California’s Calcutta
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I saw a news item last night about how Mother Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity, have sent a gaggle of nuns to the violence plagued city of Richmond, California, that lies just up the road from here.
It says a lot about the abject failure of the local government when nuns look at your city as decided that it is so culturally primitive that they need to send missionaries … from Calcutta.
But this is the nature of politics in the Bay Area. Richmond has been a hell hole of violence for the decade I’ve been here, and a fair bit longer than that. City fathers have blamed the situation on everything except the obvious culprits of a cultural tolerance for lawlessness and the lack a police presence suitable for the ongoing crime wave. It certainly isn’t for lack of money, as repeated city hall scandals have shown there is an excess of cash.
Oh Calcutta! You look positively radiant in comparison.
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