From 77fb582b43341fc6fdc256cf9832f75340b77a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:35:26 +0200 Subject: Add old pyblosxom posts. --- _posts/community-on-the-edge.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/community-on-the-edge.rst (limited to '_posts/community-on-the-edge.rst') diff --git a/_posts/community-on-the-edge.rst b/_posts/community-on-the-edge.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac7b890 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/community-on-the-edge.rst @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +category: + - research +title: The community on the edge +date: 2006-01-29T22:16:00 +--- + +There were again two shootings yesterday, one in Mattapan and other in +Jamaica Plain. I was thinking about the TV news report about that and +how does it shows the image of the community, and actually I found one +thing interesting—the phrase “a community on the edge”. Somehow it again +lead to the Dave’s “resist outrage” slogan. Of course, that it is +terrible that somebody was killed, but what edge we are talking +about—civil war, uprising, falling into anarchy? Probably, they meant +the last one, but is it really so? Is really “the highest number of +murders in ten years” (which is still somewhere around the Boston +average of the long trend) reason for being on the edge? + +And of course, that the point is not, what is the truth about the +homicide rate, but how is it presented and what is the image of that +homicide rate. What is probably the most interesting (but it may be +again just the image) is that in this as in the December quater-murder +people living around were claiming that this was previously rather quite +neighborhood. Was it really (power of self-dellusion is enormous) and is +it thus change in the focus of murders from the Blue Hill Avenue area? +Or were they living in dellusion and whole Dorchester, Mattapan, +Roxbury, Jamaica Plain is dangerous? + +Much more questions that answers. Oh well. -- cgit