Post pics of and discuss your local Ghetto.

edited June 2011 in Spurious Generalities
I was trying to find another word for it, but ghetto seems to be the best available, and 'economically challenged area' is no not totse. The word ghetto used to refer specifically to areas where Jews were forced to live, but now applies to any area where enough poor people have congregated. When poor, drug addicted, and mentally unstable people start to take over an area, it starts a chain reaction. Crime increases, hookers start strolling the corners, families move out, higher end business move away, and once the ball starts rolling it is hard to stop.

Charity groups set up soup kitchens and shelters, attracting even more poor people. Soon the neighborhood adjusts, the business that can survive on what the locals want to buy stay open, the rest are boarded up, and another shithole for the locals to look at and say, "It didn't used to be like that here", is born.

Every suburb of Vancouver has a few strolls and dope corners, where I live the crime is spread out over the whole suburb of Surrey (hence our wonderful reputation). Downtown there is an area called the 'Downtown East Side", some of the outlying areas are not too bad, high crime but not exclusively the domain of druggies and bums, tough hoods for sure, but nothing like the 10 block area centered around the corner of Hastings and Main, known locally as 'wasting and pain".

The guy shooting this vid is a bit of a dick, but it is the best footage I found, and shows what you would see if you went only a few blocks astray from some of the more popular night club/tourist districts downtown. The first half is bunk, you can skip it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEXtIIKzoGs&feature=related

Here is another mini doc, it is a little old, but nothing has changed, and the Alice In Chains soundtrack is cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyQnSMlPToE

I lived in the area 91-93 at a place called the Hotel Patricia. This was before crack spread up from the states, after that it got a lot worse. There is a lot of good shit in the area as well, music venues, funky bars, and of course 24 hour access to whatever drugs you want. There are still quite a few die hard residents as well, it is their home, and they are not going anywhere. I still go there from time to time, urban camo is needed, but if you look shitty and broke nobody hassles you.

So, what's your ghetto like?

C/O
"Dude this is so ghetto"
"Yeah man, this is like, the most ghetto place ever"
"Where are we anyway?"
"I think we're in a ghetto"
"Dude that is sooooo ghetto"
"Totally"

Note; I was not really sure if this fit in Humanities, but if it needs to be moved, move it.

Comments

  • NumberjumboNumberjumbo Regular
    edited June 2011
    I live in NZ, and we have south auckland. The niggiest of the nigs are from there. Honestly, state housing, shitty niggers and wannabe bloods and crips everywhere, jesus. If I lived there I'd kill myself.
  • Habaner0Habaner0 Regular
    edited June 2011
    I live in NZ, and we have south auckland. The niggiest of the nigs are from there. Honestly, state housing, shitty niggers and wannabe bloods and crips everywhere, jesus. If I lived there I'd kill myself.

    lol kiwiland "ghetto"
  • BoxBox Regular
    edited June 2011
    Lefrak, NY

    lefrak%20city.jpg

    Don't be fooled by the nice apartment complexes

    It was built for piss-poor whites but in the 90s got filled with niggers. It's like a...err modern ghetto.
  • skunkskunk Regular
    edited June 2011
    ha, when I was in vancouver earlier this year I took a ride down to hastings street, god damn that's a fucking rough area of town. Addicts, dealers, pimps, and prostitutes on the streets, everywhere.

    Edit to add: I mean east hastings street, the west side is ritzy as hell.
  • MooseKnuckleMooseKnuckle Regular
    edited June 2011
    san antonio. blow and hooker latinas anyone?
  • edited June 2011
    I would like my fellow members of totse.info to know I post this with a heavy heart and without joy, but I feel it is my sacred duty.

    I consider myself a true citizen of the world and a friend to all people and nations regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, intelligence, height, weight, appearance, hair color, whether or not they listen to Ke$ha, or sexual orientation. Therefore it is hard for me to condemn a section of land, and in doing so my brothers and sisters occupying it

    Truly, Ghettos are a blight upon all of the human race, not just those inside of them, but those outside of them for allowing the factors that created these dens of wretchedness to spawn, thrive, and grow.

    It is with a heavy heart I declare the world's ghetto to be the region known as the Ummah, or the Moslem world.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/World_Muslim_Population_Map.png
    in this map of the Ummah, its brutal and imperialistic conquests are clearly visible. Among the boundaries one finds only conflict with the superiorly civlized indigenous people.

    The weakness of European and civilized powers at the time allowed a merchant/pedophile with clear signs of Schizophrenia and Narcissistic Personality Disorder to raise a powerful army rather than receive the mental health care and treatment he and all other ill individuals deserve.

