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Location: East St. Paul 651 forever (or North St. Paul) .
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All I heard today on all the Sunday morning news shows was "we have to invest in our inner city youth" and the like - just nonSTOP about it, am I the only one SICK OF THIS ****?
These people are a g-- damn DRAG on American progress...a complete abyss. We have spent and spent and spent and spent on these people and what do we get?
How about you people TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY and GROW UP - that way we wouldn't have to babysit your people like little children.
Location: East St. Paul 651 forever (or North St. Paul) .
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I think if you read between their lines it comes down to: We all want/need/deserve 40 acres and a mule...by today's standards a Ferrari and a mcmansion and freebies until death.
The problem is that Baltimore was a decent city with a long history, colleges, industry, and jobs. The people who live there destroyed it. Investing will do nothing.
All I heard today on all the Sunday morning news shows was "we have to invest in our inner city youth" and the like - just nonSTOP about it, am I the only one SICK OF THIS ****?
These people are a g-- damn DRAG on American progress...a complete abyss. We have spent and spent and spent and spent on these people and what do we get?
How about you people TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY and GROW UP - that way we wouldn't have to babysit your people like little children.
I'm sick of it!
Lock up all the hood rats and I would consider it.
I would be happy to see us invest more in the inner cities, if we could do that by redirecting the funds from programs and approaches that have received trillions of dollars over the last 60 years and have completely failed, and if we will focus on approaches that are designed to actually help these people over the long term, and not just give them short term handouts or to provide services for them that do more harm than good. Of course our traditional inner city public school model is an excellent example of this phenomenon.
Doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results is insanity. If they want more money for that, which it appears that they do, the answer needs to be a terse and unconditional "no".
Listen, when my great grand mother from Haiti first came to the US and landed in the hood of Queens NY, she told her children to stay away from the "bums" aka black americans. This was in the late 60s.
You go to any majority black and economically oppressed neighborhood in America and you will see the same korean hair shops, liquor shops, chines food take-out, corner stores with bullet proof windows, big rims on cars, children running around shirtless on the streets, and the list goes on.
I grew up in an all black neighborhood in Queens but when all the black americans were running the street, we all got a whoooping if we tried to follow that route by our Haitian parents- again telling us to stop trying to emulate the black americans.
The question is, what does that do to a child's psyche in the long run?
Have you tried changing the channel? If you are tired of hearing something, you don't have to sit and watch that show or channel. I haven't kept up on these riots or the arrests because Baltimore has no effect on my life. If this story was closer to home and more of a local or regional issue, then I would care more.
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