the journalist scored his dime bag on MLK street?

/ do they even call them dime bags anymore?
// so behind the times

LOL

Toby Keith BLVD is pretty pimp here. It's got a school.

Garth Brooks BLVD? Not so much.

MLK BLVD? You gonna get raped.

I drive on MLK Dr every so often here in Atlanta, when avoiding I75 traffic that has backed up. It's really not that bad.

MLK near me is a cruddy little connector street that runs from the back of a mall out to another nothing street that runs by some apartment buildings.

I remember MLK in New Orleans as being pretty bad in places. I don't remember for sure but I thought there was a project on that street. (or am I thinking of Jackson st?)

dj4aces: I drive on MLK Dr every so often here in Atlanta, when avoiding I75 traffic that has backed up. It's really not that bad.

check it out at 3 am and see how nice it is then. :)

I am convinced that MLK in in New Orleans served as the inspiration for Chris Rock's joke. Pre-K, you didn't stop at for gas at any intersection with MLK unless you wanted to get mugged, and I know some folks in school who did, in broad daylight, while people watched and did nothing.

I'm looking forward to their piece on the difference between black people and Attractive and Successful African-Americans.

In St. Louis, not only do we have a Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, we have a Jesse Jackson Avenue.

Ya srsly. Go to maps.google.com and do a search for "jesse jackson st. louis, mo".

elchip: In St. Louis, not only do we have a Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, we have a Jesse Jackson Avenue.

Yeah, but did you have a Dr. Dre Drive and a Tupak Shakur Avenue? Huh? Huh?

I'll see your MLKJr. BLVD and raise you a New Hampshire Ave. NE.

nukeim [TotalFark]: "Toby Keith BLVD is pretty pimp here. It's got a school.

Garth Brooks BLVD? Not so much."

Holy crap, you weren't making those up.

try it in Baltimore.

/can i have your stuff?

IIRC, the MLK Blvd in San Diego was horrible as well.

Gahbrone

MLK in Baltimore isn't *that* bad, but the streets right off MLK on the west side are BAD. Its basically on open heroin market.

Its like watching 'the wire' but live.

I have driven on MLK in STL. But not at night.

Oh, sure. But you want seriously dangerous streets, check out Honkey McWifebeater Lane in Memphis. It's like "Cops" every day there.

MLK Blvd., here in Cleveland has two sections, one leading South from University Circle which isn't ghetto per se, but scared white kids at CWRU seem to avoid it. Going North, however, is one of the most beautiful stretches of road in all of Cleveland, with a long park filled with gardens on both sides and it goes all the way up to Lake Erie. The locals say "ZOMG! DON'T JOG THERE AT NIGHT!!" but that goes without saying in any park in any major city.

On the local MLK here, it isnt that crime ridden, but I have driven on dirt roads 10x smoother.

MLK Blvd. in Lansing is okay. Certainly no uglier than any other Lansing street...which are, in Lansing, ugly as all hell.

Please don't base your investigative journalism around a Chris Rock bit.

More wishful thinking by the white guilt obsessed

MLK in detroit: NO GO YOU DIE
MLK in St. Pete: NO GO YOU DIE

the old "joke" had something to do with the fact that if you want to find the poorest blackest part of any semi-major city all you had to do was find MLK street or the Lincoln Hotel...

/wishes this were false...

No such boulevard, or street, avenue, or cattle trail out here.

/Lewiston, ID
//pretty laid back
///screw MLK Day
////just another reason for the slashies to have a day off

Maybe they should rename Iraq MLK Blvd

Did someone say MLK?


Bring on the bigots!!!

CtrlAltDelete: MLK Blvd., here in Cleveland has two sections, one leading South from University Circle which isn't ghetto per se, but scared white kids at CWRU seem to avoid it. Going North, however, is one of the most beautiful stretches of road in all of Cleveland, with a long park filled with gardens on both sides and it goes all the way up to Lake Erie. The locals say "ZOMG! DON'T JOG THERE AT NIGHT!!" but that goes without saying in any park in any major city.

Seconded. MLK is one of the most scenic roads in Cleveland. I drive on it every time I go down to University Circle or Little Italy (it's the best way to get there from I-90).

