let's get this conversation started. The first thing I want to talk about is what all of you think are the important questions about your neighborhoods and communities.
I know that's a huge topic
So let's start with this...
When you look around your neighboorhood, at the buildings, at the schools, etc., what do you think isn't working well?
What concerns you?
LiL.Bit: um .....thinkin...
ROCHE: OK
BLACK PRINCE: nobody cares is what i think, thats why the neighborhoods are bad.
ROCHE: What do you think they should be caring about?
BLACK PRINCE: the neighborhood
CHARISE: they should be caring about tha teens that getting pregnant
ROCHE: OK
BLACK PRINCE: and the people that's getting killed
CHARISE: if it wasnt so many kids in the world we would probably have more $$$
BLACK PRINCE: and drugs
LiL.Bit: they should worry about their city so they wouldn't get hurt.
BLACK PRINCE: then give me $20
Andrew: Alright, that's all a good beginning...
CHARISE: u give me yo check
BLACK PRINCE: what check?
ROCHE: Do you think any of these problems have to do with the physical state of the neighborhood?
BLACK PRINCE: yes
ROCHE: The way it looks? or the condition of buildings and places?
LiL.Bit: it might, and then some of it was created by the people
CHARISE: yea well it depends on how tha kids are being brought up n how they treat tha buildings
BLACK PRINCE: the way it looks
ROCHE: What are the buildings like where you live?
CHARISE: well i live down tha street from a crack house
BLACK PRINCE: some ok and some not
ROCHE: Does living by a crack house effect you?
T.Taylor: where u go all the time
CHARISE: na not really its funny to me ...but it might affect tha little kids
ROCHE: how would it effect them?
CHARISE: bad influence
ROCHE: OK, so why do you think the crack house is still there? Is it as simple as demanding it gets removed?
BLACK PRINCE: because thats how some people make money and the government doesn't care
CHARISE: i mean what if somethin go wrong then somebody get shot or n gary police dont neva come in time ta do nuthin
LiL.Bit: it is not main concern to a lot of high public officials
BLACK PRINCE: well u do it u self
CHARISE : how? we're children BP
BLACK PRINCE: children haved changed the world befor
CHARISE: not by themselves
BLACK PRINCE: yea hey have
ROCHE: Are there other things besides crack houses that are part of the physical enviroment that effect the community?
For example how clean is the enviroment in Gary?
CHARISE: Gary aint clean
the city stank
ROCHE: So it stinks... Does that effect everyday life for you?
CHARISE: who do u personally know BP thats are children & save da world
o not really, i just go 2 school, sit down, eat lunch
BLACK PRINCE: when folks don't have value on life their community looses value to
CHARISE: mr. psychology
LiL.Bit: thats deep
BLACK PRINCE: in South Africa
CHARISE: dont hate on BP cause he conscious
BLACK PRINCE: sake
ROCHE: OK OK!!
let's back up and talk about the issues at hand
BLACK PRINCE: ok
LiL.Bit: what is it?
ROCHE: We started talking about infrastructure and the community.
CHARISE: wats infescucture?
LiL.Bit: would it be building ect.?
ROCHE: The built supports of community... for example,
LiL.Bit: etc
ROCHE: the buildings, the streets,
the hospitals, and schools
and so on
BLACK PRINCE: honestly what community because if there was one we wouldn't be having this conversation
ROCHE: Interesting
So if Gary isn't a community than what is it?
CHARISE: well i really feel we can do anything we have no power were children & where are we going 2 get da money 4 it
ROCHE: Right now, I'm not really asking about solutions...
CHARISE: a town
ROCHE: really, we're just trying to lay out our basic questions.
LiL.Bit: OK
ROCHE: So it's just a town... a town where the people are disconnected from each other?
Or they don't care about each other?
CHARISE: yea, everyone is not working together unless its about violence
its every woman 4 herself
BLACK PRINCE: you the money person you answer that question SO WHAT ARE U GOING TO DO ABOUT IT GLODINE
ROCHE: I hear people talking about money, about there not being money to deal with these problems...
CHARISE: ima make ma money!!!!<<
ROCHE: Are there other ways of dealing with these issues that don't require money?
BLACK PRINCE: big timer over there got it
like what
LiL.Bit: if everyone gets active
Mz.Glodine: no, money is involved w/everything, there's no going around the no money issue
BLACK PRINCE: ok if we do that then what
T.Taylor: how?
ROCHE: That may be... Do you know how money comes into your community for social causes?
LiL.Bit: no
ROCHE: Maybe that's something we need to look into?
BLACK PRINCE: no i dont
CHARISE: Even if we get active how are we going to make these people restructure these abondoned buildings or get the crackheads out?
T.Taylor: easy help!!!!
ROCHE: For right now, I'm just looking for our basic questions, we don't have to figure it all out today.
Mz.Glodine: T what are u talking about? Easy Help?
