Baltimore, Maryland
posted by Paul at 12:31 PM
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Pictures of "Ghetto America" I have found on the web that draws up deep feeling and/or emotion of urban life in America. I take no credit in actually taking these pictures. To me it is art. How far are you willing to go to get that shot? Where is the most dangerous place you have been with a camera? post your pictures.
44 Comments:
I went to college in Baltimore. There were some very very sad areas, and a lot of desperate people.
yes, I can vouche for that, i have been there many times. My brother got robbed there... These pics remind me of the HBO serios "The Wire" great show!
it looks run down and dirty, but does baltimore have a lot murders, drugs, gangs, prostitution, and crime?
fuck yea Baltimore is in tha top 5 wrost cities in america
Toledo ohio
St.louis mizzo
Baltimore maryland
Flint Michagan
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I have lived in this city my whole life. I am 32 married with 2 kids. I actually live in White marsh. Unfortunately I have to work in Baltimore. It is a damn ghetto. I don't understand why housing is so expensive here either. I am moving to western md in less than 2 years. I am so glad to get away from this place. I would never send my kids to and schools here. Everything is overcrowded and traffic sucks. Who would pay 600k on up to live in Canton or Fells Pt? I am only going to live once and there has to be better places to live and work outside this dump. I live in a 1200 sq ft. townhome which I paid 100k 5 yrs ago. Now they are selling for 230-269k. A single family sells for 450 and up. I have a good job and I can't see spending that money or even thinking about spending that money and have all these problems. And nobody will tell it how it really is. Come to Baltimore and see for yourself. Enough of me bitching, Im back to cleaning my guns.
there is actually some pretty nice looking spots in baltimore. and i love it there. but there are certin spots are streets that are nothing but drugs, gangs, and crimes. people there are not really bad people...its the bad choices they make........
i'm a white guy in a very high drug trafficing rate naiborhood. I have no problems what so ever with any one here. The kids selling drugs understand i don't do it and even look out for me.
I'm a trini living in baltimore and you whites or who eva better stop talkin about the hood cause you dont know how hard life is for color people and black people.
I'm a trini living in baltimore and you whites or who eva better stop talkin about the hood cause you dont know how hard life is for color people and black people.
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i'm a white guy livin in the b-more ghetto and other poeple can't understand what life we have. we have no money , no work so that's why it appear so poor but poeple who livin here are nice i have no probleme with them. just 1 time someone want to shoot me down coz i bit down is bro...becareful with who u have problems lol
its cheaper and a bit better in southern harford county; edgewood, aberdeen, havre de grace
all u scum bags just need to get a job and leave people alone
mutha fuckas dont know shit, both my parents are on the pipe and my older bro was shot and now cant play sports. SHIT IS HARD AND AINT GUNNA GET BETTER. west baltimore 4 ever
what the fuck baltimore has nutting on the callipoe,magnolia,and hollygrove projects niggas murda capitol
mane baltimore
at gon get better cuz we aint gon let it and for dat dumb fuck dat said white ppl dont kno how it is fuck u dont kno shit homeboy
all yu bitches need to shut the hell up ! yall don kno wats gud down here ... baltimore the best place to be .. only time it ain no gud place is for people who don fuckin belong there ! if yu ain from bmore stay the fuck outta bmore ..
im a mixed yungn only 16 yrs old, livin up in bmore .. grew up in bmore ... baltimore my home! i kno wat it like, erebody kno wat it like who live here .. but yu dumb ass bitches dat don live here, n only come here to take pictures of the ghetto places that you see and den go head and call my home dangerous and broke down don kno shit .. of course we gots our ghetto places, but bmore one bad muhfucka .. yall ever check how many tourists we have down here ?? n dem bitches be lovin it here ! so wat the fuck yu talkin bout ... and we got a lot of desperate ppl here ? fuck yu hoe ! yu desperate ! yu prolly some white bitch tht done went to college here lookn for sum black dick an ain get none ... baltimore ain no bad place .. we ain bad people either .. some jus done made bad desissions, some follow an others lead (trynna be part of a gang,etc.) and some of us jus ain gotta choice ! we get raised this way .. we get raised bein careful .. takin care of our pride, so we jus go head n do our thing ... we not bad nor is our place a ghetto city ... jus let it be .. baltimore ain the only place wit a lot of ghetto spots, and chea like i said we got nice places too, don jus always look at the bad stuff naw i mean .
