ATL Watch - Correction: There Were Two Black Men Killed At Two Different Gas Stations Over The Past Few Days

Now it all makes sense.
Since most of you don't understand the layout of Atlanta please allow me to explain.

In a post yesterday I included reference to two people being shot at a Chevron gas station on Campbellton Road in Atlanta.
Gas Station Shooting Kills One Black Man And Injures Another

Then I found a television news video of a Black man that was murdered at a gas station in SouthEast Atlanta.  I noted that the video was in front of a Citgo station and was on Glenwood Ave.   I figured that the newspaper article had mistaken the name of the gas station name.

I was wrong.

As part of my Saturday run around town (the subsequent posts will detail this) I drove to the Chevron in the "1700th Block Of Campbellton Road" to witness the murder scene that was described in the newspaper report.

I asked the store clerk (Indian male) if there was a shooting in his parking lot.  He told me "Yes.  A man was killed and another shot".  A young Black male who was in line confirmed the account.   I then asked him about the second shooting at the Citgo gas station near Fort McPherson.  He told me: "There is not a Citgo on Campbellton Road further down the street.  Are you sure?".

In my mind I was picturing a Citgo station near the "Lakewood Ft McPhereson" MARTA train station.  That was not the right Citgo.

Something was not right.  The Chevron is the gas station at 1722 Campbellton Road.

I pulled out my cellphone and replayed the video that I had posted from the last post. The Citgo where the other shooting had taken place was in "SouthEast Atlanta" on Glenwood Ave.

"Where is Glenwood Ave from here?  It can't be the one in Dekalb County.  Atlanta goes into Dekalb but not that far", I thought.    I typed the coordinates into my GPS and navigated my way to Glenwood Ave.   On the way I stopped at a store front church and donated money to their "Fish Fry".

I saw that there is a "Glenwood Road SE" and a "Glenwood Ave SE".
I figured that Glenwood Road was in Atlanta and that Glenwood Ave was in Decatur within Dekalb County.
I received the surprise of my life as I drove down Glenwood Rd.

With a road remaining with the name "Confederate Avenue" within the city limits of Atlanta - the Civil Rights Pharisees have too many murdered Black people at the hands of Street Pirates to mount a protest march to get the people they elected into power in Atlanta to change this name.   I have already firmly established that Street Pirates DON'T GIVE A DAMN about murdering Black people:

• On Rev Martin Luther King Dr
• On Rev Joseph E Lowery Blvd
• On Rev Ralph David Abernathy Blvd
• On Rev Joseph E Boone Dr
• On Hamiton E Holmes Blvd

It might be better to work on keeping the "pillars of our community" remaining on the straight and narrow so they don't morph into "Street Pirates" than we can say the Black community receives a sufficient Return On Investment by changing street names for "Civil Rights Heroes" so that "Black people will have their pride lifted up by seeing our heroes on the street sights instead of our oppressors" as Civil Rights Pharisee Rev Joseph Lowery had sold us on as a solution for the most violent section of Atlanta - Vine City.

"Brownstone-like housing in this area and White folks?   I have been away for far too long"

I had no idea that White folks had moved into the area of "Glenwood Road" and built up the area with their own retail and coffee shop district  gentrification had taken place in the area of Glenwood Rd.

To be honest with you as I drove on I-20 West in preparation to jump on the Connector Southbound (I-75 and I-85) I saw what looked like a rock quarry being turned into a residential complex.  I did not pay close attention to it.   This was the first time that I actually drove through the area.

Glenwood Road is no more.  It is now named "Billy Kennedy Ave" - who ever that is.

It seems that the gentrification around Grant Park has expanded into this area to the immediate west of the park.   Trust me - about 15 years ago the buildings in the pictures above would not have been located in this general area.

At some point the Black community must accept the truth - Black people had "control" over the prime areas of real estate around the city (park areas like Grant Park, etc).   The houses were allowed to fall into a state of disrepair.  Once the bid up in housing values took place as Young Urban Professionals sought to settle into areas with massive green space - "The Blacks" lost control over these areas.

Today much needed capital and revitalization efforts have vastly improved these areas.
It would be dishonest to say that these areas are not now built up and more lively today than before.
Trust me - there would not have been any cars with an "NPR" sticker on the window about 15 years ago in this area.   When you see White folks jogging or biking in a area that even Black folks had to watch their back as we walked through - you know what this is a sign of.

