What is your solution to black crime. 50 years of set asides and lowering standards haven’t helped.
Paying black reparations is the single dumbest idea ever hoisted up from the bowels of destroyed political parties. The person that invented "defund the police" looks up at reparations and goes "boy, that is a dumb idea."
I posted how. End their illegal businesses, which require illegal security and competition, by legalizing drugs.
They were promised 40 acres and a mule. It isn’t pie-in-the-sky idealism to try to live up to the promises we’ve made. You’re trying to argue the American word should be worthless and we should break any promise or treaty we want just for the convenience of those in power. That is disgusting.
Same way the North Koreans do. They have no choice.
Legalizing drugs is a key component but it is not a magic bullet for black communities. I waded out of one of the poorest counties in the United States and I know most didn't. The difference was what was in me, not by what somebody else gave me. I was hardened by the challenge. I tried harder when somebody said or suggested I wasn't good enough. Also, my marriage is bi-racial and I've lived through the snippy comments and I made things harder with my decision but I accepted that instead of trying to bash my head against the wall feeling sorry for the ugliness that decision revealed about people around me even in my own family.
You’re talking here about what it takes to be an economic success. We were talking about murder rate differences between the black and white communities. Poor white communities don’t have the same issues as poor black ones. It isn’t a universal race-blind issue. Your post and anecdotal experience is irrelevant.
Can’t fault people for enjoying the last bits of freedom they have while they have it.
Our society invented boys and girls? Hey red, if the caveMEN didn’t know about boys and girls, you wouldn’t be here. Smh
In all seriousness. Sort of. Every single race has been enslaved at some point. Oppressed at some point. Many way worse than what happened here. Those other oppressed aren't murdering each other like this. Literally every race has had some shit history from being the oppressor to being oppressed. The world is nasty.
You're an idealist that has never had to live under the consequences of your naivety. You think we're just a few scribbled checks and free drugs away from everyone getting along.
You’re conflating a multitude of different issues in this post. Kanye and Kyrie are not shooting a rival in their neighborhood. Violence in predominantly black areas existed long before whatever “wokeisms” you’re trying to blame. And if you can point me to a single decade of American history where this supposed “free market of ideas” actually existed I’d appreciate it. I’m not the one who’s being an idealist here.
I disagree. I posted earlier what I thought we should do legally and politically, but there also must be a cultural wide acceptance of personal responsibility over victimhood and that's what I was talking about in that post. Don't accept your circumstances and don't believe the game is so rigged you never have a chance so why try.
Plenty of Americans vote Democrat. They don’t have the same issues with murder rates. Democratic politics is not the common denominator.
You're not reading all of what I am posting, obviously. Decriminalizing (to a great extent) drugs is a key component to defeating gang activity in minority communities. Stipulated. We no longer have to address that.
I understand you want to attribute your success entirely to yourself and your actions. It’s empowering. And false. You won’t acknowledge that it required a healthy amount of luck and circumstance as well as your hard work and dedication to arrive at your position. Many poor people, of all races, work extremely hard and never get ahead. Just because you did and beat the odds doesn’t mean that’s the standard. You’re the exception, not the rule. And it isn’t because you’re that much more of a hard worker than everybody else.
I know you don’t know me as a poster since you’re a drop in. But I have never once advocated for censorship. I’m old enough to remember when the left were the ones being censored. But public speech is a complicated issue. I don’t have the answer. But Kyrie and Kanye suffering consequences for antisemitic comments isn’t censorship. They’re free to say whatever they want. And they invite the consequences of said speech. They haven’t been arrested or prosecuted. That is all our right to free speech entails. I too would prefer the open and honest community conversation in the free marketplace of ideas you’re outlining. But how do we accomplish such? When have we ever had it?
First of all there is a significant correlation between poverty rate and violent crime. That is well-established.
Can't homos hate other homos lol?
The statistics are what they are. It isn’t just media coverage. Like a typical lib you want to address thoughts and feelings rather than material conditions.
I don't have time to get in a long political discussion, but I want to give you credit for a good post. I do agree with a freedom to express ideas and personal responsibilities. I grew up in a rural area where most people were pretty much like me. Joining the military was a cultural shock to me. I got to travel much of the world. It gives one the opportunity to learn about other people and how to get along with them. We have to freely express our ideas to get to know each other.
