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........, but also because racism is a common accusation levied against people who oppose regulations.
I can't think of any examples.
I can't think of any examples.
Real estate agents aren't allowed to even talk about neighborhoods, schools, and crime. This is clear violation of free speech, but I can assure you, anyone who argues against any regulation derived from the so-called Fair Housing Act will immediately be labeled a racist.
Real estate agents aren't allowed to even talk about neighborhoods, schools, and crime. This is clear violation of free speech, but I can assure you, anyone who argues against any regulation derived from the so-called Fair Housing Act will immediately be labeled a racist.
Does the act need updating to cover some of the issues we face today? Probably...
That is how we got black ghettos in almost every city in the nation.
Did it not occur to you that the act was a reaction to real estate agents telling prospective buyers that the neighborhood was black or turning black? Looking at laws like this from a viewpoint of 50 years away is misleading and unfair. Does the act need updating to cover some of the issues we face today? Probably but never forget that prior to acts like these, racial discrimination in housing was legal and pervasive. That is how we got black ghettos in almost every city in the nation.
It soothes one consciousness and justifies inequality.
Why are the most racially segregated cities in America the most "progressive"?
That is how we got black ghettos in almost every city in the nation.
Ok, do you support removing those free speech restrictions?
What's your excuse as to why we still have them today, after 50 years of the so-called Fair Housing Act?
Why are the most racially segregated cities in America the most "progressive"?
And isn't this strong evidence that the so-called FHA is a complete failure?
How can we have black ghettos when they have been the most solidly liberal neighborhoods in America 60 years? Maybe there has not been enough progressivism yet? Maybe we should ban love and family altogether for black people??
If you want to fully grasp the inherited legacy of racism in America, you must open your eyes and heart to it. Try reading a book for starters "Warmth of Other Sons" is a great place to start. Then try the "new jim crow". Come back after you have tried even slightly to walk a mile in another mans shoes.
How can red states be filled with so many poor white trash if conservatism works so well?
Then try the "new jim crow". Come back after you have tried even slightly to walk a mile in another mans shoes.
How can red states be filled with so many poor white trash if conservatism works so well?
What we learn from " The New Jim Crow" is that liberal programs attacked the black community and created the school to prison pipeline and the street corner to prison pipeline. Do you understand?
where do you see conservatism?? Poor areas of red states are as liberal as liberal ghettos in blue states and you see the same result. Time to put your thinking cap on dear.
O brother where art thou? There is no more blind a man who can see but closes his eyes. I can't reason with you because you are incapable of seeing the world outside of your blinders. I suggest turning off all right wing media. Take a hike, exercise, read some literature, meditate, do something good for a stranger, embrace a loved one, get your life together. Be like water my friend.
I suggest you try using a brush to wipe the record, check your needle, maybe take that bit of crust off that record and hopefully what appears to be nothing but a broken record can be fixed using common sense. Given your post, I may be asking too much of you.
What we learn from " The New Jim Crow" is that liberal programs attacked the black community and created the school to prison pipeline and the street corner to prison pipeline. Do you understand? What did you learn fro the new Jim Crow?? Afraid to tell us??
The New Jim Crow laws were a vast set of federal and state/local laws that were supported by one and all at the time.
Did it not occur to you that the act was a reaction to real estate agents telling prospective buyers that the neighborhood was black or turning black? Looking at laws like this from a viewpoint of 50 years away is misleading and unfair. Does the act need updating to cover some of the issues we face today? Probably but never forget that prior to acts like these, racial discrimination in housing was legal and pervasive. That is how we got black ghettos in almost every city in the nation.
My lord, that record of yours is stuck ain't it? The New Jim Crow laws were a vast set of federal and state/local laws that were supported by one and all at the time. All that is but for the minorities they targeted. Joe Biden is feeling the heat about it right now as he should. I can think of many leftees in government who did not support the war on drugs or the prison pipeline, no conservative comes to mind. This all started with Nixon. Read more, talk less James.
Republicans have been singing to roughly the same tune for over 150 years. Protect individual liberties, promote individual responsibility, enforce laws and punish criminals.
If you read speeches by Lincoln, they sound like Republicans today. The same sorts of ideas were used to abolish slavery, fight segregation laws and pass civil rights laws. All of this was done with people who believed in small governments and free markets and the opposition on the other side always believed using governmental powers to enforce their vision. Democrats earned the black vote in the 1930s by buying up the support of the very people they despised the most with the New Deal. A majority of Democrats voted against civil rights in the 1960s and, save for one Democrat, all those racists died as blue and as bigotted as they were in the heyday of the rampant racism they instituted. Once Democrats figured out they could bundle up voters in minorities by convincing them of their victimhood and pledging to pour taxpayer money in their pockets, they started to look like what they look like today.
Do you know the irony? Courts started to expand the ability of criminals to evade punishment in the 1950s through the 1970s and the Johnson administration launched the federal government on a path to massively expand welfare programs. Expenditures exploded in a matter of 5 years. It sounds like what people have in mind when they think about helping out the poor and fighting crime in black neighborhoods today... The poverty rate did not budge, even if the programs were initially sold as a means to save government expenditures later, and crime rates skyrocketed (no exaggeration). To understand the enormity, you have to understand crime rates were trending downwards for the past 15 or so years, and so were teenage pregnancies, and many positive trends were established prior to the 1960s. Now, fathers are disproportionately more often missing in black communities and single motherhood much more prevalent. It's one of the nice trends that reversed in the 1960s.
Yeah... I'm sure Republicans have been racist since the 1970s. Though you probably forgot that the racist Democrats of the 1960s were still Democrats in the 1970s and that it's not the Republican views on crime, welfare or regulations which prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s. It's also the case that Republicans have always been complaining about those views, that the proponents of those programs predicted exactly the opposite of what happened and that Republicans predicted exactly what happened. Even if you tried to say it's just a coincidence, it's a big pill to swallow, but to put that on the back of Republicans. No. Democrats did this -- racist Democrats, must I add.
I don't think the war on drug was fine. It probably was stupid and still is stupid, but I don't hold the silly view that because a law has a disproportionate impact on black people that it's racist.
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