Where The Hell Is This Citgo Station On Glenwood Ave?
I used to know these streets like the back of my hand as a young bachelor.   Things have changed substantially over the 20 years that I have lived in Metro Atlanta.   Grant Park - which used to be the hub of Black folks hanging out in the summertime has substantially changed.

I learned an important lesson today about Atlanta.  I had assumed that the horizontal I-20 defined the North / South demarcation of street names in Atlanta and that I-75/85 was the vertical dividing line between East and west.
As I came off of I-20 east bound seeking to find the Citgo in "SouthEAST" Atlanta I naturally turned right to go south along the length of Glenwood AVE in search of the Citgo that has proven so deadly.   A store clerk killed in January and then a young Black male killed outside the other day.

As I drove down Glenwood Ave I was treated to massive changes in "East Atlanta".  Where as I may drive down Moreland Ave or some other major artery to avoid traffic - this was the first time in a while that I drove around the neighborhoods.   Again - gentrification was the order of business.

Note - I am not sure where the pictures of this part of my trip are.  I'll need to check my camera to see why they weren't uploaded to Picasa.

After I drove the length of Glenwood Ave and not found where the Citgo was I turned into the BP at the end of the Glenwood and asked 3 White guys if they knew where the Citgo was where the shooting had taken place.  The first guy told me that Glenwood is off of I-20 (and that I should jump on I-75 down the street).  The other guy said "I didn't hear about the shooting but since we work at a gas station now I am worried".

Something was not adding up.
It had to be that I-20 was NOT the boundary for SouthEAST Atlanta.  I turned around and drove back up Glenwood, crossed I-20 going northbound and sure enough - the street signs still said "SE".

A few blocks up - beyond the "East Lake Golf Course" and there it was - CITGO!!!



There it was - the chair that appeared on the television news.  The dumpster where the "Negro got himself kilt".   The residue of the "Police Crime Scene tape" was even there.

Driving Down Memorial Drive going into Dekalb County.  Hosea Williams told us that in the 1950's a Black man walking down Memorial Drive in Dekalb County had better have a worker's uniform on and had better be going to work or leaving the county going home from work lest the police harass him.  Today the main threat on this strip is Street Pirates, not the Police - who have Black Elected Leadership to answer to. The Steet Pirates don't give a damn and thus don't answer to anyone.	This historical marker from the Civil War are the few "Confederate Memorials" that have gone untouched by those who told us that the communities would be made safer if references o "Our Oppressors" were removed. The next best strategy for their removal since the legal process has has failed is to have someone steal these signs and sell them for scrap metal.
Something has changed.  A White woman on a bicycle riding down Glenwood Ave in SE Atlanta?   Wouldn't have happened 20 years ago.	This is obviously a former "ANSWER Coalition" member who resigned in 2008 to campaign for Obama.  He figured that all wars fought by Obama will be "Just Wars" and "Humanitarian Aid" wars.
The Maynard H Jackson High School	There she is again
	The Scene Of The Street Pirate Extra-judicial Killing
An Expanded View Of The Murder Scene
Residue Of The Crime Scene Tape That Is Unfurled In Abundance By The Police In This Violent City	A "Telephone Pole Memorial"
The Chair That I Saw On The Newscast	More Police Tape
Wells Fargo Bank is a greater enemy to the Black community than are Street Pirates - in the eyes of the Civil Rights Pharisees.  They believe that WF has stolen more "Black wealth" via Subprime Mortgages than the POTENTIAL that they themselves have failed to develop in the "Pillars of our Community" that were left neglected and were allowed to morph into Street Pirates - the #1 attackers of the Black community today	A Mosque is located across the street from the deadly Citgo, the scene of 2 murders this year.  All of the people seen walking in seem to be descent, peace-loving people.  If only the misguided killer had found his way through these doors.
A side walk flea market on the backside of the murder scene

I Visited TWO MURDER SCENES IN ONE DAY AND What Was Missing?

ANSWER:  No Evidence That The Protesters Over Troy Davis And Against The "State Executions" - Only POLICE CRIME SCENE TAPE

An equal number of Black men were murdered at two gas stations on the streets of Atlanta in two days than the number of people that the state of Georgia had executed in the entire year of 2010.

WHY weren't the Civil Rights Pharisees present to protest against the MURDER?