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The as-of-yet unnamed product is being referred to as the “Avoid The Ghetto” app by those who are concerned with where it will guide users.
“I’m going to be up in arms about it if it happens,” said Dallas NAACP President Juanita Wallace.
Wallace spent her afternoon at a rally on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and said she felt safe there, but fears the app may project otherwise. “Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Blvd. because my GPS says that’s a dangerous crime area? I can’t even imagine that,” she said.
Sounds like the Chris Rock jokes about how all the MLK Aves, Blvds etc. are in the hood.
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“It’s almost like gerrymandering,” she said. “It’s stereotyping for sure and without a doubt; I can’t emphasize enough, it’s discriminatory.”
Michael McNally, who was visiting Dallas Tuesday, said an app shouldn’t have enough power to label a community. “It may have a high crime problem but have some great cultural, social things you can do there,” McNally said.
Who knew there were cultural things to do in high crime areas?
“Can you imagine me not being able to go to MLK Blvd. because my GPS says that’s a dangerous crime area? I can’t even imagine that,” she said.
I wasn't aware that GPS forbade a person from going to the ghetto. Man, that must be one powerful unit they've got in their cars. Mine never forces me to do anything. What's it do? Say "Turn left. If you don't, I'm going to put a bullet in your head".
Saying that high crime areas have anything to do with race sounds racist to me. I've had way more guns pulled on me by white people (8 or 9) than black people (once). The NAACP needs to stop making racist assumptions that areas dominated by black people are the only high crime areas.
Who knew there were cultural things to do in high crime areas?
Spoken like a guy who's never set foot in a downtown Museum, Symphony Hall, or Cultural Center in his life.
Culture to him is starting race baiting threads ...whining about how oppressed he his by minorities.
LOL I live in DC the Smithsonian is not in the "hood" and I have been to most if not all of the Musuems.
I've even been to Frederick Douglass's House, now his home is in the "hood". It has a killer view of the city though. He didn't do too bad for an ex-slave maybe a lesson can be learned from his life for those like you who blame all of the ills that befall Blacks on racism.
Saying that high crime areas have anything to do with race sounds racist to me. I've had way more guns pulled on me by white people (8 or 9) than black people (once). The NAACP needs to stop making racist assumptions that areas dominated by black people are the only high crime areas.
Sheesh...you've had guns pulled on you 10 or 11 times. How does that happen. I've managed to make it thirty something years without this happening.
As for the app, it should stick to giving directions and allow the driver to decide whether or not he/she wants to go through certain areas or not.
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I got off the interstate in Dallas and a few other bigger cities unknowingly in bad neigborhoods. I am glad to be here to report this. Ignorance can get you in trouble with animals and man as I also caught a watermoccasin and nearly hooked an aligator, pay attention to your surroundings and plan ahead. I almost learned the hard way.
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