LiL.Bit: you can make + change, such as voting
Mz.Glodine: okay lets start on da basic question
ROCHE: OK, that's something... political solutions.. so we would need politicians that make these things priotities?
BLACK PRINCE: whats your question
ROCHE: Does that seem possible?
Mz.Glodine: wat? getting a new mayor?
ROCHE: Why aren't politicians in your community currently solving these issues?
BLACK PRINCE: but it seems to me that they don't care about us THA PEOPLE as much as hey say they do
CHARISE: Because there nly thinking abut the money there getting to get by in life & not putting moey in gary to help the comunity
ROCHE: Another thing I've heard about is a problem with abandoned buildings?
LiL.Bit: true gurl
ROCHE: Do you think this is a problem?
T.Taylor: so buy things 4 the hood
ROCHE: a big problem or not?
BLACK PRINCE: yes it is
ROCHE: How do abandoned buildings hurt a community?
CHARISE: In Gary theres lots of abondoned buildings, Lots, Stores, everything is abondoned. Broadway our main street is messed up. U come in Gary kowin already wat u in 4
LiL.Bit: it makes us look bad
ROCHE: So it effects the image of the place?
CHARISE: Of cousrse & everyone in Gary looks bad. Do anyone see Merrillville wit these problems?
LiL.Bit: yes
BLACK PRINCE: these buildings make the hood look lifeless so if the hood is lifeless then the people in it have nothing to look for
ROCHE: With buildings abandoned, does it effect the morale of the community?
LiL.Bit: yes
ROCHE: Does it make people feel defeated?
CHARISE: It has nothin to do w/ hoods, becaue if its a hood u kno its dangerous and tacky
BLACK PRINCE: merrillville is lame any way
LiL.Bit: you lame
CHARISE: yea like theres noting else to look for
ROCHE: What do you mean by hood?
BLACK PRINCE: i dinn't want to keep typeing neigborhood
ROCHE: OK
CHARISE: Hood is a ghetto slang no one uses it anymore so (NIEGHBORHOOD)
LiL.Bit: what do you mean by hood
ROCHE: So with a lot abandoned buildings, do you think it effects Gary economically?
BLACK PRINCE: so then you use hood you non speller
ROCHE: Like do you think it makes someone not want to live in Gary or to move there?
CHARISE: what do u mean by economically?
BLACK PRINCE: yes
ROCHE: What I mean is, does this problem discourage businesses from moving there
Mz.Glodine: i mean pretty much everybody i kno cant wait ta move out
ROCHE: and does it discourage people from investing in Gary?
BLACK PRINCE: most definitely
ROCHE: How many of you want to move out of Gary?
BLACK PRINCE: me
CHARISE: yes, no one wants to bring there businesses in a town where they cant distribute their goods or services
i wanna move!!
LiL.Bit: if you dont keep up where you live when you move out then it will look like Gary.
ROCHE: Does this stuff that we're talking about have to do with you're wanting to move?
Mz.Glodine: me 2!!
BLACK PRINCE: no i just miss chicago
T.Taylor: and i miss gary
ROCHE: How would Gary have to change for young people to want to stay there?
BLACK PRINCE: young people would have to stop dying then they wouldn't have to go
CHARISE: Yes we cat find any where to work or go. What community centers do u se besides he boys & girls club, children belong there. No one over the age of 14 should be allowed w/children, thats how rapes, & other things happen
ROCHE: You mean adults shouldn't ever work with kids?
T.Taylor: nit
not
CHARISE: what ever pervert put that there getoff the computer
LiL.Bit: what r u talking about?
Andrew: Oh! So you're talking about pregnancies.
BLACK PRINCE: and mrders
CHARISE: no, i'm saying that its rapers and they need to be on the look out for things like that. It should be more centers for people of age.
LiL.Bit: what?
ROCHE: OK
CHARISE: cuz like i said we got 12 yr olds that pregnant
BLACK PRINCE: so what you gon do about that
ROCHE: Can we go back for a minute and talk about the enviroment?
LiL.Bit0: 4real
BLACK PRINCE: wat about
ROCHE: Is Gary still polluted? and if it is, how does that effect people?
LIke for example is Asthma common?
CHARISE: With the bad environment we have less community buildings for elder children to go to, & not send the little ones bad examples
Well yes Gay is still polluted. And I wouldnt know about asmetics i'm dont have it
gary8
ROCHE: OK
I think we should look into some of the stuff related to the pollution and related stuff, because it think it is probably more damaging than you might first realize.
but I might be wrong. Before we wrap this up...
CHARISE: whats related to pollution? cars
BLACK PRINCE: yes indeed
LiL.BIT: yes
ROCHE: Does anyone have questions on this topic that they want to raise?
BLACK PRINCE: wat
CHARISE: yall tha only thing that rea
lly thats worth saying about pollution is it STANK!!!!!
why does it stank so much
BLACK PRINCE: cuz you there
ROCHE: OK!
Let's end it there!
CHARISE: no name calling
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