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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baltimore is awesome. You know how I know this? Tell me one other city that has a football team named after a poem.

That there tells you that Baltimore is a city with heart.

And a city with John Waters. Gotta love that.[/quote]

Same. I love Baltimore. We live in DC (only 10 minutes from our offices), but really love Baltimore. We are there 6-8x per year for cultural events, catching a game, or just having a nice day eating & drinking in Fells.

You know what Baltimore has? History. An identity. Personality galore. Walking through the old row house neighborhoods, you feel like you've gone back 200+ years in history. The entire city is a living museum to America.

Anyways, Trump and his supporters would never know that. They are too snooty and elitist to ever set foot in Baltimore. [/quote]

I’ve actually been to Baltimore quite a bit. To the kids museums, the Inner Harbor, concerts.

I applied for a job there and was told by my Baltimore dwelling co-worker (who travels OUT of Baltimore to work), to NOT accept the job. She said the neighborhood was that bad. Even for her.

One time we took the kids to the Thomas the Train ride with some (very liberal) friends. We decided to walk around to find something to eat. After about 5 minutes of walking it became very clear we were not in a good area. Even my friends were like “let’s walk faster, people!”

So no, I’m not too elite to visit Baltimore.  But you (clearly) couldn’t pay me to work there.  Or live there, for that matter. 
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And is your response to this to say: let's now make life even worse for the people who were born here and can't leave? Or is your response to say: What can we do to make things better so even kids born in someplace that I feel unsafe in, will have clean air and water, a good education, a safe place to life, and real opportunities in their lives.

Do you call them subhumans, rats, cockroaches, who deserve your scorn and contempt? Or do you say - these are people who we should try to help?

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My response is that unless we change the culture of these communities - pregnancy at 14 is not a goal, living off the government dole is not a lifestyle, gangs are BAD, not GOOD, and education is of utmost importance, to name a few - we cannot even begin to help them. But as I said earlier, I have no clue how to do this. [/quote]

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