Saturday, July 28, 2007
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
Introducing Cincy Report, a new blog from African American writer Ric Ricland. So far, Ricland has carved a niche for himself as one opposed to all things Nate Livingston. He says Over-the-Rhine is filled with a drug-abusing criminal element, or people who like living with such people and who therefore endorse it. He thinks we need a new jail, and he wonders why Mitt Romney dyes his hair.
In this post, Ricland claims that he has never met a single person from OTR who was not plugged into the criminal drug culture:
Again, calling the folk who live in OTR “poor” is a willful distortion of the fact, a distortion made to promote a political agenda. I lived in OTR for five years and never met one person living there who wasn’t a part of the drug-criminal culture.
One must wonder what Ricland was up to for those five years that he willfully lived with what he claims are nothing but a bunch of criminals!
Ricland goes on to accuse mothers from OTR as not having any regard for the well-being of their children:
In the main, the people who live in OTR are people who are either part of of the drug-criminal culture or people who prefer living within a drug-criminal culture. And this is to say, any mother who allows her child to grow-up in OTR is a mother who doesn’t have the best interests of her child at heart, a mother who’d rather live among street people than turn her back on the streets.
In fact, reading this paragraph makes me think I should take a camera and interview those Ricland here accuses:
Personally, I’ve come to believe the hottest corner in hell should be reserved for do-gooders like those who are destroying Cincinnati with their mindless charity. Crack heads are not the people the Bible told you to help. You’re putting out feed for birds the rats are eating. In fact, the rats have driven off the birds. Go to any of the soup kitchens at feeding time you see not the gentle and innocent poor, but hard-core crack heads and petty criminals thieves checking in for a pit stop.
Sounds like Ricland eventually wants a Westside political endorsement!
In any event, Ricland represents a new voice in the Cincinnati blogosphere, and we wish him well with his project!
• Share This Article!
 Listen to this article
Help The Cincinnati Beacon Grow! Participate in Social Networking!
Members
Register
Tell us what you think!
Anonymous comments are allowed, but you can log in above to stamp your name and to avoid typing the anti-spam code.
|