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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
i think we're in agreement. but its why i get pretty defensive when people pin the condition of the city on certain people or neighborhoods while conveniently leaving out the other half of the equation.
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I wasn't trying to pin it on the people of those neighborhoods - my point was that no matter who is contributing to the violence - the violence is occurring in those particular neighborhoods which is a huge issue. One of the things that pisses me off is how people don't understand the impacts. My friend is friends with a wealthy family from the suburbs - and one of their friends' son died of a heroin overdose (also from a wealthy family). We had a discussion about it, and when I told them about the impacts and who's buying in Chicago, indirectly contributing to the violence they had zero idea. Now they're more well aware (well hopefully they remember...)