Black-mob violence and black-on-white crime has not
destroyed the entire American Tobacco Trail, only the small chunk that goes
through Durham, N.C. The “high crime”
part. The gang-infested part. The poor part. The urban part. The sketchy part.
The part that local media calls every name imaginable
except one: The black part.
Otherwise, most of the 22.5 miles of this trail is a
safe, sometimes bucolic experience for runners, bikers, strollers and even
equestrians. As long as they stay away from the trail near Martin Luther King
Jr. Parkway. Since 2011, dozens of people
have been beaten, robbed, pushed off bikes and threatened in that
part of the trail. All of the suspects in this violence and mayhem are black.
Though most of the time the local media is loathe to say
so. In the most recent assault, WRAL-TV described one of the assailants as
having a “dark complexion.”........Read more at
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