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Post by digger on Aug 2, 2008 22:52:51 GMT -5
It's official. My Windsor neighborhood is now a barrio. We've got Mexican music pumping from big speakers several nights per week. So much for anyone else sitting outside and enjoying the evening.
We've got gang tagging on the fences. We've got shady looking characters parking on the darker areas of the streets at night and drug deals in the park. We've got Mexican families moving into a house and then inviting 50 of their closest friends and relatives to come live with em. They're not keeping up their houses, watering or mowing their lawns, picking up their dogs crap so the neighbors all have to smell it blowing on the breeze.
I'm not racist, I'm just venting about a certain group of people that don't seem to care about the blight they are causing in my neighborhood. I have fruit trees in my yard, have for years. It wasn't until the last year that I seem to have to chase little Mexican kids out of my yard all summer for picking my fruit and squishing it all over the sidewalks. I actually had to chase off a mother and her son. What kind of mother actually takes her son into someone Else's yard and teaches them to steal fruit?
Why do we have to listen to their DJ quality sound systems day and night? Call the cops you say? I say BS. I tried that route. It gets turned down for a bit, but then it cranks right back up. Families walking to and from our local park are throwing their trash and empties in my bushes. Didn't happen when this neighborhood was mostly white. What's wrong with the trash cans at the park? I've confronted several of these families. They either completely ignore me, except for the kids who laugh or they tell me "no speak English, sorry".
What the hell is happening to polite society? Windsor is pumping a lot of my tax dollars into that shiny Town Green, but the rest of the town is going to the dogs.
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Post by Mink on Aug 2, 2008 23:41:23 GMT -5
I live in Windsor too digger. This "used to be town", now city, was a migrant town back in the day. That doesn't excuse their irresponsible behavior and I have and will call the police anytime I see a disturbance (fighting) or hear music when it shouldn't be played so loudly.
Our neighborhood has recently been improved in the last couple of years so now we have street lights and sidewalks. Neighbors are finally taking pride in their yards, but I remember the day I moved in and was shocked to see what I thought was a "black" man and I'm not racist....only to find out much later, the guy is caucasian. The only black man in the neighborhood is the oldest. An elderly gentleman, who shows respect for all and they reciprocate. I met him at a town council meeting one day and he explained how the tract home we live in, used to be owned by two or three families, him being one of them.
Anyway, don't give up. Call the police, I do, if they go passed 10:00 PM or if they start at 7:00 AM on a weekend. Another trick that worked for me is when they are quiet, I play my music loud enough so they can hear it.....and I know they don't like my choice, but they get the message.
As for your fruit trees, I think it is despicable when the parent is teaching how to be disrespectful and stealing.
The parks.....well, now I have a story there too and as much as some Mexican families disturb me, one day I took my kids to the park. I sat and watched as they played. Along came some teens (caucasians), and as they approached where we were, they looked and smelled of alcohol. One kid had a very mean look to his face. I don't know his story or why they made that choice, but I hi-tailed out of there. Of course, this was before the police station was local.....now I don't see these punks anymore, or the druggies at the corners or hanging out by Pohleys or fighting in the streets. Actually, the music has died down too.
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Post by The New Guy on Aug 2, 2008 23:42:27 GMT -5
a few days ago i had gone to SR for something and of course i saw several mexican guys riding around on their modify bicycles that double as ice cream trucks or novelty wagons. i said to myself, "thank god rohnert park hasn't devolved into this so far." later that day when i returned to RP gues what i passed along southwest blvd? you guessed it!
what next? wrinkled little old ladies holding out their hands saying, "chiclet senor? chiclet?"
that's what you see a lot in Juarez.
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Post by digger on Aug 3, 2008 11:48:25 GMT -5
Our neighborhood has recently been improved in the last couple of years so now we have street lights and sidewalks. Glad to hear your area is improving Mink. I guess most neighborhoods go in cycles, like everything else. I grew up in Santa Rosa and remember the days when Windsor was not much more than a wide spot in the road. Things have really changed. As I said, our neighborhood (built in the mid-eighties) has started to turn the corner and many of the original owners have moved on. Most houses are on their 2nd, 3rd or 4th owners. Yards are not kept up and the people (mostly Mexican) who have moved into them are not taking care of the properties. So many of them are parking their cars on the used-to-be-a-lawn cause there are too many people living in the house. This was always a quiet neighborhood, which is why I'm so upset. There was a quiet, respectful Mexican family living down the street from us the last two years. Their kids were nice, loud music was never an issue and they didn't have 20 people living there. Sadly, they went into foreclosure and now the house is sitting vacant. Other neighbors have had to chase kids off the property. |
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Post by digger on Aug 3, 2008 11:51:09 GMT -5
a few days ago i had gone to SR for something and of course i saw several mexican guys riding around on their modify bicycles that double as ice cream trucks or novelty wagons. i said to myself, "thank god rohnert park hasn't devolved into this so far." later that day when i returned to RP gues what i passed along southwest blvd? you guessed it! what next? wrinkled little old ladies holding out their hands saying, "chiclet senor? chiclet?" that's what you see a lot in Juarez. Oh yeah, we've got them in Windsor too. Lots of em. We've also got the kids standing on street corners selling strawberries and grapefruit. We've got more taquerias and tiendas than ever. |
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Post by Mink on Aug 3, 2008 22:44:50 GMT -5
Digger, I am from Santa Rosa too, born & raised. I come from a time where doors could be unlocked at night and no one need worry about vandalism or crime.......however, there are troublesome people and they come from any race. Because Windsor started out as a migrant town, like everywhere else, we are bombarded with the "wave". All we can do is, do our part to try and control it, at the same time ensure we all maintain integrity.
