood! Here you can dismantle stolen cars, find a retail outlet for the proceeds of robberies in white suburbs, or dismember kidnapped children for muti (traditional medicine) – all at a spear’s stone’s throw from your home!
And they’ll share all of this with us!
Exhibit III: Cork, Ireland
The really exciting news is that these fabulous standards can be, and are being, applied throughout the so-called advanced world! Consider Exhibit III, from Blackpool in Cork, where our valued cultural enrichers have created a magnificent synthesis of traditional design with elements of Irish architectural styles (e.g. the pitched roof).
All I can say is, I withdraw what I said in this post. Sorry, guys.
Well, shoot. Photos didn’t show up, and they were half the story.