oldtimehawk wrote:

navyhawk wrote: I know we've had our rumbles in the past, but I have to say it, you are winning this thread.

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--- 81Hawk wrote:

Senorjhawk wrote:

I live in a city that had a thriving Black community in the 1920s-1960s. I see thriving Vietnamese communities now. I see growing Hispanic communities now.

I don’t think the answer is past institutional racism. (And that’s a good thing—if that was the problem, solutions would be hard to come by.) 

I think we’ll be able to help when we figure out/address one single issue: what killed the Black family/culture/community really beginning in the 1960s?

Senor

I agree the problems are complex, and there are no easy solutions to this multifacted tragedy. But, if your experience was of a "thriving black community" from 1920-1960, I would suggest that was far from the norm, if for no other reason that the Great Depression was particularly cruel to african americans, and access to quality economic opportunities, quality education, quality healthcare has always been a problem. A problem that was legislatively much more acute prior to circa 1965.

Off-shoring of traditional blue collar positions has devasted the black middle class. The introduction of much cheaper drugs started in the 1970's as well. What was masked for decades was the considerably higher rates of illiteracy, the lack of a family support infrastructure for education at home. Combine this with the funding mechanisms for public education and this problem as dramatically accelerated.

The republican party has no interest in even discussing this problem. That's a severe black-mark and if I were a person of color struggling within the urban core, why would I vote for someone who seems to be unable to even speak to my problems. If Sajak was struggling to make this point, then I will make it for him. Unless and until the repubs embrace this as a political priority, the browning of America likely does ensure a stronger position of power for the dems and the same old, same old. But, why would the pubs embrace the problem if there are no special interest dollars flowing their direction to encourage them to pay attention?

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Some day they will figure out Dems just want them quiet on the plantation. Dems have never wanted to truly help just wanted the votes.

Fortunately for Dems, they know you and conservatives like you are the ones who actually put them on plantations in chains and when finally forced to free them made their lives miserable in any way possible for the next century plus and seem to wish you could go back to that.  That is why Dems get 90% of the black vote and they get it whether or not the candidate is black.

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EvolveHawk wrote: 
I knew what you were referencing dick-licker

This might be the single greatest endorsement I've ever received.

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If your objective is to be thought of as an ass hole, your mission was accomplished months ago.

PatSajak wrote:

EvolveHawk wrote:

PatSajak wrote:

EvolveHawk wrote: 

they don't give two shits about how much they ruin the lives of the states citizens...

I forgot the '

sue me

This moron thinks I'm referring to grammar.

I knew what you were referencing dick-licker