Ben Carson in Baltimore

Cure ^ | May 9, 2015 | Star Parker

[impactplayer]

The Congressional Black Caucus said that poverty and civil unrest are tied.

Who did they blame? Read this:

"The Republican budget was partly to blame. It’s very unkind to domestic nondiscretionary spending and will just wreak havoc in low-income communities."

This tired excuse has got to go!

Blacks -- and all Americans -- need to hear a new message. They need to hear about a black man who grew up with a single-mother in the ghetto of Detroit and escaped.

They need to hear how, as a young and angry man, he read the Bible, changed his life, and eventually moved to Baltimore -- a city torn apart by riots -- where he was the head Pediatric Neurosurgeon at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The black liberal establishment says Ben Carson cannot exist in their version of America.

I cannot accept their version of America. I know you can't, either. That's why CURE is going to Detroit. And we're going to Baltimore. We're going to spread Ben Carson's transformative story and inspire Americans to wake-up and change their lives!

[dp0622]

The same black man with a different name has existed for thirty years to no effect. Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, and so on.
It’s way to easy to be lazy AND hate AND be taken care of by those you hate.
Where’s the catalyst for change?
The imminent threat of loss of housing, food and money. Phase all those things out over five years and offer job training. After that, you’re on your own.

[bgill]

The Congressional Black Caucus said that poverty and civil unrest are tied.

There are poor Asians, Hispanics and whites but we don't see them burning down cities and making complete fools of themselves.

[A Navy Vet]

"There are poor Asians, Hispanics and whites but we don't see them burning down cities and making complete fools of themselves."

In general, you are correct. However, in the Los Angeles Rodney King riot, Hispanics were highly joined in after a few days. They were at least half of the rioters that attacked Parker Center (LA Police HQ's) one night. I witnessed it on TV and subsequent photos. They were also starting to roam the streets and causing problems in East Los Angeles.

Granted, most were probably illegal aliens and gang members. But they were there. I watched the entire event from ground zero. Kinda tough to try to ignore it since it went on for days and destroyed much of central Los Angeles.

The heroes of the debacle; the Korean store owners on top their roofs with guns pointed down. I've asked before if ANY of those Korean stores were looted and/or burned, which I don't recall any were. If I'm wrong, please correct me.

[Dilbert San Diego]

We should also talk about how urban poverty, crime, etc. are nothing new.

And we should talk about President Johnson and the War On Poverty. Government attempts to deal with all of the problems in the inner city are nothing new.

To suggest that there are problems in Baltimore today, because after 50 years , we just haven’t spent quite enough money on government programs strains believability. We should go on offense on this, and talk about the Democrat war on poverty, and assess its goals, its successes, it failures, and its overall costs. Let’s have that debate, if the liberals are up for it. We can’t let them get away with one liners such as how the GOP is cutting government programs as the singular reason for a complex pathology of problems in our cities.