Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "CharlieBo313"
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@Wëpälkatar We live in a world with less poverty, better education, more political freedom, fewer wars, and generally better housing than at any time in human history. Before the coronavirus hit, more people were employed than at any time in history. Yes, not everyone shares equally, and some people will always suffer regardless of what system we live in, but, in general, all of us as a general rule are much better off than we've ever been. We have the ability to communicate with people almost anywhere in the world. Many have electricity, clean water, and generally have access to healthcare that has never been better at any time in our history. Most people have access to some form of transport, and many, even in the second world, own a car. That allows us to live and work almost anywhere we choose. What time in human history would you rather live in? If there's not such a time, stop whining and start making things better for those who don't have all the things you have.
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huey.p. newton He "stood for his kind"? The kind that get in shootouts, murders a cop, embezzled money from his own organization, shot and killed a woman, pistol whipped his own tailor, thought the totalitarian regimes of China and North Korea were examples to the US, fled to Cuba rather than face charges for the killing and assault, and then returned only after arranging to have the eyewitness to his murder killed. His gang members botched the assassination, going to the wrong house. It turned out it was a heavily armed member of a rival gang. He returned fire, killing one of the assassins and driving off the other two. Newton then decided to add to his body count, ordering the two assassins whacked. His boys botched that one too, shooting one of them three times in the back, not killing him, but paralyzing him from the waist down, and burying him in a shallow grave outside Las Vegas. Two park rangers, looking for an unrelated missing person, ran across what was supposed to be is grave, pulled him out, and got him to a hospital in enough time to save his life. When his tailor testified in the assault trial, he kind of "forgot" who pistol whipped him, and Huey was aquitted. Amazingly, after this killing rampage against other witnesses against Newton, the key witness against Newton for the murder of the 17 year old girl refused to testify. It was ten years later, after deciding that Newton knew too much and might be talking to the cops, that Tyrone was recruited to kill him and, for once, an assassination attempt succeeded. You mean the kind of guy who stood for his people...except the ones he killed or ordered killed? That guy? Like I said, your screen name tells me something about you.
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Jay and Tom, there's no doubt blacks were discriminated against for jobs and housing in the past. However, 1964 and 1968 are now 50 years in the past. Two generations had been born and grown up during that period. These same people continue to elect corrupt, incompetent mayors because they happen to be of the same race as the vast majority of Detroit voters. Kwame Kilpatrick, quite possibly the worst mayor of any American city, was elected twice while he was stealing millions from a city spiraling into bankruptcy. He's now spending 28 years in prison for his crimes, but Detroit will never see the vast majority of that money back again. He was stealing tens of millions at a time when Detroit couldn't afford to repair their ambulances because of his theft. Still, he was reelected by appealing to the tired old saw that Detroit's condition was the fault of whites.
Detroit seems to be moving beyond it's mantle of black racism by electing a white mayor. I hope he will be able to start Detroit on a better path, but allegations of bid rigging in demolishing some of Detroit's worst abandoned homes are already surfacing. He is attracting billions of new dollars into the city. Mostly white individuals, foundations, and companies are pouring billions into the city. It's going to take the approximately 85% of Detroit's black residents to finally get involved with how money in their city is spent and elect people who are honest and understand business, regardless of race. This is probably Detroit's best chance since 1960 to become a great city again. If it doesn't work, Detroit is doomed.
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Dang. Unless I missed it, not a single boarded up house, and some of the public housing looked better than the apartments here. No clumps of urban "yutes" blocking the streets, and no swathes of urban prairie. The demographics tell the tale. The population is 40% white, 40% black, and 20% all other races, including 7.5% non-white hispanics. While Detroit lost 25% of its population between 2000 and 2010, Greensboro clocked a gain of 21%. The percent of households with a family but no husband present was 16% in Greensboro in 2010. The figure for Detroit was 31.5%. Greensboro has 22.7% of its population under 18 while it's 31.1% in Detroit. The median family income in Greensboro is $41,628 while it's 25,787 in Detroit. The percent of those employed or actively looking for work in Detroit is 53.4% while it's 68.8% in Greensboro. It's a good demonstration once again that the way to stay out of poverty is graduate high school, get a job, don't have kids until you're married, and do your best to stay married, at least until the kids are out of high school.
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@bkbrown7489 Ah, yes, the urban version "We wuz Kangs!" It'/s also possible black babies were poisoned by space aliens, or that Catholic nuns were poisoning the water. I have just as much proof for those statements as you have for yours. Liquor stores in black areas would go out of business without customers. Drug dealers would go out of business without customers.
The hood would begin to improve if people spent time getting their GED or or going to trade schools instead of sitting on the stoop with a 40 or waiting for the other deliveries of, and using, substances that are also poison. The hood would begin to improve if lack men developed some responsibility at stopped laying down with every thicc hoe that walked by. The hood would begin to improve if black women stopped laying down with every bad boi that walked by. The hood would begin to improve if black people got married and waited to have children until they were. The hood would begin to improve if strong families were instrumental in improving schools and making sure that their kids went to school and weren't carrying knives and guns. Places like Detroit and Gary have over 40% of households led by single, primarily black women. You can't have strong families and kids with a future with those kinds of numbers. Stop pining away for the days of Black Wall Street. Most of those ended 100 years ago. If you think resegregation is the answer, place like Detroit and Gary, with 80%+ black populations and nearly 100% black political leadership should be thriving. With few exceptions, majority black large cities are disasters. Work on what can be done today, not what should have been done in 1920.
Stop waiting for the while savior to fix all your problems. They have been "fixing" things since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the beginning of the "Great Society" in the same time period. It's now 55 years later. Do you think things have gotten better or worse? Do you think another dump truck load of money dropped off at the feet of leaders like Kwame Kilpatrick will make things better or worse?
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