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   From: gong@radiognome.com   
      
   Alan Bond wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Chicago is a total shithole since blacks have been in charge.  Every   
   >major big dollar corporation has moved out for employee safety.   
      
   Trump better be careful or he'll end up like Ghaddfi and be sodomized by a   
   bayonette.    Just let the crime soar in those rightist shitholes like   
   Memphis, the more dead rightists the better.   
      
   The Murders in Memphis Arent Stopping   
      
   Despite extraordinary funding, the citys police seem unable to control   
   crime.   
      
   MEMPHIS, Tenn. Youll hear a few different stories about why they call Mary   
   Wainwrights North Memphis neighborhood Smokey City, but she says its   
   because the old shotgun houses all had woodstoves and little chimney pipes   
   that pumped smoke into the sky. Wainwright would knowshe grew up in Smokey   
   City, where her family moved from East Tennessee before she was born, and   
   shes lived there for many of her 62 years. When she was a child, a massive   
   Firestone tire plant bordered the neighborhood, and the smell of rubber was   
   also the smell of prosperity: Thousands of people had good jobs with good   
   pay there and at other nearby factories.   
      
   The Firestone smokestack still looms over the little neighborhood, but now   
   its surrounded by acres of empty concrete pads where the factory stood   
   before it closed almost 40 years ago. Some shotgun houses remain, though   
   many are on their last legs. As the population has dropped, the culture has   
   changed, Wainwright says. She remembers when everyone left their doors   
   unlocked at night and kids ran freely through yards, knowing that any adult   
   would watch out foror, if necessary, scoldthem.   
      
   Wainwright is the kind of person youd want as a neighbor: Shes quick with a   
   joke, blunt and no-nonsense, and ready to help out. When the coronavirus   
   pandemic struck, she canvassed the neighborhood handing out masks. When   
   vaccines first became available, she knew that many of her neighbors didnt   
   have computers or internet access to make appointments, so she convinced   
   officials to set up a pop-up clinic at her church. The line stretched   
   around the block.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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