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3 (Black People) Shot At "Central Station Sports Bar" - The Site Where 30,000 People Stood In Line To Get Their Housing Vouchers
You have to be a "local" who knows the various "Mission Accomplished" areas where our people are highly concentrated for the name "Central Station Sports Bar" in East Point Georgia to mean something to you.
This is the location that was borrowed by the East Point Housing Authority back in August 2010 to hand out housing vouchers. 30,000 people showed up for the event. On this blessed Christmas weekend 3 people were shot at the Central Station Sports Cafe in East Point early Sunday.
These "Street Pirates" are males who grew up in this same community. The prevailing messages that flow through this community (and others) failed to matain firm grasp upon the "conscious attention" of these young males - challenging them toward more productive ends. Ends that are more in line with the NEEDS of the community. These young males are needed to eventually hold up the standards which the community seeks to live up to. These standards are those which all young people who follow them will benefit from.
This was a senseless shooting. The gun man figured that at this time the 3 people in his gun sights were the most significant threat that faced him. He thew away any thoughts of the consequences of his actions (ie: potential life sentence or execution). He failed to think about the consequences of his bullet fired hitting a 3rd party not related to the beef. Most of all - He failed to appraise the VALUE of the life of the "person who looked like him" and who is encased in the same circumstances as he.
The conscious upbrining that he was afforded failed to teach him the art of "conflict resolution". Though I, a Black male, personally own 3 firearms this fact does not significantly increase the possibilities that my OFFENSIVE actions which I INITIATED against some other human being will appear on the news. For me I would be throwing away more positive things that I have to protect than what these few minutes of apparent satisfaction in extinguishing the life of an adversary would bring to me.
IF there was ever a time for certain activists to make the argument about "separation from community" that certain actions (and policies) bring forth and cause injury - THIS - would be that time. Yet the message needs to be directed toward the "Street Pirate" and not just the "Criminal Justice System".
The Difficult Task Of Human Resource Management For The Duration
The two recent actions which drew attention to the "Central Station Sports Bar" in East Point Georgia should be seen as a symptom of a larger problem. No one should be satisfied with the notion of "There THEY go again - doing what they do best".
My argument is very different from that.
I make note of the forces who are making the best advantage of this situation.
After attending the East Point Housing Voucher event first hand in August I said to my frieds - "If the powers that be had a VOTING BOOTH right next door to the voucher distribution center - the majority of the people in line would vote in the manner that they were told to do IF this assured them the successful acquisition of a voucher.
People fail to note that this very phenomenon is taking place in the "vote harvesting" areas that run the length of "Main Street" and "Metropolitan Avenue" on the Southwest side of Atlanta. The carpet bombing of campaign signs during election time hide the truth: These areas, which are largely composed of poor Black people are targeted by the political establishment that control them.
As long as these people are kept below the threshold at which they will riot due to their grievances FEW people in the Black Establishment will note the lack of COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT that takes place within these polygons. I personally believe that certain leaders have contented themselves that if these people are going to be "poor and ignorant" AT LEAST they can be tapped for their reliable votes if the establishment powers go through the motions with the goal of showing that they care for these - "The Least Of These".
These "pawns in the game" fail to see how complict their are in their fate.
They entrust their community development efforts to "confidence men" who ultimately seek to set up that polling place next door to "Central Station Sports Bar" to have these people do their bidding. There is just more of a time lapsed gap in their "quid pro quo".
The Black Female Is Most Complicit And Suffers Most From The Dysfunction
In the picture above of what was reported as 30,000 people I can say with my own eyes as a reference that 98% of the crowd was Black and that no less than 95% of them were Black females.
Many of them were simply looking for shelter, likely in protection of their children. I am not one to fault someone for doing what is necessary at a time of crisis. The point that needs to be called out, however, is than these crises are "The New Normal" for many of them.
The POTENTIAL regenerative effects of a new generation is being squandered. Though they are one more decade away from slavery to the point where those who hearken back to these days as they put on a 'Confederate Ball' receive scorn - the community as a whole has failed to take full advantage of their FREEDOM - their FREEDOM to instill a new set of consciousness within their progeny who are raised within the protective womb of a community that they now control.
The fact that these institutions that are under their control has not produced outcomes that are more inline with their desired higher standard of living is cause to inspect the real agenda of the people who now control the institutions.
The Black female's participation in the voting process and advocacy in general exceeds that of Black males. They were the heart and soul of the Civil Rights Movement just the same. They worked as "foot soldiers" as the male leaders received the bulk of the credit.
If we stitch together these facts of their heightened involvement and also note that they are made most vulnerable in environments where security is of heightened uncertainty - it is rational to conclude that these community resources who are proven "agents for change" also have a vested interest in adopting more effective 'CHANGE MANAGEMENT' skills in order to close the gap between the maintenance of the key institutions in their community and the outcomes that are in line with their interests.
The #1 power that they have is to channel "organically constructive" thoughts into the minds of those new human beings that are provided with life after they exit her body.
This is not an indictment of the people in the area who are in desperate need of housing and who are attempting to make the best of their situation at hand. These people merely have the misfortune to be ensnared in an area where Street Pirates roam, terrorizing the community with every slashing.
AJC Story
One of the shooting victims has died, Chandler said. No information is available on the other two victims, he said.
The sports bar is located in the 3100 block of Southeast Main Street.
Police do not know the motive and detectives are working on the case, Chandler said.
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