Whenever you actually go to the geographic focus of an idea or discussion, your pre-conceived ideas are often made obsolete.
As I approached the intersection of E123 and Imperial, I couldn’t help but notice that almost all the houses on E123 were dark. It was 6:45pm. Imperial is about 3 or 4 blocks south of Buckeye. Empty two story buildings on the corners, and dark houses in between.
The people couldn’t be the problem here. They couldn’t have caused this blanket effect.
The government has to be the problem. Absolutely has to be the problem.
Then I got to the vigil. (image above)
The following image is taken from the corner variety and is a fair representation of the night's activity.
But part of my job for Realneo is to take this night vigil and image it from every angle - get the stapled posters on every telephone pole - so that when I return to the computer with a quiver of arrows I am ready to create a convincing and pursuasive report for every reader - whatever. Story could be: coroner is good, or coroner is bad. Black on Black is good, Black on Black is bad. Cleveland sending white cops to sit in cruisers is good, Cleveland sending white cops to talk with me is bad. Sausage next to warehoused corpses may be a blessing, sausage employees have been out of work since crime tape went up is bad.
The Realneo job is to get the images to create pursuasive support for any and all of these stories.
Moral: nEVER believe anything (you read) or any images you see.
Only rely on your own head and your own sense of what is right. Question everything.
Realneo's here to twist your conventional thoughts...twist your outlook, your head...off
My appologies to those of you who have commented on this post as I have been editing and altering it. The more I think about all the dark, abandoned, vacant, cold houses that I saw on the way to this vigil, the more I am convinced that the Imperial crime is much larger than one house of corpses. The City of Cleveland is warehousing thousands of dead homes. And the smell isn't just of sub-prime, but of local government complicitcy.
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