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Old 03-31-2012, 08:55 AM
 
Location: DFW
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Legalizing drugs may curb the crime, but at what price? More junkies? I think the social costs would be enormous.
This is like saying legal alcohol creates more alcoholics. Those alcoholics will buy their booze if it's legal or illegal. Or like illegal gambling stops a gambling addiction.

It regulates and controls the sale. It's easier for a 10th grade kid to get drugs than beer.

While we are at it, let's legalize prostitution and get it off the streets.

Keep in mind I'm a moderate conservative who voted for Bush.
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Old 03-31-2012, 08:59 AM
 
Location: DFW
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Can you prove that whites PER CAPITA are 10 times more likely? Oprah was raped by a family member at age 14: he was def a child molester. Many Black girls get raped and it's mostly by Black males.
That's one of those lies you can do by statistics.

Maybe there are 6X more white perverts than black. That's because there are 6X as many whites in the US. Percentage wise, Perverts are just perverts no matter what the color.
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:00 AM
 
Location: MASSACHUSETTS
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Maybe if the White devil didn't push the Black man into a corner he wouldn't bite.
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:06 AM
 
Location: DFW
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Maybe if the White devil didn't push the Black man into a corner he wouldn't bite.
Maybe he would not feel like he's in the corner if he'd get an education, work for a living and raise his kids right.

Black, Brown or White.
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:11 AM
 
Location: MASSACHUSETTS
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Maybe he would not feel like he's in the corner if he'd get an education, work for a living and raise his kids right.

Black, Brown or White.
No justice no peace
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Old 03-31-2012, 09:28 AM
 
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No justice no peace
Really? With the name "sturmgeist"?
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Old 03-31-2012, 10:01 AM
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You have to prove that wealthy , college educated, professionally employed blacks kill at ten times the rate of whites and Hispanics before you can relate Blackness with criminality. The truth is that law enforcement uses young black criminals as a scape goat to prove they are doing some thing about about crime. I wonder what the crime statistics would look like if they really went after White Bikers gangs and the Mafia like they do young black men. I think police are a little afraid of the Mafia and Bikkers.
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:12 PM
 
Location: The Midst of Insanity
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W

Well that a start. White men commit more sexual crimes,and they also lead in arson.

Haha,you admitted there are more white pervs,something we already knew in the black community.

In any event,if drug laws were tossed out(Ron Paul spoke about this) there would be less black men in prison.
Do you have any understanding of basic statistics?
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I grew up in the horrible inner cities everyone talks about, single parent home, blah, blah, blah. I stayed in school and college and university. I decided to get into prep school after thinking the school on Facts of Life seemed better than where I lived. You may not be able to hold a kid completely accountable, but even a kid has to decide in the direction if not destination they're heading towards.
While I didn't grow up in the inner city environment, my home was single parent and poverty. I also broke out of the failure environment, due in part to a couple of good examples (friends) as well as wanting steak instead of beans, cornbread, and potatoes. My opinion has long been that the lack of positive role models within the family and community is the single largest factor for perpetuating poverty in any group.

That said, I'm curious: What provided the drive for you to succeed? Are there any elements that could be taught to those in the same circumstances?


Dano
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Old 03-31-2012, 12:45 PM
 
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Black youth have been killing each other for years, but the only time the news media gets involved is if there is a white person involved so Black political leaders can call it racist motivated. The news media is interested in making money and they don't care how they do it.


The killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman is showing how liberals – especially blacks – care more about getting the political upper hand than affecting long-term change in black communities. Blacks are used as props to raise political capital. The shooting deaths of two British students — James Cooper and James Kouzaris — murdered last April in Florida by a black youth received no attention by black leaders or President Obama. Three letters were sent to the President that never received a reply. “It would perhaps appear,” friends of the victims said, “that Mr Obama sees no political value in facilitating such a request or that the lives of two British tourists are not worthy of ten minutes of his time.” Why no national attention to the two Chicago men who were wearing hooded sweatshirts (“hoodies”) and were involved in a shooting that left one dead and five injured. This happened in the same congressional district represented by former Black Panther Bobby Rush (D-IL). This is the same Bobby Rush who wore a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out.
Why would the president have to personally respond to this? Murders happen in America all the time. The fact that there were British kids involved does not change this. I can understand anger at this not being national news, but why does Obama have to be involved and not just law enforcement? Surely no one would have asked Bush or Clinton to be involved. Heck, we have a vice president. Why not ask him?

Also, black people are not the only ones wearing hoodies so it is a bad idea to base illegal activity off of this. I see old, white people wearing hoodies all the time. About a week ago, this older couple were wearing Tarheel hoodies.
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