What the fuck are these people talking about I understand you all but I sure as hell can't read this shit write in English I need some good day time hookers anyone know where a brother can find that in Baltimore?
A man yall niggas look some of den niggas in bmore just make wrong decisicions and cant help da shit fuck......i'm from ft lauderdale florida and i love the show the wire it influences me in some ways that i want to visit the ghetto part of ghetto bmore and makes me wanna do some thangs they do in the show but man look jus let people live the way they live and do wat dey wanna do shit (DEEPSIDE GOON 4EVER GET IN WERE U FIT IN)
u guys are assholes. to the dude commenting on "we aint gone let it get better" what type of shit is that? killing people doesnt solve ANYTHING that is why all these young dumbass black males are in jail. it doesnt matter where you're from, what matter is respecting others. Ignorance will get you nowhere! Detroit swag!!!
Livin' in Erdman, right off Manasota- rep the 410, and you harford countys need shut the fuck up like you know wuts goes on round here.
i aint never heard of erdmen, or harford ( unless thats that small city hartford) oooh so scary.....im on here, cuz like the one guy said, bmore intrigues the fuck outta me...from the wire, but before that, another miniseries, the corner....bmore is a bad motherfucker and i am so intrigued by what cities are bad that way, study them.....from bmore, to the go, to memphis, etc....im from minneappolis, it has its bad parts, but nothin like that---no disrespect to people in bmore, i dont look at it just as a ghetto, and its not just bmore...the whole fuckin east coast.......philly, dc, new york---its because thats the first part of the usa that began getting built, they have all them old ass projects, which, makes the ghetto...and the new orleans guy, sayin bmore aint got shit on ur 3 projects, ur crazy....yeah, new orleans ghettos are bad, and ur probly a gotti boy.....but, ive looked at lots a cities, and in my opinion, bmore is the toughest dam city in the world....bmore, is a bad motherfucker, u dont fuck with it
i also think its funny to anonomyous who responded, fuck yea bmore is one of top 5 worst cities, then made a list with toledo ohio first....lol....toledo isnt nothin....minneappolis has higher murder rate.....ur list should go....bmore, philly, dc, cleveland, detroit, the go, etc....flint yeah, gary yeah, but toledo is a joke....probly put that there cuz ur from there geek
this is the harrdest city ever
NIGGERS.
i used to live here for a long fuckin time. i lived out in owings mills and i had a homeboy who lived out in fuckin mondawmin or some shit. owings mills is aight but they seemed to have more drugs n shit then mondawmin. i went to mondawmin and essex and a few other places a few times and those places are nothin compared to owings mills. bmores my home and even tho i moved away (without a fuckin choice) ill always remember where i came from
Baltimore is a beautiful place. It got real bad problems but underneith it all it is one of our greatest cities. So much better than Toledo, flint, gary and compton. Ignoratn people will never understand the struggle the people go though. They are great people, its just sometimes they make decisions that dont help them. People in the suburbs are so prejudice too. They live in their lifeless suburbs not giving a care in the world while there are kids on the street that make them look like you know. Its time for people to start caring about Beautiful cities like Bmore instead of avoiding them at all costs. Since people avoid the city, THEY are a huge part of the problem. It's time for change in Baltimore
wow. what a wake up call this site is, and especially these comments are. I can't for the life of me understand what this country is doing spending all of our time and money focused on issues across the big pond, when we have places in this country that look like this.
I understand that you are proud of your city, but I can't understand why you don't take care of it! It does not cost money to throw away your garbage from in front of your houses or your street gutters. You claim that you are offended by people that criticize your intelligence, then why not take the time, why you are unemployed, to learn to spell?
I do not see this as a race issue anymore, but an issue of laziness and excuses to not take responsibility for the life you were given. I think there are potentials here that are not being liven up to, emotions that are being handled with knives and guns instead of maturity.
