Black Teens Cause Mayhem at Delta Fair

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From the Principal Toyota Studios, it's Morning in Memphis with Todd Starnes.

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And it is a very nice start to the weekday here in the Principal Toyota Memphis Studio. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show. Great to have you with us. I'm Todd Starnes. We have some great guests coming up. A lot of political news here in the state of Tennessee we're gonna get to. Steve Gill, the publisher of TriStar Daily, will be here in just a little while. Also, John Covington, the Vice President of the Memphis Police Association, he'll be dropping by a little bit later on. We have a lot of local news to get to as well, including what happened over the weekend at the Delta Fair and Music Festival over at the Agra Center, making national news, national headlines, all sorts of mayhem. Now, the good news is that law enforcement was there. They were able to make a couple of arrests. And by the way, we have the full story, including video, at kwamradio.com. Again, that's kwamradio.com. And hundreds of you, hundreds of you have weighed in on our social media pages about what happened over the weekend, where these gangs of black teenagers started multiple fights and caused stampedes at the fair. And many families were there trying to have a good time, trying to enjoy the fair. There were a lot of people, a lot of people there, and all you know what breaks loose. Now, the Shelby County Sheriff's Department says that they had to temporarily suspend the fair because of the violence that these teenagers were causing. Now, it just seems to me that we need to, it is well beyond addressing this problem. I was driving, I lived, well, a couple of miles away from the agri-center, and so I was off to Shelby Farms late yesterday evening, pulled in to get some gas, and went in to grab a bottle of water, and there are these law enforcement, a couple of law enforcement guys there, about three of them.

It looked like they were heading in to Afghanistan. That's how they were outfitted with all of their gear. And the cashier, everybody was sort of, you know, taking a back, and the cashier said, what's going down? Where are you guys heading to? And the guy says, the fair. I mean, just think about that. If that's how law enforcement has to get ready to go to a fair, what does that say about the rest of us? And this is a problem that has not gone away, and this is a problem that will not go away until we can figure out what to do with these parents that are allowing their kids to become animals and really behave worse than animals. Animals don't behave like this. And this is a big problem in the Mid-South, and nobody wants to talk about it. That's one of the funny things. We got several comments on our KWAM page yesterday saying, you're the only news outlet in the entire city that's actually talking about this. Well, there's a reason why, because it's a racial component to this, and the media will not touch those kinds of stories unless it impacts their liberal base, which is why the media has been all over the shutdown of Riverside Drive. They spent $60 million to renovate, and most of that was your tax money. They spent $60 million, City Hall did, to renovate Tom Lee Park. They spent another $2 million to reconstruct Riverside Drive, which is almost impassable now. But they've shut it down over the weekends, and the reason why is they say they can't control the violence that's being caused by young people on Riverside Drive and in Tom Lee Park on the weekends. So they want to make it as difficult as possible for anybody to get down to the park. Now here's the problem. All of the neighborhoods in the downtown area are enraged because now that that road is closed, it's caused all sorts of gridlock. And I'm going to explain why this ties into what's happening at the agro center. So bear with me for a second. So the Downtown Association, we have that story up at kymradio.com as well. Downtown Association is, the Neighborhood Association, very upset. And they're demanding that Riverside Drive be reopened. That's, let me, the, this is why it's hilarious. We went back and looked at the voting demographics of downtown Memphis, overwhelmingly Democrat. So these folks, I feel their pain. But you know what, downtown folks, you get what you voted for. And I hate it for you. I mean, many of you live in those multi-million dollar homes on the bluffs. And I get it. You don't want to have to sit out on your front porch, watching the river boats go by as the gangbangers are fighting in Tom Lee Park on the basketball court. I get that. I, I feel for you. But you know what? You deserve it because that's what you voted for. So until you decide, liberal Democrats in downtown Memphis to actually change their voting habits, that's going to continue. And by the way, that's the same thing that's happening right now at the Delta Fair. And I know the organizers of the Delta Fair, some of the greatest salt of the earth people you will ever meet. Fine, fine people. And they put on a wonderful fair. At least they're trying to. But then these thugs, these gangs of thugs come in. And so I want to outline the problem here, but we also need to talk about solutions. And that's where you come in. And I'm just curious, how do we fix this problem, ladies and gentlemen? Because look, we've allowed these gangs of predominantly black teens to destroy our shopping malls. You try going down to Wolfchase Galleria. Drive down old, remember, remember the Hickory Ridge Mall. Go back, drive by there of just, you know, take some, get some, you know, Kevlar. Make sure you got bulletproof windows and hide the kids. Drive down Winchester, and take a look at what used to be. Go down to Whitehaven right now, and take a look, take a look around.