The History of Racism in America

[Unkotare]

... the problems blacks face.
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Problems YOU, despite all your racist diatribes, have done NOTHING to alleviate. You love those problems, you NEED those problems. Without them, you'd have no identity at all.

 

[el midgetron]

The article claims that there were " a few hundred rapes" bi GIs in all of France over ELEVEN MONTHS. Several hundred thousand GIs passed through or were stationed in France during that time. While any rape is bad, that is almost certainly a lower number, even if figured per capita, than the rapes committed by French citizens.

The same folks who want to dig up rapes from 70 years ago, don’t care about the rapes happening today.

Sweden rape: Most convicted attackers foreign-born, says TV

Swedish national TV says 58% of men convicted of rape in the past five years were born abroad.

www.bbc.com

 

[AZrailwhale]

Of course, one of my all time favorite individual comic strips came from "Doonesbury". Very much created as a pivotal part of the "Counterculture" movement of the 1960s and 1970s. But way back in 2004 raised a lot of eyebrows with this strip.”

White people go to better schools, while Black people aren't. Because, they are segregated to the point, they aren't able to attend a decent school for a decent education. They have been labelled as "stupid" people according to the White people. In which, that involves Slavery.

There are a plethora of reasons why the Black people have been put down by the Whites. The Whites appear more "Superior". And they act like Masters. They seem to control every aspects of the Black race.

The White people (especially the Europeans) felt that it is only natural for the Blacks to serve as slaves, and nothing less.

Those are gross exaggerations. I’m white and went to very bad schools, not all whites are rich and live in the ‘burbs.

 

[SmokeALib]

Our system has a problem that begins with an attitude not just of racism but the belief in white entitlement that comes with it. This entitlement mentality has those on the right complaining about black culture, but many of the problems in back culture come from a problem in white culture. This video shows how white culture has created the problems blacks face.

Do you identify as black? I ask because you seem to be one of the most racist posters on these forums.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Our system has a problem that begins with an attitude not just of racism but the belief in white entitlement that comes with it. This entitlement mentality has those on the right complaining about black culture, but many of the problems in back culture come from a problem in white culture. This video shows how white culture has created the problems blacks face.

We need folk like you to keep talking about it otherwise it'll disappear.

 

[Lisa558]

I agree with a lot of that. The "Projects" were a disaster. Black families should have been allowed or helped to be in single family homes, rather than helped into the project type buildings.
Thankfully we are not there anymore since the 1980's

The “projects” were actually NOT a disaster in the late 1950s and 1960s. They were filled mostly with elderly Jews, along with WWII vets with modest incomes. It was much safer back then.

 

[Mushroom]

The “projects” were actually NOT a disaster in the late 1950s and 1960s. They were filled mostly with elderly Jews, along with WWII vets with modest incomes. It was much safer back then.

This is something that most in the current era simply can not comprehend.

"Housing Projects" is kind of like Welfare. They were never intended to be permanent solutions, but a temporary one to deal with a temporary problem. While the first real "Public Housing Projects" were started in the 1930's as part of the NIRA (a New Deal jobs program), it was WWII that really saw it expand. As with many surging into the cities to work in the war factories, the critical housing shortages led the government to start building housing projects to give them a place to live.

And the returning WWII vets needed places to live, so once again the US started making housing projects to provide them places to live until the market could expand enough to meet demand.

Those were never intended to be permanent, and by the 1960s those old "temporary" New Deal and WWII solutions were falling apart, so there was the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965. Which essentially set what was then in use as the blueprint for the future. And in the end, that was a complete and utter disaster.

 

[Lisa558]

This is something that most in the current era simply can not comprehend.

"Housing Projects" is kind of like Welfare. They were never intended to be permanent solutions, but a temporary one to deal with a temporary problem. While the first real "Public Housing Projects" were started in the 1930's as part of the NIRA (a New Deal jobs program), it was WWII that really saw it expand. As with many surging into the cities to work in the war factories, the critical housing shortages led the government to start building housing projects to give them a place to live.

And the returning WWII vets needed places to live, so once again the US started making housing projects to provide them places to live until the market could expand enough to meet demand.

