No joke. Riots are back in DC. I just witnessed some Virginia residents race off in their get-away van (duh, if you use VA license plates, we're gonna know it's you rednecks). Word on the streets is the copped a feel at some local bodegas in Mount Pleasant, just across from the burned out building on Mt. Pleasant Street. Pissed off by big prices they came up here to steal some of our "quality food." People on the streets--not to mention Pablo and Maria, the store owners--were visibly upset. Maria also runs a yoga class out of the couple's home a few blocks away, and she said she was probably going to close up shop soon because even yoga wasn't working to calm people's nerves and provide some karmic release. Pablo, who has an MA in cultural anthropology from American University said he'd studied riotology but never thought it would come to this again.
I heard some locals, who were smoking some butts outside Townhouse Tavern, say they heard it was a pregnant woman. Some khaki-wearing dudes walking up 17th Street just then turned around and told them they were spouting some hipster bullshit. "I bet that's just your bleeding hearts making up some socialist shit." So much for sympathy on Main Street.
Boy DC, first you repeat the ills of Reaganomics, now it looks like the start of the MLK riots all over again. Will U Street and Mt. Pleasant burn before some one stops inflation from running away with us?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment