Mt. Pleasant, SC
This small municipality of 68,000 outside of Charleston, SC is noted for Patriots Point, the Cooper River Bridge Run and of course, the Cooper River Bridge itself. They boast mostly higher income residents and have some of the better schools in Charleston County...if that's possible. Their homicide rate is virtually non-existent. The local cops were often referred to as the "pretty police" back in the day. They didn't do much then, but looked good doing it. My, how things have changed in the last 10 years.
Every now and then they have a high profile incident or the cops piss off some hoity-toity who was breaking the law and the news media just plays it up. After all, it used to be a nice place to live.
When Wal-Mart announced they were going to build a new super center store in Mt. Pleasant, they had more opposition than you could imagine. The project was delayed for several years because the residents screamed it would be not only be "unattractive" at the proposed location, but it "would attract the wrong element."
It's been open only a couple of years now and the store generally just attracts some shoplifters and an occasional incident in the parking lot.
This time, it actually looks like the ghetto came to the hoity-toity Wal-Mart.
A 20 year old black male employee of the Wal-Mart was stabbed to death inside the front entrance. The suspect in the stabbing is a 19 year old acquaintance and no one has released information on what prompted the violence.
The thing that always amazes me is the drama and emotional outbursts that black women display in certain "theaters" where they have an audience. In fact, one of my favorite bloggers, Beat and Release, has aptly dubbed it "Shaniqua Theater."
If you pay attention to about the first 10 seconds of this video, you'll get some idea of what I'm talking about.
Then maybe someone can explain to me why they do this.
I now believe that the residents of Mt. Pleasant may have had the right idea....I am not a fan of Wally-world. Mainly because the clientele is often a scary sight and I really think that I've seen enough scary to last me a lifetime. Just go to the "People of Walmart" website and you'll understand my desire to stay away from that place. After a few minutes of viewing those peeps, you may consider poking your eyes out.
