Obama Administration Set To Bust White Wealthy Neighborhoods. Baltimore County Is First. (gas prices, healthcare)
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Maybe because decent people of ANY "race" DON'T want PWT/hood rats being forced on them? I don't want their kind near me, even IF they're the SAME race as me.
well too bad. its going to happen.
i think poor black kids should be able to go to the same schools as rich white kids.
i think poor black kids should be able to go to the same schools as rich white kids.
Why? So they can fail? You must have the family support in order to be successful. If mom or dad or grandma or foster parent does not give a rat's behind, the kid will just be led to some major disappointment.
i think poor black kids should be able to go to the same schools as rich white kids.
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Originally Posted by colcat
Why? So they can fail? You must have the family support in order to be successful. If mom or dad or grandma or foster parent does not give a rat's behind, the kid will just be led to some major disappointment.
colcat nailed it.
A "poor Black" kid with parents who truly CARE about him will probably do BETTER in life than a "rich white" kid with selfish "parents" who are too busy making money and, having nannies and so on raise that kid.
The unintended consequence of this is public transportation will be deader than a doornail in 10 years.
Public transportation has been in used for many years, going back to the early 20th century. Cities didn't start seeing horrible crime rates until Prohibition took place(and alot of criminals had cars), and between the late 1960s-mid 1990s(drug war).
How do you stop criminals who get obtain motor transportation? I speak as someone who got jumped by criminals who had a car(and I didn't have a car). How do you stop the carjackers? How do you stop the criminals who steal cars? Once cars get stolen, nothing you can do, other than tear down the Interstate system, which everyone needs.
And something else I want to point out. There are suburbs in metro Atlanta with hardly any public transportation to speak of, and the crime has been rapidly rising in some of those areas. Douglasville, Lithia Springs, Hiram. And there is gang activity in many suburban areas, with many gang members using cars, not public transportation, to get around. Alot of gang members in the area figured out that the relatively messed up transportation system of metro Atlanta means having a car is more practical in getting their criminal activities accomplished.
We've already been there and done that countless times and it always plays out the same way.
The government relocates projects into mid-to-upper class neighborhoods or otherwise pushes a massive influx of minorities in.
The wealthy people there leave in droves.
Now you have abandoned nice houses everywhere -- kick in the door and you got yourself a house.
The nice houses get wrecked.
The nice part of town gradually becomes a total craphole slum.
That's pretty much what happened to Gary, Indiana and a bunch of other towns in America. The results are quite predictable. When rich people feel their exclusive neighborhood is being invaded by people they perceive as poor, dirty, criminal and above all else property value wreckers -- they just leave and let the newcomers wreck the place.
Doesn't even have to be in a town of "rich" folks. Doesn't matter the color of skin either - "trash" is a mindset.
When folks who have that mindset move anywhere in large groups, it doesn't take long for things to start going sideways in a community. They don't wake up one day and say "I want to change my life because just look at my rich neighbors down the street". If anything they become more resentful because now the disparity between them and the perceived "haves" is right up in their faces. At the grocery store, at the schools, etc.
Doesn't even have to be in a town of "rich" folks. Doesn't matter the color of skin either - "trash" is a mindset.
When folks who have that mindset move anywhere in large groups, it doesn't take long for things to start going sideways in a community. They don't wake up one day and say "I want to change my life because just look at my rich neighbors down the street". If anything they become more resentful because now the disparity between them and the perceived "haves" is right up in their faces. At the grocery store, at the schools, etc.
So very true there!
Tho some of us "have nots" try to stay AWAY from fancy areas because we don't feel at ease there.
Chicago did something similar. Tore down the projects and put the people living there throughout the city. Result? A murder rate resembling third world countries, including a 9-yr old who was executed at point blank range as revenge for his gang banter father shooting s rival gang member and his mother.
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