Over taxed in Cheektowaga wrote:
Erie county is one of the most segregated areas in the US. Once you leave the city the black population stops at Pine ridge.
I can count the amount of black kids on one hand that are going to suburb schools , except for West Seneca East because of the
apartments on French Road. Maybe that's a good thing with the way they are shooting each other in the city. Quit having 7 to 10 kids for the sake of free
money and health care and you may be you will able to keep a eye on your kids and get them educated.
'Once you leave the city the black population stops at Pine ridge'.?? Obviously you missed your last eye exam appointment &/or are color blind. I have several white friends who moved from residences on streets that run off Walden Ave less than a block from Harlem Rd,that were once owner occupied by white families mainly of Polish heritage. That is several blocks past Pine Ridge Rd. Take a look at the area now called 'Cedar Grove' which used to be known as the Tiouranda projects. That is on Harlem Rd. That area has been heavily populated by low income blacks for some time, some placed there by the Belmont shelter group. Many of those residences are in very poor condition, not by their faults, thats what they had to move into.
Also in regards to the schools, a friends daughter who went to Cheektowaga Central, graduated from 8th grade in 2007. Her school was close to if not over 50% Black & Hispanic at that time. Any police officer in Cheektowaga will tell you that they are now contending with the 'carry over' from Buffalos East Side. As the original home owners move farther away, their once beautiful homes are being rented out to many Blacks & Hispanics. Don't get me wrong, a lot of those people are good citizens but it only takes a few, along with the 'I don't care attitude' of absentee landlords, to drive the property values down & to bring in the hoodlums to buy their drugs & to rob the defenseless elderly & kids as well as burlarize their homes. Shootings happen anyplace, anytime, anywhere, in the city or suburbs. Also as a former county employee, cash benfits are no longer decide by the number of children a family has. Some one had the right idea, mentioned in the Buffalo News recently saying that the parents of those 'children' arrested for shootings, stabbings, etc, should be held accountable for their childs actions. By the way?? Whatever happened to the "curfew laws' that the City of Buffalo passed a few years back, to keep those young people off the streets late at night? Obviously the city does not have the manpower to enforce it.