Baltimore: A few Notes on Riots

Social Justice Solutions ^ | June 13, 2015 | Rea L. Ginsberg, LCSW-C, ACSW, BCD

[driftless2]

Just another “racism explains everything” screed from one of the usual suspects.

[Jumper]

The purpose of the Black Community is to segregate that population while cultivating a Xenophobic non-integrated separate worldview apart from other Americans. When then cannot muslims be allowed to have their own enclaves and cities within the USA with Sharia Law?

[spodefly]

Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial segregation was entirely alive and very active. The homes were built next to long-haul railroad tracks that ran flat on the ground. There were no barriers to protect the residents from stepping onto the tracks and into train traffic. No fence, no bars or walls, no inclines or gates, no barricade against bloody disaster. WHY.

When I was a racist privileged cis-gender hetero-normative white child growing up in south Alabama in the 1960's, we lived about 100 yards from a railroad track that had no barriers, fences, or even any warning lights and gates on the road crossing. We actually had to use our privileged "white" senses to detect danger and respond accordingly, without any help from the government and community organizers.

[tflabo]

I think she figured out that big govt solutions don’t work yet she still embraces the flawed dream that they somehow will. Ah the insanity of well meaning lieberals.

[tflabo]

So all of the black folks who have become successful in their work, talents and skills are still the victims of racism? Sorry ms.ginsberg but most black folks don’t need a white heroine like you for motivational syrupy prose.

[driftless2]

There was a viaduct over the tracks close to my house. We kids would take cardboard containers from a nearby appliance store and slide down the hill next to the viaduct a few feet from the unfenced tracks. It was railroad property, and occasionally a railroad det. would haul in a few kids for playing on their property. But none of us dumb kids ever got run over by a train.

And we used to walk/balance on the tracks despite being warned by our mothers. How did we ever survive childhood? (snicker)

[bert]

Fiction turns out to be TRUTH

[driftless2]

It's still amazing to me after all these years that libs can't wrap their heads around the idea that many blacks fail of their own volition.

Millions of white people fail every day/month/year, but nobody blames racism for their failures. It's always their own fault. So why can't blacks fail for reasons not related to racism?

The answer is: they can fail due to their own faults. Racism is one percent or less of the cause of black people failing. The other 99% is themselves.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My God, how did you manage to survive?

Even our cats are smart enough to get out of the way of a car coming down the street.

This sounds like a textbook example of “the soft bigotry of low expectations” — we can’t expect minorities to get out of the way of speeding trains.

[spodefly]

My God, how did you manage to survive?

I appreciate your empathy for my struggle. Once while I was standing near the railroad tracks a passing freight train's engineer, who had seen me numerous times avoiding "bloody disaster" just off the railroad right-of-way, threw a box of Raisinettes out the window, and I was forced to eat them while walking back home.

[Calvin Locke]

Gheeze, this entire article is just so much BS.

The source, and the braggadocio of the authoress with her "expert" "credentials" should have been the first clue.

Sounds like a severe case of - no feckin' brains!

A university president, in welcoming that Fall's class of matriculating students, warned them to be careful crossing the main drag, a divided city street with twin subway tracks in the middle.

A local paper chastised him for pointing out the obvious to the students, an overwhelming majority were not from the city, and may not be expecting something other than road traffic after crossing the street to the median.

The social worker should have been chastising her colleagues for not educating the project types, and the unfortunate offspring of those less-than-functional families.

Perhaps she should read, at least the last quarter or so of, "The Fountainhead" to get a better understanding of what "We're from the gub'mint, and we're here to 'help'" really means.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

[AnalogReigns]

Social workers are needed, and we should be grateful for them—that doesn’t mean we need to take their advice, especially since it seems to be so melded by pathos (and in this woman’s case nostalgia). I’m sure her analysis of the problems isn’t inaccurate, rather its her implicit faith—unsupported by any sort of evidence—that government is the solution. She rightly criticizes Aid to Families with Dependent Children, but her only solution is more government aid, and “education,” when the problem is deeper even than that. When you have multiple generations who seem to entirely dis-value education and family, solutions other than “shovel on more MONEY!” need to be found.