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Posted on 3/30/14 at 8:49 pm to VetteGuy
I'm not reading this whole thread so SIAPed but has anyone here seen the documentary called Pruitt-Igoe Myth. It was a huge housing projects in St. Louis. Basically, lower class citizens before the 1950s had depended on factory jobs to work their way out of poverty and had done so for decades. When African Americans flooded the city in the 30s and 40s they were doing okay but living in slums and shotgun houses. In the 50s the factories all left for the surrounding areas which compounded their difficulty of getting out of poverty. The government built Pruitt-Igoe Homes to help them out but did not budget any money for upkeep afterwards. When they were moving people into the homes the government told the families with both parents that only the moms could move in and the fathers were not allowed. Pretty interesting stuff and pretty sad.
Posted on 3/30/14 at 10:24 pm to BigEdLSU
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It's fact, white drug crime is majority soft cocaine. Is it random chance that this has the lowest penalty?
Cocaine and crack have the same penalties now.
Posted on 3/30/14 at 10:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Took part in a focus group last week, we sat around for 2 hours and talked about major issues. In the beginning we all sat around and introduced ourselves and said what our jobs were. One of the AA women held no job but did have 6 kids. I noticed she did not have a wedding ring but figured that might not be as prevalent in the poor community. A good bit of this thread reminds me of this woman.
Basically, she got paid for two hours where she contributed absolutely nothing because she had no idea that the issues we talked about were even issues.
It made me kind of sad
Basically, she got paid for two hours where she contributed absolutely nothing because she had no idea that the issues we talked about were even issues.
It made me kind of sad
Posted on 3/31/14 at 12:05 am to Porter Osborne Jr
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I'm not reading this whole thread so SIAPed but has anyone here seen the documentary called Pruitt-Igoe Myth. It was a huge housing projects in St. Louis. Basically, lower class citizens before the 1950s had depended on factory jobs to work their way out of poverty and had done so for decades. When African Americans flooded the city in the 30s and 40s they were doing okay but living in slums and shotgun houses. In the 50s the factories all left for the surrounding areas which compounded their difficulty of getting out of poverty. The government built Pruitt-Igoe Homes to help them out but did not budget any money for upkeep afterwards. When they were moving people into the homes the government told the families with both parents that only the moms could move in and the fathers were not allowed. Pretty interesting stuff and pretty sad.
I would like to hear some of the people in this thread respond.
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