America's Poorest White Town

[irosie91]

Mayor Stinkins...Too much of a pussy to confront thugs.

He did the best he could----he was chock full of
GOOD INTENTIONS. the thugs victimized him

 

[Lisa558]

He did the best he could----he was chock full of
GOOD INTENTIONS. the thugs victimized him

I don’t think Dinkins was racist against whites the way Adams is.

 

[irosie91]

I don’t think Dinkins was racist against whites the way Adams is.

??? Adams? racist against whites?

 

[Lisa558]

??? Adams? racist against whites?

You’re being sarcastic, I hope.

 

[Indeependent]

He did the best he could----he was chock full of
GOOD INTENTIONS. the thugs victimized him

I lived in Brooklyn and worked in Downtown Manhattan during his term and he was a wimp.

 

[otto105]

No Einstein, Obama's daddy was 87.5% Arab.

So...

 

[otto105]

I don’t think Dinkins was racist against whites the way Adams is.

Yeah, all black people are racist....right.

 

[Lisa558]

Yeah, all black people are racist....right.

I didn’t say that. The discussion about Dinkins and whether he was racist, so I said he was NOT….but that Adams was. So from that you get that I said all blacks are racist?!

You nasty leftists are so quick to call other people racists that you don’t even read what they’ve said.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Well yeah...but..well..that's just not true. The poor are used and abused in a thousand ways in our society..and shame is a constant part of it. Just ask people their opinion of welfare and those on it. Just ask people what they really think of the homeless.
Poor people get it every day..the sidelong glances--the look of superiority in the eyes of a driver passing a guy with a sign.

One should not be ashamed to have no money..but we are taught from an early age to look down on broke folk. They do notice it..and they do feel shame...and anger.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Well yeah...but..well..that's just not true. The poor are used and abused in a thousand ways in our society..and shame is a constant part of it. Just ask people their opinion of welfare and those on it. Just ask people what they really think of the homeless.
Poor people get it every day..the sidelong glances--the look of superiority in the eyes of a driver passing a guy with a sign.

One should not be ashamed to have no money..but we are taught from an early age to look down on broke folk. They do notice it..and they do feel shame...and anger.

And if you think about it, the only people who could participate in the running of the country originally had to not just be white males, but they had to be land owning white males. So from the very beginning, poor whites were pointedly excluded from being able to vote due to their lack of real estate which could be seen as looking down on them for not being more financially prosperous or being "poor".

 

[BrokeLoser]

And if you think about it, the only people who could participate in the running of the country originally had to not just be white males, but they had to be land owning white males. So from the very beginning, poor whites were pointedly excluded from being able to vote due to their lack of real estate which could be seen as looking down on them for not being more financially prosperous or being "poor".

Hmmm, how do you suppose those white men were able to build the greatest nation on the globe in a very short time by doing it that way?

 

[otto105]

Hmmm, how do you suppose those white men were able to build the greatest nation on the globe in a very short time by doing it that way?

It was built over time.

When America started it was a backwater small country.

 

[AZrailwhale]

And if you think about it, the only people who could participate in the running of the country originally had to not just be white males, but they had to be land owning white males. So from the very beginning, poor whites were pointedly excluded from being able to vote due to their lack of real estate which could be seen as looking down on them for not being more financially prosperous or being "poor".

Anybody could be a landowner. There were millions of square miles of unimproved land free for the taking. The vast majority of landowners were subsistence farmers eaking out an existence on a few acres of land while the gradually cleared more and broke it to the plow.

 

[Lisa558]

How did this occur and why are all the racists on this site obsessing with so called "black culture" and the alleged failings of the black community when they have their own communities with the exact same failings that they're always wanting to attribute to only the black race.

Because they’re blaming ”racism” for their failings. Their failings are due to the same things as blacks who fail: children out of wedlock and poor education,

You all had how many hundreds of years of a head start and you still haven't pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and accomplished great things for the human race, yet you constantly bitch and moan about any progress black people make, to the point that your go-to strategy is to burn everything down that surpasses your accomplishment.

What’s with this hundreds of years thing? Many people belonging to minorities had their parents or grandparents arrive here, and a generation later are doing fine. And that is WITHOUT the benefit of affirmative action blacks have enjoyed.

While I have compassion for these people, far too many of you appear to not even know that there is any such thing as poor white people living in such dire conditions and relying wholely or mostly off of government assistance. Or that there are areas where all of the criminals are white (an extremely rare occurence according to Tipsycatlover).

We know. The difference is the people in trailer parks are not blaming blacks for their problems. The people in inner-city ghettos are blaming whites for theirs.

 

[IM2]

Hmmm, how do you suppose those white men were able to build the greatest nation on the globe in a very short time by doing it that way?

Because those white men DIDN'T build anything doing it that way. That's a tall tale.

 

[Lisa558]

Because those white men DIDN'T build anything doing it that way. That's a tall tale.

Ever had an infection? Thank the white man for antibiotics or you could be dead by now.

 

[otto105]

Because those white men DIDN'T build anything doing it that way. That's a tall tale.

Is our nation really better than the 1000 year rule of the Roman Empire.

 

[Unkotare]

Is our nation really better than the 1000 year rule of the Roman Empire.

Yes.

 

[otto105]

Yes.

Seems like to me the Romans did Romans First better than conservatives have done a Merica first.

 

[IM2]

Is our nation really better than the 1000 year rule of the Roman Empire.

There were problems in that empire, but America has not done better. It's not even close. There are civilizations or empires in ancient African, China, India, and South America that have done better.