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re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:18 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 11/19/14 at 1:18 pm to SlowFlowPro
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legislatures react to new moral panics by making sentencing harsher
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.
This post was edited on 11/19/14 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 11/19/14 at 5:17 pm to Ace Midnight
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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?
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.
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