Those were never intended to be permanent, and by the 1960s those old "temporary" New Deal and WWII solutions were falling apart, so there was the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965. Which essentially set what was then in use as the blueprint for the future. And in the end, that was a complete and utter disaster.

I think the way to go, so as not to have the projects become crime-ridden drug dens, would have been to limit residents to 1) low-income elderly over 65, who could remain there for the rest of their lives and 2) veterans, who could have a maximum 4-year stay to allow them to acclimate to civilian life, train for a new career or get a job and begin to work their way up.

 

[Mushroom]

I think the way to go, so as not to have the projects become crime-ridden drug dens, would have been to limit residents to 1) low-income elderly over 65, who could remain there for the rest of their lives and 2) veterans, who could have a maximum 4-year stay to allow them to acclimate to civilian life, train for a new career or get a job and begin to work their way up.

The problem is that now they are almost everywhere, and people are treating them as if they were their permanent homes.

I knew there was a problem when I lived in Alabama. This was a largely rural area, where I was renting half a duplex for $250 a month. Housing was very inexpensive and affordable, yet we still had two large housing projects.

And for about nine months I had a side job delivering pizza. Not that I even needed the job, my friend was the manager and she was always complaining that most of the drivers were "flakes". So I started working part-time at night so she could have at least one driver that was reliable.

And ye gads, the first time I had a delivery to the projects it was an eye opener. I was a well paid computer tech at my main job, and the pizza job was just to help a friend. But most of the cars I saw in the projects were newer and nicer than my own car. With things like $2,000 rims. And this was 2005-2006, inside would be 40"+ big screen televisions and brand new XBox 360s.

A lot of the problem is that it is no longer "temporary", and instead the money that should be saved to get permanent housing is now going to "stuff". And when they have enough income that many were literally ordering delivery pizza 4 or 5 nights a week, it also shows an issue with knowing how to save and spend money.

 

[longly]

Longley said; Something strange is going on here.

I put a little faith in oral histories. I have little faith in the oral histories of sub-Saharan Africa that describe a magnificent civilization before the arrival of the Arabs and Europeans. I also have little faith in the oral history I was told as a child in the 1950s. The old people told me stories that they had heard from their parents about conditions after the Civil War. They said Black Union soldiers murdered men and children and raped many white women. They said that was why they needed segregation, because they couldn't trust black people not to do it again.

Were the stories true? Well, I'm sure there were abuses after the Civil War, as there are after every war. American soldiers even committed abuses against Germans during and after World War II. So, I’m sure it did happen. But if you're thinking that you can look it up on the Internet, think again. The Union Army imposed strict censorship. Any newspaper that reported anything contrary to the wishes of the commanding general was shut down and seized. But that made the situation worse. When people do not have reliable information, they assume the worst. So, I’m sure abuses did happen, but censorship blew it out of proportion to reality.

After the war, the Radical Republicans wanted revenge for the death of Lincoln. They got their revenge but left us with an enduring, bitter legacy. What is the lesson to be learned here? Don't to follow radicals. It usually doesn't end well for anyone.

 

[Ringo]

Don't to follow radicals. It usually doesn't end well for anyone.

When radicals in power it takes another radicals to take power from them. No other way.

 

[longly]

If you are referring to the actions that Trump has taken on the border I have to agree with you. The problem had gotten so bad and had been allowed to go on for so long that no moderate course of action we'll fix the problem. It will take extreme measures, and they will have to stay in place until people in other countries learn that they can't just walk into the United States. I have nothing against immigrants legal or otherwise; I have nothing against people from Latin America it's the number of people coming and the way in which they are doing it. To cross into this country without permission is the same as a spit in a face they are in fact saying that this is not a country it's a territory to be occupied they're saying that this is not our country I've even heard it said that it stolen land. Think about what that means it means you don't own your house since you can't own stolen property. It means your house belongs to whoever can take it.

 

[Ringo]

 

[longly]

according to a translation I read of an Arab text, before the Arabs introduced what they considered humane slavery to Africa, the natives used their captives for entertainment. They would chop off the captives' feet and force them to run for their lives on stubs. I reckon they thought that was funny.