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A Chance to Own a Home for $1 in a City on the Ropes (No, not Detroit)
New York Times ^ | 08/14/2013 | STEVEN YACCINO

Posted on 08/15/2013 8:05:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Is it racist to note that places with large black populations seem to have a whole host of social pathologies, in far greater numbers than other places???”

Nope, it’s not racist to cite a quantifiable fact. When I lived in Sacramento with my mom we lived for a while in a place called Strawberry Manor and the black people who lived there permanently ruined me on black people. It was a relief when we moved to a less-worse neighborhood where the Asian drug dealers were actually pretty nice people (to us) who made sure that the blacks stayed the hell out of the neighborhood.

I’ve often observed that black majority cities & countries around the world are cesspools. The best example is Haiti which shares an island with the Dominican Republic. They’re on the same island but one is black and the other Hispanic.

Look at the satellite view of their border and you’ll see how the Dominicans take care of their part of the island but the black Haitians have denuded their part of the island as if they were locusts.

Sure, some black people are nice. So are some muslims. But the majorities are so bad that the decent black people and decent muslims want nothing to do with them so why should I? And why should I pretend that these people are all so great when people like Oprah don’t want anything to do with them?


41 posted on 08/15/2013 10:14:30 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: MeganC

RE: It was a relief when we moved to a less-worse neighborhood where the Asian drug dealers were actually pretty nice people (to us) who made sure that the blacks stayed the hell out of the neighborhood.

OK, I’m a little confused, these Asians never tried to sell you drugs at all?


42 posted on 08/15/2013 10:19:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No, they never did. They did their business somewhere else and wanted our neighborhood to be safe for their kids.


43 posted on 08/15/2013 10:49:12 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: 3Fingas

Gary was worse than Detroit in the 1960’s, I lived in Hammond In as teen, it has never gotten better, just worse, dem run.


44 posted on 08/15/2013 11:56:21 AM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Those selected would have to live in the home for five years before receiving full ownership.

Sheesh, have any of the people who make up these rules ever seen "Gran Torino"?

Having to live 5 years in a hellhole is like a prison sentence.

45 posted on 08/15/2013 1:41:16 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: hattend

RE: have any of the people who make up these rules ever seen “Gran Torino”?

I’ve seen it, and the strange thing is this -— Clint Eastwood’s character DIDN’T WANT to leave his home even when his son had an alternative.


46 posted on 08/15/2013 2:41:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cheap farmland, once it’s bulldozed?


47 posted on 08/15/2013 3:04:38 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: MeganC

Actually, the Dominican Republic is 85% black or mulatto. The only place where the mythical “Hispanic” race exists is the US. Americans really need to get out more, and not to Gary either.


48 posted on 08/15/2013 4:38:18 PM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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To: SeekAndFind
It’ll be like touring the ruins of Greece and Rome.

LOL, we'd have to be outfitted with Kevlar vests, heavily armed and ride around in a bullet-proof Hummer!! THEN, I'd be willing to take the tour. There IS a gang and graffiti tour of Los Angeles (really) -- participants have to sign waivers that they "may not come out unscathed or alive."

49 posted on 08/15/2013 4:53:49 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Oh, What Fresh Hell Is This??)
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To: 3Fingas

LOL! I was thinking the same thing!


50 posted on 08/15/2013 4:59:07 PM PDT by rabidralph (Gray State Movie)
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To: SeekAndFind

Clint Eastwood’s character was terminally ill.

He didn’t want to leave the house he and his wife raised a family. He was upper middle class and witnessed the neighborhood falling apart, just didn’t have the heart to leave.


51 posted on 08/15/2013 5:23:51 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: ScottinVA

BUSH’S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


52 posted on 08/16/2013 8:10:39 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: SeekAndFind
as long as they meet a minimum income threshold (starting at $35,250 for one person)

Do food stamps and welfare count as income??

53 posted on 08/16/2013 8:25:15 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Oh, What Fresh Hell Is This??)
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