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[Offshoredrillin]

I can tell you guys that that article is filled with a lot of BS. They built a huge mall in Charles county about 20 years ago in a town called waldorf. Since that time, the entire county has gone downhill as a direct result of minorities. I'm not a racist...I just call it like I see it. Crime has gone up and property values have decreased. Many people who I grew up with in PG county moved down there to get away from PG county. Now they have all moved further out to get away from it.

this is exactly true. Having grown up in Waldorf for the first 21 years of my life, I grew up working on a tobacco farm with many black people, they were and still are my friends when I see them and go back to visit my parents graves. the difference that Mark is eluding to isn't the color of the peoples skin, it is the attitude that has brought back the racial tensions in the US. I remember as a child being scared of our maid/cleaning lady because she was black, but she took me and sat down and we talked and to this day I remember her words, " It ( her skin color) wont wash off, it is what is inside a person that makes them who they are" I went through 12th grade with her grandson.
Waldorf has always been considered "southern" Maryland, closer to its southern roots, and people of different races usually respected each others areas and cultural differences. there is an area called Malcolm now, everyone used to call it dog patch, both blacks and whites. I think the respect for cultural diversity is gone. I cannot comprehend what it is to go through life as a black American, nor would I try to, because I cant be something I am not. But I certainly can respect someone for being a good person regardless of the color of their skin, the same as I can look on one with disdain for the same reasons.

 

[MarylandMark]

I went to get some boat in dog patch once and never saw any water? :rofl:

IF race weren't such a big deal; why is it on the front page of the USA Today?

Regardless of race- people move from bad areas to good areas and all of a sudden the good area is now bad yet nothing else has changed. What else can it be attributed to? Good people bring their bad azz kids and cousins with'em...

ps- the "white kids" are just as bad as the "rest of them" regardless of origin/creed/color/etc.

 

[Ratickle]

Regardless of race- people move from bad areas to good areas and all of a sudden the good area is now bad yet nothing else has changed. What else can it be attributed to?

Good people bring their bad azz kids and cousins with'em...

Good question. Maybe you have the correct answer.

 

[fund razor]

IF race weren't such a big deal; why is it on the front page of the USA Today?

Why is anything on the front page of the USA Today:
It is a subject that can be simplified and generalized so that the average american with a 6th grade education can understand. And it has cool graphs with color.

 

[OldSchool]

I went to get some boat in dog patch once and never saw any water? :rofl:

We used to ride our motorcycles down there. They would come right out of the woods!! My buddy bought $10 worth of stems.....and then the guy made him roll him a joint!! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[Ratickle]

And it has cool graphs with color.

Oh yeah!!!!!!:26:

 

[OldSchool]

Waldorf has always been considered "southern" Maryland, closer to its southern roots, and people of different races usually respected each others areas and cultural differences.


there is an area called Malcolm now, everyone used to call it dog patch, both blacks and whites.

1. I agree with your point. But the mall changed all that. Everything changed. I wasn't the southern MD black people who made waldorf what it is today...It's the thugs from SouthEast DC and PG county!

3. I saw some awesome street races down at the dog patch!!! That was the first place that I saw someone tow their car to a street race!:leaving:

 

[Offshoredrillin]

1. I agree with your point. But the mall changed all that. Everything changed. I wasn't the southern MD black people who made waldorf what it is today...It's the thugs from SouthEast DC and PG county!

3. I saw some awesome street races down at the dog patch!!! That was the first place that I saw someone tow their car to a street race!:leaving:

I agree 100% the neighborhood my mom lived in in St Charles is now ghetto, and she was on the board of directors to try to establish it as a good section, but IGC didn't want any part of it. the same as Columbia MD has been run over by trashy people. I used to deliver to John Rouse in Columbia, even he knew his plan was going the wrong way. Racial harmony is a myth, because everyone wont allow themselves to accept that someone else is different and just move on, wheter it be race, language, sexual orientation whatever. if anyone wants to be accepted, just be a human/ good person first, the rest is irrelevant.

A couple guys used to tow their cars there, one was a guy named Mike Curly that had a white 66 Nova, and another guy was junior Watson that used to rollback his original hemi cuda around, but he was scared to run it most of the time. I worked at the car wash in Waldorf for years and saw many Friday night races.

Mark, as for race. they push it because it makes headlines more interesting, go to buds creek any weekend and you will meet some of the finest country people in the world, both black and white. thats why pinks does so many shows there.

 

[Ted]

Race will stay at the forefront throughout at least this administration for several reasons. They will use it as a shield when someone brings up hard questions about Obama's policy or personal failures. The right will use it to energize the rednecks and good old boys and girls . And frankly, the African American poverty coalition needs to make as much noise as they still can before the Hispanic poverty coalition overtakes them. There is no coincidence that we are suddenly hearing the NAACP and others talking about Hispanic rights, wrongs, etc. They know that the power and numbers of Hispanics are growing so fast that they will be drowned out in the near future and left in the cold by the politicos even more than they are now.

 

[MarylandMark]

A thread about races involved in races :rofl: