Talk:Rocky Mount, North Carolina/Archive 1

POV
POV —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.118.178.2 (talk) 13:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Old discussions
Previously I have worked with the project at Raleigh convention center which is at Raleigh NC.

to add few words to it I had got good experience as an Estimator. It was good experience to work with steel buildings situated in this state NC.

NPOV Issues: User:Jrhester has added many negative statements that seem to reflect personal bias. May be a disaffected resident or political agitator. Need someone more experienced to look at the marked sections for NPOV. 66.26.85.231 05:08, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Their is alot of gang and drug activity in the city of Rocky Mount. This is an opinion and should be removed from the article.
 * This isn't an opinion, its true. I live here, and crack junkies broke into the cars around his apartment, and our friend's house got broken into and his 360 got stolen, along with his digital camera. Plus I can't pick up the newspaper without seeing something crime related about this city. Gangs are a problem too. I know because of the fake wannabes at my school. And other schools. It isn't an opinion, its fact. Drugs too. My school went under a whole investigation because of drugs, and I knew some of the people who were involved. So, its a fact, not an opinion. Our 2nd highest crime rate shows it -Magikmm 02:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

The section entitled "History of Rocky Mount" is taken almost verbatim from the city's web site, http://www.rockymountnc.gov/aboutrm.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.33.141.36 (talk) 22:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Kaba Group
There seems to be some COI editing going on promoting the Kaba Group. There are claims that are puffery supported by the company's web pages and another claim is that "The Kaba-Ilco Corporation Headquarters is in Rocky Mount" yet if you follow the link, that article states the company is stated to have headquarters in Rümlang, Switzerland. I think these references to the company should be removed unless they can be backed up with reliable sources. Toddst1 (talk) 16:12, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Obscuring the Truth
Reading this article gives an impression of Rocky Mount that can only be described as grossly inaccurate. Try to reconcile the glowing description and history with this passage from a 2010 GQ feature:

"The cabbie had been raised in Rocky Mount (population 57,010). He left for Los Angeles in the mid-'60s, came back in the mid-'90s, and was at pains to recognize his birthplace. The Rocky Mount he had remembered—lustrous with cotton fields and tobacco warehouses—had evaporated. Integration had chased the white folks out of the public schools, consolidation shrank the tobacco industry, and the textile mills moved overseas. In 1999, Hurricane Floyd would roar in to finish the job. A decade later, Forbes would rank Rocky Mount one of the ten most impoverished cities in America. Even so, the white side of the railroad tracks that ran through the city—the Nash County side—remained pleasant enough. But things were different on the black side, the Edgecombe County side. When the cabbie was growing up, the residents in Edgecombe had been proud, hardworking people: doctors, schoolteachers, railroad employees. But then they died off, as did the jobs, as did something else in the community's soul that economists are at a loss to quantify.

"By the '80s, crack dealers began to operate in once respectable, now abandoned houses in the Edgecombe sector known as the Neighborhood. To the cabbie, the Neighborhood was as bad nowadays as what he'd seen in L.A. He drove these streets—East Grand, Myrtle, Highland, Carolina, Park—watching the same girls jump in and out of strangers' cars, day after day, year after year. Helplessly the cabbie saw the girls deteriorate as Rocky Mount itself had. At times he would lecture them: "You remember when you was young and the guys would pass up the older ones to get to you? They gonna pass you up, too!" But he could see they weren't listening. Didn't care about themselves or their children. They lived only to chase the ghost that was crack's finger-snap of a buzz."

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201006/serial-killer-girls-rocky-mount-north-carolina

Somebody with more knowledge of the area than I needs to correct this blatant skew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.118.178.2 (talk) 13:11, 29 December 2010 (UTC)