White families moving back into the cities. (middle-class, crime)
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Look if it was that easy, Why didn't our leaders hammer out the illegal drug trade long ago? It shouldn't exist at all with your reasoning. You have to look into the reasons that we have it in the first place and the reasons why only a small percentage of us really have to live with the day to day realities of it. This has never been an issue about "just some neighborhood thugs".
Look if it was that easy, Why didn't our leaders hammer out the illegal drug trade long ago? It shouldn't exist at all with your reasoning. You have to look into the reasons that we have it in the first place and the reasons why only a small percentage of us really have to live with the day to day realities of it. This has never been an issue about "just some neighborhood thugs".
I'm a fairly young guy, so I've seen "some neighborhood thugs". I grew up in a town that was 95% white, so I did not see any thugs in my neighborhood. I could go to the next town over, where the white population was less, so the white kids would hang out with minorities. They were horrible, these kids thought they were tough ****, and the white kids would call us "*****" and they legitimately thought they were from the ghetto, and they turned a nice suburb in an unpleasant place, because they brought in trash that came from somewhere up in their mind. the minority kids didn't bring it in, if they're living in a suburb, then they're coming from a good family. however, the kids idolize these "gangsters" they see on tv and they beat up kids and all sorts of stuff. they had no respect for women, because I dated a girl from another high school and she told me the wannabe thugs that she would to school with were calling her degrading names for a female, grabbing her butt, and treating her like she was trash from the street infested with STD's, when in fact she was just a nice girl from a nice town with a few bad apples in it. she and I hit it off pretty well . yeah, she liked the nice white boy, as opposed to the wannabe gangster white boys of her school, and the black and hispanic kids they hung out with.
the point is, is that these guys are usually harmless. but they're stupid, so you can't trust them and they're unpredictable. i thought it was nice that I grew up in an area that didn't have that. my town was mostly white, and the towns with these "thugs" were only about 85% white, with larger minority populations. I am NOT making any conclusions, I am just stating facts. I am NOT saying that when minorities move into a town, they trash it up. Because that is an offensive and an untrue statement, I'm sure the fact that one town has more minorities is not the cause of the wannabe thug whiteboys. I'm just pointing out that my town did not have that problem, and if it did, it was on a much lower scale.
When I have kids in about 10-15 years, I wouldn't want my daughters hanging out jerks like that. My sons, I wouldn't be worried about, as long as they respect people and don't do anything stupid and embarass the family, I'm fine. You gotta watch out for your girls though. Any of you guys who have younger sisters, you know what I'm talking about. Same if you're older and you have daughters, you're always watching out for them. It was young and stupid at the time, but I would always worry about my girlfriend being bothered by those type of guys. Maybe that's why we're still close today.
I don't know anyone who hasn't seen a thug or two in their lifetime.
Until you actually have kids you don't really know what kind of parent you will be. But that is way off topic.
Middle class assumes that people have reached a certain status and they have certain options because of it. Adults have to make real life decisions and most people don't want to make their life or their children's lives more difficult and more complicated. That is just more common sense.
I live in a town where, within 500 feet of each other are multimillion dollar homes and a low and middle income housing project. The vast majority of people who live in the project are African american, asian, and hispanic. The vast majority of people who live in the private homes (not all are multimillion dollar single family homes, some are single million dollar homes and there are plenty of apartments) are white.
All the kids go to the same neighborhood school. They are friends. However, I am amazed at how quickly the richer people judge the poorer people. People assume that poorer people or people with brown skin have dangerous homes, have drug problems and behave poorly. They don't realize that the same things go on behind the doors of the 20 room mansion. We don't hear about it because no one heard it and called the police, or they were quicker to hire a lawyer to hush things up.
Look if it was that easy, Why didn't our leaders hammer out the illegal drug trade long ago? It shouldn't exist at all with your reasoning. You have to look into the reasons that we have it in the first place and the reasons why only a small percentage of us really have to live with the day to day realities of it. This has never been an issue about "just some neighborhood thugs".
I don't know what you are disagreeing with me on. I never meant to imply anything in this would be easy. As far as my reasoning goes, I think it's my fault as far as how I explained myself. Rather than argue back and forth, because I mostly agree with what I've read of your posts, what would you suggest in this?
Nearly 9% of all whites in NJ are below the poverty line, so it probably is not a good idea to simply associate poverty with blacks.
Cities are where many poor people, white and black, are trapped. There are both rich black and white people in the suburbs, and neither generally wants to go back simply because life is better in the suburbs.
Racially-motivated threads like this are useless and inflammatory and simply show the bad side of everyone involved.
I tend to agree. We do have some old cities in the northeast that are very racially segregated though. I do agree as I stated in an earlier post that the cities are diverse whether they have Euro peeps or not. There is no reason that I can think of to title the post "white families moving" unless you think that is really the issue. People are dealing with this dilemma on a daily basis across America. Just people.
Nearly 9% of all whites in NJ are below the poverty line, so it probably is not a good idea to simply associate poverty with blacks.
Cities are where many poor people, white and black, are trapped. There are both rich black and white people in the suburbs, and neither generally wants to go back simply because life is better in the suburbs.
Racially-motivated threads like this are useless and inflammatory and simply show the bad side of everyone involved.
Between whites and blacks, there is a large disparity in the poverty numbers. There is no comparison; thus your citation of the 9% rate for whites is meaningless. So, too, is the fact that so many poor blacks are concentrated in certain areas. I know of no intellegent person alive in 2009 America that thinks only one race has poor people. That association died with my Father in 1972 for most decent Americans.
Do you know anyone that is NOT disturbed by this? I don't. I want every man and woman in this country to get as far as they can based upon talent and merit. And if any prick tries to hold them back because of racism, I want them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Why is this a "racially motivated thread"? Because it talks about race? Didn't we just get told we are a "nation of cowards" because we DON'T talk like this?
Tell mw how we can NOT be cowards and still meet your standard of not being "racially motivated" in this. I'm all ears and waiting.
The thread is titled "white familes moving". I think that is the point.
Many types of familes are forced out of areas because of terrible conditions and might harbor a secret wish to move back (under better circumstances). These days frequently people in this circumstance are not white, so what is the point of making that case?
Racism is systemic and very subtle in the case of individuals often. How on earth do you think that is prosecutable?
Do you live on planet earth?
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