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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | 8:00am
Microsoft Admits Patent on ‘Avoid Ghetto’ GPS Navagation Feature for Smartphones
Let the RDC convene. SOUND OFF: Is an app that helps the fortunate avoid those less than racist?
@Microsoft #avoidghetto
CBS News is reporting that Microsoft has recently acquired a patent for a new “Avoid Ghetto” GPS app designed to keep pedestrians from straying on to the wrong side of the tracks. It was only a matter of time as many of the Nation’s downtrodden neighborhoods have become gentrified blurring the lines between safe for white and better stay away.
“As a pedestrian travels, various difficulties can be encountered, such as traveling through an unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures,” Microsoft described in their patent application. “A route can be developed for a person taking into account factors that specifically affect a pedestrian. Moreover, the route can alter as a situation of a user changes; for instance, if a user wants to add a stop along a route.”
Harsh temperatures? Who wants their GPS to tell them when they’re approaching a desert with suddenly 150 temps? I think we can use other tools for that like our eyes. This seems to be a clear example of a pork barrell patent. Slipping the true intention under the radar. But despite the real intention is it inherintly “prejudice” or dare I say racist.
I WISH I could create an app for all the school-aged children to be able to “avoid the ghetto” but right now the best we have is education and even that app is severely broken and in need of repair. It all goes back to the fact that much of middle America is delusional. The think these “ghetto” conditions are the product of intentional neglect on the part of its inhabitants, that the poor are savages who are to be avoided at all cost and there is nothing to be learned or gained other than disease and perhaps their affliction of “poordom” by coming near them.
Microsoft isn’t the only ones guilty. They’re just the latest in a very long line of the ignorant. The real question is however, is such an application racist? I’ll let the RDC convene and deliberate.
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It’s a lot easier here in the Detroit area. The rule is simple: don’t go south of 8 mile except for the 1 square mile area surrounding the new stadiums.
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I have to wonder how practical this program would be. For people living in the area, they already know the dangerous areas. For visitors… how often do people walk around the dark corners of strange cities?
Co sign on that 1 Mr.Malcolm
2 be such a smart and well known company this is some dumb ass,ignorant racist bullshit. We all from birth try 2 avoid the so called “Ghetto” some do, some get out, and some are some what trapped . Yet this latest in a loooooooong line of racist jargon is just another way 2 make African Americans feel inferior about themselves and conditions. No one wants 2 live in the Ghetto but u can rest assure there are more minorities meaning Blacks, Latinoes, etc that can survive and possibly make something of themselves better than I dare say their “TRAILER TRASH” counterparts. I would like 4 microsoft 2 also add a feature on the GPS that includes all KKK rallies areas,any Trailer Trash, meth lab making,Wal-Mart shopping,NASCAR WATCHING,skoal dipping,cow tipping, BASS PRO SHOP coupon clipping ,KKKonfederate Flag waving,White sheet wearing, always staring, John Deer Tractor sitting on 52′s “and they spinning Ninja they spinning” having ass ppl and neighborhoods.
lol.. you’re sounding downright lyrical today.
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I especially liked the ‘skoal dipping, cow tipping, bass proshop coupon clipping’ line.
I can see your point about this making minorities feel worse about them selves or even more different. Maybe its more of a segregation tool than any message of hate or prejudice which I guess is inherently the same if you think about it long enough.
AmeriKKKa is all about division and subtraction Juan as well as Pimps and Hoes . I am sure u have seen it. They divide and separate with race of course the most common, age ,u can’t drink yet but u sure can serve your KKKuntry at 17 and get killed over some scary ass old politician greed. Class,education,gender,even religion and politricKKKs. No I am a Christian, so I’m right. No I am right since I’m Catholic,no Allah says I’m right . Obama is the worse President a RepubliKKKlan just posted on FOX .It’s all B.S. instead of being a label WE AS A PPL should think listen 2 the issue b4 forming an opinion. These ppl who depend on these gadgets, phones, etc are just being 21st century Zombies suckered in 2 keep spending and keepn up with something they will never catch. Put the phone down and see if u can survive within your own bounderies.
Yeah you just dropped some knowledge.
