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No one, black or white will achieve much in life if you constantly find others to put the blame on. You have to look at what you can do to succeed and that you can only control what you do, ranting agains the rules does little to help you succeed. War on drugs the issue?perhaps but that issue diminishes if you just don't break the law.
Mayors are the head of a city’s government. He/she, along with a City Council, are elected by the citizens of that city and are given authority by the State Constitution and State laws to make local laws regarding economic development, housing, education, public health, transportation, and the police.
It has become very apparent that the policies and leadership of cities with Democrats at the helm are the ones that have the most problems with all the responsibilities that their citizens elected them to perform. But do these citizens hold their elected officials accountable? Apparently not!
Detroit is a great example, but let’s look at the city at the heart of our current crisis. Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed, has had a Democrat as mayor since the middle of the last century! Since 1945 only two of the 14 mayors have been Republican. The last, not including Richard M. Erdall who served only ONE day, being P. Kenneth Peterson elected in 1957.
The Minneapolis City Council, the legislative branch of the city, has 13 members, 12 of whom are Democrats. NOT ONE Republican.
Education is a major problem in Minneapolis. Its public schools consistently report low test scores, and the added chronic problems of unruly behavior and lack of discipline have driven thousands of students to charter schools and neighboring school districts. The city is ranked very low on education for POC, and has the fourth lowest graduation rate for black students in the nation! There are even billboards announcing Minnesota schools as the worst in the nation for students of color.
Did I mention that the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Waltz, is a Democrat? And his predecessor was a Democrat. They have allowed less than 1% of the State's public spending to black-owned businesses!
The city’s predominantly white police force, which has been accused of racist practices for decades, rarely disciplines officers with troubled records which is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the death of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, the bad cop, faced at least 18 misconduct complaints, none of which derailed his career with the Minneapolis Police Department.
THIS IS ENTIRELY THE FAULT OF THE DEMOCRATIC MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF MINNEAPOLIS!!!
So when is the Black Community going to hold their leaders, black AND white, accountable for its failings which came to a boiling point last week?
Oh I think government did indeed change attitudes - it began with President Johnson's (D) Great Society programs. Its main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice, but really created a welfare state that has entrapped African Americans into being overly dependent on government for their own economic and social well-being.
- black marriage rates has plummeted, and the number of out-of-wedlock births has soared;
- black children are being raised without the security of an intact family or having ever even experienced parental marriage;
- black fathers are routinely rejecting their responsibilities, increasing their children’s risk of living in poverty as nearly 1 million black boys and girls are being raised by a grandparent, often because their parents suffer from drug abuse, have passed away, or are in prison.
were these programs targeted towards blacks only and not whites and asians who are maintaining lower levels of poverty and incarceration?
i'll say it again. the individual matters more than the govt.
Blame Republicans for this one. War On Drugs took way more fathers out of the home, than the welfare state. Seems like both parties have failed black people.
did the war on drugs force blacks to become drug dealers and abusers?
stop looking at any party to deflect blame and look within yourself.
The ones they choose !!! You know, Al Sharpton, the race hustler for cash guy !!!
Sorry but I don't have a "leader". But you people certainly love assigning "leaders" to black people and then being mad about the "leaders" that YOU assigned
Sorry but I don't have a "leader". But you people certainly love assigning "leaders" to black people and then being mad about the "leaders" that YOU assigned
First of all - who are "you people"?
Secondly - it is the Black Community who are complaining about the situation in their cities: jobs, schools, the Lockdown, and police misconduct.
The 'people' who make the decisions regarding all these aspects of a well-run city or community are the Mayors and the City Councils, who are elected by the citizens of that city NOT "that 'YOU' assigned". They make local laws regarding economic development, housing, education, public health, transportation, and the police. And they make the decisions on how to and whether or not to enforce the laws they make!
So why don't the people who voted these weak, ineffective politicians hold them accountable when they don't do what they were elected to do?
BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ONLY SURVIVES BY CREATING DIVISION, BY SPREADING NARRATIVES OF HATE AND MISTRUST!
THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO OFFER BLACKS TO TRULY IMPROVE THEIR LIVES THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS EITHER ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED OR HAS BEEN TRYING TO ACHIEVE!
did the war on drugs force blacks to become drug dealers and abusers?
stop looking at any party to deflect blame and look within yourself.
Did anyone tell Italians and Irish to become bootleggers? Drug sells and distribution is a perfectly legit market. It's more or less the government that decided it should be outlawed, and decided to engage in a witch hunt. There would be less black people in poverty turning to the drug trade if the US government didn't engage full economic sabotage. Which they've been doing for decades. They did everything in their power to suffocate all economic opporunities from these communities, then the way they can make money (by selling drugs) is arbitrary made illegal, on top of a top down witch hunt and disaster called the war on drugs. I wouldn't expect any community to be in great shape after that. Want to help blacks, legalize drugs. That's all I have to say, because it's that dead simple.
Black communities cannot hold themselves accountable because there aren't enough black fathers in the home to help raise their own kids. A society without fathers is weak, dysfunctional, and chaotic.
If a man is incompetent to start with, how does being a father increase his competency?
How are children helped by close proximity to an uncaring ad incompetent man?
The absentee father's mistake was not keeping his pants zipped. How is being there for the kids helped by an idiot?
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