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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (785693)5/20/2014 3:38:09 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1579807
 
>> There will always be people who want to game the system but the vast majority of people, and that includes blacks, want a better life. You don't get a better life by going on welfare. Whites in this country consistently take a subset of blacks and their qualities, and apply them to all blacks.

Living in Seattle, I'm not sure you can identify with it. But I spend a lot of time in places like Memphis, St. Louis, Atlanta, and New Orleans. These people lead hopeless lives because they are stuck in an endless cycle of entitlement which places terrible limitations on their ability to dig out.

>> Its the result of a state that institutionalized racism for centuries and then continued with racism for decades afterwards.

Why is crime and poverty in predominantly black areas worse today than it was in the mid-60s?
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