We Could Have Been Compassionate

[Moonglow]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

 

[Moonglow]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

The "fish" being...?

a job, skill or trade..

 

[rightwinger]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

The "fish" being...?

Went right over his head

 

[Moonglow]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

The "fish" being...?

Went right over his head

He was a football player..

 

[rightwinger]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

 

[Moonglow]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Yep, but the fishermen should have moved on to more fertile fields...

 

[Vastator]

I'm still seeing comments that blame all of the problems of the predominantly black inner cities on the people who live there. I want to share some things from "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander that speak clearly to this issue:

We faced a fork in the road one decade after Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were laid to rest. During the last 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly high rate of employment in the 16-19 age group. By 1984, however, the black unemployment rate had nearly quadrupled, while the white rate had increased only marginally. This was NOT due to a major change in black values, behavior or culture; this dramatic shift was the result of deindustrialization, globalization and technological advancement. Urban factories shut down and the nation transitioned to a service economy. Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work.

The economic collapse of inner-city black communities COULD have inspired a national outpouring of compassion and support. A new War of Poverty COULD have been launched. Economic stimulus packages COULD have sailed through Congress to bail out those trapped in jobless ghettos through no fault of their own. Education, job training, public transportation, and relocation assistance COULD have been provided, so that youth of color would have been able to survive the rough transition to a new global economy and secure jobs in distant suburbs. Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. A wave of compassion and concern COULD have flooded poor and working-class communities. All of this could have happened, but it didn’t. Instead, we declared a War on Drugs.

The collapse of the inner-city economies coincided with the conservative backlash against the Civil Rights Movement, resulting in the perfect storm. Almost overnight, black men found themselves unnecessary to the American economy and demonized by mainstream society. They were vilified in the media and condemned for their condition as part of well-orchestrated political campaign.

If they found themselves unnecessary; it was then incumbent upon them to increase their societal value. It was not the job of society to elevate them. Such nonsense is categorically unamerican.

 

[Unkotare]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

 

[Moonglow]

The inner cities have had help, what and how the community utilizes it is a different story, the first thing on the agenda is not to create more blight through actions such as rioting..

 

[rightwinger]

There is an old saying...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime

But what happens when the pond no longer has any fish in it?

That is what happened in our inner cities. People may know how to fish.....but there are no fish to be caught

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

Right over your head

 

[Vastator]

What a ridiculous troll thread

She's not a troll, she's an 'intellectual' trying to make a name for herself, to sell her book. She's probably taking notes for her next one about combating internet racism or some shit...

Indeed. Also her presence here is of questionable legality, in so far as board rules go. Being that she has published works easily discovered through Google under the same screen name she uses here. As such she is a "public figure" of sorts. Nonetheless, one poster already received a ban by referencing said published, common knowledge. That coupled with her known motive of profiteering; make her eligibilty to be a member here under her current screen name questionable at best...

 

[Unkotare]

To survive one must go to where the fish are..

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

Right over your head

Failed analogy.

 

[Moonglow]

What a ridiculous troll thread

She's not a troll, she's an 'intellectual' trying to make a name for herself, to sell her book. She's probably taking notes for her next one about combating internet racism or some shit...

Ideed. Also her presence here is of questionable legality, in so far as board rules go. Being that she has published works easily discovered through Google under the same screen name she uses here. As such she is a "public figure" of sorts. Nonetheless, one poster already received a ban by referencing said published, common knowledge. That coupled with her known motive of profiteering; make her eligibilty to be a member here under her current screen name questionable at best...

It's really no different than how some folks on here break rules daily yet never see the banhammer...

 

[rightwinger]

Good solution

We hear a nearby town has a pond that still has fish in it. So we all move and begin fishing in their pond. But the people of that town get angry and tell us there are only enough fish in their pond to feed their people

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

Right over your head

Failed analogy.

Other kids used to make fun of you in school....didn't they?

 

[Vastator]

What a ridiculous troll thread

She's not a troll, she's an 'intellectual' trying to make a name for herself, to sell her book. She's probably taking notes for her next one about combating internet racism or some shit...

Ideed. Also her presence here is of questionable legality, in so far as board rules go. Being that she has published works easily discovered through Google under the same screen name she uses here. As such she is a "public figure" of sorts. Nonetheless, one poster already received a ban by referencing said published, common knowledge. That coupled with her known motive of profiteering; make her eligibilty to be a member here under her current screen name questionable at best...

