First I'm not a fan of the Mayor.
Baltimore is were I decided to live, when my ex was kick out of the navy. Then it was a place were I had family. We choose to live here over him taking a job in California with good pay. When we got here we had to live with my brother and his family. Christmas Eve, we learn of how wonderful the people of Baltimore are. We had moved into an apartment and Christmas looked rather bleak, with only a drawing on kraft paper, for a Christmas tree and no presents. Our neighbors gave a beautiful tree, turkeys and gifts. The school sent fire truck with a large box of food, 2 chickens and a sack of stuff animals.
This was only the first of the wonderful things people in Baltimore have done for me and my girls over the years. Total strangers have gone out of their way to help. No were in the many places I lived have I met so many people, who go out of their way to help each other.
Sure there is poverty, crime and boarded up houses through out the city, but then what major city that depended on manufacturing jobs and faced white flight doesn't have problems. The anger that was express by the rioters has been building up for as long as I live here. I'm actually surprise that it took this long to explode. When I first moved here I expected things would be worst when it finally did. What happen yesterday and through the night was done by a small angry mob that saw Freddie Grays death as a chance to behave badly.
This morning, I saw the city I know and love come out to clean up the mess. That is the Baltimore that I know and love.
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In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair! -ElneClare
This Post is written in Elnese, If it was an actual Post, it would make sense.