re: It's going down in Baltimore

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Can you really disenfranchise people for hundreds of years and just expect them to roll over and take it?

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Please explain how these people have been disenfranchised.

These poor disenfranchised high school students... it's a damn shame.

The tactics that the rioters used last night are going to be tough to combat. I watched most of it last night and I never really saw masses of people like Ferguson. I saw small groups spread out all over. They were highly mobile and they know the territory because they have grown up running around those neighborhoods. When the cops would advance, they would just disappear and pop up somewhere else. The cops and NG are going to need huge numbers. They are going to have to cover the city like a blanket.

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Can you really disenfranchise people for hundreds of years and just expect them to roll over and take it?

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How have these young people been disenfranchised? Please be specific

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The history of man explicitly states that every time you do that, it backfires and people lash out. Every time.

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Please give me an example of people lashing out and especially people tearing down their own community. The jews had it 100000x worse than anyone and I don't remember anyone acting like this. In fact I didn't see a single ex-slave out there looting yesterday.

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or am I crazy?

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nailed it!

Somebody last night said condition for Baltimore HS students was no different than being a HS student in Nigeria


Really?

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Can you really disenfranchise people for hundreds of years and just expect them to roll over and take it? The history of man explicitly states that every time you do that, it backfires and people lash out. Every time.

So what makes this case any different? Are we just going to ignore everything we've seen before ?

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At some this narrative has got to change. Most of the "disenfranchised" bring it on themselves. The fact is that the black community always needs a white boogeyman to blame their problems on.

Look at Jackson, MS. The town is mostly black and its run by blacks but they still say all the problems stem from white folks because they moved out and took their money with them.

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The tactics that the rioters used last night are going to be tough to combat

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They talked about this last night at one of the press conferences. They ( police) were having a problem with holding ground. If they moved from one intersection to another to stop looting, the corner they left would become the new hot spot.

If they would have pursued every group of rock chunkers last night I believe the chaos would have been more wide spread.

Of course there are problems at home but those problems I listed also effect the family unit as well.

[quote]Lack of employment (opportunities), bad schools, poor police presence in their violent/drug laden communities, police profiling and brutality, public health problems everywhere, health disparities, crappy health care, and basically anything else that plagues a large urban community..which seems to be everything.

Employment opportunities are so abundant we are increasing immigration to satisfy our expanding job market.