OddityCrisis
Active Member
Once Fukushima is done radiating the oceans, then revisit that sushi. Sunshine Unit Equity is achievable.
Sunshine and rainbows, I see what ya did there.
Upvote
0
Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
I’ve eaten sushi, I, however, do not know the experience of being a Japanese person.
Please define “hood”. Thanks.
I’d just like to know which dog-whistle I’m hearing, that’s all.If you don’t know what a hood is then I don’t know why you’re even in this conversation.
Please define “hood”. Thanks.
I’d just like to know which dog-whistle I’m hearing, that’s all.
I tell ya what, go to the corner of Jensen & Kelly st in Houston Tx and look for some guys wearing red and ask them what a hood is. I’m sure they can explain it better than I can.
They’re not here and you are which is why I queried you.I tell ya what, go to the corner of Jensen & Kelly st in Houston Tx and look for some guys wearing red and ask them what a hood is. I’m sure they can explain it better than I can.
evidence that a problem exists? This thread is full of such evidence. You don't like it so you disregard it but that isn't logical at all is it?
Well yes and no. Truthfully the welfare system is dysfunctional. There is no exit strategy in the design of the program. One generation follows the next in the system. No job training, daycare assistance or education is included in most welfare programs. This is where the left has gone wrong. In their desire to help the needy, the current system keeps people needy.Unfortunately, the political left in this country will not fix this. The more they can keep blacks scared and dependent, the more they can count on their votes. If they were going to actually make a major dent in solving these problems, they would have to abandon too many of their talking points and advocated policies. It sounds to me like business ownership, education, and intact families would be the three legs on the stool to step on to get out of this hole. But I really don't see the American left as truly interested in working towards any of them. They have too many special interests invested in the opposite of improvement in each of these areas.
They’re not here and you are which is why I queried you.
This “we all know what we’re talking about here” doesn’t cut it: what did you mean by “hood”?
There are also Pell grants and Stafford loans that make Community College possible for anyone with poor parents. I think part of the problem is people not having fathers or at least a quality mentor who encourages the young person to achieve something better than just getting by. I know the government can't fix that part. People just have to make better decisions about their life and some who have no positive example to emulate really don't have a plan for their adult life.Personally I think the military GI bill levels the playing field for those who are in poverty by making a way for everyone to receive a college education. Sure maybe it’s not the most desirable way of going about it but it does open up the door to a college education for everyone. Sometimes in life you just gotta take what you can get and do the best you can with it.
So the conclusion must be that the gummint is randonly arresting and imprisoning Black makes, yes? Hmmmm...Prison population
Black males = 34%
White males = 29%
So is the solution to arrest more whites or fewer Blacks?US population
Black population 13.4%
White population 61%
What if they aren't? What if it's it's simply that Black makes commit >30% of the crimes? We can quibble about the precise numbers, but Blacks commit arrestable crimes at many times the rate of whites. The rate of Black on Black crimes alone make that fact frightenly clear. Blaming it on "racist judges" is a fig leaf, and in fact is saying in essence "Blacks aren't bad, whites are bad!" and is just as racist as blaming all crime on Blacks.I cant tell you why the judges are racist.
I don't think so. There are a great many places where people live in comparative poverty and where crimes of violence are rare. I do, however, believe that drug laws should be done away with as incentives for criminal activity.Why is their environment more dangerous? Poverty. When there is less job opportunities people are more willing to go to desperate measures such as stealing and dealing drugs to make money
In other words, the culture promotes, or at least tolerates, criminal activitu. Now we're approaching the nub of the thing.What causes the gunfire in the cities? Once again we live in a broken world with broken people. There is alot more negative influences in the cities and even the music glorifies violence, drug usage, adultery, anger, hatred, victim mentality, etc
I reject "class" as a factor, since in the US "class" is a simply a matter of who has money. The problem as I see it is culture. It isn't about race, pitting one set of phenotypes against another. It isn't about "class", which is an especially meaningless term in the US (I am biracial (white/Asian) old Christian man, relatively affluent, college-educated, and living in a poor part of the rural South. What "class" am I?) It is, as I see it, about culture. Having a foot in two different cultures makes we aware of that sort of thing, and it all seems entirely obvious to me.Its a broken world not just for the poor but also for the middle class and upper class. Ive met some great loving people with money that care about the poor and homeless. I would never stereotype them all but alot of people with money simply dont understand what the poor and oppressed go through. They dont see it because they are unfamiliar with the environment. And often their wealth and greed blinds them
Yes you are correct, there are other disparities. In families of multiple children, there a "typical" roles that develop between siblings. The oldest child is most often the "hero" or "mascot." Often in large families, the eldest child becomes responsible for their younger siblings. They become almost like an "assistant manager" of the family doling out discipline, making bro and sis do their chores, telling them to be quiet when mom has a headache. Protecting them from bullies. Giving "love advice" etc. It basically can train them to think like a manager organically.
