Another Unarmed Black Teen Killed
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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 18:50
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"The appropriate emotion is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The "working poor," as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone else." -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich
Yes two all correct. This does not only pertain to inner cities though. More and more it speeds itself throughout society at large. More and more local municipalities scramble to find new and inventive ways of dealing with it. New ways to compete. Something lacking in minority communities. It is also a global free trade assisted truth. What you suggest is as old as time itself as far as the human race goes. That is why there is strength in numbers. That is why protests have broken out against wages in the fast food industry. That is why minimum wage has been taken up in Washington. It is why unions are so necessary. Union’s local workers vote against while they complain about their low incomes. My point throughout has been we know all this and have been citing it for decades. Has it fixed anything, not much I think? We have had decades of hearings in Washington, has it fixed anything, not much I think? Time and time again the leaders in these communities have marched too…..no avail.
The thing that has been missing is the corporation of far too many in the communities effected the worst. Their parents and grandparents were severely mistreated and they pass those emotions and world views to their children. Has that helped much, I think not? One reason the anonymous donor continues to exist is because he/ she stands alone. It is how the powers to be prevail. My point, they need to start the fix within themselves by taking back their communities from those who would kept it the way it exists today, those who bring trouble to the community that live there. Then they need to bring us in as partners not just donors.
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The whole paradigm of "competition" for the lowest wage is wrong. The only people who "win" in that competition are the "takers" (as opposed to the "makers"). I know you won't understand this, but I have no time to educate you right now. I just want to say you're an idiot, shooting yourself in the foot.
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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.
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THUGR
I swear, you must really like the smell in there.
So - let's say the blacks do what you think they should do. They get quieter. Nicer. More 'respectful' of whites. They end every sentence with a Yas SUH! or No massah!
Do you really think it will make the slumlords invest more money in their oh so profitable slum housing - and cut their profits? Do you really think businesses will magically raise the employment rate and wages just to get blacks out of poverty? Do you really think more property tax money will appear and fill the coffers for better schools?
You have not ever answered this.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The whole paradigm of "competition" for the lowest wage is wrong. The only people who "win" in that competition are the "takers" (as opposed to the "makers"). I know you won't understand this, but I have no time to educate you right now. I just want to say you're an idiot, shooting yourself in the foot.
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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.
How about we concern ourselves with getting some jobs to come to the community before we complain about wages? You always what to put the cart before the horse. I could see you now negotiating for a company to come to a poor neighborhood. First you would say how much are you going to pay us. Conversation over.
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It's like when he said that he TOO understood what it was like to be hated JUST BECAUSE of the color of his skin - and never really grasped the fact that that's what was going on with blacks.
The guy's a frelling idiot.
I think he was raised to believe that punishment came from doing wrong and reward came from doing right and if you could just figure out what to do you could control your environment. It's the thinking of a three year old, but he will never learn different. I'm sure his amygdala is now too large, his threat pathways have a hair-trigger, and his frontal lobes are diminished. It's wired into his neurological structure at this point.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The whole paradigm of "competition" for the lowest wage is wrong. The only people who "win" in that competition are the "takers" (as opposed to the "makers"). I know you won't understand this, but I have no time to educate you right now. I just want to say you're an idiot, shooting yourself in the foot.
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THUGR is a know-nothing militarist.
SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.
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1kiki
Look stupid. I am one of the only ones here being honest. All you and Sig know how to do is rile against the masses. The whole world is a fucked up place to you except Russia and it's America's fault. Wonderful, I wish you a lot of luck. When you leavin?
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"First you would say how much are you going to pay us."
What's wrong with that? Only a slave can't ask the question: what's in it for me?
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Still can't answer even one simple question? We figured. ;>
Originally posted by THGRRI:
1kiki
Look stupid. I am one of the only ones here being honest. All you and Sig know how to do is rile against the masses. The whole world is a fucked up place to you except Russia and it's America's fault. Wonderful, I wish you a lot of luck. When you leavin?
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Click on this video to watch on YouTube and it will bring you to Morgan Freeman about wealth inequality.
Click on Morgan Freeman - The Roll Race & Gentics Plays In Wealth - CNN
For some reason every time now when I try to paste a video from say YouTube it won't work. It is as though it played and will not rewind?
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
BC
I stand corrected. However, we have had sensitivity training in place for many years and it is constantly being updated. The problem is, that the good behavior is mostly one sided. That is not to say there are not many great black people. It is just that they are not the ones the cops are always dealing with. They are dealing with those who have rap sheets as long or longer than your arm or even your leg. Hell, both legs.
Who is this "we " in your second sentence? Are you, in fact, a police officer? Or do you mean the " community" that you keep referring to? The black one? or the other, bigger one, the one made of everybody but the black folks?
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