re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime

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there are many people who believe they do not have an opportunity

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I've highlighted the buzzword.

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If no member of your family ever owned a home or attended college or had a bank account or even showed you how to have a bank account and if you lived in perpetual fear of the "system"...you don't just carry out these simple instructions.

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I agree that almost all the problems in the black/white community stem from this. So with that being said, we are basically throwing good money away investing in something that will never change, right? Or is the answer to have the government/churches/etc. start raising kids instead of the parents? Seems like the definition of insanity to just keep giving handouts to people that will never change.

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this country has committed such an evil that I'm not sure it can be repaired.

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that is utter bullshite

that is the exact sort of defeatist attitude the fuels the lower class mentality culture (for whites and blacks and latinos and asians)

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The most obvious example are the jews. You think they wouldn't have traded places with blacks in the 1940s?!? Why were they able to prosper?

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Israel received a massive reparations package from Germany in the early 50's that is credited with totally revitalizing the Israeli economy.

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Despite the protests, the agreement was signed in September 1952, and West Germany paid Israel a sum of 3 billion marks over the next fourteen years; 450 million marks were paid to the World Jewish Congress. The payments were made to the State of Israel as the heir to those victims who had no surviving family. The money was invested in the country's infrastructure, and played an important role in establishing the economy of the new state. The reparations would become a decisive part of Israel's income, comprising as high as 87.5% of the state income in 1956.[3][8] Israel at the time faced a deep economic crisis and was heavily dependent on donations by foreign Jews, and the reparations, along with these donations, would help turn Israel into an economically viable country.

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As late as 1988, even MORE reparations were approved.

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And then again just since 2012 EVEN MORE has been approved:

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And perhaps even more important than the money, was the act of Germany society and the German sovereign basically admitting to and owning up to what they had done. Prior to the passage of the act, the German people's narrative was very self-serving:

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In 1952, when West Germany began the process of making amends for the Holocaust, it did so under conditions that should be instructive to us. Resistance was violent. Very few Germans believed that Jews were entitled to anything. Only 5 percent of West Germans surveyed reported feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and only 29 percent believed that Jews were owed restitution from the German people.

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“The rest,” the historian Tony Judt wrote in his 2005 book, Postwar, “were divided between those (some two-fifths of respondents) who thought that only people ‘who really committed something’ were responsible and should pay, and those (21 percent) who thought ‘that the Jews themselves were partly responsible for what happened to them during the Third Reich.’?”

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Germany’s unwillingness to squarely face its history went beyond polls. Movies that suggested a societal responsibility for the Holocaust beyond Hitler were banned. “The German soldier fought bravely and honorably for his homeland,” claimed President Eisenhower, endorsing the Teutonic national myth. Judt wrote, “Throughout the fifties West German officialdom encouraged a comfortable view of the German past in which the Wehrmacht was heroic, while Nazis were in a minority and properly punished.”

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that is utter bullshite that is the exact sort of defeatist attitude the fuels the lower class mentality culture (for whites and blacks and latinos and asians)

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So what is your plan to address an intentionally-created, massive wealth gap? I imagine part of your response is "education". Well, that's a good bit easier when you have plenty of money to spend on an education isn't it?

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, saying she was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy.[15] Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place,[16] she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.

she seems to have overcome this horrible atrocity committed by america ...


course, if her ancestral tribe hadn't sold her into slavery, she never would've been a billionaire ...

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she seems to have overcome this horrible atrocity committed by america ... course, if her ancestral tribe hadn't sold her into slavery, she never would've been a billionaire ...

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Yes, you've proven your point by citing the extreme outlier.

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legislatures react to new moral panics by making sentencing harsher

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In Louisiana - switchblade possession is about the same as possessing a hand grenade? Why? Scared old white people watched that movie, The Blackboard Jungle and West Side Story and peed their pants.

But, back to Big Scrub - so you're saying that no matter what we say - until we make things perfect, it's all white people's fault? Even though Jake and I have helped black folks, represented black folks and never did any of that slaving/Jim Crowing - there is a stain of blood - or even worse, because white people have immigrated here even since the CRA and they're to blame as well, it is a stain of race?

How enlightened.

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But, back to Big Scrub - so you're saying that no matter what we say - until we make things perfect, it's all white people's fault? Even though Jake and I have helped black folks, represented black folks and never did any of that slaving/Jim Crowing - there is a stain of blood - or even worse, because white people have immigrated here even since the CRA and they're to blame as well, it is a stain of race?

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I don't know if that's a fair summary of what I'm saying. I'm saying that instead of sitting up on a high horse and acting as if everything is as simple as just declaring yourself (I'm not speaking of you specifically) morally superior to an entire class of people without EVER questioning what could have possibly led to such a thing is lazy at best. An intelligent person might take a step back and say "gee, I wonder if what I'm looking at had any antecedents at all that might complicate my pat little self-serving narrative."

And my contention is that if you educate yourself on American history, you might find that the government and our ancestors did some rather shocking things which had lasting, devastating impact. Further, I think the right thing to do is to acknowledge those facts instead of constantly dodging them.

Perhaps the answer isn't aggressive policing that perpetually puts an entire population behind bars.

The bottom line is that blacks fear/mistrust the entire system...and that's not just because they are lazy criminals. The system has done a lot to them that is often hard to notice as a white person.