Then there are the other roles kids fall into like the "scapegoat" who is often the middle child. The "peacemaker" who can be anyone but is often the youngest. Of course, there are other roles and they aren't always determined by birth order. Also, in European culture, especially Western Europe, any inheritance left by the parents would go to the eldest child. This was done to keep the family's "fortune" in tact and not divide it up, making it a smaller inheritance for the next generation. So for millennia, the oldest child has been born into leadership and I believe they are typically expected to achieve more.
The disparity between whites and minorities is similar as there has been a type of inheritance passed down since colonization and before. This does not mean that all white people have been given an advantage. It just means, they like all races, are more likely to be accepted by other white people. Not all business owners and/or managers are white however, there are more white males in upper management, CEO, and board of director positions. A white male will likely feel more comfortable and compatible with another white male (also within that, people who are Irish are more comfortable with Irish, German, English and so on).
It's not that all of these white people in positions of power are evil racists (though plenty are), it's just an inheritance type thing that people from the same place feel related on a certain level and they will look after their own. The old man hires a protege he feels is most like him to take over his position when he retires.
Do you think all of this is nonsense? Do you agree with anything I am saying here?
Apparently it didn't work for the white side of my family. All poor farmers and factory workers, none educated beyond high school. First BA in my dad's family, me. First MA, my oldest daughter. First MD, second daughter. First engineer, me, second, baby daughter. Only multilingual children in my dad's line? My kids and grandkids (English, Korean, Danish) The jokers in the deck? My mom, and later, my wife, who hold to the idea of Education First, Last, and Always, and that family was all about raising kids. Left to my dad, and to a lesser extent to me, we'd have raised yet another generation of time-clock-punching mediocrites. Not that there's anything morally wrong with punching a clock, but it hardly represents a life of privilege, does it?"Does white privilege exist in the US?"
Does a bear poop in the woods?
I see where you are coming from, and I understand that many drug dealers do so out of economic desperation. But I have a couple of hangups about what you proposed as worded:Well yes and no. Truthfully the welfare system is dysfunctional. There is no exit strategy in the design of the program. One generation follows the next in the system. No job training, daycare assistance or education is included in most welfare programs. This is where the left has gone wrong. In their desire to help the needy, the current system keeps people needy.
Still, eliminating these programs outright would leave people completely destitute. WHere the right has gone wrong is treating the issue of poverty with "Law & Order." Locking up drug addicts and drug dealers with no hope of rehabilitation. Instead of locking up drug offenders, there should be job training and employment agency programs for these people during their probation. We can't make drugs legal but for non-violent offenders, there should be some kind of training available that can utilize the entrepreneurial determination that led them to the drug game. Also, prison rarely helps drug addicts because drugs are available in prison. Drug treatment and vocational rehab should be the way instead of mass incarceration.
Am I way off here of do you agree with some of this?
Apparently it didn't work for the white side of my family. All poor farmers and factory workers, none educated beyond high school. First BA in my dad's family, me. First MA, my oldest daughter. First MD, second daughter. First engineer, me, second baby daughter. Only multilingual children in my dad's line? My kids and grandkids (English, Korean, Danish) The joker in the deck? My mom, and later, my wife, who hold to the idea of Education First, Last, and Always, and that family was all about raising kids. Left to my dad, and to a lesser extent to me, we'd have raised yet another generation of time-clock-punching mediocrites. Not that there's anything morally wrong with punching a clock, but it hardly represents a life of privilege, does it?
Anything that has happened in our family to raise them above the level of their white kinfolks can be credited wholly to the two little hard-nosed hard-headed Korean matriarchs that my dad, and later I, chose to marry. When they encountered racism or endured "micro aggressions", and they did, they shrugged it off and kept pushing. Privilege? Not bit of it. Just old-school Confucian-based cultural badassery that said "My kids WILL be the best", and directed all of the family's energys toward that goal.
Worked out pretty well.
When you subsidize single-parent homes through welfare, you get more of them. Urban violence and incarceration rates are also major contributing factors in the inner cities.How do you blame broken families on anybody but the family members themselves? And how can anyone work for intact families? I really don’t see how that’s possible.
but he wasn't talking about all blacks was he?That’s completely irrelevant because the median income for blacks is well above $19,000. Between $30-$45k depending on what site your looking at.
to quote you:Evidence that white privilege exists. I'm not disputing that problems exist....of course problems exist.
You haven't proved a "problem" exists.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?