A race war is well overdue, unfortunately. Thanks, $harpton, Je$$e and the $PLC.
Members of the gun rights group Open Carry Texas met with Fifth Ward community leaders Wednesday, hoping to explain why they chose an historic African-American community to hold a demonstration.
Members of the group were met by a chorus of voices telling them to stay out of the neighborhood and warned they will be "matched gun-for-gun."
"I'm going to tell you something homie, this is Fifth Ward, you ain't coming in here running nothing," community activist Quanell X said while flanked by members of the New Black Panther Party, who were holding assault rifles.
The two groups sat across from one another at a small folding table under a tree near the intersection of Lockwood and Lyons to discuss the details of Saturday's upcoming event.
Local 2 Investigates counted 15 Houston police.
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I would like to know why the Fifth Ward was chosen also.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing concerning the area.
DeleteJust checking and found this i on WIKI.
DeleteMichael Berryhill of the Houston Press stated that the Fifth Ward was not as blighted in the 1940s as it was during the 1990s.[3] Robb Walsh of the Houston Press described the 1930s era Fifth Ward as "one of the proudest black neighborhoods" in the United States; more than 40 black-owned businesses were along Lyons Avenue in the Fifth Ward at that time.[4]
Thanks. Sounded like a good life in the 30's & 40's for blacks in the Fifth Ward. Now, I wonder what happened to their way of life in the Fifth Ward. What changed.
ReplyDeleteBut, the same can be said for many areas.
Many areas and whites also as they have about the same percentage on welfare now. Relief being changed to welfare was the key.
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