John Q. Public
♦ Do Black Lives Really Matter to Salisbury’s City Council? Let’s Check the Record
• Where is the alleged Police presence down in the West End? West Enders report they seldom see any police and often calls go unanswered. No answered calls equals no reports. No reports equals a magical 39% drop in crime. Perhaps the Chief of Police is too busy moonlighting at the Salisbury Housing Authority?
• Black lives don’t seem to matter as much as Mark Lewis’s “Disturbing Demographic”?
• City Hall doesn’t do gentrification, they do “urban renewal”.
• Apparently bike lanes are more important than security lighting down in the West End.
• How come black communities have few sidewalks and “8 block” and the “Country Club” have them? Is it really a good idea that seniors are forced to walk on Horah Street in the dark?
• How is it that when black taxpayers request basic city services they get a runaround: “We’re working on it.” “We’ll get back to you soon–this takes a lot of thinking.” “Let’s not jump blindly into this–we need to study this and get back to you.”
• Black lives don’t seem to matter as much as a part-time security gig for the city’s “moonlighting” police chief who couldn’t name a single murder victim out of “ten” unsolved murders in Salisbury–all minority victims. Yo!
• How about the major disparity in minority hires in city jobs? Big time.
• The Vanderford “Spite Hole” is still overgrown and Norway rats breed among the weeds and locust saplings. No city response to clean up the “Spite Hole” for over a decade.
• How about the covert “shrinking” of basic city services to the West End?
• What’s up with the “Civic Park Apartments”? Were promises made and not kept?
• Are Basic city services to black communities as important as propping up Fibrant which incurred $12.6 million in losses in 2014. Wait a fat second–didn’t city council claim Fibrant turned the corner and made a small profit?
You don’t matter to city council. They shouldn’t matter to you. You need to run city council out of Dodge.
