Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Binge watch the five seasons of The Wire.
It does an excellent job of showing the underpinnings of how black communities become so dysfunctional from top to bottom. It is about Baltimore's dysfunction, but could be any number of other inner cities.
It takes you through the corrupt politics, the floundering school system, the lack of responsible parenting, how the drug gangs operate and lure young kids in, and the inadequate and dysfunctional law enforcement politics and policies trying to deal with it all.
Obama said this was his all time favorite TV series -- too bad he never took it seriously enough to come up with any helpful solutions.
What are YOUR solutions? You know...seeing as how you’re the expert on black dysfunction.
Binge watch the five seasons of The Wire.
It does an excellent job of showing the underpinnings of how black communities become so dysfunctional from top to bottom. It is about Baltimore's dysfunction, but could be any number of other inner cities.
It takes you through the corrupt politics, the floundering school system, the lack of responsible parenting, how the drug gangs operate and lure young kids in, and the inadequate and dysfunctional law enforcement politics and policies trying to deal with it all.
Obama said this was his all time favorite TV series -- too bad he never took it seriously enough to come up with any helpful solutions.
Obama, nor any Democrat wants to fix the Black, inner city gang, drug, violence, and crime problem in general. Democrats have run big cities for 60 years or more. The better part of a century. They benefit from creating bureaucracies that say they are going to address the problems, then syphon off money for themselves. They are corrupt. They know they will get the Black vote anyway, so why spend money to fix the problems? The Black family is THE PROBLEM. Stop incentivizing multiple out of wedlock births.
What are YOUR solutions? You know...seeing as how you’re the expert on black dysfunction.
What are the solutions of an expert on black issues, Jesse Jackson?
In the April 18, 1976 New York Times Magazine, before he degenerated into a rabble-rouser, Jesse Jackson wrote a beautiful four-page article entitled Give the People a Vision(link). Among other things he said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesse Jackson
There is a definite welfare mentality in many black communities that derives perhaps from. slavery but that must now be overcome.
************
We are allowing a minuscule minority of criminals in our midst to create disorder, ruin our schools and sap
the energy we need to rebuild our neighborhoods and our cities. Many leaders who are black, and many white liberals, will object to my discussing these things in public. But the decadence in black communities--killings, destruction of our own businesses, violence in the schools--is already in the headlines....
Unless he was just trying to appear respectable for fund raising, he nailed it.
See the video. Why has the culture grown to the extent that people really believe they can beat a teacher to a pulp with impunity? Is this what people want for the police too; for the streets to become the Wild West, but with no Wyatt Earp?
It's racist to assume that all black lives don't matter. Indeed, all lives matter.
And students are taught ZERO TOLERANCE in schools -- the victim gets in as much trouble as the perpetrator, unless they DO NOT DEFEND THEMSELVES -- so they don't intervene.
Becuase the only way to avoid suspension is to DO NOTHING.
And so what if tensions are high? Maybe they should be. Who gives a damn about “race relations” anyway? That’s not even important. We don’t have to like each other. What is being demanded is equal protection under the law. Black folks aren’t seeking white folk’s friendship.
I can understand them protesting on shootings like those. But when they protest for someone like Michael Brown, they lose credibility.
As a white person, nobody ever criticizes me or holds me accountable for the actions of white criminals. Nor are white 'community leaders'. On this thread, black people who have done nothing wrong are being criticized for not fixing the problems created by criminals who happen to have the same skin color. How else does one interpret a poster saying "they have to own their pathologies, and until they do they will always be in last place as a people"?
This is one face of racism today. Yeah, maybe it's not as harsh as slavery or Jim Crow, but it's still racism, as much as many white people want to deny it or whitesplain it away.
As a white person, nobody ever criticizes me or holds me accountable for the actions of white criminals. Nor are white 'community leaders'. On this thread, black people who have done nothing wrong are being criticized for not fixing the problems created by criminals who happen to have the same skin color. How else does one interpret a poster saying "they have to own their pathologies, and until they do they will always be in last place as a people"?
This is one face of racism today. Yeah, maybe it's not as harsh as slavery or Jim Crow, but it's still racism, as much as many white people want to deny it or whitesplain it away.
It's simple; black leaders attack the police for arresting and/or killing black criminals, i.e. "mass incarceration." White leaders offer no such defense.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
