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I haven't seen any initiatives by the GOP that are going to help black people. Not saying that's a reason to cast a vote, just saying that don't try to play the savior when all you want is a vote.
What is supposed to be done to help black people? I'm not being racist... I really want to know.
My own personal experience is you can't help someone who will not take the advice and opportunities available to them. My experience wasn't with black people, but is applicable to all... in my opinion.
Because the politicians continue to make drugs illegal and won't do anything to improve the economic conditions in those neighborhoods.
Yeah the bulls*** war on drugs certainly isn't helping either. However; a good step in avoiding this s*** starts at home in having a solid family unit. No it isn't full proof, but these kids have a much better chance at life with a solid home life, and 2 caring parents.
Kids need parents. Active concerned parents who will hold kids accountable for their actions and discipline them when they need it. That is, in my opinion, the only real answer. Parents who make sure their children are receiving an education. Poverty doesn't have to last through generations.
And being poor is not an excuse for poor behavior!!!
The city would be sued out the arse for racial profiling if they did that. The liberals community organizers have created this entire mess. Guess who led the charge............
The city would be sued out the arse for racial profiling if they did that. The liberals community organizers have created this entire mess. Guess who led the charge............
"Obama, his wife, his campaign strategists, his closest cronies and his biggest bundlers all hail from Chicago. Senior adviser and former Chicago real estate mogul/city planning commissioner Valerie Jarrett and her old boss Richard Daley presided over a massive "Plan for Transformation" in the mid-1990s to rescue taxpayer-subsidized public housing from its bloody hellhole. How'd that work out for you, Chicago?
Answer: This social justice experiment failed miserably. A Chicago Tribune investigation found that after Daley and Jarrett dumped nearly $500 million of federal funding into crime-ridden housing projects, the housing complexes (including the infamous Altgeld-Murray homes) remained dangerous, drug-infested, racially segregated ghettos. Altgeld is a long-troubled public housing complex on Chicago's South Side, where youth violence has proved immune to "community organizing" solutions and the grand redevelopment schemes championed by Obama and company.
In fact, as I've reported previously, it's the same nightmarish 'hood where Obama cut his teeth as a community activist -- and exaggerated his role in cleaning up asbestos in the neighborhood, according to fellow progressive foot soldiers. As always, Obama's claims to success there were far more aspirational than concrete.
In the meantime, lucrative contracts went to politically connected Daley pals in the developer world to "save" Chicago's youth and families. Another ghetto housing project, the Grove Parc slum, was managed by Jarrett's former real estate empire, Habitat, Co. Jarrett refused to answer questions about the dilapidated housing development after ascending to top consigliere in the Obama administration.
But as the Boston Globe's Binyamin Appelbaum, who visited the slums several years ago, reported: "Federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale -- a score so bad the buildings now face demolition. ... (Jarrett) co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems." Grove Parc and several other monumental housing flops "were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the (federal) subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered."
Democrats poured another $30 million in public money into the city's public schools to curb youth violence over the past three years. The New York Times hailed the big government plan to fund more social workers, community organizers and mentors and create jobs for at-risk youth. But watchdogs on the ground exposed it as a wasteful "makework scheme." One local activist nicknamed the boondoggle "Jobs for Jerks" because "it rewards some of the worst students in the school system with incredibly rare employment opportunities while leaving good students to fend for themselves."
I don't see anything funny about it or the fact schools have to provide safe route maps to children to navigate through the gang territory created by the actions of the so called leaders of this city. I guess you do.
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And being poor is not an excuse for poor behavior!!!