For a second, reading the headline, I thought someone was insulting Soledad O'Brien.

Don't.

:)

I would point out the Crack Whores but I don't want to appear racist.

Not here.

Curiously, Kelly Drive, named after Grace Kelly's father, is very nice with crew boat houses, top museum of art, sculpture garden, place where many take wedding photos, and a bike trail.


/Philadelphia's MLK is not very clean and people aren't articulate

Evidently, while in Oakland/Berkeley California, he only looked at the Berkeley end of the street.

The Oakland side, is how you put it, a shiat hole.

molineskytown: Certainly no uglier than any other Lansing street...which are, in Lansing, ugly as all hell.

Seconded.

I've seen both the MLK streets in Boston and North Las Vegas, and I wouldn't want to be on either.

MLK Blvd is probably the most crime-ridden street in Atlanta. Sure, you can drive through it without much trouble. A lot of people think if you drive through the ghetto random black people will just come up and shoot you, which is really ridiculous.

But I wouldn't walk it alone at night. No way in hell.

Most MLK streets I know of go right through or by the 'hood. I doubt you'll see one bordering a country club or gated community.

2007-02-22 11:38:23 AM kb7rky


No such boulevard, or street, avenue, or cattle trail farking Colored folks out here.

/Lewiston, ID
//pretty laid back
///screw MLK Day
////just another reason for the slashies to have a day off
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/fixed it.


Can you tell me what MLK could have possibly done to deserve your scorn?

Try MLK in New Orleans. They can barely keep the cockroaches fed and clothed.

Black PRIDE!

"What did Martin Luther King, JR preach? Non-violence and peace. But I don't care where you are in America, if you are on Martin Luther King street, there's some violence going down."

Chris Rock
/not verbatim...best i could remember

you're on mlk? run!

MLK in Atlanta has gotten expensive. My friend is selling his tiny condo on MLK for 280k.

dj4aces
I drive on MLK Dr every so often here in Atlanta, when avoiding I75 traffic that has backed up. It's really not that bad.

Agreed. Although I have only been there after dark after Falcons games. Then I'm too drunk to care.

Baron-Harkonnen [TotalFark]

MLK Blvd is probably the most crime-ridden street in Atlanta. Sure, you can drive through it without much trouble. A lot of people think if you drive through the ghetto random black people will just come up and shoot you, which is really ridiculous.

Well, I've walked it alone back and forth to Lenny's or cutting through the cemetary many times at night.

If you think MLK is the most crime-ridden street in Atlanta... you haven't seen very much of Atlanta.

2007-02-22 11:38:19 AM Discordian36

MLK in detroit: NO GO YOU DIE
MLK in St. Pete: NO GO YOU DIE

No shiat. While traveling on MLK/NINTH Street in St. Pete I've had bottles tossed at my car, a gun pointed at me, and some eight year old kid climb up on my hood, sit down and flick me off (all in broad daylight, although the gun thing was right at sunset). It's since gotten a little better though.

The funniest thing was an editorial in the Times that the fact that Ninth..er...Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior Street was one way going south (as in black folks couldn't take it to get to the north side) was just another sign of the endemic racism of St. Pete.

Err, make that MLK Drive. Leave it to a simple OTP like myself to screw that up.

Stay away from MLK Blvd in Newark, NJ.

That is all.

Our MLK in Oakland used to be called Grove Street back until I think the 60's. Why go through the trouble of renaming a street? They should have just named it MLK from the beginning.

2007-02-22 11:38:35 AM DROxINxTHExWIND
Did someone say MLK?
Bring on the bigots!!!


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2007-02-22 11:43:06 AM MooseBayou

Try MLK in New Orleans. They can barely keep the cockroaches fed and clothed.
Black PRIDE!

Hey! There you are.

Andric

I'll see your MLKJr. BLVD and raise you a New Hampshire Ave. NE.

What's that, near Brookland? Yeah, I've been to 'nicer' parts of SE. Oh wait, no, I haven't.

/had a friend who lived in SE off Mass.
//Walked MLK in Balto at 3am, getting out of FEVER. No cabbies would stop for us.