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Enigmajikali t1_je4105w wrote

Yall really think anywhere in Lakewood is "dangerous"? Because of... Cleveland... Why don't yall just say what you mean? Bunch of gentrification condemning gentrifiers. This is what segregation looks like, dressed up in liberal good intentions. Yall backwards as fuck believing you're progressive. Just say you're afraid to live around black ppl.

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Aggressive_Ad_4406 OP t1_je4obkm wrote

That isn’t at all what I was asking. I’m not familiar with living in Lakewood only visiting from time to time. I want to know about an area i would be living in from people who have lived/ had experiences there. That’s a very ignorant thing to say i don’t know why you had to bring race into it. All people can be criminals. I’m wondering about break ins, car jackings etc. Happening all over these days.

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Enigmajikali t1_je6aj9o wrote

This is what racism looks like here. The whole region is segregated on the same lines it has been for over a century. Bird town has been referred to as the ghetto of Lakewood since before I was born, but now people wanting to move into a progressive trendy area at lower prices put their eye on it, pushed the rents up so the original residents couldn't afford to live there any longer, and then complain about any degree of crime as if it's a pandemic. All the other comments to your post blame people from Cleveland for the crime. Know that that is what they mean. They mean black people, but won't say it. Closeted bigotry is what you can expect from your neighbors there. In reality, you're in no more danger there than anywhere else in Lakewood.

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el-ay-cee t1_je52utv wrote

When the shootings at Madison happened there were residents of Birdtown calling for an actual wall to keep "Cleveland" (read black people) out. "Segregation dressed up in liberal good intentions" is it.

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