A lot of us have hard, hard lives, as hard as you, believe it or not. AND we work long hours, take out the garbage, clean our damn houses, fix meals for our cranky teens, fight drug issues, worry about our safety, live without spouses, etc. etc. But sit around and whine and bitch and blame everyone else for my plight instead of doing something about it is something I don't do. Neither do my hard working neighbors.
Maybe that is one of the reasons we don't live in a slum and you do. Food for thought.
yurp im from park heights and cross tracks dolfield. fa real fa real if u come to baltimore and want to enjoy it just mind ya business. if u get offered drugs dont buy if you get shot you shoulda ran quicker than the next dude but live life statistically your more likely to witness a shooting than be shot anyway stick with your tourist manual we have some wonderful very reasonably safe places p.s. leave the zoo before dark your parked in druidhill park
Baltimore is a very sad place.
The real problem with bmore is the parents. All the parents became drug addicts from the 80's and abandoned the kids. The kids became the parents, and sold drugs to their parents. Now those parents are now the grandparents, still on drugs, and now buying from their grandkids.
Bmore turned the family roles upside down. Grandkids became the parents.
Everything screwed up when parents started buying drugs from their own kids. CAN U IMAGINE?
Gis a suck la
the worst part about baltimore is the citizens. Most of them in the inner city think cuz of bmores reputation they automatically live in a dilipidated area when in fact their area is quite nice just inhabited by lazy people who would rather throw their trash on the ground than walk 15ft to a trash can or put it in their pocket til they can throw it away. That being said bmore does have actual slums/ghettos. Ive been all over this city with my job and been here long enough to see it from all over. A slum aint a slum cuz of some ignorant people bangin and slangin tryin to rep their "so called hood" it gets that way thru govt neglect and oppression meaning good people tryin to make it but being denied time and time again. Most of the people in bmore talkin bout their "hood" dont even live in the actual hood. They think some drug deals and homicides solidify it a slum well guess what the same shit happens in the suburbs. I live up in east bmore, collington square in broadway east a true slum. we got forests, not plants, forests growin out the sidewalks, blocks half torn down, dope feinds and prostitutes livin in the board ups, constant power outages, water that leaves residue when it dries up and corrodes teflon if it sits too long plus the highest homicide rate in the city. And with bmore being the most armed and dangerous city in america that makes my slum give the highest chance of murder in the usa. A SERIOUS PROBLEM that the city aint fixin ie. the definition of a slum. I believe that top photo was takin in my slum right around the federal/bradford street area all my slum look mostly like that. All that bein said I met people from all over usa east nyc, north and west philly, west coast, southside chicago, detroit, d.c., etc and all them agree the right parts of bmore aint no fuckin joke. I had this one cat the other day who grew up in columbia tell me that bmore was the craziest place he ever been. Long story short quit reppin your "so called hood" if u aint in the ghetto I know every section of the city so I know who u are. BMORE gotta change cuz we wanna live better. Im tired of keepin on my waist cuz some idiot wanna rob me for whatever reason. But i still gonna b here cuz it made me a man peace.
Im sick and tired of blacks and other people saying that we whites don't know how hard it is. NOT EVERY WHITE PERSON COMES FROM A RICH FAMILY. i was raised by my mother and there was 4 of us kids. We were evicted from our apartment the day i turned 19 .I started down the wrong path getting caught up with the dope and shit hanging out in places like EA and Cherry Hill with peoples that i was chilling with. One day after getting out of BCDC for a bullshit misdemeanor conviction i said to my self fuck all of this. 2 weeks later i signed up for the Marine corps and haven't looked back since. So please don't look at all white people and think we got it made. Until your ass is pinned down in a building in Falluja Iraq getting ieds blown at you ..I was wishing i was back in Bmore , don't tell me shit about no hood.
