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Old 06-15-2011, 08:31 AM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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Now I am having a Guinness about to start painting the house again. Slainte aka Cheers

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Old 06-15-2011, 11:20 AM
 
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Default I will help paint,

If cab fare is provided.
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Now I am having a Guinness about to start painting the house again. Slainte aka Cheers

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Old 06-15-2011, 11:35 AM
 
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Default A Poor area,

Is not a ghetto. I guess you have to visit to appreciate this.
San Antonio does not have a ghetto. A run down area is not a ghetto.
A certain mentality permeates, a defeatist hoplessness the air in one, a pathos. If you cannot see this and identify with it you will not understand the
difference.
This is the difference, the decay adds to it , San Antonio does not have it.If the stats cannot demonstrate it and you cannot fathom it I cannot explain it here.
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My point is that ghettos do not have to be falling apart. A ghetto can suffer from urban decay, but it doesn't have to suffer from urban decay in order to be considered a ghetto. Not all areas suffering from urban decay are ghettos. Those two can come hand in hand or separately. Detroit is falling apart because its economy has collapsed. Again, a ghetto does not have to be falling apart to be classified as a ghetto. You are honestly telling me that San Antonio does not have segregated areas? Look at the ethnic groups that are in Stone Oak and Alamo Heights in comparison to the east and south sides. If there is de facto segregation in Detroit, then it was a ghetto before the economic downturn which takes me back to the point that ghettos do not always suffer from urban decay. There used to be a lot of good paying jobs in Detroit. You keep on telling everyone else that they are using the term ghetto improperly, but you are too. No one's arguing that San Antonio is worse than Detroit or that Detroit doesn't have serious problems, but you act as if a neighborhood has to be deteriorating like Detroit in order to be classified as a ghetto. That is not the case. If you're going to try to correct everyone's use of "ghetto," you have to use it correctly yourself. You were the one to introduce semantics. Other than that, I really have no idea what you're talking about anymore. You went off on an irrelevant tangent.

I am not naive. I grew up around drug dealers, prostitutes, and gangbangers in the projects and Section 8 apartments.

This is so true.

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Old 06-15-2011, 11:38 AM
 
Location: san antonio texas
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Is not a ghetto. I guess you have to visit to appreciate this.
San Antonio does not have a ghetto. A run down area is not a ghetto.
A certain mentality permeates, a defeatist hoplessness the air in one, a pathos. If you cannot see this and identify with it you will not understand the
difference.
This is the difference, the decay adds to it , San Antonio does not have it.If the stats cannot demonstrate it and you cannot fathom it I cannot explain it here.
a ghetto is a section of a city occupied by a group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.

this description fits the south, east and west sides perfectly. people live there due to economic pressure (IE they cant afford to live in the nice areas).

next!
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Old 06-15-2011, 01:25 PM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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Sorry Huckster just finished off the last of the beers, but I appreciate the offer. I did however get the outside of the house painted. You see drinking is okay when you handle it like you are supposed to. But do not fear because I have two bottles of Crown Royal in the freezer for tonight's baseball game. No driving...plenty of boozing yee-haw!!!!!
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Old 06-15-2011, 01:32 PM
 
Location: South Side
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this description fits the south, east and west sides perfectly. people live there due to economic pressure (IE they cant afford to live in the nice areas).

next!
Do you think every single person who chooses to live on those sides of town does so because they are broke and can't afford to live anywhere else?
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Old 06-15-2011, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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all of the ghetto ones do

couldn't resist..

and these ghetto definitions are annoying. For most of us, myself included, it's a slang term meant to suit our own personal definition. I do that with all sorts of words, like gay and b i t c h for example.
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Old 06-15-2011, 02:31 PM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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LOL! This guy/girl is on a roll!!! I love it!!!
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:27 PM
 
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Default I also,

Do not believe this statement.
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a ghetto is a section of a city occupied by a group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.

this description fits the south, east and west sides perfectly. people live there due to economic pressure (IE they cant afford to live in the nice areas).

next!
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:30 PM
 
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Default Question about house painting,

Look at the results of the Guinness paint job tomorrow morning , sober, and let us know how it looks.
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Sorry Huckster just finished off the last of the beers, but I appreciate the offer. I did however get the outside of the house painted. You see drinking is okay when you handle it like you are supposed to. But do not fear because I have two bottles of Crown Royal in the freezer for tonight's baseball game. No driving...plenty of boozing yee-haw!!!!!
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