I would like to see how that would work in Brooklyn, NY where there is damn near a projects associated with EVERY neighborhood.
Nah as long as you Avoid Brownsville you can find safe haven somewhere.
I grew up in the ghetto. Some of us kept our homes up, many did not. Some of us tried to improve our lot in life, many did not. Some of us were not content to live that way, many were. Some of us worked and studied our way out of there, many did not. Sorry Juan, but there are way too many that indeed create “ghetto” conditions and are content living that way.
Oh beleive me I know. Ghetto I think is a mind state rather than a geography. I live in the hood but my crib is rather nice if I do say so. As long as I don’t open my shades too much and let the riff raff see my ish they’re too lazy to break in on the off chance I might have something of value.
I give them credit for at least being open about their pathetic ignorance. The neighborhood I grew up in has become a yuppie infested gentrified dump!. Slum lords have made it difficult for the “color” of the community to live there, therefore the “color” of the community has left to other areas of the city or different counties, while all your seeing now is vanilla everywhere. There’s this little thing that a lot are’nt born with that helps you avoid “ghettos” and “harsh weather”……..COMMON FUCKIN’ SENSE!, sad thing that a lot of these pussy fucks that need an app like this dont have.
Let the Chuuuch say Yes Yes Yall !!! Co sign.
Cosign!
Maybe the Avoid Ghetto apt should just be a redirect to Barnes&Noble.com.
Where is the Avoid Trailer Trash app? Hell that damn near all areas here in OK.K.Klan…homa. I would not be able 2 move around 2 much.
Avoid Welfare
I honestly don’t have a problem with this, app. If I get lost in some city, I’d like to know where the keep my ass away from.
Yes so true Mike but limiting it to just the So called “Ghetto” is just another from of racist propaganda from KKKorporate AmweriKKKa again where is Trailer Trash/KKK rally apps.Minorities travel 2.
I disagree.
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We all know that there are neighborhoods that people should avoid or be careful in. We’ve all come out and said that.
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If the app is based on crime statistics, it’s not really racist.
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I hear what you’re saying, but I don’t want us to go totally leftist like they did on TMZ live yesterday where they suggested that people have some sort of moral duty to shop in high-crime areas in order to ‘help’ them economically grow.
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m going to avoid high crime areas, and not really care what color the criminal is.
Ok true yes I want 2 avoid high crime areas hell we all do but also coming from a Black perspective. U don’t want 2 get lost traveling in those “Get Ur Black Ass Out b4 Sundown” Towns either and there are alot here in OK.K.Klan….homa as well as New York.
We even some back home in San Diego . Shout out 2 the 619 area!!!
And keep in mind, I’m from the detroit area.
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The population of Detroit is 80% black. So everything good, and everything bad involves black people. The criminals are black, but so are the cops. The citizens are black, and so is the mayor and the government.
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The whole black/white issue is diluted right out of most questions because of it.
Well, I guess it was easier for me to say “I don’t mind”, cause I have no racist connotation to what I said. Whether it’s Lil Haiti, or Lil Cuba, Chinatown, I would want to avoid the bad parts of those areas. Race was not a factor, just the outcome of being an unknown person in whatever hood I got my ass lost in. And it would seem that this app is aiming to keep white people out of majorly black populated areas.
As far as the trailer trash app goes, I live in the south, racist white people can come out of a double wide, or a 3 story brick house, it’d be hard to track’em all down.
I think Malcolm the point is to encourage GROWTH and Economic Development rather than promote seperation. (That sounded real fake politician right there). I think we’ve been conditioned to stay out of remote, high crime areas its not until they’re populated (Gentrification) that it becomes a priority to do something about crime. Avoiding doesn’t do anything for the criminals, the scared poor folks living in the ghetto, the politicians with economic and professional interests, businesses etc. The only ones who benefit is whoever used that app that day in the percentage chance that if they didn’t they might get shot or robbed.
I would rather walk through the “ghetto” than the trailer park or the ‘burbs any day. They see me walking through there, 911 gets called and the racist cops are telling me to take my ass back to where I belong, once again, you dont need an app to tell you what places to avoid, you need common sense!.