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[edit] Mt. Lebanon chit-chat
TooPotato added: "It is strictly a residential area, and is situated atop a crest about three miles (5 km) west of the Monongahela River. Mount Oliver has experienced some tough times of late which are associated with the slippage of the steel-making capacity of the Pittsburgh region. Idleness marks the place. Malevolence is common. Frowning, grimacing, and scowling exist, along with trickery. In 1910, 4,241 people resided here, and in 1940. 6,981 stayed in the borough."
Can you document the grimacing? GangofOne 00:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Mt. Oliver is known as a predominantly white, joe-sixpack, former steelworker neighborhood of lowered incomes and expectations. It is hostile to African-Americans from the adjoining poorer neighborhoods east and west, the gentrifying South-Side, and left-wing Oakland/U. of Pittsburgh to the north. It is best known in the region for a brutal killing of Charles A. Dixon, a black man, by a gang of Mt. Oliver Police, his crime being putting his hand in a bowl of spaghetti at a firehouse fundraiser. It is the first killing by on-duty police which a county coroner, (Cyril Wecht), recommended homicide charges on the officers, which unfortunately were never followed up on by the County procesutor.
So, if the author is a black man, it is probably quite an accurate description of his experience walking past the many Mt. Oliver white-only bars, although the language more suggests that of a sophomoric white high-school student.
Pittsburgh resident - 1 March 2006
- What year was the Dixon killing? This is interesting information that should be in the article. GangofOne 04:11, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Mount Oliver Temp -7 March 2006. I'm grimacing right now, malevolently even. Here are two links about the Dixon death:
http://www.cyrilwecht.com/journal/archives/positional_asphyxiation/index.php