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Post by bolverk on Aug 4, 2008 0:29:48 GMT -5
All the work our parents put into improving life for their kids is being crapped on by the liberal mentality that we should just accept their culture. Well, that is wrong. Our culture is not being respected, and it is time it should be.
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Post by digger on Aug 4, 2008 11:50:44 GMT -5
I guess what bothers me is that we're expected to politically and socially embrace and cater to the wants and needs of these people.
At the same time, the thanks we get in many cases is a Mexican flag waving in our face and shouts of "Viva Mexico".
In reference to Minks response above; yes I know that crime and urban blight are caused by many different races, not just Mexican. However, my whole purpose of starting this thread was to vent over what this particular group is doing to my particular neighborhood and the Something-For-Nothing views which end up costing me as a taxpayer.
My wife is an elementary school teacher in Santa Rosa. She's a lone conservative awash in a staff of almost militant left wingers. Her school serves a 99% Hispanic population. Every school year she comes home with stories of how the parents of these kids expect to be catered to, yet take no responsibility at all for the behavior and education of their kids. Most of these kids receive free lunch. Why? Not because they're poor (just look at the big SUV's and sports cars they drive) but because they filled out a form which states that they don't make enough money to buy their kids a hot lunch. The kicker here is that these forms are taken at face value by the school district and no income is ever verified.
Further, some of these kids are sent to school with huge bags of Cheeto's and a liter of Pepsi...for lunch, that's it. What happened to teaching your kid the importance of eating right?
Each year, my wife receives zero parent participation in terms of classroom volunteers; Nor to most of the parents bother showing up for parent-teacher conferences. My wife sits alone in her classroom after school all week and no one ever shows. However she's required to sit there and wait.
Every year my wife send each child home with a list of items required for that year's school work...backpack, pencils, scissors, etc. (No, the schools don't provide these anymore for the most part). Each year, the story is the same, parents complain they can't afford it and fail to send their kids to school with these supplies. Yet some of these parents can afford Blackberry's, SUV's, lots of rings, bracelets, etc. My wife ends up buying all of these things out of her paycheck
OK, enough ranting on that. I just wanted to point out that these parents are teaching their kids to take advantage of the system, not care what their neighborhoods look like and to generally demand that they receive something for nothing, and I'm getting tired of it.
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Post by Mink on Aug 4, 2008 15:20:51 GMT -5
I guess what bothers me is that we're expected to politically and socially embrace and cater to the wants and needs of these people. At the same time, the thanks we get in many cases is a Mexican flag waving in our face and shouts of "Viva Mexico". When you put it that way, I have to agree with you. It makes me sick too! I've seen some on social programs with nice cars, beautiful clothes for their families. They don't teach their children about birth control, don't encourage education or abiding by rules and laws. Some are very respectful and responsible, but there are too many more that aren't. We need to put more pressure on our politicians-that's it! |
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Post by digger on Aug 4, 2008 16:08:57 GMT -5
I guess what bothers me is that we're expected to politically and socially embrace and cater to the wants and needs of these people. At the same time, the thanks we get in many cases is a Mexican flag waving in our face and shouts of "Viva Mexico". When you put it that way, I have to agree with you. It makes me sick too! I've seen some on social programs with nice cars, beautiful clothes for their families. They don't teach their children about birth control, don't encourage education or abiding by rules and laws. Some are very respectful and responsible, but there are too many more that aren't. We need to put more pressure on our politicians-that's it! Amen sister!!! ;D You were able to say in a few words what it took me several posts to do. |
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Post by subdjoe on Aug 7, 2008 10:13:16 GMT -5
When you put it that way, I have to agree with you. It makes me sick too! I've seen some on social programs with nice cars, beautiful clothes for their families. They don't teach their children about birth control, don't encourage education or abiding by rules and laws. Some are very respectful and responsible, but there are too many more that aren't. We need to put more pressure on our politicians-that's it! Amen sister!!! ;D You were able to say in a few words what it took me several posts to do. It is the same old story - WE are expected to embrace, respect, and celebrate (a word which has lost all meaning these days) THEIR culture and ways. But no one is expected to do the same for American culture. |
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Post by digger on Aug 7, 2008 15:35:46 GMT -5
Whatever happened to American culture anyway? I sure hope no one replies with the Melting Pot folk tale because that's not the way it's happening these days. At least with the melting pot the different cultures assimilated into American culture and embraced our society's values, rules and way of life. What we've got now is more like oil & water.
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