Im a true life 8 mile from 21217
Peace
OMG. YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT HARD LIFE IS. i live in baltimore but i went up to DETROIT FOR TWO WEEKS, it looks like a FUCKING WAR ZONE, it kinda looks like it got hit by a NUKE. their is so many murders in detroit and the fucked up part is their isnt 1 place in detroit that is safe. they have alot of bosnian people, albanian, polish,a few mexican, alot of colombian, and a fuck load of ARABS, BUT THE CITY IS MAINLY BLACK. SO TRY GOING THEIR THEY WILL ROB YOU FOR YOUR CLOTHS. 19% OF THE WHOLE STATE IS UNEMPLOYED AND DETROIT IS MURDER CAPITAL SO STOP BITCHING ABOUT BALTIMORE, HOW WOULD YOU FUCKS LIKE PAYING FOR YOUS MCDONALDS THROUGH A BULLET PROOF WINDOW. AND FUCKING HUNDREDS OF ROWS OF ABONDEND AND BURNT DOWN BUILDINGS. PERFECT FOR RAPES AND MURDERS. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT BALTIMORE ATLEAST YOU GUYS DONT LIVI IN DETROIT 313
Why do you expect the govt. tp come into these neighborhoods to "fix" anything? For one thing, when cops come into these places most residents are uncooperative or just afraid to talk to them because of neighbors thinking theyre snitching. Why should sidewalks get fixed, etc when the atmosphere is so dangerous or unwelcoming. Fur
thermore, most people who live in the ghetto (not all I know) don't pay taxes that pay for such things so they shouldnt complain.
I grew up in a neighborhood in the 80s and I made sure I would never have to raise a family in that kind of environment-drunks, drugs, violence,prostitution, etc. Though I did get pregnant at 17, I got my GED and went to a local college and got my teaching degree. Now I am a middle school teacher in Va.
No one can blame SOCIETY for keeping them from becoming successful. You can blame your family for not being supportive, but mostly it's your own decion to pick yourself up and make a better life. White people are not the problem. No one will hold you back so long as you represent yourself like a "normal" person and not a thug. A lot of people from the ghetto seem to be proud of being "ghetto" and they are holding themselves back because they want to be "thug" or whatever the word is, but they seem to want to blame someone for making them choose that life, when really it is their own choice.
I do feel badly for the good people that are stuck there because they can't afford to move to a safer neighborhood.I just wish they would not have children until they could move, only because it seems that their kids may get caught up in that ghetto mentality or may be forced into it my peers.
Natalie
that was my little pink and white car. The wheel feel off so I just left it there and bought a bike.
Born and raised in Baltimore, for people that are sayin shit about how its so ghetto everywhere, fuck you, yea i may not live there anymore but i will never forget where im from. People give me shit cuz they say that just cuz i got money now means that i aint hard, fuck you. I worked for hard. I deserve to be rich, but i still represent where im from every day and i will never forget Baltimore. 410 4 life
I live very close to Baltimore. I have found that many places there are gorgeous. We have many historical and nationally recognized places. There are parts of it that arent as good though. There can be a lot of things like gangs or drugs but you can find places like that anywhere. If your looking for a job that just so happens to be in Baltimore City, I reccomend baltimore county, where I live and where my children go to school. They have some of the best schools in the country and provide many safe areas... its about 20-30 minutes from the city
Oh there you ghetto people go again, shouting about how hard your life is.
You obviously have access to a computer. And please learn to spell, I won't take the time to read your illiterate sentences. Please do me a favor and kill yourself and your friends. You are all absolute parasites, and deserve to be wiped
off of the face of the planet. Stop playing the race card and whining about how hard your lives are. They are only that hard because you CHOSE it. I am hispanic and I am doing very well. I am 23, no children, and I have a bachelors degree. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone who whined about racism would follow MY example?
My father was born (1924) and raised in Baltimore as were his parents, and grandparents and greatgrandparents before him back in to the late 1700's. THey immigrated from Germany and Ireland and France. I would love to visit the places they lived and went to church and shopped and did business and were buried. But so many of these places are surrounded by what looks like a war zone(ghetto), and somehow, just by being alive, I offend the people that live there. It makes me sad to think that anyone lives under the conditions of drugs, alcohol, prostitution and the seeming lack of hope in anything good. It puzzles me that people who live in such conditions have access to high priced technology like the internet and computers? Wouldn't food and better living conditions be first on the list of purchases?
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