    He convinced his followers he was a prophet, and that God (the Meccan moon good known as Hubal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Palm_tree_symbol.svg" class="image"><img alt="Palm tree symbol.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Palm_tree_symbol.svg/20px-Palm_tree_symbol.svg.png"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/0/0b/Palm_tree_symbol.svg/20px-Palm_tree_symbol.svg.png, later changed to Allah in Arabic to confound naive enemies into believing the Moslems were a civilized, Abrahamic religion) commanded him to, among other things:
    • Destroy pagan idols while simultaneously praying while facing a meteorite attached to a cube in the desert five times a day
    • To be merciful and stone adulterers to death
    • Drink camel urine to resolve illness
    • To behead anyone who doubts his status as a prophet, or the status of Hubal as an all powerful creator of the universe (to quote the late, great American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to actually step on the Moon, "Moslems are crazy! I've been to the moon, it's a brown fucking rock. It didn't do shit and neither did that meteorite that Mo guy bought on Ebay and glued to an oversized Rubiks cube")
    • That the hand of a thief should be severed, but raiding Christian and Jewish pilgrim caravans was acceptable
    • That paradise is an everlasting pleasure in which one's feces smells of musk
    • To simultaneously preach a message of Islam being peaceful while decimating local tribes and forcing them to convert to Islam, the reason a cult once confined to a town in modern day Saudi Arabia has spread nearly worldwide!
    • That there are creatures, typically invisible to humans called D'jin (later anglofied into Genie and used by Moslem televangelists Walt Disney and Robin Williams to poison the minds of young nonmoselms worldwide) who occupy a parallel universe

    To a sane mind, this list appears as what it truly is: pure, unfiltered balderdash.

    To the Moslem mind, this list is sacrosanct, and the originator of this theology is to be emulated in every way including polygamy, pedophilia, murder, armed robbery, conspiracy, vandalism, and of course bestiality (Mohammad was known to have a harem of favored goats and camels as well as women and girls as young as six)

    His followers stayed true to their faith, and each generation is taught to except these clearly warped and sickening worldviews as perfectly normal, in fact ideal.

    Although I abhor violence, recent Moslem terrorist actions against fearful and cowed westerners brings closer and closer a time for the drawing of a line in the sand, ACROSS THIS LINE YOU DO NOT

    Furthermore, I think Mecca must be destroyed
  • jewnosejewnose Regular
    edited June 2011
    I live in the sticks. The closest thing we have to a ghetto here is a trailer park, and even that's sort of far away.

    There's a cow pasture by my house with an old barn in it. Sometimes foxes and coyotes come around the barn at night. That's kind of backwoods ghetto, right?
  • MayberryMayberry Regular
    edited June 2011
    What's surprising about the Downtown Eastside is that it shares a border with Chinatown, and just crossing the street will take you to what seems like a totally different place. I make almost weekly excursions to Chinatown, and sometimes I venture out to the ghetto as well. I find most people keep to themselves, and those who do come up to you are quite friendly.
  • NumberjumboNumberjumbo Regular
    edited June 2011
    Habaner0 wrote: »
    lol kiwiland "ghetto"
    Sounds funny, I know. NZ has its own version of everything the US has - NZ Idol, Treasure Island NZ, lots of other gay shit, and NZ's own Compton: South Auckland
  • LysdexicLysdexic Regular
    edited June 2011
    I live in NZ, and we have south auckland. The niggiest of the nigs are from there. Honestly, state housing, shitty niggers and wannabe bloods and crips everywhere, jesus. If I lived there I'd kill myself.

    Morningside?



    There are a few shittyish places on the other side of town from me that have a few stabbings every now and again. Apart from that its just chavs stealing and dealing.
    Some of the temps at work seem proud of their stab "wounds", they all look like little swiss army knife cuts on places that are hardly life threatening.

    For a real rundown shithole of a place try blackpool. A seaside "resort" trying to live up to its heyday in the 30s. The whole place is run down and falling apart, and the now only the true scum of Britain heads there for holidays.
    It has the highest rate of unemployment, lowest average wage, lowest life expecty, highest teen pregnancy rates.
  • BigHarryDickBigHarryDick Cock Bite
    edited June 2011
  • WANWAN Regular
    edited June 2011
    I went to East Hastings to buy weed once. I think I got ripped off, though.
  • NumberjumboNumberjumbo Regular
    edited June 2011
    Lysdexic wrote: »
    Morningside?



    There are a few shittyish places on the other side of town from me that have a few stabbings every now and again. Apart from that its just chavs stealing and dealing.
    Some of the temps at work seem proud of their stab "wounds", they all look like little swiss army knife cuts on places that are hardly life threatening.

    For a real rundown shithole of a place try blackpool. A seaside "resort" trying to live up to its heyday in the 30s. The whole place is run down and falling apart, and the now only the true scum of Britain heads there for holidays.
    It has the highest rate of unemployment, lowest average wage, lowest life expecty, highest teen pregnancy rates.
    I live out west
  • edited June 2011
    /\ You were one of the members I was waiting for to post some stuff, Jah, I have no doubts Canadian ghettos are nothing compared to Mexican. I walk the streets downtown, cautious, but not afraid, I would never do the same in Mexico.

