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Real Bronx Tours are taking mainly White Europeans and Australians on a tour of the Bronx with stops for photo ops at a food-pantry line, “pickpocket” park, and housing projects.

According to an unnamed patron on the tour, one of the guides, Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, poked fun at impoverished areas, describing the South Bronx, in particular, as a crime-ridden neighborhood infested with poverty and violence, which has plagued the area since the 1970s.

At one point during the tour, Battaglia allegedly told the tourists in front of pantry line, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it,” Battaglia told the tourists. “We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.”

The bus then reportedly stopped in front of St. Mary’s Park, where she reportedly told the foreigners, “If it were 1980, and you said to me, ‘Lynn, I want to die.’ My answer would be, ‘You’re in the right neighborhood,’” suggesting that the park is unsafe.

Critics are slamming the ride to a real New York City ghetto as “disgusting.” Meanwhile, tourists are lining up to pay $45 for the tour.

What do you think?

Source: BlackMediaScoop