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Yeah, America "lost" its cities to black people. Even stepping into a city is risking your life because some black person will just murder everyone they see.
/sarcasm
I haven't even heard bigoted fear like this outside of Stormfront occasionally being so stupid people need to mock it.
Get help for this kind of paranoid fear.
Being murdered is not a big fear for me if I chose to move to the inner city.
But what would be a certainty would be loud music, much higher chances of home invasion/burglary, being assaulted verbally or physically and just living with much more stress.
Who benifited the most by that assassination? Other black leaders? I am not saying thry were behind it but i am sure they were happy to change MLK direction of the movement. Wasnt MLK right leaning? He had meetings with nixon.
So what?
They were living and important at the same time...doesn't mean they agreed on much.
Here is what Kevin Williamson wrote in another article earlier in the week after a trip to East St. Louis
“‘Hey, hey craaaaaacka! Cracka! White devil! F*** you, white devil!” The guy looks remarkably like Snoop Dogg: skinny enough for a Vogue advertisement, lean-faced with a wry expression, long braids. He glances slyly from side to side, making sure his audience is taking all this in, before raising his palms to his clavicles, elbows akimbo, in the universal gesture of primate territorial challenge. Luckily for me, he’s more like a three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg, a few inches shy of four feet high, probably about nine years old, and his mom — I assume she’s his mom — is looking at me with an expression that is a complex blend of embarrassment, pity, and amusement, as though to say: ‘Kids say the darnedest things, do they not, white devil?’”
This is just more red meat for the base. Who cares if it makes any sense..the base eats it up.
Compared to cities in the 17 and 1800's modern cities are safe havens. There were places in NYC where the police patrolled in squads of six because the natives were restless and armed. Foreign cities were even worse. Shanghaied was not all that rare. It still isn't.
IMHO Ferguson is the result of militarized police force contaminated with systematic racism compounded by hopeless poverty.
Here is what Kevin Williamson wrote in another article earlier in the week after a trip to East St. Louis
“‘Hey, hey craaaaaacka! Cracka! White devil! F*** you, white devil!” The guy looks remarkably like Snoop Dogg: skinny enough for a Vogue advertisement, lean-faced with a wry expression, long braids. He glances slyly from side to side, making sure his audience is taking all this in, before raising his palms to his clavicles, elbows akimbo, in the universal gesture of primate territorial challenge. Luckily for me, he’s more like a three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg, a few inches shy of four feet high, probably about nine years old, and his mom — I assume she’s his mom — is looking at me with an expression that is a complex blend of embarrassment, pity, and amusement, as though to say: ‘Kids say the darnedest things, do they not, white devil?’”
This is just more red meat for the base. Who cares if it makes any sense..the base eats it up.
So his relating what someone said to him and his interpretation of the mother's reaction to her kid's behavior is racist? Maybe if it didn't really happen and we hold all writers to such strict standards of veracity.
The column is about public policy that leads to polarization based upon race and economic class. That the author recognizes this polarization would only be racist or classist if that polarization did not really exist.
You may certainly disagree with Mr. Williamson over whether public policy lead to this polarization in full or in part - that is a quite legitimate debate. You can't simply write him off as racist without bothering to recognize what he is saying and retain the least bit of intellectual credibility.
You could have fooled me with the traveling based on your comment or do you just visit decaying cities when you get out?
Just goes to show you that you shouldn't make assumptions. Of course I don't have the option to simply choose which cities I visit.
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