Mayor of Indiana City Claims Race Discrimination After Delayed Utility Repairs
28th August 2026
Of course he does. It wasn’t the young black males shooting at utility crews, it was Systemic Racism!
If a group’s entire world view is built on the notion that they are perpetual victims because of their race, every time something bad happens to them they are going to go looking for racism as the scapegoat. In other words, they are going to see “racism” under every rock and behind every tree. They will even see racism in a power outage.
When it come to the black community in the US, though, most of the bad things that happen in their neighborhoods are directly caused by their own behavior.
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The delays in Gary can be easily explained by simply asking NIPSCO and checking with local police: The company had to hold off on repairs and find extra security for their line workers after scouts identifying damages were shot at in a predominantly black neighborhood. At least one NIPSCO vehicle was hit multiple times by gunfire and the workers pulled out of the area.