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[SteelChip]

Gawd I love the twisted thinking down here in Stormfront & Government.

1) This thread starts out by claiming "Black people" are causing trouble.

For decades now, I’ve been begging the world to provide me with evidence of any place on Earth where basic living conditions—i.e., longevity, income, education, safety—improved rather than deteriorated subsequent to a large influx of blacks. Hell, I’d be satisfied to see a place where conditions even remained steady. I’m not saying such a place doesn’t exist, only that no one yet has been willing (or able?) to cough up evidence of such a place. Why does the general pattern—especially in Africa after the white colonialists are sent packing—seem to be destruction rather than creation? And why do I instantly become Evil Incarnate for asking that question? When people resort to calling you dirty names merely for asking honest questions, one starts to suspect that they don’t have an honest answer.

3) Fundamental to the racists argument is ignoring police violence against citizens. Because authoritarians such as those on this board see themselves as part of the power structure, and not the target of it, they fail to understand (intentionally fail, in my opinion) what it's like to be consistently and violently harassed by the government. Whether or not someone's mother is married, or father stayed home, or got an education has no bearing on the government violating people's personal freedom. Because you're not routinely harassed, searched, and humiliated by police because of the color of your skin you enjoy pretending that such unconstitutional behavior is justified. In fact, you support this behavior because it makes you feel "safe" from "Blacks".

The already threadbare “white supremacy” narrative crumbles—at least to those who are willing to listen—when one considers that half of Baltimore’s 3,000 cops are black. It falls apart even more disastrously seeing as how the city’s mayor is a black woman. Baltimore’s police chief and city council president are also black. The Baltimore City State’s Attorney is a black woman, and last week when she filed criminal charges against six police officers that were in some way involved in Gray’s death, three of those officers turned out to be black. The most serious charge—that of “second-degree depraved-heart murder”—was filed against a black male officer.


4) Stop pretending you give a **** about justice, and that you're not just racist ********. Most of this board refuses to even post in this forum because it's become a cesspool of Klan propaganda. These riots did not happen in a vacuum, as you all like to pretend. There are some systemic problems (primarily the failed war on drugs and the prison industrial complex) that have scapegoated poor people of all races for the ills of society. The solution is jack booted thugs in tactical gear running roughshod over he constitution in every disadvantaged neighborhood in America. You're not interested in fixing, you're interested in blaming.

"These niggers better stop calling me a racist"
-God & Government forum motto

Racist ******** are the product of out of control disadvantaged thugs that think the Country owes them SNAP. The majority of those people on the Baltimore streets just wanted to steal whatever they could get their hands on and to destroy anything that met that same criteria, nothing any more complicated than that.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I never said you supported the rioters. I said you missed the point of the original poster.

We've already established that SNAP's reading comprehension isn't very good and he sees things that aren't there because it's what he wants to see.

 

[IndySteel]

We have also confirmed that SNAP/GCS/child rapist attacks young bald ***** because he's a sick racist criminal.

 

[oneforthebus]

I just can't understand why some people seem to think training others to be perpetual victims is helping them. Obama had a tremendous opportunity to inspire young black men to work hard, get educated and be a responsible husband and father. Instead he's inspired them to believe that everything bad that goes on in their lives is everyone else's fault...that there is no sense in even trying because the deck is stacked against them and they are powerless to help themselves. Oh throw in a little dash of "police are evil racists who want to harass and kill you...defy them at every turn".

How someone can advance a worldview like that and then expect positive results I'll never understand.

 

[IndySteel]

I just can't understand why some people seem to think training others to be perpetual victims is helping them. Obama had a tremendous opportunity to inspire young black men to work hard, get educated and be a responsible husband and father. Instead he's inspired them to believe that everything bad that goes on in their lives is everyone else's fault...that there is no sense in even trying because the deck is stacked against them and they are powerless to help themselves. Oh throw in a little dash of "police are evil racists who want to harass and kill you...defy them at every turn".

How someone can advance a worldview like that and then expect positive results I'll never understand.

That is rational thought and common sense, realism, that libtards and "reverse racists" are incapable of having. It's much easier to blame whitey and play the victim, live the thug life and be supported by people who function.

 

[oneforthebus]

It's about damn time. I been here a year already.

And I won that argument too. It's why they banned me.

Delusional.........and disgusting.

 

[SteelChip]

Baltimore and Pittsburgh.......We need to have this conversation SNAP, but Black leaders seem resistant to facing the facts and making the necessary changes.

By
William A. Galston
May 5, 2015 7:16 p.m.

A few years ago, the distinguished political scientist Robert Putnam made what turned out to be a fateful visit to his hometown of Port Clinton, Ohio, to attend the 50th reunion of his high-school class. Despite their modest backgrounds, most of his classmates had enjoyed remarkable upward mobility. Not so for their children and grandchildren who had chosen to remain in Port Clinton. Instead, divorce, unwed parenthood, child poverty and juvenile delinquency soared.

What happened? Starting in the 1970s and continuing through the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Putnam found, the foundation of Port Clinton’s economy collapsed, and nothing replaced it. Manufacturing employment as a share of total jobs fell to 25% in 1995 from 55% in 1965 and kept on falling. Real wages shrank from slightly above the national average in the 1970s to 25% below average in the current decade. Not surprisingly, many young people moved away in search of opportunity.

Port Clinton’s story is Baltimore’s story. In the 1950s and 1960s, Charm City was a thriving economic and financial center. Young people with high-school educations or less found good manufacturing jobs—at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrow Point mill and the General Motors GM -1.10 % plant, among many others. In 1960 the Port of Baltimore—another major source of good working-class jobs—ranked second in the country.

