I agree with you abtech, but what I would suggest to you is never give up, and if necessary leave Youngstown. The racial issues that have plagued this country since the beginnnig of time are not going to go away. So there is really no reason to debate the truth with people who are out of touch with reality. Fact is which we know as truth, caucasians comprise a larger percentage of the welfare and pennal systems in America, so there's no debate for those individuals that don't know the facts. Keep the faith my brother, God is always good and is and will always be in control.
This is a sad thing, I grew up on the Southside of Youngstown and at the time that I did the city of Youngstown was a gerat place to live and raise a family. Now when I come to visit my mother (I live in the suburbs of Columbus and I have tried to get my mother to move with me) I'm just in awe of the old neighborhood, it's just plain disgusting. Everyone that I grew up with left Youngstown because of the lack of opportunities, which I'm sad to say has probbaly contributed to the lack of positive roll models for the city's young people to follow. Education is the key to escape this abyss, but you one have to want it bad enough and two have a plan of what you desire to do with it. The biggest problem I see with Youngstown is the leadership was and still is stuck in yesterday when steel and labor jobs were king. How come there is no collaboration between the city and its best assest the university? Why is there no pursuit of hi-tech companies? The students at the university are the city's greatest assest, yet they come receive their education and leave because of the lack of opportunity. Youngstown seems to have no vision for the future. Although I don't agree with the racial ignorance of some of the posters, I know how they arrive with their twisted view of reality. Reality is the only thing that tend to make news is all the bad things that happen in the neighborhoods (it's not only African Americans, and Latinos) which these days seem to outnumber anything that is good. Until the people of Youngstown come together to work on a realistic solution rather then debate over something that is irrelevent as race (which has nothing to do with ones ability to be educated). It will continue to suffer.
Girl suffers gunshot wound in apparent S. Side gunbattle
I agree with you abtech, but what I would suggest to you is never give up, and if necessary leave Youngstown. The racial issues that have plagued this country since the beginnnig of time are not going to go away. So there is really no reason to debate the truth with people who are out of touch with reality. Fact is which we know as truth, caucasians comprise a larger percentage of the welfare and pennal systems in America, so there's no debate for those individuals that don't know the facts. Keep the faith my brother, God is always good and is and will always be in control.
August 12, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Girl suffers gunshot wound in apparent S. Side gunbattle
This is a sad thing, I grew up on the Southside of Youngstown and at the time that I did the city of Youngstown was a gerat place to live and raise a family. Now when I come to visit my mother (I live in the suburbs of Columbus and I have tried to get my mother to move with me) I'm just in awe of the old neighborhood, it's just plain disgusting. Everyone that I grew up with left Youngstown because of the lack of opportunities, which I'm sad to say has probbaly contributed to the lack of positive roll models for the city's young people to follow. Education is the key to escape this abyss, but you one have to want it bad enough and two have a plan of what you desire to do with it. The biggest problem I see with Youngstown is the leadership was and still is stuck in yesterday when steel and labor jobs were king. How come there is no collaboration between the city and its best assest the university? Why is there no pursuit of hi-tech companies? The students at the university are the city's greatest assest, yet they come receive their education and leave because of the lack of opportunity. Youngstown seems to have no vision for the future. Although I don't agree with the racial ignorance of some of the posters, I know how they arrive with their twisted view of reality. Reality is the only thing that tend to make news is all the bad things that happen in the neighborhoods (it's not only African Americans, and Latinos) which these days seem to outnumber anything that is good. Until the people of Youngstown come together to work on a realistic solution rather then debate over something that is irrelevent as race (which has nothing to do with ones ability to be educated). It will continue to suffer.
August 12, 2009 at 1:33 p.m. permalink suggest removal