Posted on 06/19/2014 9:35:33 AM PDT by EveningStar
What’s happening, even if the white jurors are criminal loving liberals,
is that they aren’t “nullifying” any prosecution based on the defendent’s race,
and are actually making decisions based on the facts of the case.
My son lives in Brooklyn, I am so proud that somehow I produced a member of the “Gentry”, I’m sure that he will be as puzzled as I am to learn that moving to Brooklyn because it was cheap, made him a part of the high born.
Instead of dropping out of school and joining a gang, would be thug could get a degree and “gentrify” themselves so they don’t end up in jail.
Make that Spike’s old neighborhood. He’s living the high life in the very exclusive “gentried” part of the city.
It is cheaper than most of New York (I am told, never lived there). But people like your son have raised the cost of living in that area from what it was.
So the people who were living there are having to adapt to the changes, and don’t like it.
Chicago has areas like that, and it has been a source of tension to some of the groups.
I sure hope that this “Williamsburg Effect” takes affect in how these people also view Obama and his thoroughly incompetent and corrupt regime.
They don't even need to get a degree. There are Vo-Tech schools which will teach them highly marketable skills like HVAC, plumbing or auto mechanics.
Of course, it is still a harder way to earn a living than mugging.
How did my son raise the cost of living there?
He was peddling stuff on the streets without a license and trying to sell his art, most households in Brooklyn had a lot more money than him.
The view is that your son, moving into Brooklyn, is willing to pay more rent than the previous group living their. However, he will also demand different types of services.
For instance, I suspect that your son would not be OK with open drug dealing on the front of his building. Having an increased police presence, with the added bonus of a jury pool who will convict, changes what is acceptable to the area and ultimately the culture.
What is happening is that the slums are actually being made to follow the rules and improve. I have seen it in small towns out west. It displaces some residents, but makes the area better.
Why do you keep talking about my son, you don’t know anything about him or what took him to Brooklyn, or what he was doing when he moved there, or anything at all about him, so why insist on describing him to me?
You can find a different way to say what it is you want to say.
Brooklyn has almost the population of Chicago, and if it was a city, it would be the 4th largest city in America, larger than Houston Texas.
Well, to me the implication is clear, and since it says nothing about a ‘gentrified’ public being interested in justice alone, I assumed the writer’s negative angle.
I was merely using him as an illustration. Honestly most of it comes from th
Sorry had a power blip. Most of it comes from people I hear complaining that to many of the new tenants are changing historic black neighborhoods. There are various groups in Chicago dedicated to keeping neighborhoods poor, in order to “protect the character”.
My sister and brother in law have had several issues with such groups. One man I talked to mentioned his group had ties to a similar group in Brooklyn.
I understand, but is is like talking about a stranger’s mother in detail, rather than talking in generalities about her generation, or her economic group, or her race, or whatever, saying “your son” thinks this, or supports that, isn’t useful.
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