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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (134755)	7/18/2013 8:50:26 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Did urban culture become an issue after 2008? If your post is because of the Zimmerman case, then we need to rethink our system where DA's tend to over prosecute and the police is actively turning young folks between the ages of 18 to 26 into criminals through their overzealous investigation of small crimes. The American people are slowly realizing what other countries realized generations ago: Which is that the system we have here in the US favors the rich, protect their assets and interests, put criminals behind bars instead of reforming them, etc. etc. We need to quit encouraging our capitalists, who made their capital at the expense of our blood, toil, tears and sweat, take their riches overseas to exploit another group of people through their cheap labor. We would want to see the day when the capitalists quit promoting illegal immigration so that they can draw from a pool of cheap labor to harvest their fields. And on and on. And it is not necessary to raise the issue of urban culture particularly when the nation has twice voted a African American to hold the highest office in this land. Doing so stinks of American hypocrisy

To: one_less who wrote (134755)	7/18/2013 8:56:13 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

What is your source of information please for your assertion that "to the extent which urban violence is escalating"? To my knowledge urban violence has declined drastically in some big cities (NYC, Richmond, VA). Is this decline being offset by increases in city violence elsewhere?

To: one_less who wrote (134755)	7/18/2013 10:43:55 AM
From: Jim McMannis	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

RE:"This administration, with the aid of most civil rights attorneys, could make sweeping changes to improve urban culture. Why aren't they?" It was a major opportunity for the admin to lead by example. Gangsta, rap, gangs certainly haven't been a priority other than "pants on the ground". Politically it's better to pit people against each other.

To: one_less who wrote (134755)	7/18/2013 12:34:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The real civil rights atrocity in this country is the extent to which urban violence is escalating and conditions are worsening. Millions of Americans are being denied the opportunities available in this country because the current administration is more inclined to appease the gangland culture causing these conditions to persist than oppose it, to the point of enabling, endorsing, and encouraging it. They have instead focused their activism on gun control directed at conservative and in comparison, low crime regions of the country. We are on the verge of being forced to declare a lost generation of people living in urban ghetto areas who, by no fault of their own, are being forced to survive under these horrific conditions. What data do you have to support your position re. this matter?

To: one_less who wrote (134755)

7/18/2013 2:16:27 PM

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ChinuSFO

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That is such a bullshit post.

We are 65th in the world in income inequality. That is why urban violence is escalating. We are not funding our schools enough or our social systems.

Things are deteriorating in this country because the plutocrats using the clueless Republican's have destroyed our social systems e.g. making college too damn expensive and the middle class, by using their power to buy congress and destroy unions; and wasted our tax money (bush pissed away 5 trillion on two stupid wars and three tax cuts for the rich) and cut taxes on the rich by tons.

So our social systems are breaking down because the plutocrats, with the help of the pubs have becaoem the new feudal lords and we the peasants and serfs.

You are clueless to what is going on.

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<<The real civil rights atrocity in this country is the extent to which urban violence is escalating and conditions are worsening. Millions of Americans are being denied the opportunities available in this country because the current administration is more inclined to appease the gangland culture causing these conditions to persist than oppose it, to the point of enabling, endorsing, and encouraging it. They have instead focused their activism on gun control directed at conservative and in comparison, low crime regions of the country. We are on the verge of being forced to declare a lost generation of people living in urban ghetto areas who, by no fault of their own, are being forced to survive under these horrific conditions.

This administration, with the aid of most civil rights attorneys, could make sweeping changes to improve urban culture. Why aren't they?

To: one_less who wrote (134755)	7/20/2013 12:10:13 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You ran for your life when challenged, didn't you? You must be from a old generation or you must be from the few of the new generation being influenced by skinheads. Right? You believe this is a "food stamp President". =========================== "Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race," he said. "It doesn't mean that we're in a postracial society. It doesn't mean that racism is eliminated. But you know, when I talk to [daughters] Malia and Sasha and I listen to their friends and I see them interact, they're better than we are." President Barack Obama July 19, 2013