Causes of Crime

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The whole reason that a lot of southern rednecks resent blacks is they resent blacks getting the public assistance that they themselves feel more entitled to.

There's a sense of entitlement throughout our culture, from the welfare mom to veterans to Lockheed Martin. It has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in one's skin.

"Entitlement" is a racial codeword of the right.

You can run from that Finn, but you can't hide.

http://thehill.com/opinion/columnist...ure-real-issue

The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Why do you care?

It's nacho cheese.

It tasted more like velveeta

Pete

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

That's fine. Just keep on pretending.

Pretending? You're the one who's living in a fantasy world on this one. Turn on your t.v. ferfuksake. Check out some of the videogames your kids/grandkids might be playing.

It's all FILLED with violence.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It tasted more like velveeta

Pete

Yes. We even came across some that had bacon bits in it. (At least that's what we thought it was. ) That stuff was delicious! Seriously.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

And the thug life is sure colorblind.

Pete

You got that right. I had that going on right across the street from me, real life, yo. White boys dealin' drugs, puttin' in work on old folks, stealin' hoopties-n-shit.

All gone, now though. I think a**hole finally went back to jail. Good place for him.

Dave

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

You got that right. I had that going on right across the street from me, real life, yo. White boys dealin' drugs, puttin' in work on old folks, stealin' hoopties-n-shit.

All gone, now though. I think a**hole finally went back to jail. Good place for him.

Dave

No kidding.

I went to all white schools and we had plenty of thugs.

More in Junior High than High School because most of them had dropped out and become full time criminals by then. I used to hate that show "Happy Days" because they glorified those buttholes with that Fonz character. The real Fonzies were dirtbags.

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Pretending? You're the one who's living in a fantasy world on this one. Turn on your t.v. ferfuksake. Check out some of the videogames your kids/grandkids might be playing.

It's all FILLED with violence.

Dave

Meanwhile black kids are committing violent crime and at several times the rate of any other race.

Why is that. Oh yeah, racism.

My point is that you and Joad, politicians, journalist, actors, and whoever can ignore this or blame it somebody else until the end of time.

And, until blacks turn it around they will still be in the shitter.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

Meanwhile black kids are committing violent crime and at several times the rate of any other race.

Why is that. Oh yeah, racism.

And your argument against that is that "it's not racism, it's because blacks are inferior to whites."

[donquixote99]

All people who lives in ghettos commit crime at several times the rate of those who don't. Was true of Irish, and of Italians, for example.

But these groups got out of the inner cities eventually, while blacks have not. There are two basic theories about why this is:

1. It's them.
2. It's how others treat them.

This is another case where I think the either/or framing of the controversy is false. it's both.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There are two basic theories about why this is:

1. It's them.
2. It's how others treat them.

This is another case where I think the either/or framing of the controversy is false. it's both.

I'll go with #2.

#2 is the cause of #1 IMO.

If you eliminate #2, #1 will take care of itself.