Then everything changed. By 1995 Baltimore had lost more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs. Today, the steel and auto factories are closed, the port has fallen to 11th place and manufacturing accounts for only 7% of Baltimore’s employment. People with a high-school education or less find jobs in lower-wage service occupations or fall prey to long-term unemployment. Median household income stands at $41,400, 44% lower than the state average. Twenty-four percent of Baltimore’s population lives below the poverty level, compared with 10% for Maryland. Since 1950, Baltimore’s population has fallen by 35%.

The situation in Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood—the epicenter of recent protests—is far worse. According to a recent analysis by ThinkProgress, 52% of the neighborhood’s inhabitants age 16 to 64 are out of work, and the unemployment rate is twice that of the city as a whole. At $24,000, the neighborhood’s median household income is lower than the federal poverty line for a family of four—and fully 54% below the national median. Thirty-three percent of Sandtown-Winchester’s homes stand vacant and decaying, despite a $130 million investment spearheaded in the 1990s by developer James Rouse and Kurt Schmoke, Baltimore’s first African-American mayor.

In Baltimore as in Port Clinton, no effective substitute for the industrial-era economy has emerged. In both cities a tangle of social pathologies is the consequence—not cause—of vanishing opportunity. And when a community’s economic foundation crumbles, social programs—however intensive and well-intentioned—cannot fill the gap.

But deindustrialization need not condemn a city to permanent failure. Pittsburgh long symbolized the industrial era. When the U.S. steel industry withered in the second half of the 20th century under foreign competition, Pittsburgh’s unemployment surged to 17%, and its population declined even faster than Baltimore’s. Many observers wrote off the city, as they write off Detroit today.

Yet Pittsburgh found a way forward. The manufacturing sector diversified into advanced metal alloys and surgical implants. With a base in Carnegie Mellon University, entrepreneurs turned the city into a center for robotics. Even so, as late as 2002, Pittsburgh suffered from low levels of innovation and poor workforce retention.

It took a coordinated effort by the city’s political, economic and nonprofit leaders to link education and innovation, nurture new businesses and turn Pittsburgh into one of America’s most livable cities. The city now hosts two of the 15 largest law firms and more than 100 firms valued at more than $1 billion. By 2009 Pittsburgh was selected to host the annual G-20 summit, hailed by the group as “a model for economic, environmental, and quality-of-life transformation.”

Much work remains. Pittsburgh’s median household income is still 25% below Pennsylvania’s, and poverty exceeds 20%. Still, the unemployment rate is only 5.4%, slightly below the national average, and opportunity is on the rise.

There is of course a difference between Pittsburgh and Baltimore: African-Americans form 63% of Baltimore’s population, compared with 26% of Pittsburgh’s. Between 1970 and 2010, employment rates of prime working-age black males in large metropolitan areas declined by an average of more than 18 percentage points. The question is whether this difference is decisive. We won’t know the answer until Baltimore works as hard to leverage its educational and health-care assets into economic vitality as Pittsburgh has.

Government, nonprofits and the private sector must come together around a long-term blueprint for growth and job creation. Institutions such as Johns Hopkins University will have to do a better job of commercializing the fruits of their research and integrating their activities with the city. Only a vigorous, self-sustaining economy can offer the opportunity needed the break the cycle of hopelessness in neighborhoods like Sandtown.

 

[Rod Farva]

Moi? No, no.

The original post in this thread throws the "race card" (which is itself a racist term), by attacking Black people.

If you don't like being called a racist, stop saying racist ****.

Or maybe you could just go **** yourself, I dunno.

The cause of the unrest is a group of uncivilized individuals who react inappropriately when they don't agree with something.

Real or imagined slights, doesn't matter. Whitey's perceived to be unfair? Let's ruin our neighborhoods!

Delusional.........and disgusting.

"Winning" that argument? Not so much a badge of honor.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

But deindustrialization need not condemn a city to permanent failure. Pittsburgh long symbolized the industrial era. When the U.S. steel industry withered in the second half of the 20th century under foreign competition, Pittsburgh’s unemployment surged to 17%, and its population declined even faster than Baltimore’s. Many observers wrote off the city, as they write off Detroit today.

Karma sent.
Yet Pittsburgh found a way forward. The manufacturing sector diversified into advanced metal alloys and surgical implants. With a base in Carnegie Mellon University, entrepreneurs turned the city into a center for robotics. Even so, as late as 2002, Pittsburgh suffered from low levels of innovation and poor workforce retention.

Also Yinzers of all colors are generally not lazy and living on the dole for life was not an option many people considered so they packed up and moved to where they could find work. Contrasted to other large cities where people, mostly black, stayed when jobs dried up and suckle from the government teet in exchange for reliably voting Democrat. True that Pittsburgh has been run by Democrats too exclusively since the early 1930's but for the most part they are not Liberals and understand where money and jobs come from.

https://myspace.com/indysteelers/video/steeler-nation/4328974

 

[Superman]

I'll call the nurse to get you back on your meds.

just get off of kids.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

just get off of kids.

Player has been banned, so the Mods are obviously racist and can't handle the troof.

 

[DBS1970]

Player has been banned, so the Mods are obviously racist and can't handle the troof.

Somebody must have remembered that there is a rule against registering under another name after being suspended from the board....

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Somebody must have remembered that there is a rule against registering under another name after being suspended from the board....

Racist.
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[IndySteel]

Good riddance. That guy is ******* horrible.