    C/O
    "now if DFG had the inclination, I bet he could top anything posted so far"
  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited June 2011
    I live in western sydney. In AU the term "Western Sydney" is associated with the working class. There are very little interesting things to post. All suburbs of sydney are essentially the same. We have a Mall, a pool, a library and a few parks.

    The Crime in my neighbourhood is slightly higher than average. I live in the most "multicultural" part of sydney and we earn less than the nationa average.
    The Mall:
    DSC00157.JPG

    our underused sports stadium:
    474eed1d-a96d-455b-b984-666cccf483ec.jpg

    wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktown,_New_South_Wales
  • MayberryMayberry Regular
    edited June 2011
    474eed1d-a96d-455b-b984-666cccf483ec.jpg

    I never realised baseball diamonds could interlock so neatly :o
  • ducklipsducklips Regular
    edited June 2011
    I have lived and come from one of the most poorest parts of the U.S. I no longer live there, thank God but a lot of my family does. If there is such a thing as an upper class Indian, my family would fall into that category...it's still shit and I've never seen any one group of people so proud of their own poo.
    Demographic Information

    § The 11,000-square mile (approximately 2,700,000 acres) Pine Ridge Reservation is the second-largest Native American Reservation within the United States. It is roughly the size of the State of Connecticut. According to the Oglala Sioux tribal statistics, approximately 1,700,000 acres of this land are owned by the Tribe or by tribal members.

    § The Reservation is divided into eight districts: Eagle Nest, Pass Creek, Wakpamni, LaCreek, Pine Ridge, White Clay, Medicine Root, Porcupine, and Wounded Knee.

    § The topography of the Pine Ridge Reservation includes the barren Badlands, rolling grassland hills, dryland prairie, and areas dotted with pine trees.

    § The Pine Ridge Reservation is home to approximately 40,000 persons, 35% of which are under the age of 18. The latest Federal Census shows the median age to be 20.6 years. Approximately half the residents of the Reservation are registered tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Nation.

    § According to the most recent Federal Census, 58.7% of the grandparents on the Reservation are responsible for raising their own grandchildren.

    § The population is slowly but steadily rising, despite the severe conditions on the Reservation, as more and more Oglala Lakota return home from far-away cities to live within their societal values, be with their families, and assist with the revitalization of their culture and their Nation.
    Employment Information

    § Recent reports vary but many point out that the median income on the Pine Ridge Reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.

    § The unemployment rate on Pine Ridge is said to be approximately 83-85% and can be higher during the winter months when travel is difficult or often impossible.

    § According to 2006 resources, about 97% of the population lives below Federal poverty levels.

    § There is little industry, technology, or commercial infrastructure on the Reservation to provide employment.

    § Rapid City, South Dakota is the nearest town of size (population approximately 57,700) for those who can travel to find work. It is located 120 miles from the Reservation. The nearest large city to Pine Ridge is Denver, Colorado located some 350 miles away.

    More info can be found here

    Images
    pine-ridge-indian-reservation-south-dakota.jpg

    Pine-Ridge-Indian-Reservation-South-Dakota-drunk-driving-AR440004-194.jpg

    Aaron_Huey_Pine_ridge_1.jpg

    Huey_Aaron_071.jpg

    007.jpg

    My favorite thing is the seemingly endless fields of Sunflowers
    IMG_2052.JPG

    This has more images that accurately depict the reservation life by Aaron Huey. Take the time to click through them. There are also a number of youtube videos but I don't have sound so I can not vouch for their validity.

    That's my ghetto.
  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited June 2011
    ^^^^ OMFG Are you one of those redskins? Weren't you all bred out? Do you guys still have those old traditions were you hallucinate your guardian animal?

    Do you have a casino on your land?
  • BoxBox Regular
    edited June 2011
    ^^^^ OMFG Are you one of those redskins? Weren't you all bred out? Do you guys still have those old traditions were you hallucinate your guardian animal?

    Do you have a casino on your land?

    You made me LOL irl.
  • ducklipsducklips Regular
    edited June 2011
    Southwestern Indians used hallucinogenics, not plains indians...we do have a casino but it does no one no good, it only perpetuates the addictive behavior of natives. It's all one huge vicious cycle. I wish i belonged to one of those rich tribes and I got a check every month :(
  • SliceSlice Regular
    edited June 2011
    Yeah I live out in the country, so there's not really a ghetto out here unless you count some of the poorer rednecks or some of the poorer people in town but then it's still not anywhere near a ghetto. Travel 20 mins into the city though... yeah you can find some ghettos. Gotta be careful not to get shot though, the cities near me actually have some fucked up crime rates.
  • SlartibartfastSlartibartfast Global Moderator -__-
    edited June 2011
    Last time I was there, I saw two black kids beating some islander down for like 2 minutes, then he headbutted the shit out of them and stuck his head in a convenience store freezer because 'my face hurts'

    yep. If you were to personify Blacktown it would be the guy with his head in the convienience store freezer.

    Although, The elitism that comes out of some people when they hear the term Western Sydney pisses me off a little. Even in my liberal circles you hear stupid remarks.
Sign In or Register to comment.