Talk:Cherry Hill, Baltimore

message: Cherry Hill, if you are white and are caught drving or walking through the projects you will arrested, period, day or night. Maybe it's for your protection, or from what I have seen there, it is like Baghdad. I am not sure, but in either case this is a problem. Baltimore has a lot of history, lets not allow drugs and homicides become its lagacey, after all Baltimore is one of the highest ranking city for herion use in the US. "War on drugs", they should call it "surrender on drugs."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chip108 (talk • contribs) 12:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: OK, I'm a white middle-class Baltimore resident, and while I probably wouldn't walk around Cherry Hill alone at night, the original version of this article made the neighborhood sound like Baghdad and was way, way over the top.  The statement about "thousands of lives" being lost is particularly ludicrous -- the entire city of Baltimore averages less than 300 homicides a year, and Cherry Hill makes up less than 2 percent of Baltimore's population.  Its reputation for violence certainly merits a place in this article, but I think the current version is a lot more appropriate for an encyclopedia.  --Jfruh 18:18, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cherry Hill is not Beirut

message: Being a 22 year old female living in the city of Baltimore, I have seen a lot of gruesome sites, heard a lot of terrifying stories and had an enormous account of uncomfortable encounters, but none compared to the outturn of Cherry Hill. I resided in Cherry Hill for a long time and left the town in 2005 when I had my son. But even when I lived in Cherry Hill, it was peaceful, loving, welcoming; A community that fought for itself and welcomed change. But what has happened so suddenly that has made it change so drastically. It went from a place that was rarely on the news to the news' front page. From a place of peace and serenity to a town that protests cults such as the "blood's" in a positive way stating that if you're not a blood then you might as well be from your mother's womb and a place where murder and crime seem to be your only options. Is anyone thinking about the children and how these actions may affect their behavior. How 50 something years from now we'll be the elderly ones saying we wish that it would stop when we were either the ones causing it or too much of a coward to stop it. Do you remember 5 years ago when we had so much fun sneaking in the outdoor swimming pool and now no one can enter it because no one took their job seriously and people had to pay for it with their lives. Cherry Hill used to be the only place where you could live like you were in the 50's- a time in history where you could sleep with your door wide open. Now there is no place for refuge. Soon the rumor of "white people" (i.e. Donald Trump) buying Cherry Hill, removing it's people and turning it into a tourist attraction will be laid to rest. Because they will do it and the city will not protect us, because it's our own fault, our own neglect that got us here. Cherry Hill was and still is a predominately black neighborhood with thriving black-owned businesses. But guess what at the rate we're going it won't be. It more than likely will a modern dessert. Where either we have killed one another off or someone bought us out and ignorant people who don't know how to let go of the past run them out and then there will be no houses, no schools and no stores and all we will have left to do is say I remember when..... People it's up to you. Store owners fight to keep your businesses. Drug dealer's if you are going to continue to do what you do then don't recruit children and advertise to them that they need to stay in school, not do drugs, and not be like you. Parents fight for your children. Teach them the way to live and not the way to survive. Or (and this goes out to all of you) your child could be the next dead body on the streets or on the news, because someone didn't care enough to think that they were a child and treated your child the way that life has so harshly treated them. Just think about it!!!!! Please!!!--Fightforourcity 00:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cherry Hill.....What happened?