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Pigs On Mt. Hope Streets: Who is Mentoring these Childern?
McDonald's Cup
Walking back from the convenient store this evening I was behind a group of maybe 5 young African American girls around 12, 13 years of age who had just left the store as I was entering.
On the way back home I watched them as one discarded a McDonald's cup right on the sidewalk, just dropped it from her hand as she walked, as if that was perfectly normal behavior.
Sprite Can
A few steps later another girl dropped her empty sprite can right on the corner of Camp & Locust and a few steps farther another girl dropped another cup from Mcdonalds.
Another Mc Cup
I turned down my street toward home as these girls continued on their way.
Before I got to my door I heard the sounds of something breaking against a building so I turned and went back up to Camp Street.
Looking down the street I saw a neighbor from the next corner standing in front of his apartment building looking flustered and upset.
Egg Shells
I walked down there an he told me that a group of girls just pelted his house with eggs, and while he was loading his car with his professional gear for a gig, one of the girls ran into his open front door and threw and smashed an egg onto his oriental carpet.
Egged On Window
I asked about the broken picket fence around his yard and he told me that it had been vandalized the night of the June 10 riot in the aftermath and that no one had gotten around to fixing it. He said that it had been vandalized once more since then.
Vandalized Fence
I can hardly wait for MHNA Board Member Ms. Taylor, of Pleasant Street, to give her take on this behavior. I hope it will be as interesting as her take on drug dealing and criminality in Mt. Hope. I'm sure it will have something to do with white people moving into Mt. Hope and causing all these problems.
What are the adults responsible for raising these kids teaching them: anything? Are they teaching them to respect other people and their property? Are they teaching them respect for their environment. Are they teaching them cleanliness? It doesn't look like it.
Kids will behave like kids, but adults who raise their kids in ignorance, passing their own ignorance on to a new generation, should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
John Twomey
Posted at August 4, 2007 10:31 PM
John,
You are so right!!
People are PIGS!!!
Whatever happened to "pride" in ones home and ones neighborhood.
I too am curious to see what Ms. Taylor has to say about this.
Posted by: Dennis Cregg at August 12, 2007 02:08 PM