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To: tejek who wrote (801637)	8/15/2014 1:05:10 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1571169

I don't agree........I think its too early and there is more that needs to be done. There will always be pockets of social injustice that deserve our attention. That is not to say, entitlements that were enacted decades ago do not have a shelf life, because they do. When we identify specific instances or regions where practices are unjust we should and do have laws and activists prepared to deal with them. We just need to continue supporting what we have set up. Things like this need to be thoroughly flushed out without l/r biases. For example, I don't like the treatment of my new landlord who told my neighbor she had to remove all the flowers she had placed in the rock bed out front. She and I have been doing this for years. Little girls pick them, young families like to stroll by and hang out on evening walks. But our apartments did not look like the other 600 or so, and as a result the Corporate manager came a calling. It pissed me off enough that I decided to move at the end of my annual lease. I've been here for over a decade. They will have to refurbish this apartment before they can re-rent it...and everything is going up and with new add on charges that make it more expensive. Some of those things Z mentioned might be intentional but I suspect some normal changes in the conditions have been piled in to make a better story. None the less, we do need to keep advocating for powerless people.

To: tejek who wrote (801637)	8/15/2014 1:09:09 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571169

>>I think its too early and there is more that needs to be done. Except that the available evidence suggests, rather strongly, that many of the problems in black communities are a result of what has already "been done." We've created a sense of entitlement, and an environment where young black men and women take no responsibility for their own actions. I'm sure you have seen the video of the black woman living in a motel with her FIFTEEN children, demanding that "someone" has to be responsible for them. Never occurred to her that SHE needs to be responsible for them. And now the STATE is responsible. You can't help these children. They are victims of the welfare state.