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Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Apr 27, 2015.

  1. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    What about the policies that have systematically oppressed and marginalized the poor and minorities for the entire history of our country?
     
  2. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    What a convenient timeframe -- "until the early 1980s" -- to choose. Why, a cynical mind might think you were making a p*******l jab. ;)

    I choose to focus on a different timeframe ... that period from 1940 to 1960 when the poverty rate among African-Americans fell from 87 percent to 47 percent.
     
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  3. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The poverty rate among everyone fell in that period. WW2 and postwar boom.
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Huh ... So that whole rising tide thing's not totally b.s.? Wow ... who woulda thunk it?
     
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  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Poverty rate also declined significantly in the late '60s and '70s, partly macro, partly government policies, rose a bit in the '80s (same reasons) but stayed lower than prior to 1967, declined again in late '90s and rose, then stabilized from 2007 to now (almost totally macro). Both government anti-poverty programs and overall economy are reasons why there's less poverty today than in 1960.
     
  6. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Really, I was just jabbing, lightheartedly, at the idea -- one that's fairly prevalent in some circles -- that the passing of the Civil Rights Act and Great Society legislation was when economic progress for African-Americans began. Not really the case.
     
  7. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Just give the Democrats another 50-1,000 years of one-party rule in places like Baltimore and I'm sure they'll solve all the problems. Assuming solving problems is the goal. Anyway, until we figure this out, keep voting for the same "leaders."
     
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  8. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    If it is fairly prevalent in those circles, those circles are stuffed to the brim with folks who don't know history.

    The backbone of African-American economic progress was their widespread migration from the south to the north in the first half of the 20th Century. Which is reflective of what a backwards shithole the south was and the manufacturing jobs in the north.

    That migration has reversed itself in part because the industrial economy has majorly eroded, and because it's easy for service economy companies to grind out ridiculous tax breaks in the south with the help of gerrymandered, bought off state legislatures, build or relocate there, and hire folks for $11 an hour.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Education is the key.

    I propose we offer a good, free education to all African-American children in Baltimore from kindergarten through 12th grade. With a good education, they will be able to rise above the cycle of poverty and dependence.
     
  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Huh ... so African-Americans migrated to the north because they could build a better life there, and now they're migrating to the south because they can build a worse life there. Very interesting narrative.
     
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  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    WaPo writes about Congressman Elijah Cummings efforts to calm Baltimore:

    Curfew was approaching, police in their riot gear were ready and here came U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, shouting into a bullhorn that the crowd needed to get indoors.

    Someone cursed at him, and then others joined in, but Cummings (D-Md.) seemed unfazed. He returned to the West Baltimore intersection each of the next two nights, repeating the same message.

    “Let’s go home,” Cummings said. “Let’s go home.”

    Bullhorn in hand, Rep. Cummings works to heal his beloved Baltimore - The Washington Post

    But, he wasn't just "cursed at".

    He was called a nigger:



    Why does the Post gloss over this?
     
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