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Rhode Island has a big problem with lack of law enforcement. So many things that are ticketed in other states seem to get a pass here. It's discouraging. And getting worse due to current public anti-police sentiment. I'd love to see more police especially if they actually do their jobs!!
Whether it's litter, graffiti or noise, quality of life violations get the short shrift in Providence & Rhode Island in general. It's not that Rhode Island lacks appropriate laws & ordinances. It's the will to enforce them.
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Thanks for the tip, but I’d rather be specific in my analysis instead of speaking in polite euphemisms. I believe many of the messages promoted in rap have a far more detrimental influence on neighborhoods and ultimately societies. I have no problem pushing back.
Just as I regularly criticized White evangelicals while I lived in Texas, I am ok with targeting loud Black rap. I’d much rather be called a racist in 2021, where the word has been profoundly diluted by liberals, than be called someone who cowardly avoids the truth.
Yeah, you lost any credibility you might have wanted.
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I have plenty of credibility with honest Americans.
Your input in this thread is no longer productive or necessary.
Your thread isn't productive or necessary, and yet you still posted.
Go to the city and complain about "black rap" if you want things to change. If you're a resident there, you have that right.
In my neighborhood most of the loud music blasted from cars is Latin American. I suspect WAY less than 9 out of 10 is rap where you are, you just notice it more because you have disdain for it.
I have plenty of credibility with honest Americans.
Your input in this thread is no longer productive or necessary.
You need to understand the "culture" of this forum. I've never seen a forum anywhere, where this level of bickering goes on. You could talk about 2 beautiful clouds in the sky and someone will be jumping in to argue with you about it. I'm a reader a lot more than a poster, but I've been around for a while and pretty observant to boot.
It's important to note, that this poster resides in the ritzy Wayland Square neighborhood. The most "loud Latin American" music he probably hears down there on a regular basis, is Selena Gomez cranking out the earbuds of white female middle-aged joggers.
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Your thread isn't productive or necessary, and yet you still posted.
Go to the city and complain about "black rap" if you want things to change. If you're a resident there, you have that right.
In my neighborhood most of the loud music blasted from cars is Latin American. I suspect WAY less than 9 out of 10 is rap where you are, you just notice it more because you have disdain for it.
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You need to understand the "culture" of this forum. I've never seen a forum anywhere, where this level of bickering goes on. You could talk about 2 beautiful clouds in the sky and someone will be jumping in to argue with you about it. I'm a reader a lot more than a poster, but I've been around for a while and pretty observant to boot.
Yeah, its almost from out of state muckrackers looking to cause trouble.
One could have made a reasonable gripe post (blasting music, which most people dislike), but troublemakers HAVE to insert race and a specific type of music primarily produced and consumed by a race to target. Something that deserves being called out.
Yeah, its almost from out of state muckrackers looking to cause trouble.
One could have made a reasonable gripe post (blasting music, which most people dislike), but troublemakers HAVE to insert race and a specific type of music primarily produced and consumed by a race to target. Something that deserves being called out.
But the original post was explicitly not about just any blasted music, but a particularly grating music in particular known as "rap." It's right there in the subject heading. If someone had written the same about Kid Rock's music, I'm just sure you'd be duly horrified at the racist aggression towards backwater white trash. You'd surely feel that poster would similarly "deserve being called out" for that unconscionable human sin of pattern recognition.
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