Talk:Port Tampa (neighborhood)

Someone wrote this in the History section of the article: "Although many do not realize the status of the niehborhood now.Fraut with shootings, drugs, and violence. Even though the city has demolished many of its former low income housing projects, the problem still persists in the nieghborhoods of Port Tampa." Can someone who is familiar with this area and its problems clean this passage up? -Schnurrbart (talk) 23:26, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Wow, that's exaggerated and unsourced. A quick search of the local papers didn't turn up any articles or crime stats supporting the assertions. I'm going to remove it for now. Zeng8r (talk) 00:09, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

The information that was provided about the area being mostly projects and lower income housing is NOT TRUE. Drugs and guns are part of every community in America school shootings in suburbs and use of opioids throughout. The residents owned their own single family homes in that area of Port Tampa. This neighborhood was a strong community that consisted of blacks that owned businesses or worked good paying jobs in the railroad, United States military, oil refineries: Gulf Oil, Standard Oil, Shale Oil; Long Shoreman on the docks. One of the residents, Mrs. Daisy Rawls had the first food cart businesses serving the port companies until she moved and purchased her own shop and sold goods. (Many of the children learned trades after high school and or attended college. Like many other areas the young left for other parts of the country for education and job opportunities.) Therefore, there were many professionals that were produced out of that neighborhood. Port Tampa produced engineers, doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, nurses and educators. The first black female, Theresa Manuel, track Olympian of Florida was from Port Tampa, 1948 US Track Team. The first black surgeon of Tampa General was Symuel Smith, MD. He attended medical school in St. Louis, MO and returned to Tampa to work. One the descendants of Port Tampa is Dr Kandace Farmer (Radiologists) currently she is the first black female to be appointed to the Texas Medical Board, and is currently the vice president. In an interview she talks how spent summers in Port Tampa with her dads family. Her uncles were doctors and her mother a PhD inspired her to go on to be a physician. Her cousin attended Harvard, the Stanford for law school, and finished at Oxford for PhD studies. Another one of her cousins is a University of Florida engineer. They all spent summers in Port Tampa with the grand parents, aunts and uncles. There are many stories that are kept quiet because sometimes opportunity can be thwarted from people of color when attention is brought. (See Black Wallstreet Tulsa, Ok Greenwood) It is sad but any black there always a negative narrative with black communities, but there is strength in those areas based from the churches and strong families trying to live their best lives while becoming equal citizens in our country. 2600:1700:571:1D90:2DFE:B61E:285D:9689 (talk) 17:08, 19 November 2022 (UTC)