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alp227

(32,027 posts)
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:32 PM May 2012

(Maryland) Delegate warns of 'black youth mobs'

Source: Baltimore Sun

A Baltimore County delegate said Wednesday that the governor should send in the Maryland State Police to control "roving mobs of black youths" at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, prompting a colleague to label the message "race-baiting."

Del. Patrick L. McDonough, a Republican whose district includes part of Harford County, distributed a news release with the headline: "Black Youth Mobs Terrorize Baltimore on Holidays." In it, McDonough said he had sent a letter to Gov. Martin O'Malley urging him to use the state police to help prevent attacks and to declare the Inner Harbor area a "no-travel zone" until safety can be guaranteed.

McDonough's message, which came on the last day of a General Assembly special session, offended some colleagues who thought it gratuitously highlighted the issue of race.

"It's a throwback to the '50s and '60s, and it's obviously race-baiting," said Del. Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., a Baltimore Democrat who offered to take McDonough on a guided tour of the Inner Harbor on a weekend night.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-mcdonough-race-20120516,0,101275.story



McDonough also hosts a Saturday night talk show on WCBM 680, the local RusHannity station.
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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. Spiro Agnew was once the county executive of Baltimore County
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:42 PM
May 2012

which surrounds, but does NOT include, Baltimore City. This asshat is clearly carrying on the tradition of both Agnew and my neighbor in fourth grade, who, on the eve of the first African American family moving into our sprawling apartment complex, called a special meeting to announce that "they s**t white". "What?!" "Yeah. Each race s**ts what it hates. We s**t brown, they s**t white." From a fourth-grader. In a state that prided itself even then on its good (by comparison) race relations. Where, pray tell, might he have heard that?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. The public comments have predictably gone full retard
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:07 PM
May 2012

Of course the one at the top has to be named "NordicWarrior"

alp227

(32,027 posts)
6. Please don't insult people with actual mental retardation with that comment.
Thu May 17, 2012, 05:24 PM
May 2012

You could've made your point using "racist" instead of "retard". And Nordic's comment is no longer at the top.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
4. The Inner Harbor? Really?
Thu May 17, 2012, 04:07 PM
May 2012

I guess they don't want any black tourists either...

"roving mobs"

Jesus H Christ

goclark

(30,404 posts)
11. I was there last summer
Tue May 22, 2012, 02:32 PM
May 2012

and didn't see any "mobs."

I happen to be AA and I would certainly have been able to determine a Mob / from a tourist,

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
5. Does/did this actually happen?
Thu May 17, 2012, 05:17 PM
May 2012

If these things are actually happening then why is it a problem to mention it? If it is not actually happening then the guy is a liar and should be called out.

We've had a well publicized problem with wolf pack attacks in Philly. They have calmed down after a crackdown.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
10. Why use the adjective black?
Tue May 22, 2012, 02:19 PM
May 2012

If there are roving mobs of youth causing trouble are you absolutely positive they are all black or is that just racism showing it's ugly head? There is absolutely no need to describe the youth with any other adjective, IMO..

 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
12. That's why I asked.
Tue May 22, 2012, 08:01 PM
May 2012

I can't answer for Baltimore, I only know for sure what happened here in similar attacks.

8. MARYLAND DELEGATE PAT McDONOUGH ISSUES RETRACTION - 'SOME O'DEM BOYS W'S WHITE'
Tue May 22, 2012, 09:35 AM
May 2012

Earlier today, Maryland Delegate, the heavyset, 100% White Pat McDonough, was seen going door-to-door in the officially designated White neighborhoods of his district (parts of Baltimore and Harford Counties).


McDonough was passing out a revised press release, . . .

[link:http://rbc-in-md3.blogspot.com/2012/05/mcdonough-issues-traction-some-odem.html|]

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
13. You can hardly imagine how grotesque the people are who choose this gargoyle to represent them.
Tue May 22, 2012, 08:38 PM
May 2012

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Must be a fantastically crude, sloppy, repulsive, ugly group of people.

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