It's really no different than how some folks on here break rules daily yet never see the banhammer...

Goes beyond slippery slope in this instance. Slides into outright baiting.

 

[Taz]

Hey black people, time to lose the victim mentality and get that chip off your shoulder.

And stop begging white people to fix your problems, and give you free stuff.

Sure your great, great, grand mammy and pappy were slaves.

But it's 2017,.... we have had a black president,.... you can be anything you want.

Time to get with the program, and quit whining like a bitch. .....

Ya, quit whining like muslims do.

 

[bgrouse]

Blacks became little more than obsolete farm equipment once the white man thought up new technology. This is well-known. So it looks like you're partly correct. No, blacks didn't become dumber. They were always stupid, but at least they could get by doing manual labor. Now that's all in the past. Machines do that kind of work and mostly what's left for men is thinking, which blacks obviously can't do too well. This is what explains the failure of black-run nations (can't blame whitey when there's no whitey in the country to blame!): blacks can't do thinking too well.

And of course there's also this:Is it really the white man's fault for moving out of the ghetto because they don't want to get murdered by a negro? Who wants to shop in a negrohood?

Don't worry. Jews still run pawnshops and jewish payday moneylenders to get rich off of negro crime and the money the government funnels into negrohoods via welfare.

If blacks were as stupid as you claim they wouldn't exist,

That's silly. There are living things without a brain that "exist."

yet there is the ancient kingdom of Egypt, earliest known great civilizations of humans....

Doesn't look like they were sub-Saharan negroes. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170530115141.htm

And there are things that you can't see that can kill you, does that mean you are a weakling since you can't defend yourself?

Yes, there are things I can't see that can kill me, and those "things" still aren't very smart. Does it make me a weakling? Compared to what? Someone that can't be killed that doesn't exist? Your post makes no sense in this context. If I called blacks stupid, it was obviously in comparison to whites.

Could you explain how this plays into your argument that blacks are not as stupid as I say they are (however stupid that is, you brought it up) since they exist?

There are stupid blacks just as there are stupid whites...

There are friendly polar bears, too, but it doesn't make statistics irrelevant.

Yet the football team is comprised of both black and whites that work together, just like the military...

I didn't say blacks weren't physically capable.

 

[Unkotare]

Eh, fuck 'em..

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

Right over your head

Failed analogy.

Other kids used to make fun of you in school....didn't they?

Nope. Thanks for asking.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I'm still seeing comments that blame all of the problems of the predominantly black inner cities on the people who live there. I want to share some things from "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander that speak clearly to this issue:

We faced a fork in the road one decade after Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were laid to rest. During the last 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly high rate of employment in the 16-19 age group. By 1984, however, the black unemployment rate had nearly quadrupled, while the white rate had increased only marginally. This was NOT due to a major change in black values, behavior or culture; this dramatic shift was the result of deindustrialization, globalization and technological advancement. Urban factories shut down and the nation transitioned to a service economy. Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work.

The economic collapse of inner-city black communities COULD have inspired a national outpouring of compassion and support. A new War of Poverty COULD have been launched. Economic stimulus packages COULD have sailed through Congress to bail out those trapped in jobless ghettos through no fault of their own. Education, job training, public transportation, and relocation assistance COULD have been provided, so that youth of color would have been able to survive the rough transition to a new global economy and secure jobs in distant suburbs. Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely. A wave of compassion and concern COULD have flooded poor and working-class communities. All of this could have happened, but it didn’t. Instead, we declared a War on Drugs.

The collapse of the inner-city economies coincided with the conservative backlash against the Civil Rights Movement, resulting in the perfect storm. Almost overnight, black men found themselves unnecessary to the American economy and demonized by mainstream society. They were vilified in the media and condemned for their condition as part of well-orchestrated political campaign.

Dis heanh 2017 baby.

Ain't no mo' segregated water fountains, k?

Although it's quite clear they were equal.

OP may have been relevant in 1966, in 2017..umm..no.

 

[rightwinger]

Exactly!

That is what happened in our inner cities. After all the fish were gone....America just said.......fuck 'em not my problem

Failed analogy.

Right over your head

Failed analogy.

Other kids used to make fun of you in school....didn't they?

Nope. Thanks for asking.

They had to explain jokes to you didn't they?

Whoosh...right over your head